Teaching Activities

I teach Population Ecology which is a core graduate course and now is also open to advanced undergraduates in Biology and Natural Resources. It is taught each Fall semester. Population Ecology is team-taught with Dr. Kirk Moloney who is a botanist, and it covers basic theory of population dynamics including growth models, predation, competition, and population projection.

In the past I taught an undergraduate course called Ecological Methods, which includes elements of statistical design, population sampling and estimation, field sampling of vegetation, and mapping habitat using geographic information systems.  For many students this is their first exposure to GIS at Iowa State University. Dr. Steve Dinsmore will be teaching this course beginning Fall 2007.

The most advanced graduate course that I teach is Population Analysis. Population Analysis covers statistical and analytical techniques for estimating parameters of biological populations, and is frequently taken by students from Entomology, Statistics, as well as students throughout EEB.

In 2003, Dr. Wilsey and I led the EEB field trip to the Northern Great Plains.