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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