Courses taught

Ecology - Fall 2019
Earth Science - Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019
Oceanography - Spring 2019
Intro to Life and Physical Sciences - Fall 2018
General Biology Lab - Fall 2018
Ecology Teaching assistant - Spring 2018
Limnology Laboratory Co-Instructor - Falls 2014-2017
Introductory Biology Laboratory Teaching assistant- Springs 2015 and 2017

Guest lectures

Limnology, University of Wyoming
  • Zooplankton identification
  • Zooplankton role in ecosystems
  • Detritus in streams
  • Decomposition
  • Redox and sources of energy
  • Bioaccumulation and biomagnification
  • Demos performed: lake stratification, internal seiches
Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology, University of Wyoming  
  • Terrestrial and aquatic interfaces
 PictureLimnology Lab field trip to samples microcosms to investigate phytoplankton abundance in response to top-down zooplankton pressures and bottom-up nutrient additions.

Teaching training

2016-2017: Science Initiative Summer Institute Fellowship
  • I was selected for an active learning summer short course and following year of meetings on active learning teaching techniques. The culmination of my participation in the fellowship was a presentation on how I compiled long term data collected during Limnology Lab to contextualize projects we conduct every year in lab within the context of up to 10 year trends in data. The students now include a graph of their class data compared to historic data with their final report.
2015: Learning & Teaching in Biology
  • I took a one semester course on teaching and learning as used in biology with emphasis on inquiry-based teaching, active learning, and encouraging student participation. For the final project in the course I rewrote a lab for limnology lab to promote student inquiry and assessment of concepts taught in the lab.
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For more than 10 years, water quality generally declines from headwaters to downstream sites based on the Izaak Walton League index for assessing macroinvertebrates.