Dr. Richard W. Hofstetter  (Return to Homepage)
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Professional Experience:

    Teaching

Lecturer – School of Forestry, NAU

            Tropical Forest Insect Ecology (to Nicaragua; even years)

            Forest Entomology

            Semester A – Forestry

            Forest Health  

            Proseminar

            Forestry Seminar Series

            Seminars: Mutualism Theory; Plant-insect Interactions                                                  

Guest Lectures

            Mutualism with Insects (Univ. of New Brunswick, Canada)

            Disturbance Ecology: Role of Insects and Pathogens

            Forest Health: Insects and Forests

            Fire Ecology and Mgmt: Fire-Insect-Pathogen Interactions

            CEEM (Continuing Education in Ecosystem Management) 

                        Topic: Forest Health & Interactions with Insects and Pathogens

            ISFAM (International Seminar on Forest Administration and Management)  

                   Forest Health

                        Invasive Species

            Field Studies Program in Costa Rica (Dartmouth College)                

                        BioStatistics, Entomology, Coevolution, Social Insects

            Field Studies Program in Jamaica (Dartmouth College)                    

                        Coral Reef Geology, Algal Induced Resistance

            Introduction to Environmental Studies (Dartmouth College)              

                        Bark Beetle Ecology

            Symbioses Among Insects (University of Wisconsin-Madison)                                 

           Role of Phoretic Mites and Fungi in Bark Beetle Dynamics (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)

 

Teaching Assistant, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.                                          

            Vertebrate Anatomy, Tropical Field Ecology in Costa Rica & Jamaica

Introduction to Environmental Studies, Ecosystem Ecology, Introductory Ecology               

 

Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.                                   

            Evolution, Genetics and Ecology (Biocore Dept.), Ornithology Field Course           

           

Undergraduate Supervisor   

            Supervisor for REU undergraduate; Native American student 

            NAU undergraduates in School of Forestry (10), Biology (2), and Engineering (1)         

            4 students in Women in Science Program at Dartmouth College  

3 Senior honors theses at Dartmouth College 

         1 Senior thesis at University of Wisconsin  

                                       

Graduate Student Advisor

Graduate Student Committee Member of the following students:

            Ben Jaffe, Ph.D. (Shuster) in Biology, NAU

Brian Reif, Ph.D. (Mathiasen) in School of Forestry, NAU  

Chris Olson, M.F. (Mathiasen) in School of Forestry, NAU 

Luke Evans, Ph.D. (Allan/Whitham) in Biology, NAU  

Laine Smith, M.S. (Mathiasen) in School of Forestry, NAU

Melissa Fischer, M.S. (Waring) in School of Forestry, NAU 

James Carbone, M.F. (Larson) in School of Forestry, NAU 

Monica Gaylord, Ph.D. (Wagner) in School of Forestry, NAU

Sky Stephens, Ph.D. (Wagner) in School of Forestry, NAU

Jennifer Watt, M.S. (Anderson) in Geology, NAU