Stephen C. Burnett 

CURRICULUM VITAE - January 2000

EDUCATION:

	Ph.D. Candidate, Zoology, The Ohio State University, March, 1997
	M.S., Zoology, The Ohio State University, June, 1997
	B.A., Biology, magna cum laude, Carleton College, June, 1992

HONORS AND AWARDS:

	Preparing Future Faculty Fellow, 1999
	Election to Sigma Xi, the scientific research society, 1997
	Osborne Fellowship, Summer 1996
	Ohio State University Fellowship, 1994-1995

 PROFESSIONAL / OTHER SOCIETIES:

	Acoustical Society of America
	American Association for the Advancement of Science
	American Society of Mammalogists
	Animal Behavior Society
	International Society for Behavioral Ecology
	National Association of Biology Teachers
	National Science Teachers Association
	National Center for Science Education

	Bat Conservation International
	Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
	Skeptic's Society

TEACHING EXPERIENCES:

Honors Biology 116, Winter 1999

Instructor: Dr. W.M. Masters

Duties: Attend all lectures.  Teach two recitation and laboratory sections, each with about 20 students.  Maintained class web page containing professor's lecture notes for access by students.  Provided instructor with potential exam essay questions.  Recitation was used for discussion with students of outside readings and topics that were not covered in lecture as well as review sessions before class exams.  Co-developed complete laboratory exercise on microbial ecology with second TA. Designed and tested a variety of other laboratory exercises, handouts for labs, and questions for each lab.  TA's were responsible for grading three exams (consisting of multiple-choice, short answer and essay questions) and a series of laboratory exercises, including a large lab report on the last experiment.  TA was responsible for keeping track of all grades, both for lecture and lab assignments, and assigning a final grade at the end of the quarter.  In lab, students were encouraged to participate in the design and conduct of experiments.  Each TA also scheduled at least two hours outside of class where students could meet to ask questions and discuss the assignments.

Zoology 400, Evolution, Autumn 1998

Instructor: Dr. J. Downhower

Duties: Attend all lectures. Provide instructor with potential exam questions.  TA's were responsible for grading three essay exams.  Each TA also scheduled at least two hours outside of scheduled class to meet with students and answer questions.  TA's held joint review sessions before each exam, where students could ask questions.

Zoology 632, Neurobiology, Autumn 1997

Instructor: Dr. B. Smith

Duties: Attend all lectures.  Presented class demonstration of Neuralsim computer program and arrange several computer exercises in computer labs on campus.  Graded two essay exams.  Held office hours to meet with students and answer questions.

General Biology 101, Spring 1997

Instructor: Dr. W. Foster

Duties: Attend all lectures and weekly lab meetings.  Teach two recitation and laboratory sections each week, each with about 20 students, hold office hours for 2 hours per week. Recitation served mainly as a review of topics covered during class lectures.  In lab, students were guided through a variety of experiments.  Lab also had six quizzes and a final lab report or exam (it was the student's choice which to do).  All lab work was graded by the TA.  Responsible for keeping track of all students grades for lecture and lab assignments and assigning a final grade.

Zoology 410, Animal Form and Function, Winter 1997

Instructor: Dr. D.A. Nelson

Duties: Attend all lectures.  Provide instructor with potential exam questions.  TA's were responsible for grading three exams, consisting of a mixture of multiple choice, short answer and essay questions.  Each TA also scheduled at least two hours outside of scheduled class to meet with students and answer questions.

Zoology 512, Vertebrate Dissection, Autumn 1996

Instructor: Dr. T. Hetherington

Duties: Ran laboratory section (class is laboratory only) of 10 students.  Responsible for providing introductory lecture for each week's lab and completing the week's dissection before the lab sections met. Responsible for keeping track of all students' grades and assigning a final grade at the end of the quarter.  Each TA provided a set of questions for quizzes, midterm and final practical exams and was responsible for setting up the portions of the practical that pertained to their questions.  TA's were also required to have two hours outside of class when they were in the lab for students to complete assigned dissections and ask questions.  TA's also met for weekly lab sections to discuss material for the coming week and any problems with the previous week.

