| Department: | |
| Title: | Dr. Emily Holt |
| Office: | SB 243k |
| Email: | eholt@uvu.edu |
| Phone: | (801) 863-6908 |
| Fax: | (801) 863-8064 |
| Mail Code: | 299 |
Interests:
My primary interests are in plant community ecology, community analysis, and
undergraduate biology education. I investigate the impact of disturbance on
natural communities of vascular and non-vascular plants. My past research has
explored the compositional shifts in lichen communities as tundra ecosystems
are burned or grazed by reindeer, and as prairie ecosystems are converted to
woodlands. I have also conducted extensive floristic inventories of vascular
plants in central Colorado and lichens and bryophytes of northwestern Alaska.
My current scholarship focuses on student understanding of plagiarism in
biology and quantifying air pollution using lichens.
Teaching: My courses are administered
through Canvas (https://uvu.instructure.com). The
courses I teach at UVU include: General Biology (BIOL 1010), College Biology I
(BIOL 1610), Biogeography (BIOL 490R), Lichens & Bryophytes (BIOL 490R),
General Ecology (BIOL 3700), and Senior Seminar (494R).
Education:
Ph.D., Botany
and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, 2007. Dissertation: “Community
gradients of arctic macrolichens in relation to succession, grazing and the
environment.”
M.S., Botany,
University of Wyoming, 2002. Thesis: “Vascular flora of the Sawatch, West
Mosquito, and west Gore Ranges and Castle Peak area, Colorado.”
B.A.,
Colorado College, 1998.