• Ph.D., Northern Arizona University
• M.S., Northwestern State University of Louisiana
• B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara.
• A.S., Imperial Valley College

• At SUA since 2001
• 2000 - 2001, Academic Coordinator, University of CA, Irvine
• 1992 - 2000, Assist/Associate Professor of Biology, West Texas A&M University
• 1991 - 1992, Assistant Prof. of Biology, Eastern New Mexico University

• Behavioral Ecology of Fishes
• Impacts of Human Activities on the Environment
• Population Genetis of Amazonian Fishes

• "Daily migrations of a coral reef fish in the Red Sea (Gulf of Aqaba): initiation and orientation," Copeia, 1998
• "Does mass spawning enhance fertilization in coral reef fish? A case study of the brown surgeonfish," Ecology Progress Series, 1998
• "Structure and organization of local migrations in the brown surgeonfish (Acanthurus nigrofuscus)," Ethology, 1995
• Animal Biology Laboratory Manual, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., 1992
• "Density- and size-dependent spacing of ant nests: evidence for intraspecific competition," Oecologia, 1988

• Animal Behavior - Topics Course
• Core 2
• Ecology - Topics Course
• Environmental Science
• General Biology
• Marine Biology
• Modes of Inquiry
• Learning Cluster: Human Impacts  
• Learning Cluster: Solar Energy
• Learning Cluster: Sustainable Development of the Peruvian Amazon

• Fulbright Research Fellowship to Jordan, 1999
• West Texas A&M President's Research Excellence Award,1999
• West Texas A&M President's Teaching Excellence Award, 1998
• Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society for International Scholars, 1994

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