As a fellow in the Postdoctoral Excellence in Research and Teaching (PERT) program, I taught an Environmental Biology course at Pima Community College in Tucson.

 

In this integrated lab/lecture course, students completed a desert ecology research project, gave several presentations, participated in a mock public hearing on Arizona's future water needs, and went on several field trips.

 

Lecture topics included biodiversity, population, community, and ecosystem ecology, evolution, climate change, human population growth, and environmental economics.

 

 

As a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, I was a teaching assistant for several courses, both introductory and upper-level:

 

• Ecology, Evolution, & Genetics (lab & discussion; honors, writing-intensive)

• Organismal Biology (lab & discussion; honors, writing-intensive)

• Animal Biology (lab)

• Introductory Biology (lab; writing-intensive)

• Introductory Ecology (discussion)

 

 

I have also mentored several undergraduates in research. Most recently, I mentored two undergraduates at the University of Arizona:

 

• Meghan Iacuelli, who completed an independent research project on environmental factors that influence flowering in manzanita and presented a poster on her work

• Victoria Scaven, who earned research credit by collaborating with me on a manuscript on the physiological effects of warming on plant-pollinator interactions

Environmental Biology students on a field trip to the Tucson Village Farm

Environmental Biology students taking a break from data collection

Meghan presenting her poster on manzanita