Courses

BIOL 529 Plants, People, & Planet
A hands-on plant ecology course focused on Bay Area plant communities, human–environment relationships, Indigenous land stewardship, climate change, agriculture, and environmental justice.
BIOL 529 GWAR Plant Ecology
Principles of ecology through plants and plant associations, with emphasis on biotic–environmental relationships, ecological organization, California plant communities, and writing-intensive work in biology.
BIOL 716 Skills for Scientific Proposal Writing
Development of scientific writing skills through drafting, revising, and editing research proposals based on students’ own research projects.
BIOL 710 Advanced Biometry
Biological data analysis in R, emphasizing statistical reasoning, data visualization, reproducible workflows, and independent research applications. Link to syllabus
Natural History of the Bay Area: Bryophytes
Natural history of Bay Area bryophytes, with emphasis on mosses, liverworts, and hornworts, including their evolution, biology, ecology, field observation, and identification. Link to syllabus

Workshops

Collaborating and sharing using GitHub without command line
The Carpentries: Data Carpentry Workshop
The Unix Shell
The Carpentries: Software Carpentry Workshop
Wonders of a Dryland moss: Syntrichia from genomes to ecosystems
Hosted in partnership between the Jepson Herbarium and the collaborative research project 3DMoss: Desiccation and Diversity in Dryland Mosses, with funding provided by the US National Science Foundation under the Dimensions of Biodiversity program. More info and recordings here.
Biological Sciences Discipline-Cluster Workshops
Virtual Teaching Conference for First-Time Graduate Student Instructors
Biocrusts: The Living Skin of the Earth
Expanding Your Horizons, a STEM workshop for middle-school aged girls. More info here.
Introduction to R, Git, Shell, and Reproducible Analysis in R
The Carpentries: Software Carpentry Workshop
Biological Sciences Discipline-Cluster Workshops
Teaching Conference for First-Time Graduate Student Instructors
Introduction to Genomics Data Wrangling
The Carpentries: Data Carpentry Workshop
Introduction to R, Git, Shell, and R
The Carpentries: Data Carpentry Workshop