Zoology 632, Neurobiology, Spring 1996

Instructor: Dr. S. Volman

Duties: Attend all lectures.  Presented class lecture on neuroanatomy.  Demonstrated the use of the Neuralsim program and wrote exercises for students to complete using the program.  Presented class lecture explaining Neuralsim homework and covering student questions.  Graded essay exams.  Responsible for keeping track of all grades.  Held office hours to meet with students to answer questions.

Zoology 640, Animal Behavior, Winter 1996

Instructor: Dr. W.M. Masters

Duties: Attend all discussion and lab sections.  Helped students to design several experiments on a variety of topics.  Graded essays written to answer questions on readings used for discussion in class.  Gave two lectures on statistics and data analysis (produced two handouts for these lectures), and helped students to analyze and interpret data from experiments during lab.

General Biology 101, Autumn, 1995

Instructor: Dr. Mangino

Duties: Attend all lectures and weekly lab meetings.  Teach two recitation and laboratory sections each week, each with about 20 students, hold office hours for 2 hours per week. Recitation served mainly as a review of topics covered during class lectures.  In lab, students were guided through a variety of experiments.  Lab also had six quizzes and a final lab report or exam (it was the student's choice which to do).  All lab work was graded by the TA.  Responsible for keeping track of all students grades, for lecture and lab assignments, and assigning a final grade.

Instructor, Introductory Fencing Course, Carleton College, Autumn 1989 - Spring 1992

Duties: Taught a class of approximately 25 students that met for one hour, three days a week.  I was also responsible for scheduling space for the class, checking that all safety equipment was suitable for use, and keeping track of student attendance.  Students were taught basic foil fencing technique and theory.  They were supervised while learning the basic techniques, and as they developed in skill, they were permitted to actively fence against their classmates, culminating in the end of the quarter class tournament.  Students were graded pass/fail based on their mastery of the basic techniques, their ability using those techniques in the tournament, and class attendance.

MENTORING ACTIVITIES

Helped with training of a variety of undergraduate and graduate student workers in Dr. Masters' lab.  Students were trained in animal care and handling procedures for working with wild-caught and captive-born bats.  Training also included instruction in methodology and experimental design of behavioral experiments studying bat echolocation.

Undergraduates

Heather Handley, Stephanie Amici, and Holly Gibbs

Graduate Students

Devin McCaslin and Nandini Iyer

PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOPS/MEETINGS ATTENDED

Second Annual North Eastern Bat Working Group Meeting.  2-3 November, 1999.  Columbus, Ohio.

Biological Sciences TA Workshop: The Science of Undergraduate Biology Education.  1 June, 1999.  Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

Preparing Graduate Students for Professional Careers.  7 May, 1999.  Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

Dissertation Writing Workshop.  26 April, 1999.  Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio.

Strategies for Successful Grantsmanship.  9 April, 1999.  Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

Copyright and Academic Honesty.  22 January, 1999.  Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

Biological Sciences TA Workshop: Creation and Evolution in Teaching Biology.  27 October, 1998.  Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

Connectionist Models of Cognition.  3-4 October, 1998.  Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

Biological Sciences TA Workshop: Writing Instruction in the Science Classroom.  7 April, 1998.  Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

Preparation for the Professoriate.  7 November, 1997.  Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:  

My main area of interest is animal behavior, focusing on bioacoustics.  The research in Dr. Masters' lab has led to an interest in the related field of psychoacoustics, and I have been working to broaden my knowledge is this area.

I am currently working on individual recognition in big brown bats, attempting to see if these animals actually pay attention to the information in the calls, and so might be able to use it for social interactions.  I am also investigating the ability of artificial neural networks to census bats based solely on their echolocation calls.

