TEACHING
GEO3454: Peoples and Plagues, Fall, Spring, 3 cr [Part of the Medical Geography core]
What makes a disease emerge? What makes diseases re-emerge? How has this affected world history?
What can we learn from past epidemics to manage current and impending outbreaks?
What makes a disease emerge? What makes diseases re-emerge? How has this affected world history?
What can we learn from past epidemics to manage current and impending outbreaks?
Previously offered
GEO3930/GEO4938: People, Parks, and Conservation, Summer A
UF Geography Study Abroad Program in South Africa
What shapes a savanna landscape? How does park management work? How do communities interface with parks, and conduct management? How do we understand the landscape, and with what tools, to inform and monitor management?
UF Geography Study Abroad Program in South Africa
What shapes a savanna landscape? How does park management work? How do communities interface with parks, and conduct management? How do we understand the landscape, and with what tools, to inform and monitor management?
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SUNY ESF (2011-2014)
EFB 496/796: Emerging Infectious Diseases (3 cr) Course Overview (catalog description) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Introduction to emerging infectious diseases in the context of previous disease outbreaks, focusing on zoonotic origin and management. EFB 360: Introduction to Epidemiology (3 cr) 3 hours lecture Course Overview (catalog description) Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Introduction to epidemiological studies through exploration of population measures of disease, clinical measures and causation. Emphasizes quantitative approaches, study design, ethics, intervention and implementation. Spring EFB 496/796: Parameter Estimation and Modeling in Population Biology Studies (3 cr) Course Overview 3 hours lecture + 3 hours lab per week. This course introduces upper level undergraduates and graduate students to concepts in mark-recapture modeling, demographic rate estimation, age and stage structured matrix modeling and life-history theory. Overview of field study design, methods and incorporating management into models. 1. Principles and practice of linear regression modeling, and how it relates to capture-mark-recapture demographic rate and population size models (first 3-4 weeks) 2. Overview of several capture-mark-recapture models for estimating survival, recruitment, movements, and population size (next 8-9 weeks) (focus on Cormack-Jolly-Seber). 3. Using the estimates (final 3-4 weeks): Matrix models for population projection, PVA, LTRE and various Greek letters, data manipulation and examination in Excel, transfer to, and model building, in R (poptools, other scripts provided) |
SUNY ESF (2011-2014)
Graduate Seminars: EFB 497/797: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Spring (1 cr) Upper level undergraduate/Graduate level seminar Discussion of 2-4 papers weekly on emerging infectious diseases, arranged by topic as guided by participants Discussion lead by participants following established instructor guidelines; Paper on topic of participant's choice - often in line with thesis interests EFB 797: Adaptive Peaks Seminar (1 cr) Graduate only seminar - 1 credit, counts towards 3 seminar credit requirement EFB 797: Vertebrate Conservation Conversation Seminar (1 cr) Graduate only seminar - 1 hour meeting per week, 1 credit hour Occasional graduate level seminar offering to discuss issues in conservation biology and review and critique ongoing research Stanford University (2008-2009)
ANSCI 178/278: Past and Present Pestilence: an interdisciplinary examination of zoonotic diseases UC Berkeley (2003-2006) ESPM 298: Foundations of Ecology, Seminar co-facilitator 2003 ESPM 114: Wildlife Ecology, Graduate Student Instructor, Lecturer 2003, 2006 ESPM 104: Modeling and Management of Biological Resources, Reader, Instructor 2004, 2005 |
Ongoing Irregular Offerings
Workshops/Institutes
Workshops/Institutes
- Workshop on Quantitative Landscape Ecology and Environmental Sustainability (QLEES), NSF DIMACS/MBI, UKZN, Durban, S. Africa, 2012.
- Institute and workshop on Conservation Biology, DIMACS/MBI, S. Africa, Kenya 2010, 2011
- Workshop: Introduction to GIS for Habitat Analysis and Home Range Estimation. SCB/SCGIS 2006