After two post docs in Australia, I started some lecturing and course coordination at the University of Queensland (Brisbane) in 1998. That led to eight years (2000-2007) coordinating and being the main lecturer for the Terrestrial Ecology component of International courses at the Centre for Marine Studies, UQ. My classes were Stanford University, University of California, and the Hobart and William-Smith and Union Colleges from New York.
These were terrific, field-based courses, with lots of time in the bush, rainforest, and the coast. Great students, and great colleagues. The flavour of these classes can be judged from some of the photos.
The basic theme of my Australian terrestrial Ecology course was to explore how much of Australia’s distinctive character could be explained from its fundamental properties.
Good things come to an end, and in August 2007, I left UQ (had enough of University politics) to work as an Exploration Geologist in Mongolia.