RESEARCH/WORK EXPERIENCE

Research Associate, Dr. Mitch Masters' lab, Spring 1999-present

Supervisor: W. M. Masters

Duties: Worked as a research assistant on NIH grant RO1-DC001251 (to W.M. Masters), studying bat echolocation.  Responsible for feeding animals, cleaning animal cages, and supervising undergraduate research assistants.  Research involved training big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) to perform in a variety of psychophysical tasks.  Helped develop and maintain webpage for the lab (http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~mmasters/batlab)

Consultant, Engineering Design, Summer 1998-present

Supervisor: Kim Beeman

Duties: Tested a variety of new and updated software for sound acquisition and analysis (including SIGNAL and RTSD software).  Developed familiarity with all software produced by the company.  Helped write updates to user documentation for new releases of software.  Maintain and improve Engineering Design web page (http://www.engdes.com/).

Research Associate, Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics, Winter 1998-Summer 1998

Supervisors: D.A. Nelson and S.L.L. Gaunt

Duties: Worked on grant NSF grant DEB-9613674 (to D.A. Nelson and S.L.L. Gaunt).  Worked on project to digitize the Borror Lab's collection of analog recordings onto CDROM.  Helped develop the process used when digitizing the recordings.  Responsible for digitizing recordings, verifying that information in the BLB database was correct, "burning" CDROM's, and computer maintenance.  Gained familiarity with SIGNAL and RTSD sound recording and analysis software.

THESES AND CREATIVE WORKS:

ZOO/EEOB 880 Presentations: January 2000, February 1999; February 1998.  Informal presentations about my current research project, given to a group of new graduate students.

Burnett, S.C.  1996.  Mating behavior in the Chiroptera: a study in diversity.  Paper prepared for ZOO 741, Social Behavior.

Burnett, S.C.  1995.  Ecology and foraging behavior of microchiropteran bats.  Paper for ZOO 740, Behavioral Ecology.

Burnett, S.C.  1991.  A Review of the Relative Importance of Learning vs. Genetic Inheritance in Acoustic Communication.  Senior integrative exercise, Carleton College.  Northfield, Minnesota.

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS:

Masters, W.M., Raver, K.A.S., Kornacker, K., and Burnett, S.C. 1997.  Detection of jitter in intertarget spacing by the big brown bat Eptesicus fuscus. J. Comp. Physiol. A. 181: 279-290.

PUBLICATIONS IN PREPARATION

Burnett, S.C., Kazial, K.A., and Masters, W.M.  Discriminating individual big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus) sonar vocalizations in different recording situations.  Submitted to Bioacoustics, 12/99.

Kazial, K.A., Burnett, S.C., and Masters, W.M.  Individual and group variation in echolocation calls of big brown bats, Eptesicus fuscus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Submitted to Journal of Mammalogy, 12/99.

Burnett, S.C.  From the world-wide flood to the world wide web: creationism in the digital age.  To be submitted to Reports of the National Center for Science Education.

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

*Burnett, S.C. and Masters W.M.  1999. The Use of Neural Networks to Classify Echolocation Calls of Bats.  Talk delivered at 138^th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.  1-5 November, Columbus, Ohio.

Nelson, D.A., Gaunt, S.L.L., *Beeman, K, Bronson, C.L., Burnett, S.C., and Hough, G.E. 1999.  The digital archiving project at the Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics. Talk delivered at 138^th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.  1-5 November, Columbus, Ohio.

*Burnett, S.C. and Masters W.M.  1999. The Use of Neural Networks to Classify Echolocation Calls of Big Brown Bats.  Talk delivered at 29^th Annual North American Symposium on Bat Research.  27-30 October, Madison, Wisconsin.

*Nelson, D.A., Gaunt, S.L.L., Beeman, K, Bronson, C.L., Burnett, S.C. and Hough, G.E. 1999.  The digital archiving project at the Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics. Poster presented at 117^th annual meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union.  8-14 August, Ithaca, New York.

