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Training and Awards
BA Biology 1973 California State College, Sonoma
MA Biology 1975 California State College Sonoma – with Dr. Colin Hermans (Interstitial fauna)
PhD Zoology 1978 UC Berkeley – with Dr. Richard Eakin (Invertebrate photoreceptors and ciliary locomotion)
PostDoc UC Riverside – with Dr. Prudence Talbot (Mechanics of mammalian ovulation)
Occidental College 1980-present. Department Chair 1988-92; 1999-2001.
Loftsgordon Award for Excellence in Teaching 1984; Linda and Tod White Teaching Prize 2009
1981-2008 Director of Summer Oceanology Program for select high school seniors; www.oxy.edu/oxy/marinebio/summer
1996-2003 Director of the research vessel, R/V Vantuna.
1996-2008 Board of Directors for Southern California Marine Institute (SCMI); www.scmi.us
2003-2007 Environmental Education Advisory Committee for State of California Department of Education; www.creec.org
2011-2014 Educational Council of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
Membership in Professional Organizations
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB)
The International Society of Developmental and Comparative Immunology (DCI)
The Crustacean Society (TCS)
Electron Microscopy Society of America (EMSA)
World Aquaculture Society (WAS)
Teaching
Bio 115 Introduction to Zoology
Bio 323 Histology
Bio 344 Invertebrate Morphology and Physiology