Employment: I am currently employed as a professor at the University of San Diego where I teach Population Biology, Conservation Biology, Desert Biology, and a course for incoming biology majors in Genetics, Ecology and Evolution.

Research Interests: Community structure, life history strategies and population structure of vernal pool fauna of California.

Current Research: Population biology of vernal pool organisms with emphasis on conservation and management considerations. The use of biochemical and molecular genetic techniques for the continued investigation of the ecological and evolutionary consequences of diapause, differential selection in multiple species reproductive interactions, the development of isolation mechanisms, hybrid zone dynamics, the role of hybridization in the process of speciation and the role of sexual system in speciation.