Detecting and classifying patterns in sounds and other time-series data.

Teaching Business Statistics, Behavioural Research Statistics, and Introductory Computer Science

My position at Parkside helped me maintain collaborations with animal communication specialists worldwide. I led the acoustic analysis portions of research on creatures such as songbirds, parrots, and dolphins. The lively entrepreneurial community in southeastern WI also helped me as I developed commercial applications of my research.

I teach courses in College Algebra and Discrete Math. I also help lead a team of Parkside faculty who provide professional development training for middle-school math teachers.

Taught the incredibly poised and thoughtful students of The Prairie School's Upper & Middle Schools. This was a 3 month substitute position.

Taught anatomy and physiology for premeds and nurses, as well as introductory biology for majors.

Studied animal communication, evolutionary biology, multivariate statistics, and plant-insect interactions. Taught a variety of biology courses. Trained undergraduates in field methods for ornithology. Participated in weekly lab meetings. Presented my research at university, regional, national, and international meetings. Wrote and reviewed grants and papers.

Taught 5 semesters of Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy, 4 of Introductory Biology, and 1 of Ornithology.

Golondrinas de las Americas is a hemisphere-wide research collaboration focused on understanding the ecology of cavity-nesting swallows (genus Tachycineta). I co-led a team of two Argentines and two US ornithologists as we established a research station in the flood plain of the Parana River. I mentored Argentine and US ornithologists in field methods, and met with Argentine conservationists and scientists to help build the Golondrinas network in north-central Argentina. My team lived in a million-plus size city (Santa Fe), speaking only Spanish, and worked in an active cattle ranch on an island in the river.

I taught the laboratory sections, and some lectures, for Professor Gary Gillis's Mammalian Anatomy course. He had partial paternity leave that semester.

Field crew leader in Ithaca, then field assistant in South Africa and Tanzania, on bird ecology research projects.