*Burnett, S.C. and Masters W.M.  1999. Censusing of Big Brown Bats by Examining Echolocation Calls with Artificial Neural Networks.  Talk delivered at 36^th Annual Meeting, Animal Behavior Society.  26-30 June, Bucknell, Pennsylvania.

*Burnett, S.C., Kazial, K.A. and Masters, W.M. 1998.  Differentiating sonar calls of handheld & flying big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus).  Poster presented at 28^th Annual North American Symposium on Bat Research.  28-31 October, Hot Springs, Arkansas.

*Burnett, S.C., Kazial, K.A. and Masters, W.M. 1998.  Discriminability of big brown bat echolocation calls by age, sex and individual.  Poster presented at 35^th Annual Meeting, Animal Behavior Society.  18-22 July, Carbondale, Illinois.

*Burnett, S.C., Kazial, K.A. and Masters, W.M. 1998. Echolocation call descriptors that differentiate calls of handheld and flying big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus).  Poster presented at 78^th Annual Meeting, American Society of Mammalogists.  6-10 June, Blacksburg, Virginia.

*Burnett, S.C., *Kazial, K.A. and Masters, W.M.  1997.  Echolocation call variability in the big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus) associated with different recording methods. Poster presented at Midwest Regional Animal Behavior Society Conference.  26-28 September, Columbus, Ohio.

*Halkin, S.L., Weaver, M., and Burnett, S.C.  1993.  Are complex songs more stimulating to northern cardinals than simple songs?  Talk presented at American Ornithologists' Union annual meeting.  Fairbanks, Alaska.

UNIVERSITY SERVICES:

	President, Graduate Evolution/Ecology Student Organization 1999-2000
	EEOB Graduate Studies Committee Representative 1998-1999
	Computer Committee Chair, Graduate Evolution/Ecology Student Organization 1998-1999
	Secretary-Treasurer, Zoology Graduate Student Organization 1997-1998
	Computer Committee Chair, Zoology Graduate Student Organization 1997-1998
	Computer Committee Chair, Zoology Graduate Student Organization 1996-1997
	Council of Graduate Students Representative 1995-1996
	Zoology Graduate Student Organization Computer Committee 1995-1996
	Zoology Graduate Student Organization Office Committee 1995-1996

COMMUNITY SERVICE

        Visits to schools:

Travel to elementary schools to provide educational presentations about bats.  The Presentation includes slides and discussion of bats, their ecology and behavior, as well as the myths that surround them.  Live bats are also used, so students can see what the bats actually look like and how they behave.  All presentations were invited by the school, and involved from one to three full classes of grade school aged children (ranging from first to sixth grades).

        Delwood School, Delaware, Ohio, November, 1999

Invited speaker for presentation on bats to a group of 20 students in grades K through 10.

Wyandot Run Elementary School, Delaware, Ohio, 22 October, 1999

            Invited speaker for presentations on bats to six 1^st grade classes.

Bluffsview Elementary School, Worthington, Ohio, November 1998

            Invited speaker for presentation on bats to three 3^rd grade classes.

Greensview Elementary School, Columbus, Ohio, November 1997

Greensview Elementary School, Columbus, Ohio, December 1996

Cassady Elementary School, Columbus, Ohio, October 1996

Preservation Parks Nature Fest, Spring 1998, Spring 1997, Spring 1996, Spring 1995  

This event is held each spring at Ohio Wesleyan University to help educate the public about opportunities to explore Ohio's natural resources.  At these events, I tried to provide some basic education about bats to dispel some of the common myths. General bat information and a live bat were used to educate people.

Judge, Upper Arlington High School Science Fair, 28 February, 1997

General Public Information

Our lab received frequent phone calls requesting information and advice about bats in people's homes.  We provided general information on bat habits (and potential risks to humans), guidelines for excluding bats from buildings, and we would travel to the caller's home to remove the animal, if needed.