Overall Teaching Expertise

Teaching Experiences in Aquaculture (Marine and Freshwater); Marine Biology; Ecological Principles; Ichthyology & Fish Biology; Limnology; Oceanography; Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences; Global Sustainability Studies; Marine & Freshwater Fisheries Management.

Selected Teaching Contributions

Ecological Aquaculture (see syllabus and class web site)
An upper level undergraduate/graduate course I designed and offer at the University of Rhode Island using the book I published in 2002 Ecological Aquaculture: The Evolution of the Blue Revolution (Blackwell Science, Oxford). The overall objective of the course is to study the principles and practices of systems ecology as related to the management of aquaculture ecosystems. The specific objective of the course is the in-depth study of the design, structure and function, and social ecology of integrated aquaculture farming ecosystems globally. The course involves lectures and independent student analyses of urban and rural aquatic ecosystems in Asia, Africa, and the USA. Students use systems ecology methods and ecological principles to understand the structure and functioning of managed aquatic ecosystems by means of applied mathematics and modeling, emphasizing input and output analyses. Students study biogeochemical and energy cycles, and trophic (feeding) relationships of managed aquaculture ecosystems. Students undertake WWW team studies to complete suitability analyses of aquaculture in the context of the existing social and ecological structures, resources and functions of different societies, including compatibility analyses, and comprehensive impacts of aquaculture on society and economies.

Aquaculture Research and Development
A graduate course I designed and offered at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego in Fall Quarter 1997, having extensive field trips to southern California and Baja California commercial and research aquaculture operations.

Ecology of Teleost Fish
An upper-level undergraduate course offered at the University of California, Irvine Spring 1998. Textbook was P. Moyle and J. Cech. Fishes. Prentice Hall 3rd Edition

Biology of Fishes offered at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology
An 8-week intensive field course that explored the remarkable diversity of estuarine, tide pool and near shore marine fishes along the Oregon coast. Course emphasized tide pool and estuarine fishes as affected by marine environmental gradients.

Global Sustainability
An in-depth interdisciplinary examination of global issues important into the 21st century of water, pollution, habitat and biological transformations, food, waste, energy, health, and communities. The first part of the course examines the theoretical and applied concepts of sustainability, natural and social ecology, ecosystems management, ecological engineering, and regenerative studies. In the second half, the course covers the tools and practices of sustainability, new ecotechnologies and social science methods. Applications of solar energy, agroecology, ecological aquaculture, biological wastewater treatment, restoration ecology, and community-based social rehabilitation methods useful to sustainable societies are emphasized. The course explores indigenous ecological and social knowledge systems of Asia-Pacific and African societies where alternative, sustainable societies exist. The course was offered in the classroom and on the WWW.

Sustainable Oceans & Coasts
The course examines major physical and biogeochemical processes in the world's oceans. There is an emphasis on integrated, interdisciplinary coastal zone management, and the social and natural ecology of the world's coasts. Next, the course reviews coastal biophysical and chemical processes, and changes caused by El Niño/La Niña, global climate change, point & non-point pollution, habitat destruction, exotic species, and overfishing. The course gives special attention to student research projects to review the current status of natural and social ecosystems in a selected coastal area of the world. Students compose a comprehensive report on the bioregion and propose models for sustainable, community-based efforts in the coastal zone that are conservative of ecosystem services & social capital. The course was offered in the classroom and on the WWW.

Teaching Record in Seven Fields of the Environmental Sciences

1. Ecology and Ecological Principles

1978-80. Led 3X at Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont. Semester System.

1996-97. Led 2X at California State Polytechnic University-Pomona at the J.T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies. Quarter
System.

2. Ichthyology/Fish Biology

1997-98. Led 1X “Ecology of Teleost Fishes" at University of California Irvine. Quarter System.

1998. Led “Biology of Fishes” at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, University of Oregon, Charleston, OR. 8-Week Summer
Upper Level Undergraduate/Graduate Course.

3. Marine Biology

1978-80. Led at Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont. Semester System.

1996.  Led at California State Polytechnic University-Pomona. Quarter System.

4. Limnology/Freshwater Biology

1989-92. Led 2X as “Freshwater Biology” at University of Malawi, Zomba, Malawi, Africa. Semester System.

1994-95. Led 2 Years (each course taught 3 X) of a 3-Quarter Sequence: [1] "Limnology I", [2] "Limnology II", [3] "Methods in Aquatic Biology". Bemidji State University, MN. Quarter System.

5. Interdisciplinary Environmental Science/Studies

1978-80. Led 3X “Environmental Chemistry”, also “Inorganic Chemistry” and “Organic Chemistry” at Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont. Semester System.

1994-95. Led 4X Graduate Seminars Titled “Seminar in Aquatic Biology” and “Readings in Aquatic Biology” at Bemidji State University, MN. Quarter System.

1996. Led 2X "Fundamentals of Regenerative & Restoration Ecology", "Integrated Fisheries/Aquaculture Ecosystems". Center for Regenerative Studies, California State Polytechnic University Pomona, CA. Quarter System.

1997-98. Led Upper Level Courses at the University of California Irvine. Quarter System: (1) “Introduction to Global Sustainability" in Classroom and on the WWW; (2) “Sustainable Oceans and Coastal Zones"

6. Fisheries Population Dynamics/Management

1994-95.  Led 2X as "Fisheries Management" at Bemidji State University, MN. Quarter System.

7. Aquaculture

1978-80. Led 4X at Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont. Quarter System.

1980-84. Led 3X (1 X at the Graduate Level) at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI. Semester System.

1994-95. Led 1X at Bemidji State University, MN. Quarter System.

1996-97. Led as Full Course 2X, and as Laboratory Course 6X at California State Polytechnic University-Pomona. Quarter System.

1997. Led as “Aquaculture Research and Development” Graduate Course, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California
San Diego. Quarter System.