Curriculum Vitae
Jesse Wilson, Ph.D.
Environmental/Earth/Marine/Biological Scientist, Instructor, and Researcher
https://sites.google.com/view/jesse-wilson/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesse-wilson-787092122/
805.403.6464
BACKGROUND
Over 6 years of experience as a Ph.D. level Environmental/Earth/Marine/Biological Scientist, Instructor, and Researcher
11 years of experience as a college level instructor (including curriculum design)
14 years of experience with research design, field sampling, and data/laboratory analysis/modeling to assess questions related to environmental science
Experience organizing and leading environmental sampling all over the world (including the marine lakes of Palau, a month-long research cruise off the coast of Mexico,
and high elevation lakes in Yosemite)Experience developing environmental/natural science courses and education programs for undergraduate students, K-12 programs, and community members
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
CSU San Marcos – Lecturer
January 2022 – Present
Taught/teach lectures for Earth Science, Evolution, and Microbiology, and labs for Ecology and Introductory Biology
Developed curricula, innovative teaching strategies, and a plethora of approaches to engage students in learning (including inclusive language and flipped lectures: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNb1H-Lgbi0wgQNsMDPHxdQ)
Assisted students in learning the fundamentals of the subject, provided feedback on their progress, and gave mentoring and career advice
Collaborated with other instructors and staff to ensure a successful learning experience
UC San Diego – Lecturer
September 2021 – Present
Taught/teach Medical Microbiology and Microbiology (with lab)
Assisted students in learning the fundamentals of the subject, provided feedback on their progress and gave mentoring and career advice
Collaborated with other instructors and staff to ensure a successful learning experience
UC Merced – Lecturer
August 2017 – May 2018
Taught lectures in Environmental Microbiology and General Microbiology and labs/discussions in Earth System Science, Ecosystems of California, and General Microbiology
Developed curricula, innovative teaching strategies, and a plethora of approaches to engage students in learning (including flipped lectures: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNb1H-Lgbi0wgQNsMDPHxdQ)
Assisted students in learning the fundamentals of the subject, provided feedback on their progress, and gave mentoring and career advice
Collaborated with other instructors and staff to ensure a successful learning experience
UC Merced – Teaching Assistant
August 2013 – May 2017
Taught labs and discussions for Earth System Science, Environmental Microbiology, Marine Science, Ecosystems of California, Conservation Biology, Biological Statistics, and Introductory Biology
Developed lecture and laboratory materials/exercises, administered course content, assessed learning outcomes, and mentored students
Collaborated with other instructors and staff to ensure a successful learning experience
Led outreach efforts for K-12 schools and at community outreach events
UC Merced – Course Content Developer
January 2015 – May 2015
Developed labs and online content for an introductory Earth System Science class that was transitioned from in-person to a hybrid model
RESEARCH
UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography, California – Postdoctoral Researcher
May 2018 – July 2021
Assessed drivers and functional impacts of different microbial community types in nearshore Southern California
Started and maintained an in-depth time-series off the coast of Southern California which included field work, maintaining and analyzing an array of data-loggers, and laboratory and data analysis
Mentored and organized graduate and undergraduate workers to continue sampling efforts
Published findings in peer reviewed journals and presented research findings at international conferences
UC Merced, California – Graduate Student Researcher
August 2010 – August 2017
Conducted independent research in the field of environmental science – assessed oxygen cycling and linked it with different environmental and biological conditions in a range of environments around the world
Organized and led research trips to Palau and served as a co-chief scientist for a research cruise off the coast of Mexico
Prepared and presented research findings at academic conferences and published in peer reviewed journals
Mentored undergraduate students in field, lab, and data analysis methods
Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association – Fisheries Intern
June 2009 – September 2009
