I have been teaching at Utah Tech University since the fall of 2008. I have taught many courses during my time here: General Biology, Principles of Biology 1 and 2, Ichthyology, Entomology, Herpetology, Marine Biology, and Oceanography. In my classes, I emphasize experimentation and active learning by students.
I have loved biology since I was a child. When I was five, I saw JAWS and told my parents I wanted to be Matt Hooper when I grew up. I suppose they were just glad that I chose someone who didn’t get eaten by the shark. So for my PhD dissertation, I studied the development of feeding behavior in sharks. I had several wonderful summers spent on a boat off the south Florida coast catching sharks (and I still have all of my limbs intact).