Courses

SCI 100 - Becoming a STEM professional in the 21st century 

This course is for first-year students (Freshmen) majoring in Wildlife or Fisheries in their very first semester. I usually co-teach it with another Wildlife prof and a Fisheries prof. It is part of the Klamath Connection place-based learning community (PBLC). It includes a lab experiment (algae eutrophication), wildlife surveys at the amazing Arcata Marsh, and group poster projects on current topics in wildlife.

WLDF 311 - Wildlife Techniques & Scientific Method

This course is for third-year Wildlife students, and it is a course-based undergraduate research course (CUR). That means we do a new research project as a whole class each time we teach it. The course also offers an overview of major techniques in the discipline of wildlife, including methods for surveying animals, capture and tagging, measuring vegetation, and so on.  It has 2 hrs of lecture per week, and 4 hrs of discussion and lab, which involves hands-on activities, often outside. It also typically includes a weekend-long camping trip, during which we practice field techniques. I teach this course about once every other year.

WLDF 431 - Upland Habitat Ecology

This is my core course, and I teach it every year. Designed for advanced undergraduates, it covers three topics: (1) habitat selection and habitat quality (this involves ecological concepts and some statistics), (2) wildlife habitat models (this involves statistics and maps), and (3) management and conservation of upland habitats such as forests, rangelands, and agriculture. 

WLDF 531 - Advanced Habitat Ecology

This graduate course covers conceptual and analytical approaches to the study of wildlife habitat selection and habitat quality. Recently, it also includes some content on wildlife movement ecology.  I teach it about every other year. 

WLDF 585 - Graduate Wildlife Seminar

This is a 1-unit discussion-based course, with a new topic chosen each time I teach it, which is every few years. Recent topics include: trophic cascades, population limitation in birds, and reconciliation ecology.