Enumerated and sampled salmon swimming upstream to spawn in Alaskan streams
Conducted water quality testing, including temperature, pH, and dissolved oxygen levels
Conducted education and outreach activities
US Army Corps of Engineers – Wildlife Biology Intern
May 2008 – August 2008
Conducted field studies to measure and analyze the population density of a variety of wild animals (small mammals, birds, bats, and invasive plants) near dam sites throughout New England
Assisted with the preparation of reports and presentations on wildlife management
Participated in public outreach programs to educate the community about wildlife conservation and management
CSU Channel Islands – Geology Lab Technician
January 2006 – June 2007
Designed and prepared labs
Managed geology collections
Cleaned and identified incoming donations
EDUCATION
University of California Merced – PhD
August 2010 – August 2017
Environmental Systems
Dissertation: Controls on Marine Community Respiration
University of Hawaii – Center for Microbial Oceanography Research and Education Summer Course
January 2009 – June 2010
Microbial oceanography methodologies and 10-day research cruise practical
University of California Santa Barbara – Graduate school preparation
January 2009 – June 2010
Earth Science, Oceanography, Physics, and Aquatic Ecology courses
California State University Channel Islands – BS
August 2004 – December 2007
Environmental Science and Resource Management with a minor in Biology
Capstone: A Quantitative Method for Selecting the Best Subspecies of Channel Islands Fox for a Mainland Captive Breeding Program
Santa Barbara City College – AA
September 2001 – May 2004
Liberal Studies – Transfer Emphasis
EDUCATIONAL TRAINING
Online Learning Communities at CSU San Marcos
Equity-Minded Pedagogy at CSU San Marcos (2024)
Recreated courses using data and student input
Learned about interviewing for empathy practices
Came up with data-driven goals to improve inequities and positively impact retention
CSUSM Canvas Summer Teaching Institute (2022)
Gained additional knowledge and skills related to the Canvas Learning Management System
WebAIM (Web Accessibility In Mind) Document Accessibility (both the 4-hour seminar and the USU Online Course—WebAIM Certificate) (2022)
Learned about making lectures and other teaching material accessible
Augmented current courses using the techniques taught
Assessment as Pedagogy and Planning Project at UC Merced (2016)
Worked with the Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning at UC Merced
Came up with an Undergraduate Learning Outcome Assessment Project in which I flipped an introductory marine science discussion (using student submitted questions and small group inquiry) in order to increase learner involvement, critical thinking, and improve student learning outcomes
Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning at UC Merced
2014-2015: Mastering the Classroom with 1st Generation College Students (Teaching Matters Certificate)
2015-2016: Developing Teaching Strategies (Teaching Matters Certificate)
AWARDS & HONORS
2014, 15, & 17 UC Merced Environmental Systems Summer Fellowship
2016 UC Merced, School of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award
2011 & 12 UC Merced Graduate Division Summer Fellowship
2010-12 Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship
2007 Graduated Summa cum Laude from CSUCI
2007 Environmental Science Program Honors at CSUCI
2007 Presenter at Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research
2006-07 CSUCI Business and Technology Scholarship
PUBLICATIONS
2022
Wilson, J.M., N. Erazo, E. Connors, E.J. Chamberlain, S.M. Clements, M.L. Carter, J.E. Smith, J.S. Bowman. “Substantial microbial community shifts in response to an exceptional harmful algal bloom in coastal Southern California.” Elementa. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2021.00088.
2021
Wilson, J.M, E. Chamberlain, N. Erazo, M. Carter, J. Bowman. "Recurrent microbial community types driven by nearshore and seasonal processes in coastal Southern California." Environmental microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15548.
Beman. J.M., S.M. Vargas, J.M. Wilson, E. Perez-Coronel, J.S. Karolewski, S. Vazquez, A. Yu, A.E. Cairo, M.E. White, I. Koester, L.I. Aluwihare, S.D. Wankel. “Substantial oxygen consumption by aerobic nitrite oxidation in oceanic oxygen minimum zones.” Nature communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27381-7.
Klempay, Benjamin, et al. "Microbial diversity and activity in Southern California salterns and bitterns: analogues for remnant ocean worlds." Environmental microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15440.
