Summary

I retired in 2011 after 37 years of teaching at UNR, long enough to have had several sets of parents and their children as students. I studied the behavior and ecology of mammals such as beavers, ground squirrels, wild horses, and kangaroo rats -- seed-eating rodents that are highly adapted to the Great Basin and other deserts of western North America. In my final years of doing lab and field w88 casino games, I studied the evolution of personalities in kangaroo rats, asking why some are shy and others are bold and why males seem to have more variable personalities than females.

w88 casino games interests

Like most academics, I published technical papers for specialists in professional journals, but I gradually became convinced of the need for scientists to communicate with a more diverse audience. One of my opportunities to do this involved wild horses, which have become a flashpoint of controversy w88 casino games western U.S. w88 casino games 1990s, I developed a computer model that has been used ever since by the Bureau of Land Management to plan population control measures for horses. This model influences how BLM managers interact with advocates for and against controlling horse populations on public lands. An updated version of the model is under development by a team of scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey.

I've also published two books to help nonscientists learn about science: "How science works: Evaluating evidence in w88 casino games and medicine" in 2004 and "Tools for critical thinking in w88 casino games" in 2015. These books use contemporary examples to illustrate key aspects of the process of science for general readers. In retirement, I plan to continue teaching about tools for critical thinking through formal and informal writing and talking with individuals and groups with diverse backgrounds and interests.

Courses taught

In the last several years before my retirement in 2011, I taught How Science Works: Biological Case Studies (a core course for non-science majors), Ecology and Population w88 casino games (a core course for w88 casino games majors, Mammalogy (an upper-division course for w88 casino games majors), and Research Design in Ecology (a core course for graduate students).

Education

• A.B., w88 casino games, Dartmouth College, 1968
• Ph.D., w88 casino games, Harvard University, 1975

Selected publications

• Jenkins, S. H. 2015. Tools for critical thinking in w88 casino games. Oxford University Press, New York, xiv + 324 pages.
  
• Jenkins, S. H. 2004. How science works: Evaluating evidence in w88 casino games and medicine. Oxford University Press, New York, x + 227 pages.
  
• Forister, M. L., and S. H. w88 casino games. 2017. A neutral model for the evolution of diet breadth. The American Naturalist 190: E40-E54.
  
• Auger, J., S. E. Meyer, and S. H. w88 casino games. 2016. A mast-seeding desert shrub regulates population dynamics and behavior of its heteromyid dispersers. Ecology and Evolution: doi:10.1002/ece3.2035.
  
• Dochtermann, N.A., S.H. w88 casino games, M. Swartz and A.C. Hargett. 2012. The roles of competition and environmental heterogeneity in the maintenance of behavioral variation. Ecology 93:1330-1339.
  
• w88 casino games, S. H. 2011. Sex differences in repeatability of food-hoarding behaviour of kangaroo rats. Animal Behaviour 81:1155-1162.