2007. A review of current methods of divergence time estimation: providing a temporal framework to phylogenetics. California Academy of Sciences, Systematics Discussion Group.
2007. California Academy of Sciences/University of California, Berkeley. Graduate Seminar Series in Systematics, San Francisco, California. Resource Person for Insect Collecting Methods. David H. Kavanaugh and Charles Griswold, Instructors.
2001- 2005. Instructor and coordinator of field research and collection development. Sonoran Insect Biodiversity and Land Use Change. Therese A. Markow, project founder, co-instructor. Department of Entomology and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona.
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2003. Undergraduate Honors Project Mentor for Alida Mercado Cárdenas, Universidad de las Américas-Puebla, Mexico.
Alida earned her M.S. from McGill University for her work on carabid beetles and she is now pursuing her doctorate working on Curculionidae.
2002. Undergraduate Research Mentor for Tana Ellis and Wyatt Ho. Undergraduate Biology Research Program, University of Arizona. Project title: "Seasonal Fluctuation of Beetle Biodiversity in the Sonoran Desert."
2001. Teaching Assistant. Insect Systematics. David R. Maddison, Instructor. Department of Entomology, University of Arizona.
2000-2001. Instructor. Summer Biodiversity Institute. Richard C. Brusca, co-Instructor. Columbia University’s Biosphere 2 Center.
2000. Laboratory Instructor/Teaching Assistant. General Biology. Diana Wheeler and Martha Hunter, Instructors. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona.
1997. Teaching Assistant. Invertebrate Zoology. Richard C. Brusca, Instructor. Department of Biology, College of Charleston, South Carolina.
Galapagos Islands with Lindblad Expeditions and the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Members trip. June 2006.
Sea of Cortez with Lindblad Expeditions and Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Members trip. August 2005.
Sonora, Mexico with the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Board of Directors trip. July 2005.
Sonora, Mexico and the northern Sea of Cortez. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Museum trip. October 2004.
Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio). Field workshop on field techniques for Coleoptera, Osa Penninsula, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, June-July, 2001.
Explosive Beetles Hack Ant Colonies for Royal Treatment
