Undergraduate Teaching (I no longer teach undergraduate courses, but these are example syllabi from my previous courses)
Graduate Teaching
Sharkfinder Project
The Sharkfinder Project is a citizen science project supported by Paleo Quest and Zeiss Optical that brings together high school students from across the country with UMD undergraduates. The goal of the project is to train students in the techniques and methodologies of paleobiological research on fossil elasmobranchs. The present focus is the poorly documented Popes Creek Sand bed of the Miocene-aged Calvert Formation. To date, UMD undergraduates have more than doubled the number of elasmobranch species known from this bed.
- HLSC 207, Organismal Biology [PDF of example syllabus]
- BSCI 392, Biology of Extinct Animals [PDF of example syllabus]
- BSCI 393, Biology of Extinct Animals Laboratory [PDF of example syllabus]
Graduate Teaching
- CLFS 608A, Independent Research (Bean Beetles) [PDF of example syllabus]
- CLFS 609F, Principles of Paleobiology [PDF of example syllabus]
- CLFS 725, Experimental Design and Statistics [PDF of example syllabus]
Sharkfinder Project
The Sharkfinder Project is a citizen science project supported by Paleo Quest and Zeiss Optical that brings together high school students from across the country with UMD undergraduates. The goal of the project is to train students in the techniques and methodologies of paleobiological research on fossil elasmobranchs. The present focus is the poorly documented Popes Creek Sand bed of the Miocene-aged Calvert Formation. To date, UMD undergraduates have more than doubled the number of elasmobranch species known from this bed.
