Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
2005-07
2006
2013-14
Professors
for
the
Future,
Graduate Studies, UC Davis
Participated in fellowship training program designed to develop leadership
skills and pedagogical knowledge for aspiring professors
2013
Seminar on College Teaching, Center for Excellence in Teaching and
Learning, UC Davis
Seminar focused on curriculum design, evidence-based teaching, developing
an inclusive classroom, and active learning
2013-14
2011-12
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Adjunct Professor
2016(F)
Study Design and Field Methods (NATR 310), American River
College, Sacramento, CA
Developed and taught the experimental design and analysis unit in a coinstructed course
2016(S)
Foundations of Biology (Biol 300), American River College,
Sacramento, CA
Developed lecture content and taught a non-majors course with a human
systems focus
2015(F&S) Survey of Biology (Biol 303), American River College, Sacramento, CA
Developed lecture/ lab content for an inquiry-based survey biology course
with a biodiversity focus
2015(Sum) Natural History and Field Ecology of Coastal California (Biol 390),
American River College, Sacramento, CA
Co-taught a field-based, natural history course at Salt Point State Park,
Sonoma, CA
Teaching Assistantships
2014-15
Terrestrial Field Ecology (ECL 225), UC Davis
Guided graduate students through the process of experimental design and
statistical analysis of original research
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2014
Davis
2014
2010-11
2009-10
K-12 Teaching
2011- 2013
National Science Foundation-Science, Technology, Engineering,
and Mathematics (NSF-STEM) Grades K-12 Fellowship, Santa Rosa
High School, Santa Rosa, CA
Designed and taught a yearlong inquiry-based ecology curriculum for high
school students, where students designed and executed their own research
projects
Invited Lectures/Workshops
2016
California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA Ecology and
Environmental Issues seminar (BIO/ENVS186B)
Lecture title: Understanding the importance of non-trophic resources in
conservation biology
Instructor: Christy Bowles
2015
UC Davis, Ecology and Evolution of Plant and Animal Interactions (EVE 181)
Lecture title: The effects of herbivory on plant communities. Instructor:
Sharon Strauss
2014
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2010
Research Presentations
Trophic processes drive spatial pattern of chewing herbivore. Oral presentation. 2015.
Ecological Society of America conference. Sacramento, Ca.
Spatial variation of enemy free space drives ontogenetic niche shift in an arctiid
caterpillar. Oral presentation. 2014. Mathias Symposium, Bodega, Ca.
Top-down control of an arctiid moth varies spatially. Oral presentation. 2013. Annual
meeting of Ecological Society of America. Minneapolis, MI.
Top-down trophic control of two Lepidoptera varies spatially. Oral presentation. 2013.
Annual Pacific Branch Entomological Society of America.
Assessing species vulnerability to climate change in the Willamette Valley Ecoregion
Species vulnerability in an uncertain future. Poster presentation. 2010. Annual
University of California, Davis, Ecology symposium, Davis, CA.
Genetic analysis of two temporally isolated populations of mottled sculpin (Cottus
bairdii). Poster presentation. 2005. Northeast Ecology and Evolution Conference. State
College, PA.
Identifying the influence of the 64 kDa Cleavage Stimulatory Factor (CstF-64) on IgG
secretion in memory B cells. Oral presenation. 2004. Cellular Adaptations to
Environmental Challenge Student Symposium, Pittsburg, PA.
Education Presentations
Using Scientific Teaching Principles to Strengthen Professional Partnerships in
Education. 2013.
Poster presentation Annual American Association for the
Advancement of Science and International Scientist-Teacher Partnership Conference.
Boston, MA.
CAMEOS Fellows Research Helps Students Meet the Challenges of Scientific Inquiry.
2012. Poster presentation. Annual American Association for the Advancement of Science
and International Scientist-Teacher Partnership Conference. Washington, D.C.
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2012
2010
Current
2014
2014
2013
2008-10
Davis
2004-05
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