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Teaching ExperienceBelow are courses that I have taught and/or continue to teach:
2023. Instructor, University of Wyoming, Topics and Discussions in Ecology (ZOO 5890-04) Seminar course providing graduate students with an overview of the field of ecology, including applied research approaches. The course is designed to foster bonds between newer graduate students to create a sense of community within cohorts. 2023. Instructor, University of Wyoming, Population Modeling in Ecology (ZOO 5890-09) Developed a 3-credit graduate course on statistical modeling in population ecology. The course introduces key software packages and fundamental models used in fish and wildlife population analysis. Course content includes estimating ecological state variables (occupancy, abundance) and population vital rates (survival, recruitment, dispersal) of both marked and unmarked populations, accounting for imperfect detection. The course covers closed population models, Cormack-Jolly-Seber models, multistate models, reverse-time Pradel models, and Robust Design models with capture-mark-recapture data, closed and open N-mixture models with repeated count data, and site-occupancy models with detection/nondetection data. Models are fit using the ‘RMark’ and ‘unmarked’ packages in Program R. Each class begins with an introduction to the subject material through a brief lecture followed by the application of the concepts through exercises in R (e.g., formatting data, fitting and selecting models, visualizing predicted relationships) using simulated or real datasets. Students are encouraged to use their own data when possible. All materials hosted on GitHub: (https://github.com/gbarrile/Population_Modeling_Sp23) |
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2021. Instructor, EPSCoR, Statistical Methods for Estimating Abundance in Ecology
Four-day workshop covering methods commonly used to estimate population abundance while accounting for imperfect detection: capture-mark-recapture, binomial N-mixture models, and distance sampling (https://github.com/gbarrile/AbundanceWorkshop). 2021. Instructor, Wyoming EPSCoR, Microbial Ecology Collaborative, University of Wyoming, Western EcoSystems Technology, Population Modeling in Ecology Created an online course on statistical modeling in population ecology, covering the estimation of abundance, occupancy, survival, recruitment, and dispersal (instructional videos, code, and data hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/gbarrile/PopEcoModeling). 2021. Instructor, University of Wyoming, Graduate Seminar: JEDI in STEM (ZOO 5890-07) Seminar course working through literature on Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in STEM fields. 2020. Teaching Assistant, University of Wyoming, General Ecology (LIFE 3400) Guest Lectures: Behavioral Ecology, Dispersal and Metapopulation Dynamics, Biogeography 2019. Teaching Assistant, University of Wyoming, General Biology (LIFE 1010) Instructed the laboratory portion of the course (12 labs) and supervised research projects 2019. Workshop Instructor, Wyoming Cooperative Research Unit, Population Analysis Program R workshop introducing key packages (e.g., RMark, unmarked, rjags) and fundamental models used in fish and wildlife population analysis 2014. Educator, Chincoteague Bay Field Station, Coastal Ecology Lecturer and lab/field instructor serving groups of all ages (high school, college, Road Scholars) |