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Dr. Craig E. Tweedie
Position:
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology and the Environmental Science and Engineering Program.
Primary Research Project:
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I tend to float between all of our research projects (this is the best part of my job!!!).
Contact details:
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Office: 413 Biology Building.
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Phone: +1-915-747-8448
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Email: ctweedie at utep.edu
Started at UTEP:
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Spring 2005.
Education:
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2000-05 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Arctic Ecology Laboratory, Dept Plant Biology, Michigan State University.
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1996-00 PhD. Department of Botany, The University of Queensland: Climate Change and the Autecology of Six Plant Species Along an Altitudinal Gradient on Subantarctic Macquarie Island.
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1994-95 BSc. (Hons-I). Department of Botany, The University of Queensland: The Ecology of vascular epiphytes in a subtropical rainforest.
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1990-92 BSc. The University of Queensland. Double major in Botany and Ecology.
Research Interests:
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Climate change biology, plant ecology and physiology, carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems, controls of ecosystem structure and function, disturbance ecology, landscape ecology, GIS and remote sensing, ecoinformatics, technological innovation.
Teaching:
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Graduate Classes:
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Environmental Biology.
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Advances in Ecological Theory.
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Undergraduate classes:
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Organismal biology.
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Other:
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Graduate and undergraduate independent studies projects.
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Mentoring of senior computer science software development class and project groups from mechanical engineering and electrical and computer engineering.
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Favorite Technologies:
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SEL’s unmanned aerial vehicle.
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SEL’s web-based mapping applications (www.armap.org, www.baidims.org and www.ceonims.org).
Favorite Field Site:
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The North Slope of Alaska (but this is a hard one because we work at so many awesome places!!!).
Hobbies:
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Hiking, kayaking, travelling, geeking out in the garage, gardening, cooking, socializing.
Ambitions:
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Maintain a diverse interdisciplinary research program.
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Reduce my ecological footprint.
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Improve capacities for environmental problem solving and decision making.
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Remove barriers to higher education for underrepresented groups.
Personal Statement:
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I grew up in Brisbane, which is the state capital of Queensland in northeast Australia. Nowadays, I think I have one of the best jobs in the world – at SEL we are confronting many real world problems and improving capacities to better monitor, assess and understand the future state of the Earth System…. And we’re doing this with an incredibly talented, interdisciplinary group of like-minded friendly and collegial people.
Miscellaneous:
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