Teaching

Fall Semester

Ecol 478/578: Global Change (Fall every year) - for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in natural science and related disciplines. (joint with Julia Cole in Geosciences)

Ecol 596L: Tropical Ecology & Biogeochemistry (Fall 2010) - A graduate seminar exploring current questions in tropical forest ecology and biogeochemistry (an Amazon-PIRE course: see summer field component, Ecol 596T, below).

Ecol 380: Mathematical Models in Biology (Biomath) (Spring 2008; Fall 2009; next offered: Fall 2012) - for advanced undergraduates in biological and ecological sciences, and mathematics students: learn how to apply basic tools of mathematical tools (from simple back-of-the-envelope estimates to formal stability analysis using difference and differential equations) to biological problems including population dynamics, species coexistence, population genetics, links between ecosystem ecology and global biogeochemistry, and biological scaling.

Spring Term

Ecol 596V: Microbial meta-omics and Ecosystem Function (Spring 2011) - A graduate seminar on interdisciplinary approaches to integrate biogeochemistry and molecular microbial ecology to address questions about ecosystem function.

Summer Term

Ecol 496T/596T: Ecology & Biogeochemistry of the Amazon (every summer) - An intensive project-based international course in field techniques for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduates, taught on location at a field site in the Amazon forest of Brazil (an Amazon-PIRE course complementing Ecol 596L, above). (enrollment limited to 10 U.S. students)