Professor of Biology
Biology Department Chair and Program Director
Environmental Studies Program Director
Wesleyan College Arboretum Director
My
research interests include bird-plant interactions, seasonal patterns of bird
diversity, vulture flight behavior, leaf litter dispersal and effects of leaf decomposition on soil
nitrogen cycling rates, and forest ecology. Courses Taught
Undergraduate courses:
Wesleyan Integrative Seminar Experience; Human Biology;
Principles of Biology I;
Principles of Biology II;
Research Methods in the
Biological Sciences; Botany;
Ecology; Principles of Evolution;
Conservation Biology; Senior
Integrative Exercise in Biology