I have taught classes for all levels of undergraduates, in addition to paleobiology- and evolutionary biology-focused courses for middle and high school students. Notably, I have been integral in developing and leading the two week long Kansas Field Herpetology course at the University of Kansas (KU). This course takes up to fifteen undergraduate students throughout the state where they learn to identify, collect, and preserve reptiles and amphibians for scientific study (more about the course here). I have also been instrumental in developing the interactive lab component of the KU Mammalian Paleontology and Primate Evolution courses and served for six years as the supervisor of the Peer-Led Undergraduate Supplements program, a group of upperclass undergraduates who lead structured supplemental discussion sections for introductory biology and chemistry courses (PLUS KU).
University of Kansas Field Herpetology (BIOL 418/701)
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Courses taught and assisted
BIOL 652 - Comparative Animal Behavior (University of Kansas) BIOL 623/GEOL 523 - Paleontology laboratory (University of Kansas) BIOL 527/GEOL 591/ANTH 445 - Primate Evolution and the Fossil Record (University of Kansas) BIOL 524/GEOL 524 - Mammalian Paleontology (University of Kansas) BIOL 418/701 - Field Herpetology (University of Kansas) BIOL 414 - Principles of Ecology (University of Kansas) BIOL 241 - Human Anatomy laboratory (University of Kansas) BIOL 152 - Principles of Organismal Biology (University of Kansas) BIOL 150 - Principles of Molecular and Cellular Biology (University of Kansas) PBIO - Paleobiology (Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth) Evol. Biol. - Evolutionary Biology (KU Upward Bound/Unite) |
Partial maxilla of the Paleocene arctocyonid Claenodon in southern Wyoming, USA
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Field Experience
2024 - Neotropical bat research in Belize 2023 - Paleocene and Eocene mammal paleontology in southern Wyoming, USA 2021 - Paleocene mammal paleontology in southern Wyoming, USA 2019 - Paleocene mammal paleontology in southern Wyoming, USA 2018 - Eocene-Oligocene mammal paleontology in Yunnan Province, China 2017 - Paleocene-Eocene mammal paleontology in Xinjiang Province, China - Paleocene mammal paleontology in southern Wyoming, USA 2015 - Late Cretaceous dinosaur paleontology in eastern Montana, USA 2014 - Research into terrestrial behavior of Neotropical bats in northeastern Costa Rica 2013 - Documenting mammal trace fossils in the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation, southern Utah, USA |
