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Teaching

It’s not all fun and games, but a lot of it is.

What is the extinction of the condor to a child who has never seen a wren?

~Robert Michael Pyle

People often ask faculty about their “teaching philosophy.” ^That’s mine.

We live in a time of global habitat and biodiversity loss, but an appreciation of the gravity of that loss is missing among all but the tiny fraction of us who study the natural world. Conservationists can have some modest success in campaigns to save pandas or rhinos or tigers, or indeed, condors. The heart and soul of wildlife conservation, however, is concern and care for those species trying to survive in our own communities, right under our collective nose. I gauge my success as an educator according to my ability to get my students excited about continuing their experiences in the natural world, long after our course has ended.

Teaching Ornithology? Chapter 26 of this text is especially good…

Johns Hopkins University Press

Ornithology: Foundation, Analysis, and Application

edited by Michael Morrison, Amanda Rodewald, Gary Voelker, Melanie Colón, and Jonathan Prather.

Graduate Course Offerings

NREM 5020 – Research and Presentation. I’m one of four NREM faculty heading up our graduate seminar these days. For me that’s even-numbered spring semesters.

NREM 5083 – Applied Landscape Ecology. I offer this course in even-numbered fall semesters with Sam Fuhlendorf. Starting with a basic introduction to landscape ecology, Sam and I spend most of the course presenting and discussing issues related to ecosystem management.

Undergraduate Course Offerings

NREM 4543 – Wildlife Management for Biodiversity. Biogeography, selection, and fitness of animals in terrestrial habitats. This is a course for junior/senior majors in NREM, Zoology, or related fields. Offered every semester.

NREM 4464/BIOL 4464 – Ornithology. Systematics, phylogeny, distribution, abundance, field identification, field sampling, life histories, morphological traits, ecological relationships, behaviors, and conservation of birds. Prerequisite BIOL 1604. Offered every semester, but taught by the Department of Integrative Biology during even-numbered springs.

NREM 4980 – Undergraduate Research. This is generally offered as a 1-credit course in which I work individually with the student to design a field research project. The work is auto-tutorial. Ideally, the student writes a paper based on the experience that is suitable for publication in a regional journal.

Previous Course Offerings at OSU