research overview My research concerns pedagogy in science labs. I evaluate how various components or aspects of labs, students, and graduate-student teaching assistants influence student learning outcomes.
selected publications book General Biology Lab a Human Approach: fall 2005 and spring 2006. 2005 Laboratory manual for biology 105 (internet course). 2001 chapter Photosynthesis I: Plant Pigments. 2002 Plant Diversity 2002 Prokaryotes. 2002 Protists and Fungi 2002 Student Projects. 2002 Foraging behavior of beavers, plant secondary compounds, and management concerns. 1999 journal article Population Ecology of the Northern Spotted Owl 2023 Motivation Strategies and Exiting Class by Students in Inquiry-Oriented Biology Labs. Teaching & Learning Inquiry: The ISSOTL Journal. 128-139. 2020 Impacts of Digital Imaging versus Drawing on Student Learning in Undergraduate Biodiversity Labs. Bioscene. 2014 An Evaluation of Two Hands-On Lab Styles for Plant Biodiversity in Undergraduate Biology. CBE Life Sciences Education. 493-503. 2014 Time Efficiency, Written Feedback, and Student Achievement in Inquiry-Oriented Biology Labs. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. 2014 Impact of a pre-lab, a write-to-learn post lab, and content reduction on evolution-based learning in an undergraduate plant biodiversity lab.. Evolution: Education and Outreach. 2014 Design of inquiry-oriented science labs: impacts on students' attitudes. Research in Science and Technological Education. 241-255. 2011 Optimal Science Lab Design: Impacts of Various Components of Lab Design on Students’ Attitudes Toward Lab. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. 2008 Current trends of community college lab curricula in biology: an analysis of inquiry, technology, and content. Journal of Biological Education. 80-86. 2000 Influences of predation risk and energy maximization on food selection by beavers (Castor canadensis). Canadian Journal of Zoology. 1995 Optimal production of chemical defenses in relation to plant growth rate.. Oikos. 1993 Food selection by beavers in relation to inducible defenses of quaking aspen.. Oikos. 1990 Optimal central-place foraging by beavers: Tree-size selection in relation to defensive chemicals of quaking aspen. Oecologia. 278-282. 1988
education and training Ph.D., University of Nevada-Reno 1992 M.S., University of Nevada-Reno 1987 B.A., California State University-Stanislaus 1984