Teaching
Australian Ecosystems: Threats and Solutions
I developed and coordinated this course since 2022.
It provides an overall overview of which ecosystems can be found in Australia, how these are classified and what plants and animals live there. The second part of the course discusses current threats to Australian ecosystems including land degradation, drought and bushfires, pests and invasive species, climate change etc.
This subject is part of a Conservation Science Minor and leads the way to other in-depths subject such as Ecosystem restoration, Conservation priorities and process and Climate change and biodiversity conservation.
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Australian ecosystems is focused on job-ready skills which are emphasized in five practicals with hands-on experiences for students.
Botany
In 2020, I taught Botany during the challenging COVID-19 restrictions for about 40 students.
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While the whole course moved to an online environment, we still had fun with interactive websites, an audiotour on campus and a virtual herbarium.
Plant ID skills were honed while plants were ‘on both sides of the screen’.