2020
Wilson, J.M, M. Carter, J. Mühle, J. Bowman. "Using empirical dynamic modeling to assess relationships between atmospheric trace gases and eukaryotic phytoplankton populations in coastal Southern California." Marine Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2020.103896.
Beman, J.M., S. Vargas, S. Vazquez, J.M. Wilson, A. Yu, A. Cairo, E. Perez-Coronel. "Biogeochemistry and hydrography shape microbial community assembly and activity in the eastern tropical North Pacific Ocean oxygen minimum zone." Environmental Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15215.
2019
Wilson, J.M, G. Ucharm, and J.M. Beman. “Climatic, physical, and biogeochemical changes drive rapid oxygen loss and recovery in a marine ecosystem." Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-52430-z.
2018
Wilson, J.M., S.Y. Litvin, and J.M. Beman. "Microbial community networks associated with variations in community respiration rates during upwelling in nearshore Monterey Bay, California." Environmental Microbiology Reports. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.12635.
2017
Wilson, J.M., S.S. Abboud, and J.M. Beman. "Primary production, community respiration, and net community production along oxygen and nutrient gradients: environmental controls and biogeochemical feedbacks within and across marine lakes." Frontiers in Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2017.00012.
2016
Meyerhof, M.S., J.M. Wilson, M.N. Dawson, and J.M. Beman. "Microbial community diversity, structure and assembly across oxygen gradients in meromictic marine lakes, Palau." Environmental Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.13416.
2014
Wilson, J.M., R. Severson, and J.M. Beman. "Ocean-scale patterns in community respiration rates along continuous transects across the Pacific Ocean." PLOS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0099821.
Durham B. et al. "Draft genome sequence of marine alphaproteobacterial strain HIMB11, the first cultivated representative of a unique lineage within the Roseobacter clade possessing an unusually small genome." Standards in Genomic Sciences. https://doi.org/10.4056/sigs.4998989.
2012
Beman, J.M., V.J. Bertics, T. Braunschweiler, and J.M. Wilson. "Quantification of ammonia oxidation rates and the distribution of ammonia-oxidizing Archaea and Bacteria in marine sediment depth profiles from Catalina Island, California." Frontiers in Microbiology https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2012.00263.
In Review
Wilson, J.M., S.S. Abboud, and J.M. Beman. "Experimental nutrient enrichment and eutrophication select for multiple networks of marine microbes that drive increases in ecosystem metabolism." Elementa
PRESENTATIONS
2021
Wilson, J.M. “Time-series in marine systems.” Center for Aerosol Impacts on Chemistry of the Environment Group Meeting. Seminar.
2020
Wilson, J.M. “Ecosystems” and “Ecology” lectures for CSU San Marcos General Education Science Course 103. Invited Lecturer. Talk.
Wilson, J.M., E.J. Chamberlain, and J.S. Bowman. "Microbial responses to physical variations in coastal Southern California: Changes in community structure assessed via an 18 month twice-weekly time-series at the Scripps Ecological Observatory." 2020 Ocean Science Meeting. Poster.
Chamberlain, E.J., J.M Wilson, H. Kim, S. Doney and J. Bowman. "Leveraging Microbial Community Structure Data to Inform Ecosystem Modeling, an Approach Based on Microbial Community Segmentation" 2020 Ocean Science Meeting. Talk.
Wilson, J.M., E.J. Chamberlain, and J.S. Bowman. "18 months at the Scripps Ecological Observatory." Biological Oceanography Joint Lab Group Meeting. Seminar.
2019
Wilson, J.M., J. Mühle, M. Carter, and J. Bowman. “Relationships between key harmful algal taxa and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), as assessed by an 8-year time-series off the coast of Southern California.” American Society for Limnology and Oceanography. Talk.
Wilson, J.M. and J. Bowman. “Microbial ecosystem insights from continuous Membrane Inlet Mass Spectrometry (MIMS) in the coastal ocean.” 2019 American Society for Limnology and Oceanography. Talk.
Beman, J.M. and J.M. Wilson. “Finely-tuned and tightly-coupled microbial carbon and nitrogen cycling in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific oxygen deficient zone.” 2019 American Society for Limnology and Oceanography. Talk.
