{"id":172,"date":"2017-10-12T09:15:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T09:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/georgewittemyer\/?page_id=172"},"modified":"2017-10-30T05:20:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T05:20:37","slug":"mentoring","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/georgewittemyer\/mentoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching\/Mentoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Graduate Students<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am always interested in working with motivated graduate students with interests in conservation and evolutionary oriented ecological research. My mentoring style is one of guided independence, and I encourage students to think broadly about directions of research that will expand both theoretical and applied understanding.<\/p>\n<p>I will post funded opportunities in my lab as they arise. Inquiries regarding positions should include a complete C.V., including undergraduate GPA and GRE scores, and a brief but well developed description of research directions of interest. Students with developed research projects and funding are encouraged to contact me.<\/p>\n<p>Those interested in international projects such as studying African elephants should be forewarned that securing funding is required!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Postdocs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My interests cover a wide range of ecological, evolutionary and applied directions and I am open to working on a variety of systems. Please email me to discuss possible research directions. I will post any funded postdoc opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\"><b>Courses<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\"><em>FW 260: Principles of Wildlife Management (Spring)<\/em><br \/>\nA required course for departmental majors that focuses on principles of ecology applied to management and conservation of fish and wildlife resources.<\/p>\n<p><em>FW 469: Large Mammal Conservation and Management (Fall, odd years)<\/em><br \/>\nA senior-level elective course that reviews principles of habitat management planning and animal space use.<\/p>\n<p><em>FW 477: Wildlife Space Use and Habitat Management (Not presently taught)<\/em><br \/>\nA senior-level elective course that reviews principles of habitat management planning and animal space use.<\/p>\n<p><em>FW 581: Evolutionary Concepts in Conservation and Management (Not presently taught)<\/em><br \/>\nAn interdisciplinary course directed towards graduate students from a variety of programs throughout CSU. Serves as an elective course for the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology (GDPE)<\/p>\n<p><em>ECOL 592: Graduate Seminars<\/em><br \/>\nGraduate seminars are focused on a variety of topics, and have included group reviews and conceptual synthesis.<\/p>\n<p><em>FW684: Supervised College Teaching<\/em><br \/>\nTraining in teaching for graduate students<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduate Students I am always interested in working with motivated graduate students with interests in conservation and evolutionary oriented ecological research. My mentoring style is one of guided independence, and I encourage students to think broadly about directions of research that will expand both theoretical and applied understanding. I will post funded opportunities in my &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/georgewittemyer\/mentoring\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Teaching\/Mentoring&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-172","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/georgewittemyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/georgewittemyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/georgewittemyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/georgewittemyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/georgewittemyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/georgewittemyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/georgewittemyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/georgewittemyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}