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EDUCATION:
- B.S. in Botany at Univ. of Utah, 1964; M.S. in
Botany at UCLA, 1966; Ph.D. in Biology at
Stanford University, 1971.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
- University of Wyoming, Laramie Wyoming, Botany
Department to 1978; University of Nebraska,
Lincoln, Nebraska to 1984; Westminster
College, Salt Lake City, Biology Department to
current; Visiting lecturer in Botany at San
Diego State University 1983. M.S. and Ph.D.
student supervision at University of Wyoming and
University of Nebraska.
MY PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS:
- I am a professional ecologist. My research
background is in plant physiological ecology. My
area of specialization is in grassland
ecology and restoration ecology. I am a certified
member of the Ecological Society of America.
I
was a botanical consultant for the recent, multi-volume
University of Nebraska Press editions of the
Lewis and Clark Journals.
I am also an ecological consultant for a
number of Salt Lake City metro area environmental
and educational organizations. We recently
received a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service to conduct a riparian habitat
restoration project on the Jordan River, that
passes through Salt Lake City, and has been
highly degraded by agriculture and flood control
efforts over the last 150 years. We will be
planting thousands of small native tree and shrub
seedlings along the river course to restore
habitat for migratory non-game bird species.
COURSES I TEACH:
- General Botany, General Ecology, Introductory
Biology, Environmental Biology, Field Botany,
Field Ecology, Methods in Teaching Biology, and a
new Liberal Education course called Explorations
in Science( for non-science majors). All of these
courses are lab-based or have weekly field trips.
OTHER INTERESTS:
- I am the faculty advisor to our campus
environmental organization (Westminster College
Earth Effort or WCEE). This organization supports
campus-wide recycling, helps maintain and restore
a natural riparian area along Emigration Creek on
campus, and this year created on, Earthday 1997,
an organic herb garden for students, staff, and
our campus food service.
I am an active member
of a number of local environmental organizations:
Citizens to Preserve Dimple Dell (ad hoc);
past member of Dimple Dell Advisory Board (to
Salt Lake County Parks and Recreation);
member of Sandy City Trails Advisory Board:
member and past chair of Salt Lake Regional Trail
Council; member and past president of Utah
Society for Environmental Education; member, Utah
Native Plant Society; member, Friends of Great
Salt Lake; member Utah Nature Study
Society, member Great Salt Lake Chapter of the
Audubon Society.
HOBBIES AND OTHER ACTIVITIES:
- Cross-country skiing; gardening; hiking; fishing,
camping, and canoeing; Utah geography and
geology; slide photography; art and music
appreciation; guitar, organ, piano, and reed
harmonium (pump organ). Periodically I teach an
edible wild plants courses, and, on occasion,
cater wild food dinners. I live in Sandy, Utah
where I was born and raised. I live with my wife
in a one-hundred-year old house that is on the
National Register of Historic Places. I am
currently landscaping the house with period
horticultural "heritage" species of
trees, shrubs, and perennial flowers from my
grandmother's and great aunt's home gardens.
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