Teaching & Presentations
I’m a deeply enthusiastic person generally and one of the things that brings me the most joy is teaching and learning with others. As such, I have repeatedly sought out opportunities to teach in contexts ranging from hour-long workshops all the way to year-long courses. Also included in this page are guest lectures and conference-style presentations.
See a list of all of these types of teaching below along with–where applicable–additional resources. The icons to the left of the titles (e.g., ) are intended to help roughly group content by their topic.
– Lead Technical Instructor - Synthesis Skills for Early Career Researchers (SSECR), 2024-2025, Long Term Ecological Research Network Office, Santa Barbara, CA -
– Adjunct Faculty - Programming in R for Biologists (BIO 316), Summer 2023 & Summer 2024, Stonehill College, Easton, MA -
– Teaching Assistant - Principles of Biology Lab (BIO 1108L), Spring 2021, University of Georgia. Athens, GA
– Teaching Assistant - Concepts in Biology Lab (BIO 1103L), Fall 2020, University of Georgia. Athens, GA
– Teaching Assistant - Ecology Lab (BIO 312L), Fall 2018, Iowa State University. Ames, IA
Note that these workshops were designed to be offered repeatedly to different audiences. As such, while each of these workshops is only identified once I have been part of the teaching team for all of them many times. All resources are “living” so that participants from earlier iterations of a given workshop find the most up-to-date version of the materials when they revisit their old bookmarks.
– Ecological Data Synthesis: A Primer on Essential Methods -
– Collaborative Coding with GitHub -
– Lyon, N.J. Introduction to Statistics and R in Ecology Research. 2020. Insect Ecology (ENT 4520/6520), Clemson University. Clemson SC.
– Lyon, N.J. Plotting with ggplot2. 2019. Data Wrangling in R for Natural Resource Professionals (NREM 305), Iowa State University.
– Lyon, N.J. Choosing the “Right” Statistical Test. 2019. Data Wrangling in R for Natural Resource Professionals (NREM 305), Iowa State University.
– Lyon, N.J. Multivariate Statistics in R. 2018. Data Management and Analysis in R for Ecologists and Evolutionary Biologists (EEB 698) - Lecture slides
– Lyon, N.J. From Ecologist to Data Scientist. Biology Department Seminar. Stonehill College, Easton MA, September 2023
– Lyon, N.J. and Vargas, C. Data Quality Control Using R. Santa Barbara R Users Group, June 2022 -
– Lyon, N.J. and Debinski, D.M. Evaluating the Effects of Eleven Years of Consistent Restoration Management. Ecological Society of America, Louisville KY, August 2019
– Lyon, N.J., Debinski, D.M., Miller, J., Schact, W. Native Plant and Pollinator Response to Management with Fire and Grazing. Ecological Society of America, New Orleans LA, August 2018
– Lyon, N.J., Debinski, D.M., Miller, J., Schact, W. Plant and Pollinator Response to Adaptive Management. Graduate and Professional Student Research Conference, Ames IA, April 2018. Awarded Best Oral Presentation.
– Lyon, N.J., Debinski, D.M. Butterfly and Nectar-Producing Plant Response to Invasive Grass Management. Graduate Research in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium, Ames IA, February 2018 -
– Lyon, N.J. An Integrated Approach to Tallgrass Prairie Restoration. Three-Minute Thesis, Ames IA, January 2018
– Lyon, N. J., Debinski, D.M., and Rangwala, I. Species Distribution Modeling to Predict Prairie Restoration Success under Climate Change. Ecological Society of America, Portland OR, August 2017 -
– Lyon, N.J. Predicted Response of Native Grassland Plants to Climate Change. Ten Years of Research in the Grand River Grasslands Symposium, Lamoni IA, June 2017 -
– Lyon, N.J., Debinski, D.M., Miller, J., Schact, W., and Stein, D. Grazing, Burning, and Butterflies. Iowa Urban Tree Council, Des Moines IA, April 2017
– Lyon, N.J., Debinski, D.M., Miller, J., Schact, W. and Stein, D. Adaptive Management for Prairie Plants and Pollinators in Midwestern Working Landscapes. Iowa Invasive Species Conference, Moravia IA, March 2017
– Lyon, N.J. Incorporating Correlative Modeling into Modifying Restoration Strategies for the Future. Graduate Research in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium, Ames IA, February 2017 -
– Lyon, N. Mytilus Mussels as Bio-indicators of Microplastic Pollution. Oral presentation. Air and Waste Management Student Challenge, Portland OR, April 2016. Awarded Best Presentation
– Lyon, N. Mytilus Mussels as Bio-indicators of Microplastic Pollution. Oral presentation. Phi Sigma Research Symposium, University of Puget Sound, April 2016
– Lyon, N. Mytilus Mussels as Bio-indicators of Microplastic Pollution. Oral presentation. Murdock College Science Research Conference, Vancouver WA (Hilton Vancouver), November 2015
– Lyon N. Mussels as Samplers of Regional Microplastic Contamination Trends. Poster presentation. Puget Sound Fall Research Symposium, University of Puget Sound, September 2015
– Lyon, N. Patterns of Microplastic Ingestion in Mytilus Mussels around Puget Sound, Washington. Oral presentation. Phi Sigma Research Symposium, University of Puget Sound, April 2015
– Lyon N. Patterns of Microplastic Ingestion in Mytilus Mussels around Puget Sound, Washington. Poster presentation. Puget Sound Fall Research Symposium, University of Puget Sound, September 2014
– Lyon, N. Plastic Contamination in Marine Environments. Oral presentation. Honors Research Symposium, Seattle University, October 2014
