Dr. John S.
Campbell
Professor of
Biology
Office:SM 254
Phone: (307) 754-6140
E-mail: john.campbell@northwestcollege.edu
Teaching
Responsibilities
- Biology 1000 Principles of Biology (Online and
Traditonal classroom)
- Biology 1080 Environmental Biology
- Biology 1010 General Biology I: Principles
- Botany 2050 Taxonomy of Flowering Plants
- Botany 2100 Forest Management
- Biology 2310 Introduction to Geographic Information
Systems (GIS)
- Biology 2395 Biological Research - A Capstone Course
- Biology 2400 General Ecology
- Biology 2450 Field Ecology
- Biology 2490 Biology of Plants and Fungi
Education and Work
History
- 1985-Present Northwest
College
- 1996 One semester sabbatical in Burlington, Vermont
- 1984-1985 Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Dr. Stewart
Rood University of Lethbridge
- 1981-1984 AOSTRA Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Dr.
E.C. Pielou University of Lethbridge
- 1983 PhD, Botany, University of Alberta
- 1976 M.A., Ecology and Systematic Biology, San Francisco State University
- 1971 B.A., Biology, Albion
College
Research Interests
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- Arctic and Alpine plant ecology
- Plant community
patterns at treeline
- Genetic diversity in
populations of Geum rossii, an alpine avens.
- Energy allocation in
dwarf shrubs
- Ecology of Populus species
- Land use, urban development and the nature of small
western communities
Publications
and Research
My
academic interests are varied, but these projects will give you an idea my past
work.
Books I've enjoyed
reading about natural history, the west, travel, or those that evoke a strong
sense of place.
All
of these were worth the time and my life is richer for having experienced them.
Ask me about them and I'll give you my opinion or review
- Lost In My Own Backyard - Tim Cahill
- The Last Season - Eric Blehm
- The Snoring Bird - Bernd Heinrich
- Discordant Harmonies: A New Ecology for the 21st
Century - Daniel B. Botkin
- The Places Inbetween - Rory Stewart
- The Crofter and the Laird - John McPhee
- The Golden Spruce - John Vaillant
- How to Do Ecology - Richard Karban and Mikaela
Huntzinger
- The Whistling Season - Ivan Doig
- Eventide - Kent Haruf
- Peace Like A River - Leif Enger
- Ecology for Gardener's - Steven B. Carroll and Steven
D. Salt
- The Explorer's Garden - Daniel J. Hinkley
- The World Is Flat - Thomas Friedman
- 8 Men and a Duck - Nick Thorpe
- Deep Survival - Laurence Gonzales
- Mountains Beyond Mountains - Tracy Kidder
- Guns, Germs and Steel - Jerod Diamond
- To See Every Bird On Earth - Dan Koeppel
- Birdsong - Don Stab
- His Brother's Keeper: A story from the edge of medicine
- Jonathan Weiner
- Mr. Darwin's Shooter - Roger McDonald
- Why do buses come in threes?: The hidden mathematics of
everyday life - Rob Eastaway and Jeremy Wyndham
- Ecology for Gardeners - Steven B. Carroll and Steven D.
