WikiEducator:Community Council/Bissell

Nationality
USA

Place of residence
USA

Qualifications

 * BS in Biology, University of California, San Diego. Focus on Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution.
 * Ph.D. in Biology, University of Oregon. Focus on Evolutionary Genetics.

Professional experience
2011-present Monterey Institute for Technology and Education Project Manager

2010-present William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Mozilla Foundation Peer 2 Peer University Consultant on Innovation in Education and Science

2007-2010 Creative Commons; San Francisco, CA Executive Director, ccLearn

2006-2007 Duke University; Durham, NC. Assistant Director, Academic Resource Center. 2006-2007 United InnoWorks Academy National Director (prev) and Consultant, InnoWorks 2005-present Alexandria Archive Institute Field Sciences Research Consultant

2003-2005 Duke University (Duke); Durham, NC. Postdoctoral Researcher and Program Coordinator, Academic Resource Center.

2002-2007 Duke University; Durham, NC. Postdoctoral Research Associate (and Instructor), Department of Biology. 2002 Vance-Granville Community College (VGCC); Henderson, NC. Biology Instructor, at Low Security Correctional Institution in Butner, NC.

2001-2004 University of Oregon (UO); Eugene, OR. Summer session instructor 1996-2001 University of Oregon; Eugene, OR. Doctoral student, Section of Ecology and Evolution. Degree awarded: Sep, 2001. Dissertation title: “Population differences and behavior in lizards: on the road to speciation?”

1994-1996 San Diego State University; San Diego, CA. Research Assistant: Wildlife field study coordinator. 1990-1994 University of California, San Diego (UCSD); La Jolla, CA. BS in Biology with a focus on Ecology, Behavior and Evolution.

1994 Monteverde, Costa Rica Student Researcher: Tropical biology research program through UC system.

1992-1994 UCSD Research Assistant: Plant genetics, hybridization and life-history variation in rice and oaks.

1991 Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory; Berkeley, CA. Student Researcher: Drosophila genetics and protein chemistry.

Other roles and relevant experience

 * Co-founder of the Consortium for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CoSTL) at Duke University.
 * Open-access digital archive and interdisciplinary research consultant for the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent). Durham, NC.