Courses
Dr. Drew teaches a variety of courses at the graduate and undergraduate level. In the spring he taught EFB 202 Diversity of Life II (undergraduate) and EFB 797 Core Course on grant proposal writing (graduate), as well as EFB 370 Population Ecology and Management (undergraduate). In the Fall of 2022 he will be teaching EFB 496 Corals, Conservation and Colonialism
EFB 211 Diversity of Life 2
Spring Semesters
Introductory exploration of the diversity of life at local, regional and global scales. Hands-on laboratory exercises explore the form, function, diversity, ecology, and evolution of living organisms, focusing on microbes, protistans and things with faces.
EFB 797 Core Class
Spring Semesters
This course will teach core writing skills to incoming graduate students with an emphasis on proposal writing and preparing them for their thesis proposals.
Seminar on Historical Ecology
Fall 2019
This graduate level course is a hands on approach towards using historical data to reconstruct ecosystems of the past. The goal of this class will be to submit a manuscript for publication in a peer-reviewed journal
EFB 496 Corals Conservation and Colonialism / Tropical Coastal Ecology
Fall and Spring of 22/23
A year long course examining the role that colonialism has had on the face of conservation in Vieques Puerto Rico, an island which was a US Navy bombing range for 50 years and which now has a US Fish and Wildlife Refuge covering 2/3rds of the island. This course has two components. The Fall serves as a pre-departure course where we learn the biology, history and political ecology which interact at Vieques. During January we will take a one week trip to the island, and in the Spring we will work on the ecotoxicology and human/natural systems interactions that resonate with the residents of the island.
EFB 370 Population Ecology and Management
Spring Semesters
Two hours of lecture and discussion per week plus a 3-hour lab. An introduction to population ecology and genetics with consideration of their impact on population management. An integration of biological systems from molecular to ecosystem levels, with an emphasis on demystifying mathematical expression of complex ecological phenomena. We will draw on examples ranging from genetic diversity to human/wildlife conflicts to explore their influences on the maintenance of wild populations