Salt
- Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the
Media, Politicians, and Activists - Joel Best
- An Unfinished Life - Mark Spragg
- Wyoming Stories - Annie Proulx (recommended with
hesitation)
- Land That Moves, Land That Stays Still - Kent Nelson
- Where Rivers Change Direction - Mark Spragg
- The Geese of Beaver Bog - Bernd Heinrich
- Complications, A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect
Science - Atul Gawande
- Close Range - Annie Proulx
- No Body Better, Better than Nobody - Ian Frazier
- Eventide - Kent Haruf
- A Wallk Through the Woods - Bill Bryson
- Crow Lake - Mary Lawson
- Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival - Bernd
Heinrich
- Fresh Water - E.C. Pielou
- A Rum Affair - A true story of botanical fraud - Karl
Sabbagh
- The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense
- Michael Shermer
- My Story as Told by Water - David James Duncan
- On Becoming a Biologist - John Janovy
- How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human
Reason in Everyday Life - Thomas Gilovich
- Irons in the Fire - John McPhee
- Great Plains - Ian Frazier
- Rowing to Latitude - Jill Fredston
- Desert Sojourn - Debi Holmes-Binney
- A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush - Eric Newby
- Epicurean Simplicity - Sephanie Mills
- Sailing home: A journey through time, space and
memories - Garry Geddes
- Naming the Winds: A High Plains Apprenticeship -
Caroline Marwitz
- Mind of the Raven - Bernd Heinrich
- In the Heart of the Sea - Nathaniel Philbrick
- Brook Trout and the Writing Life - Craig Nova
- Our Natural History; The Lessons of Lewis and Clark -
Daniel Botkin
- Why People Believe Wierd Things - Michael Shermer
- Island of the Colorblind - Oliver Sacks
- Plainsong - Kent Haruf
- The Tie That Binds - Kent Haruf
- Driving Mr. Albert - Michael Paterniti
- Time, Love, Memory, A Great Biologist and his Quest for
the Origins of Behavior - Jonathan Weiner
- Run, River, Run - Ann Zwinger
- Waiting for the Morning Train - Bruce Catton
- Searching for Yellowstone - Paul Schullery
- Yellowstone and the Biology of Time: Photographs Across
a Century - Mary Meagher and Douglas B. Houston
- Okoboji Wetlands: A Lesson in Natural History - Michael
J. Lannoo
- Bad Land - Jonathan Raban
- Winter Wheat - Mildred Walker
- Talking to Angels; A Life Spent in High Latitudes -
Robert Perkins
- Any Time, Any Place, Any River - Nancy Nelson
- Raven's Exile - Ellen Meloy
- Science Under Seige - Todd Wilkinson
- The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness - Rick Bass
- The Lost Grizzlies - Rick Bass
- Song of the Dodo, David Quammen
- The Trees in My Forest: Bernd Heinrich
- Many Rivers to Cross: M.R. Montgomery
- Homestead, Annick Smith
- Deep Water Passage, Ann Linnea
- The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a candle in the
dark - Carl Sagan
- In Search of Nature, E.O. Wilson
- Over the Hills, David Lamb
- Mapping Fate: A memoir of family, risk and genetic
research - Alice Wexler
- Bucking the Sun - Ivan Doig
- Water, A Natural History, Alice Outwater
- Broken Country - Mountains and Memory, C.L. Rawlins
- Naturalist, E.O. Wilson
- A Place on the Water, Jerry Dennis
- The Sound of Mountain Water, Wallace Stegner
- After the Ice Age - E.C. Pielou
- A Good House, Richard Manning
- Sky's Witness - A Year in the Wind River Range, C.L.
Rawlins
- Meditations at 10,000 Feet - A Scientist in the
Mountains, James S. Trefil
- Mountain Time, Paul Schullery
- Young Men and Fire, Norman Maclean
- Balsamroot, Mary Clearman Blew
- Arctic Daughter, Jean Aspen
- Home From Nowhere, James Kunstler
- The Beak of the Finch, Jonathan Weiner
- North Country, Howard Frank Moser
- Mapping the Farm, John Hildebrand
- Miles from Nowhere, Dayton Duncon
- Seven Half-miles from Home - Notes of a Wind River
Naturalist, Mary Back
Books on my waiting
list
Each
of these comes with good recommendations, but they are still in my stack of
books to read, which unfortunately grows faster than my finished pile.
- The Energy of Nature - E.C. Pielou
- Climbing Mount Improbable - Richard Dawkins
- The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow - Benjamin
Hoff and Opan Whitelay
- Reading the Forested Landscape - Tom Wessels
- In Service of the Wild: Restoring and Reinhabiting
Damaged Lands - Stephanie Mills
- Wonderful Life, Stephan Jay Gould
- Big Sky, Fair Land - The Environmental Essays of A.B.
Guthrie, Jr.
- The Bird in the Waterfall, a Natural History of Ocean,
Rivers and Lakes, Jerry Dennis
Special Mention
Books
Any
of the marvelous books by John McPhee or Wallace Stegner are valuable additions
to your "should read" list. Especially notable for the science
oriented by McPhee are:
- Encounters with the Archdruid
- The Control of Nature
- Assembling California
- In Suspect Terrain
- Basin and Range
- Rising from the Plains
Wallace Stegner has many excellent books about the west. A fine sampling of his writing can be found in
- When the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs
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