TEACHING INTERESTS AND PHILOSOPHY    

Doing science is an effective means for learning science.  Students and their society benefit as much from students’ ability to critically evaluate, as well as generate and communicate scientifically-sound information.  These capabilities are best learned by actually doing science, rather than just learning about findings of other studies.  These ideals are implemented in the following examples of my teaching activities:

• BIOS 405/505, Plant Form and Function; which focuses on a semester long, group experiment

• BIOS 489/589, Field Ecology; in which students simultaneously do individual research projects in the Mojave desert

• BIOS 418/518, Ecological Applications of GIS; which entails a semester long, group project using remote sensing and GIS

• Mentoring graduate and undergraduate students on independent research projects, which are usually field-based.

Courses taught at ISU (links to syllabi):

BIOS 405/505 Plant Form and Function                 (Fall, even years)

BIOS 607         Environmental Physiology               (Fall, even years)

BIOS 408/508 Plant Ecology                                    (Fall, odd years)

BIOS 489/589 Field Ecology                                    (Spring, even years)

BIOS 404/504 Plant Physiology                               (Spring, odd years)

BIOS 418/518 Ecological Applications of GIS       (Spring, odd years)

Examples of previous seminar classes:

BIOS 692 Alpine Ecology

BIOS 692 Plant Ecophysiology

BIOS 657 Resource Ecology of Plants

BIOS 692 Restoration Ecology

BIOS 692 Readings in Plant Ecology