Courses

Courses
University of Alaska Anchorage:

Alaska Earth Systems Field School (co-founder & co-director summers 2001-2004)
Advanced Alaska Earth Systems Field School (graduate)
Advanced Conservation Biology (graduate)
Advanced Evolutionary Biology (graduate)
Animal Behavior & Animal Behavior Lab
Biogeography
Community Based Environmental Research: A Field Sampling Institute – a course on contaminants
and public health offered in Nome for residents of Alaska Native villages in Norton Sound and Bering Sea islands
Conservation Biology - a service-learning course focused on water quality and habitat assessment
for the Russian Jack Community
Earth as an Ecosystem: Introduction to Environmental Science
Enduring Books: Carson’s Silent Spring (freshman honors course)
Graduate Research Techniques
Lab Practicum: Ecotoxicology


Northwest Council for Study Abroad (Rosario, Argentina: Universidad Nacional de Rosario)

Environmental Justice
Enduring Books: Carson’s Silent Spring

Northwest Council for Study Abroad (Valdivia, Chile; in Spanish):

                Conservation Biology
Biogeography and Conservation Case Studies in Chile


University of Pittsburgh, Semester at Sea:

Behavioral Ecology
Global Ecology
Primate Biology


Columbia University:

Beyond Deforestation: Causes, Patterns, and Consequences of Forest Degradation
Conservation Biology and Field Techniques in Conservation Biology
Earth Systems Field School: Encountering Ecosystems
(co-director summer 1999, directorsummer 2000)
Field Course in Earth and Environmental Sciences
Independent Research in Environmental Science and Policy
Introduction to Earth Systems: the Life System
Planetary Management Seminar and Laboratory
Principles and Methods of Ecological Stewardship
Tutorial in Earth and Environmental Sciences


University of California, Berkeley:

Advanced Primate Biology (lab)
Animal Biology: A Behavioral View (lab)
General Biology (lab)
Introduction to the Science of Living Organisms
Primate Biology


Field courses taught in:

Tropical rainforest ecology, Peruvian Amazon River and flooded forest (summer 1994)

Desert ecology, Sonoran Desert, Arizona and northern Mexico (Columbia University, fall and spring semesters + summers 1996-2000)

Primate behavior/wetland ecology/tropical forest ecology/montane ecology, Japan, Hong Kong and China, Vietnam, Malaysia, India, Turkey, Croatia, Italy, Morocco (Semester at Sea, University of Pittsburgh, fall semester 1999)

Subarctic ecology & geomorphology, Alaska (University of Alaska Anchorage & the National Science Foundation, summers 2001, 2002, 2004)

Tropical rainforest ecology, Costa Rica (Organization for Tropical Studies & the National Science Foundation, summer 2005)

Conservation biology and biogeography, Chile (Northwest Council for Study Abroad, fall semester 2007)

Arctic ecotoxicology, Nome (summers 2008, 2009, 2012) and Anchorage (summer 2010; Alaska Community Action on Toxics, University of Alaska and the National Institutes of Health)

Environmental justice & environmental history, Argentina (Northwest Council for Study Abroad, spring semester 2011)