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About me |
i'm an energetic procrastinator, fiddler of tools analog and digital, and enjoy the battle of learning |
- Like most Canadians, I grew up loving hockey
- Hockey allowed me to study at a tremendous college (go Ephs!)
- That was where I met my amazing wife (fate?... she and I both wore number 10... note her PIM > my PIM)
- After graduating from college we started our careers teaching in a few boarding schools. Dr. Burch and her program at Berkshire School remains a huge inspiration in how I envision integrating real science with science education
- I wanted to know more about science so I signed up for a Ph.D program, starting with Vaughn Cooper's lab, and am currently completing my dissertation research in Jeff Foster's lab
- I'm interested in science and education; one tool integrating those themes is this website sharing what I've discovered, so here we are.
I'm a fourth year Ph.D candidate interested in science and education. My work in Dr. Foster's focuses on bat ecology and evolution. I'm interested in identifying a genetic basis for resistance to White-nose syndrome, a disease caused by a fungal pathogen that has killed millions of bats throughout North America over the last decade.
In addition, I am broadly interested in how scientists learn, work, and collaborate. I hope that my musings within these pages provide some insight into the challenges of scientists becoming better teachers, and teachers doing better science.