NSF. GK-12: Exploring California Biodiversity. R Gillespie, D Lindberg, C Moritz, M Power,                 G Roderick (for D Dahlsten)

1. •The primary goal of our project is to inspire in urban children an appreciation for the overwhelming diversity of life and a recognition that biodiversity is not confined to the rainforests of exotic places, but exists even within their own school yards. This project develops a learning community among graduate student fellows, classroom teachers, and their students that focuses on understanding the natural environment. Graduate fellows associated with UC Berkeley Natural History Museums (BNHM) work with middle and high schools in the San Francisco Bay Area using the facilities and resources of the BNHM and the Berkeley Natural History Field Stations. The program involves field trips, the building and studying of natural history collections in the K–12 schools, additional study of BNHM collections, and the use of interpretive tools.
   

NSF. Undergraduate Mentoring in Environmental Biology: Ecology, evolution, and conservation biology in the Pacific.

1. •We have been encouraging Pacific Island students to join research labs as interns at the University of Hawaii, both Manoa and Hilo campuses. (PIs Michael G. Hadfield and Bob Richmond, from the University of Hawaii, Manoa, seen here on a visit to the College of Micronesia in Pohnpei). Program currently based entirely at the University of Hawaii Manoa, Chaminade (Gail Grabowsky) and Hilo (Don Price). Funded by the National Science Foundation
   

Recent Teaching:

1. •Tropical Island Biology--Field course in Moorea, French Polynesia (IB C158 = ESPM C107)
   

2. •Insect Natural History (ESPM 42)
   

3. •Arachnology (ESPM 132)
   

4. •General Entomology (ESPM 140)
   

5. •Arthropod Biodiversity Science (ESPM 290, Section 13)
   

Applying for graduate study ?? 

1. •Since August 1999, George Roderick and I have been on the faculty at UC Berkeley, in a department perhaps soon to be called Environmental Science.   Previously, at the University of Hawaii, I advised students in both Zoology.  Our students also participated in the Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology (EECB) Graduate Program.  Respective departments at the University of California, Berkeley or the University of Hawaii should be contacted for application materials--click on links for further information.
   Students and postdocs in our lab have gone on to a variety of careers including positions with academia, state and federal agencies, private NGO's and foundations, and industry. Former students and postdocs hold positions with the University of Barcelona, Spain; the Natural History Museum, London; the University of Bristol, England; Harvard Medical School; UC Riverside; UC Davis; San Diego State University; Louisiana State University; Bowling Green State University; US Fish and Wildlife Service, USGS, and the State of Hawaii. See our lab's Evolab page for links to former students and postdocs.