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Racine, Wisconsin, United States

Racine, WI

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

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

Somers, Wisconsin

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.

Somers, Wisconsin

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.

Racine, Wisconsin

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

Chicago

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.

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

Santa Fe, Santa Fe, Argentina

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.

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

Ithaca, New York Area

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

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Organismic & Evolutionary Biology

Activities and Societies: Graduate Student SenateBioacoustics, song learning, ecology

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Biological Sciences : Ecology And Systematics (Cum Laude), English

Activities and Societies: Biology Student Curriculum Committee Howard Hughes Undergraduate Scholars