TEACHING

I have taught at several educational levels ranging from mentoring high school students to introductory undergraduate courses to advanced undergraduate and graduate courses. At Auburn University, I developed a course called Environmental Biology for non-biology majors. I received a student-initiated teaching award based on my efforts in that course. I also received a university-initiated teaching award at Auburn shared by only 5 other faculty across the entire university.

Since I arrived at Oregon State University, I have taught Wildlife Ecology, Biology of Birds, Systematics of Birds, Avian Conservation and Management, a senior-level Group Problem Solving course as well as three different graduate special topics courses. In addition, I use weekly meetings with my graduate student group to offer instruction in career-building skills such as grantsmanship and publishing. In 2004, I began inviting 2 or 3 highly qualified undergraduates to join our weekly lab meetings.

> Biology of Birds
> Avian Conservation
> Distance Education
> Wildlife Ecology
> Genetics
> Group Problem Solving
> Resource Ecology
> Systematics of Birds