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Monica Miles, right, an associate lecturer in the Department of Biology, Geology and Environmental Science, recently brought her Ecology Laboratory 3070 classes to Reflection Riding Arboretum and Nature Center. Photo by Angela Foster.<\/p><\/div>\n

Earlier this year, Monica Miles, an associate lecturer in the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Department of Biology, Geology and Environmental Science, attended a workshop about geographic information systems (GIS)\u2014a system that creates, manages, analyzes and maps all types of data.<\/p>\n

The workshop, put on by the UTC Interdisciplinary Geospatial Technology Lab, made Miles think about ways to introduce GIS to her students.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor our biology and environmental science students, it\u2019s becoming more common that employers are listing GIS experience as something that\u2019s preferential for them,\u201d she said, \u201cand after attending that workshop, I was like, \u2018If I can incorporate GIS into the lab, it\u2019s going to give these students some exposure to it and they can at least say I have some skill in this.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was thinking about it. We\u2019re in the Southeast, invasive species are everywhere and plants are easy to study, so maybe we can have the students go out somewhere in the community, map some invasive species and look at their occurrence.\u201d<\/p>\n

After consulting with Assistant GIS Director Nyssa Hunt for ideas, Miles contacted Reflection Riding Arboretum and Nature Center. As fate would have it, Reflection Riding happened to be looking for assistance in mapping invasive plant species.<\/p>\n

Timing was everything.<\/p>\n

\u201cI reached out to Mark McKnight\u2014he\u2019s the president and CEO at Reflection Riding\u2014and he jumped on the idea,\u201d Miles said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said, \u2018We just got this grant to fund the removal of winter honeysuckle. We know where it\u2019s concentrated, but it would be nice to know the full extent along that trail and in that area so when we do the removal, we know to send groups here, here and here\u2014but we don\u2019t have to worry about going over there.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

In late September, Miles accompanied two Ecology Laboratory 3070 classes to Reflection Riding to help map the nature center\u2019s invasive species removal efforts\u2014one lab section focused on winter honeysuckle, the other on Oriental bittersweet.<\/p>\n

Those invasive plant species were initially brought from East Asia as decorative plants.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey come into these environments and our native species haven\u2019t evolved with these invasive species\u2014so they don\u2019t have any way to compete with them or to respond to them,\u201d she explained. \u201cIn terms of competition, our invasive species are outcompeting our native species, contributing to the decline of our native honeysuckle and native bittersweet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat can affect the ecosystem and animals that depend on those plants. If we can focus our removal efforts and do a good job removing these species, we can start to restore those ecosystems.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both invasive species needed to be located for removal efforts, so Miles had the students use a GIS phone app to track and plot data points.<\/p>\n

She said the students enjoyed the experience, hiking and dashing on and off the nature preserve\u2019s trails.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey did great. They were way off in the brush sampling and it was really nice to see their passion for what they were doing,\u201d Miles said.<\/p>\n

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Kel Kaczmarek, a junior environmental science major from Hendersonville, Tennessee, was part of the group mapping Oriental bittersweet.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe used a quick capture app on our phones,\u201d Kaczmarek said. \u201cWe were divided into groups and spent an hour and a half at it. Whenever we would find Oriental bittersweet, we would mark it on the phone. If we hadn\u2019t seen any for a while, we would click no invasives found.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brooklynn Ashmore, a junior pre-professional biology major from Lynnville, Tennessee, participated in the winter honeysuckle search.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had never been on a field trip class before at UTC, so that was fun,\u201d Ashmore said. \u201cI didn\u2019t expect to hike that much, but it was really cool when we reached the top.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were looking for the invasive species of the honeysuckle bushes and were asked to identify the dead and the live ones\u2014and that was really interesting. I enjoyed it a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sophomore environmental science major Bliss Murphy said learning about data point collection was beneficial for her future studies.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love fieldwork and wanted the chance to get better data points and find more honeysuckle,\u201d Murphy said. \u201cThere was a slope in our section of the study area and I went for it; I went through all the brush and the trees and found a good number of winter honeysuckle there.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe GIS app is something I think I would like to use in the future because I do collect my own data when I go out. I look for reptiles and amphibians and document their locations. Now that I know how to use GIS, I could map all those data points out.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Students in Monica Miles\u2019 Ecology Laboratory 3070 class, including junior Brooklynn Ashmore (far left), learned how to locate and tag invasive species at Reflection Riding.<\/p><\/div>\n

Miles likes to say she came to UTC for undergrad and never left.<\/p>\n

Since first arriving on campus a decade ago from the Middle Tennessee town of Springfield, Miles\u2014a first-generation college student\u2014has migrated from a bachelor\u2019s degree (biology, 2016) to a master\u2019s degree (environmental science, 2018) to a lecturer position.<\/p>\n

Teaching, she said, wasn\u2019t in the initial career plans.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I first started my master\u2019s, I got into it thinking I wanted to do field ecology work; teaching was never something I wanted to do,\u201d said Miles, who now teaches a rotating schedule of Principles of Biology, Conservation of Biodiversity, Ecology, Evolution and Ecology Laboratory. \u201cI remember in undergrad, I hated giving presentations. I would always shake and get nervous. It was the worst thing ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

An opportunity to teach an intro biology lab as a grad school student changed her career path.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just fell in love with it and I liked that interaction,\u201d she recalled. \u201cI really liked seeing those light bulbs go on in students\u2019 heads when a concept they\u2019re struggling with clicks. All of a sudden they get passionate about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

While she claims to be \u201cnot the most gung-ho presenter,\u201d students Ashmore and Murphy said Miles continually keeps her students interested in the subject matter.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s the only professor that really makes me want to learn and gets me excited to go to class,\u201d Ashmore said. \u201cI\u2019ve had her for every single class that she teaches here. Before registering for classes, I purposely look for which classes she teaches. That\u2019s why I keep taking her over and over. I enjoy her class so much.\u201d<\/p>\n

Added Murphy, \u201cI\u2019ve asked her about her career and its implications on how I may pursue mine.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a non-tenure-track faculty member, Miles said she enjoyed the research she participated in as a graduate student, but teaching has become her passion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat feeling that I get when I\u2019m done teaching for the day\u2014that the students have really gotten that concept and they\u2019ve gotten a lot out of that class\u2014that\u2019s what fulfills me,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s not every day, but when it does happen, it\u2019s such a good feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her own desire for learning gets enriched through opportunities like introducing her students to GIS at Reflection Riding.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited to grow in this position, and the work I\u2019m doing with the Ecology Lab is a good step in that direction because it\u2019s getting me into different subfields that aren\u2019t really in my background,\u201d Miles said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach time I teach my courses, even though I\u2019ve been doing them for a little while now, I learn something new. This Ecology Lab is scratching that itch and is also expanding on how I\u2019m benefiting the students in terms of the skills they\u2019re getting that will hopefully benefit them in the job market.\u201d<\/p>\n

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