Teaching
I am dedicated to providing diverse popualtions of undergraduate students with a transformative educational experience. My goal is to promote the development of problem solving and communication skills via inquiry-based learning. I have a keen interest in exploring advances in pedagogy, especially in the use of new technology such as iclickers and moodle to encourage active learning and increased interaction between students.
Research Interests
Recently, there is a growing interest in consistent individual differences in behavior, aka animal personality. In my research with three-spined stickleback, I ask whether particular behavioral types are more likely to occur in certain environments in nature and whether behavioral type - environment correlations are adaptive.
Publications
Laskowski KL, Pearish S, Bensky M, Bell AM (2015) Predictors of Individual Variation in Movement in a Natural Population of Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Advances in Ecological Research 52: 65-90
Pearish S, Hostert L, Bell AM (2013) Behavioral type - environment correlations in the field: a study of three-spined stickleback. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 67: 765-774
Welsh DP, et al. (2013) The effects of age, sex, and habitat on body size and shape of the blackstripe topminnow, Fundulus notatus (Cyprinodontiformes: Fundulidae) (Rafinesque 1820). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 108: 784-789
Grobis MM, Pearish SP, Bell AM (2013) Avoidance or escape? Discriminating between two hypotheses for the function of schooling in threespine sticklebacks. Animal Behaviour 85:187-194
Laskowski KL, Giesing ER, Stein LR, Pearish SP, Kent MH (2010) Review of: Tinbergen's Legacy in Behaviour: Sixty Years of Landmark Stickleback Papers by Frank A. von Hippel. Quarterly Review of Biology 85:516
I am dedicated to providing diverse popualtions of undergraduate students with a transformative educational experience. My goal is to promote the development of problem solving and communication skills via inquiry-based learning. I have a keen interest in exploring advances in pedagogy, especially in the use of new technology such as iclickers and moodle to encourage active learning and increased interaction between students.
Research Interests
Recently, there is a growing interest in consistent individual differences in behavior, aka animal personality. In my research with three-spined stickleback, I ask whether particular behavioral types are more likely to occur in certain environments in nature and whether behavioral type - environment correlations are adaptive.
Publications
Laskowski KL, Pearish S, Bensky M, Bell AM (2015) Predictors of Individual Variation in Movement in a Natural Population of Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Advances in Ecological Research 52: 65-90
Pearish S, Hostert L, Bell AM (2013) Behavioral type - environment correlations in the field: a study of three-spined stickleback. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 67: 765-774
Welsh DP, et al. (2013) The effects of age, sex, and habitat on body size and shape of the blackstripe topminnow, Fundulus notatus (Cyprinodontiformes: Fundulidae) (Rafinesque 1820). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 108: 784-789
Grobis MM, Pearish SP, Bell AM (2013) Avoidance or escape? Discriminating between two hypotheses for the function of schooling in threespine sticklebacks. Animal Behaviour 85:187-194
Laskowski KL, Giesing ER, Stein LR, Pearish SP, Kent MH (2010) Review of: Tinbergen's Legacy in Behaviour: Sixty Years of Landmark Stickleback Papers by Frank A. von Hippel. Quarterly Review of Biology 85:516