Teaching

Teaching and learning take place daily in our lab. We work collaboratively to learn from each other. We push to learn new things and improve at the things we are already doing. Major interests in the lab right now include data visualization, mortality estimation, assessing oyster management strategies, abundance estimation, and mixture models.

Formal classroom instruction takes place primarily in the following classes:

Quantitative Wildlife Ecology - This is primarily a senior level undergraduate course taught in an Ecological Detective framework each fall semester. There are 2 lectures and 1 lab per week.

Field Ecology of Aquatic Organisms - This is a joint grad/undergrad course taught during summer A session. The course is a field intensive crash course on aquatic ecosystems of Florida, mostly focusing on north Florida, and the management challenges faced by these systems.

Stream Ecology of Aquatic Organisms - This class is a fun class to each because we confront classic paradigms in stream and river ecology with observations from low gradient river systems in Florida. The class is taught irregularly depending on enrollment patterns.

Decision making in Natural Resources - This class is patterned after the Decision Science courses taught at NCTC. The class is taught irregularly depending on enrollment patterns and interest. In the past the course has been organized by a team of agency scientists and UF faculty.

Management of Exploited Populations - This course was taught experimentally in 2017 to assess student and faculty interests. The class is patterned after similar courses at UBC taught by Charlie Krebs, Carl Walters, and others. At UF the course was led by Dr. Rob Ahrens.