Core Lab Manager
B.S. North Carolina State University (1998)
M.S. Western Carolina University (2002)
Graduate certificate, Instructional design, North Carolina State University (2019)
Office:
216 Winston Hall
email
Area of Interest
Lab education, Mastery learning, Curriculum development
Work
I am a lab coordinator and curriculum developer in the Biology department. In addition, I am committed as a resource that provides targeted and valuable educational opportunities that train undergraduate and graduate students.
I develop and implement new labs and revise existing labs to better meet the educational objectives of various biology classes. My chief area of interest is developing labs that utilize publically available, large data sets as authentic, research experiences for undergraduate biology lab students.
Presentations/Workshops led
Teaching Ecology with Extended, Student-Led Research Studies Using Publicly Available Camera Trap Data Collected in Tanzania, Africa
40th Annual Association for Biological Laboratory Educators Conference, Mini-Workshop, June 2018
Assessing Biodiversity with Forest Plots
37th Annual Association for Biological Laboratory Educators Conference, Major Workshop, June 2015
Isotopic Record of Lead Pollution in Lake Sediments in North Carolina: a spatial autocorrelation approach
Ninth Annual Graduate Research Symposium, WCU, April 2002, First place
Assessment of Variations in Heavy Metal Accumulation by Quercus alba: A Dendrochemical-Lead Isotopic Approach
Ecological Society of America annual meeting, August 2003
WCU, Biology Department seminar, November 2002