MY JOB:

I teach Human Anatomy (Bio 12A), Human Physiology (Bio 12B), Human Biology (Bio5 and 5L), and Introduction to Life Sciences (Bio 10). Click here for pages for most of my classes.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: 

I attended Southwestern Community College in the San Diego area and completed my general education requirements there. After taking a break from school to work as a seasonal firefighter for the Forest Service, I returned to California State University at Stanislaus and completed my BS in Biology. Another stint in the real world, this time as a construction worker, sent me scurrying back to school. This time I attended San Diego State University and in 1989, received my MS in Molecular Biology.

TEACHING BACKGROUND:

Upon graduation, I decided my future was in teaching. For the next seven years, I taught a variety of classes at most of the colleges in the San Diego area. I've been here at COS since 1996.

MISCELLANY:

• I spent two summers ('93 and '94) running a field research crew on the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve in Alaska for the Global Change Research Group at SDSU. This group works on carbon cycling. See their webpage at http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/GCRG!
• For fun I play volleyball, bicycle, ski, camp, and go to Baja to kayak, snorkel, and fall asleep in the middle of the day.