Lisa DiGirolamo, PhD

Biology Instructor

City College of San Francisco

* 50 Frida Kahlo Way. SF, CA 94112 *

My goal in teaching is to engage students to think of science as an ongoing process and to foster scientific ways of thinking. My students deserve respect, compassion, and opportunities to achieve their goals through a high quality education.

For more information about specific courses, please visit the individual course page.

If you want to add a course, please see the specific course webpage.

EcoCenter Internship Program 2021.pdf

Internship for Spring 2022

Heron's Head SF Ecocenter

Earn CCSF credit

SPRING 2022

My lectures will be delivered remotely. Only the ENSC 31 lab will have in person meetings. Please see course webpages for more information.

**NOTE: Starting Fall 2021, Environmental science (formerly Bio 31 / Geog 31/ Sust 31) has a new prefix: ENVS 31. When looking for this class and other sustainability classes in the schedule, be sure to search on the prefix ENVS. The ENVS classes are part of a collaborative of three different departments, but ENVS classes appear in the schedule only under Engineering. That's just an artifact of the way we store our prefix information in our college database.

Careers in Environmental Work

CCSF offers a major in Environmental Science and one in Environmental Studies. We also off a certificate in Sustainability. These degrees and certificate are designed to evaluate and address environmental and resource challenges locally and globally through an interdisciplinary study of the connections between humans and the environment. Please take a look at our website for more information on types of careers and how to obtain the certificate.

contact me

Registered students: please message me through Canvas.

Everyone else: The best way to reach me is through e-mail. Please put the class in the subject: ldigirol@ccsf.edu. If you prefer a phone call, e-mail with a few good times to call you and your phone number.

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

My first love in biology is ecology. The beauty of biology is that the principles that govern the natural world at the molecular level also are at play at larger scales. Ecology teaches us about how the natural world works. About how plants and animals interact with each other and their surroundings. It can also inform our understanding of the interdependence between humans and the natural world. It can also give us a clue about how the acorn woodpeckers got all those acorns in that tree to the right and why they did it.

These are the types of topics we cover in Ecology. Go HERE for reasons why ecology is important.