Teaching and Research

March 1, 2023

We are studying small mammal adaptations to winter cold, as well as the importance of native habitats for stopovers of migrating songbirds.

March 1, 2023

In Ecology of North America (BIO 176), we explore natural landscapes. One of the best ways to do this is to get outside, and use our senses of smell, sight, sound, and touch.

February 3, 2023

In the spirit of protecting and enriching the Natural Areas, the Miami University Botanical Society (MUBS) is helping to mitigate the spread of Amur honeysuckle.

January 23, 2023

The Outdoor Pursuit Center uses the Miami Natural Areas for both teaching and teambuilding.

December 20, 2022

The focus of my lab group's research in southwest Ohio is on understanding what streams were like prior to European settlement.

December 20, 2022

Miami's Geographic Information System (GIS) program is rooted in application.

December 13, 2022

My project focuses on the individual and interactive effects of white-tailed deer and invasive plants on tree regeneration: both natural regeneration and artificial regeneration of planted seedlings.

November 22, 2022

A trail camera placed and monitored by Miami University students captured a video of a bobcat, the first known photograph of this elusive and solitary animal taken in Miami's Natural Areas.

July 26, 2017

Each spring, students and staff from the Myaamia Center and students and staff from the Western Program tap ten sugar maple trees in Peabody Woods.

June 29, 2017

Effects of an invasive shrub, Lonicera maackii, and a generalist herbivore, white-tailed deer, on forest floor plant community composition.

July 21, 2014

For our bird research, we band birds, assign them numbers, capture lots of data about them; we monitor them year after year for how many return and what birds use the areas.