Environmental Education
Faculty Advisers
Stewart Janes 
An accomplished researcher of raptor ecology and bird song, Dr. Janes has been a part of the EE program since 1992. As a former middle school science teacher and environmental educator with a penchant for field studies, Dr. Janes offers a wealth of experience in outdoor and classroom science education. His favorite fieldtrip destinations are the rangelands, rivers and mountains of Eastern Oregon, an area he has been known to call his “spiritual homeland.” Dr. Janes is pictured at left doing what he loves best, guiding eager students through the subtleties of avian language and identification near the Pacific Crest Trail.
Steven Jessup
Adventurer and plant wizard, Dr. Jessup coordinates SOU’s Botany Certificate program, teaching courses on bryophytes, algae, fungi and lichens as well as the ever popular summer Field Botany. He is a strong adherent of experiential and wilderness education and enjoys taking students to explore alpine botanizing in the North Cascades or even SCUBA botanizing in the depths of Crater Lake. Dr. Jessup, wearing red, leads students on a botany fieldtrip along the Siskiyou Crest, a 40 minute drive from campus.
Michael Parker
Dynamic freshwater ecologist and expert lizard locator, Dr. Parker teaches students about fishes, frogs, foodwebs and macroinvertebrates. Dr. Parker’s research has focused on desert pupfish near Death Valley as well as the amphibians and ecology of the Klamath-Siskiyou’s salmon bearing streams. A distinguished camp fire guitarist, Dr. Parker is pictured at right preparing to bestow a first place trophy on the best cookie baker at a joint ornithology/herpetology weekend fieldtrip to the Oregon coast.
