Teaching experience:

Associate Lecturer, The Soil Environment Lab (Environmental Science 320/520). Fall 2012. University of Wisconsin – Green Bay, Green Bay, WI.

Associate Lecturer, Principles of Biology: Organisms, Ecology and Evolution Lab (Biology 203). Fall 2012. University of Wisconsin – Green Bay, Green Bay, WI.

Guest lectures and outreach:

Ecosystem Ecology Course (Integrative Biology 452 / Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences 462). “Soil organic matter.” UI Urbana-Champaign, October, 2019. Guest lecture.

Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation Meeting. “Demonstration of field equipment.” UI Urbana-Champaign, June, 2019. Outreach.

Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation Meeting. “Demonstration of field equipment.” UI Urbana-Champaign, July, 2018. Outreach.

Environmental Biophysics Course (Soil Science 532). “Soil gas fluxes.” UW – Madison, October, 2016. Guest lecture.

Energy Institute for Educators. “Demonstration of field equipment.” UW – Madison, August, 2015. Outreach.

CenUSA Bioenergy Meeting. “Carbon cycling in bioenergy crops.” UW – Madison, July, 2015. Outreach.

Soil Science Lab (Environmental Science 320/520). “The RUSLE model of soil erosion.” UW – Green Bay, September, 2010. Guest lecture.

Scientific mentoring:

2018 - Purtell, K.J. Soil respiration in four temperate bioenergy cropping systems. UI Urbana-Champaign undergraduate student.

2017 - Cummings, C. Assessing the sand diffusion barrier approach for measuring soil respiration. UW–Madison undergraduate student.

2016 - Walls, L. Ecosystem carbon cycling in bioenergy cropping systems: the effects of substrate quality and soil minerology on litter decomposition. UVM Associate Professor of Education.

2014 - Rebman, C.E. Soil microbial biomass and dissolved organic carbon dynamics in model bioenergy cropping systems. UW–Madison undergraduate student.

2012 - Janak, N.J. The effect of dead fine root inputs on soil microbial biomass and enzyme activity: the path to soil organic matter formation. UW–GB undergraduate student.

2011 - La Plant, A.P. Exotic slug abundance among five contrasting northeastern Wisconsin forests. UW–GB undergraduate student (co-mentored).

2010 - Sandahl, C.J. Understanding the link between live roots and soil microbial activity. UW–GB undergraduate student.