Annie Bosacker received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 2008. She is an animal behaviorist, and her primary interest is in the social behavior of primates. She studies a population of baboons living in Gombe National Park, Tanzania. Annie is particularly interested in how social circumstances influence an individual’s exposure to stress and how the negative effects of stress might influence the evolution of social behaviors. Annie is a visiting professor in the Department of Biology and the director of Carleton’s Marine Ecology program in Australia.

Cameron Davidson received his Ph.D. in geology from Princeton University in 1991. He is a structural petrologist interested in the processes of continental growth and the exhumation history of deep crustal rocks during mountain building. He is also interested in energy use, natural resources, and climate change. Cam currently teaches Introduction to Geology, Mineralogy, Petrology, and Energy and the Environment at Carleton College.

Fernán Jaramillo will no longer be teaching this summer.

Jennifer Wolff received her Ph.D from the University of Minnesota in 2005. She is a developmental biologist interested in the embryonic development of the nervous system. Her research is focused on understanding the development of motor neurons that control mating behavior in the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans. She teaches courses in animal developmental biology, developmental neurobiology, introductory biology, and biotechnology health and society.