HS - O. Perry Walker High School, New Orleans, Louisiana - 1971
BS - Forestry and Wildlife - Virginia Tech
- 1976
MS - Wildlife Biology - Iowa State -
1979
PhD - Animal Ecology - Iowa State -
1983
I began teaching at Eastern Kentucky University in August of 1982, primarily courses in our undergraduate Wildlife Management program, including Wildlife Population Analysis (BIO 382) and Wetland Wildlife Management (BIO 586/786). I also teach a non-majors course, Conservation of Wildlife Resources (BIO 317). At the Graduate level, I have taught the following: Biostatistics (BIO 510/710), Population Ecology (BIO 846), and Dynamics of Ecosystems (BIO 850). I became Chair of the Department in July 2007, so my teaching duties are much more limited than during my first 25 years at EKU.
My research interests include waterfowl ecology, computer simulation, and vertebrate population ecology. My projects as a graduate student at Iowa State involved behavior and energetics of fall-migrating Snow Geese and the simulation of their refuging behavior (see Wildlife Monograph #97). Since my arrival at EKU, I have worked with MS graduate students on projects involving such things as bobcat movements, spacial patterns, and habitat use, fox and raccoon population densities and simulation, ecology and vocalizations of locally-breeding giant Canada geese, wood duck breeding ecology, black duck and mallard behavior and habitat use, greater snow goose movements and habitat use, and hair digestion by carnivores. Most-recent projects are described on my current research web page.