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Summary of Activities

The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Lecturer - Advanced Quantitative Methods

  • Multivariate statistic course including: ordination, spatial analysis, time series analysis, and elementary Bayesian approaches
  • Taught students the R programming language.
  • Assisted students in conducting analyses for their own research data.
  • Wrote course handouts for learning R
  • Wrote homework assignments based on ecological research scenarios for each statistics topic.

Seminar Lecturer - Metapopulation Ecology 2006

  • Led a graduate seminar on Metapopulation Ecology reviewing a recent text.
  • Compiled and edited student chapter reviews.

Teaching Assistant, Lecturer - Environmental Science 2002-2004

  • Taught environmental systems modeling using STELLA software.
  • Guided student groups in understanding and developing environmental policies in the risk-assessment paradigm.
  • Gave numerous guest lectures on forest ecosystems, carbon cycling, nitrogen cycling, and global climate change.

Teaching Assistant - Human Anatomy and Physiology 2001-2002

  • Led students in memorizing human anatomy
  • Initialized and developed the first web-based tests for this course.
  • Graded tests.

Teaching Assistant - Introductory Biology 2001

  • Presented weekly 1hr lectures on basic biological topics including: hypothesis testing, cell biology, photosynthesis, genetics, ecology, taxonomy, and anatomy.
  • Prepared and guided students through weekly 2hr laboratory on the above topics.
  • Wrote and graded semester tests, and weekly quizzes.
  • Graded laboratory reports.

Warren County Public School District, Bowling Green, KY

Substitute Teacher - (K-12) 1998-1999

  • Provided on-call substitute for teachers.
  • Taught all ages (K-12) including special education classes and academically gifted classes.

The Prairie Project, Blue Mound, TX

Summer Camp Teacher - The Prairie Project Environmental Summer Camp 1997-2004

  • Taught outdoor classes to 5th-7th grade students on a variety of ecological and environmental topics: including: predator-prey relationships, taxonomy, genetic adaptation, and optimal foraging theory.
  • Developed hands-on 30 minute ecology projects for students in each of the above topics.

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