My teaching emphasizes active learning, field experience, quantitative reasoning, and open science. I give students opportunities to work with real ecological data and use the same analytical approaches employed in contemporary research. Students move from developing questions and evaluating ecological patterns to testing hypotheses and communicating evidence-based conclusions through transparent and reproducible workflows.

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I bring this approach into both the classroom and research mentorship. I have designed and taught upper-level courses in environmental biology and environmental management and mentored undergraduate and graduate students across community science, wildlife ecology, habitat associations, rewilding, and biodiversity monitoring. My goal is to help students progress toward increasingly independent, research-level analyses, with several mentored projects contributing to peer-reviewed publications.