My background as an urban planner in the Loess Hills of Iowa, one of the most erosive landscapes on earth, led to develop a specialty in stormwater, sediment and erosion control, from both a wildland and urban perspective. I have worked in rural areas on conservation projects requiring erosion control infrastructure, as well as in urban settings, helping to design, plan, and install a wide variety of mitigation measures. As a result, my teaching reflects this, and in 2013, I was hired by the Water Quality Management Program at Red Rocks Community College as a Subject Matter Expert to write curriculum for the penultimate course in their new Bachelor’s of Applied Science degree, Human-Water Ecological Relationships. I ended up teaching that course for the next decade, helping the first several cohorts of BAS graduates earn their degrees along the way, and working collaboratively withe WQM program on a variety of projects. Additionally, I incorporated this expertise into my Physical Geography and Human Geography courses, in units of flooding and erosion and urban planning respectively (I also brought my knowledge and experience in this realm to my work with the City of Golden Planning Commission as well). Teaching stormwater, or any subject really, is better when paired with site visits and fieldwork; luckily, RRCC Campus was an excellent laboratory for studying the impacts of urbanization on streamflow and erosion, and each semester I led at least one fieldwork or site visit for my classes.