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What’s New At the Field Station, 2007

This summer we are inaugerating two courses new to the Coe College Wilderness Field Station; welcoming a first-time instructor (Jodi Sedlock from Lawrence, University); and welcoming back two instructors with a long field station history (Bill Brooks from Ripon College and Roger Powell from North Carolina State University.

A special welcome to Dr. Jodi Sedlock, who has expressed interest in teaching at the field station for several years and is now going to do it!
Jodi is a rare commodity – a young faculty woman with research and teaching interests dealing with living vertebrates in the “Real World.”
Now in her 6th year of teaching at Lawrence, Jodi studies bat ecology in the Phillipines for her research, and teaches Ecology, Conservation Ecology and other courses. She also has a research appointment at the Chicago Field Museum. Jodi took second session students mist netting for local bats at the field station last summer, while visiting our program. Her field station students will find her to be knowledgeable about her subject, enthusiastic, and a capable outdoorswoman. She will teach Conservation Ecology: a first for the field station.

Drs. William S. (Bill) Brooks and Roger Powell together bring more than 40 years of experience with research and teaching in the Canoe Country. Bill taught at, and was the Director of the field station for many years, (most recently in 1985) when it was operated by the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. Roger took Bill’s Vertebrate Biology class at the field station in 1970, and credits that class with giving him his career direction. After receiving a Ph.D. and post-doctoral training at the University of Chicago, Roger has had a research and teaching career studying mustelids (members of the weasel family) and black bears in North Carolina, both with graduate and undergraduate students With complementary expertise (Bill focuses more on birds, Roger on mammals), and much experience camping and studying in the canoe country, both together and separate, their class should be much more than the sum of its parts.

With the addition of these faculty and courses, and Roarke Donnelly, David Hayes, Michael Swift, Robert Marrs, and Harlo Hadow returning to teach courses they have taught in recent years, we should have a great summer, 2007, at the field station in the Northwoods. We hope you will join us!

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