This post will serve as an update as to what I am doing and what I have been doing this past summer.
This semster I am beginning my course work towards becoming a certified science teacher. I am also teaching this semester at the University of Illinois. I will be teaching one discussion and one lab section of Integrative Biology 100/101. This is an introductory biology course for non-majors. My first class was yesterday and I enjoyed it very much. I hope my students enjoyed it as much as I did and learned something while enjoying!
This past summer Whitney (my wife for anyone who doesn't know) and traveled all over the country collecting Bumble Bees for a research project studying Bumble Bee diversity and decline. IT WAS A BLAST! We camped, hiked, collected, slept a little, and DROVE (~11,000 miles). In the end we collected approximately 1000 bees for genetic and pathogen analysis.
This is all I care to write right now, but I promise there will be more and hopefully something a little more interesting in the future.