2018
Beman, J.M. and J.M Wilson. “Microbial community assembly, disassembly, and function along environmental gradients and in response to biogeochemical perturbation.” 2018 International Society for Microbial Ecology. Poster.
Wilson, J.M., S.S. Abboud, and J.M. Beman. “Complex community interactions control carbon cycling along natural and experimental carbon and nutrient gradients in marine lakes.” 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting. Talk.
Wilson J.M. and J.M. Beman. “Small group inquiry as a way to foster critical thinking, further understanding of material, and improve test performance in an introductory marine science course.” 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting. Poster.
Wilson, J.M. “Aquatic ecology in California.” California Naturalist Course. Invited lecturer. Talk.
2017
Wilson, J.M. “Ocean processes.” Environmental Systems Graduate Course. Invited lecturer. Talk.
Wilson, J.M. and J.M. Beman. “Small group inquiry as a way to foster critical thinking, further understanding of material, and improve test performance in an introductory marine science course.” 2017 Howard Hughes Medical Institute-UC STEM Faculty Learning Community: Transforming Teaching and Learning at the University of California—Clearing Institutional Barriers. Poster.
2011-16
Wilson, J.M. and J.M. Beman. Various topics in marine science. UC Merced Environmental Seminar Series. 2011, 2012, 2013, & 2016. Talk.
2016
Wilson, J.M. and J.M. Beman. “The dark side of the carbon cycle: simulating changing environmental conditions using natural gradients and mesocosms to study their effects on marine respiration.” 2016 University of California Carbon Slam. Poster.
Wilson, J.M., S.Y. Litvin, and J.M. Beman. "Microbial community dynamics, community respiration, and net community production in Monterey Bay, a nearshore upwelling kelp forest environment." 2016 Ocean Sciences Meeting. Talk.
Ul-Hasan, S., S. Flaherty, J. Wilson, S. Sindi, J. Beman, and M. Dawson. “Host-symbiont interactions on community and molecular levels, before and after ENSO events.” 2016 Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting. Poster.
2014
Wilson, J.M. and J.M. Beman. "Marine Lakes as Model Systems for Understanding Interactions Between Marine Microbial Community Composition and Function." 2014 Ocean Sciences Meeting. Poster.
2012
2011 C-MORE Summer Course Cruise Collective. “Scales of Variability at Station ALOHA.” 2012 Ocean Sciences Meeting. Poster.
2007
Wilson, J.M. “Quantitative Method for Selecting the Best Subspecies of Channel Island Fox for a Mainland Breeding Program.” 2007 Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research. Poster.
REFERENCES
Dr. J. Michael Beman (Graduate Advisor) | August 2010 – August 2017
Can speak to my research, teaching, mentoring, field work, and organizational abilities
Dr. Jeff Bowman (Postdoc Advisor) | May 2018 – July 2021
Can speak to my research, field work, mentoring, and organizational abilities
Dr. Matt Escobar (Biology Chair and Supervisor) | January 2022 – Present
Can speak to my teaching, mentoring, and organizational abilities
Dr. Elizabeth Ridder (Associate Professor and Co-Worker) | July 2022 – Present
Can speak to my teaching abilities
Dr. Mallory Rice (Assistant Professor and Co-Worker) | April 2022 – Present
Can speak to my teaching abilities
Dr. Jason Sexton (Teaching Supervisor) | January 2016 – May 2016
Can speak to my teaching, mentoring, and organizational abilities
Sarah Abboud (Lecturer and Co-Worker) | August 2010 – Present
Can speak to my research, field work, teaching, and outreach activities
RESEARCH CRUISES
R/V Oceanus to Eastern Tropical North Pacific 2018 (18 days)
R/V Oceanus to Eastern Tropical North Pacific (Co-chief scientist) 2017 (28 days)
R/V Mussel Point to area off continental shelf of Northern California 2013 (1 day)
R/V Kilo Moana to Station ALOHA 2011 (10 days)