Teaching CV

AUDREY JACHELINE GEFFEN

Present address: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen,

P.O. Box 7803, 5020 Bergen, NORWAY

Tel: +47 – 55 58 44 35 e-mail: Audrey.Geffen@bio.uib.no

http://www.uib.no/en/persons/Audrey.Geffen# twitter: @GeffenAudrey

Date of Birth: May 16, 1956

Teaching Positions held:

1985-Dec87: Assistant Professor (Lecturer), Environmental Sciences Center, Unity College, Unity, Maine, USA. Responsible for development of program and curriculum leading to a Bachelor's degree in Aquaculture. Teaching responsibilities included courses in vertebrate biology, zoology, physiology, ichthyology, fisheries science, aquaculture, and marine biology.

1988-2003: Research Fellow, Port Erin Marine Laboratory, University of Liverpool, Port Erin, IOM. Primarily student supervision: BSc project students, PhD students

2003 – present: Professor, Department of Biology, University of Bergen

Teacher training (Pedagogy)

1996-97 City and Guilds (3 of 4 semesters completed)

1997 Supervised teaching (3 sessions, Isle of Man College)

2002 University of Liverpool

2003 credentials accepted as fulfilling UiB pedagogy requirements

2015-16 bioCEED CPC2015 course

Academic activities (study programme development)

Head of MSc programme in Aquaculture Biology, changed to specialization within Biology MSc (2003-2015, 2017)

Member, MSc study programme steering committee (2003-2008)

Member, Departmental education steering committee (2008-2015)

Participant, BioCEED, Centre of Excellence in Biology Education

Participant, TALIDA, Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age

Teaching activities

Sole responsibility for design and delivery:

Unity College 1985-1988

Marine Biology, Marine and Freshwater Fishes, Fisheries

University of Bergen 2003 – present

Marine Juvenile Production (MAR351: 2004-2009; BIO305: 2010-2014)

Environmental Effects of Aquaculture (MAR251: 2012-2013; BIO208: 2014-present)

Fish welfare and experimental procedures (BIO204A: 2016)

NORHEED International Masters at Nha Trang University, Vietnam

Marine Ecology and Biodivesity (MB505: 2015, 2017)

Joint responsibility for design and delivery:

Early Life History of Fish (BIO308: 2014-present)

Aquatic Food Production (BIO382: 2014-2016)

Ocean Science (BIO325 – field module leader, 2016)

Continuing Contributions on other courses

Introduction to Aquaculture 4-8 sessions (MAR203, BIO203, BIF100)

Advanced Aquaculture 4 sessions (MAR350, BIO350)

Marine Food Production 1 session (BIO382)

Marine Community Ecology 1 session (MAR220, BIO220)

Marine Field Course, Espegrend 1-3 days field activities (“Marine dager”, BIO102)

Student supervision

PhD students at University of Liverpool

M. Dickey-Collas 1988-1991 Studies on the effect of enriched live food on the growth performance and pigmentation of flatfish larvae

P. Panagiotaki 1988-1992 Development of size variation in flatfish larvae.

T. Exadactylos 1993-1996 Genetic and aquaculture performance differences in sole of different stocks (co-supervision with J. P. Thorpe)

F. Watson 1994-1998 Behavioural basis of size hierarchies in marine fish larvae

S. Morley 1994-1998 Environmental and parental influences on the growth and survival of larval herring (co-supervision with R.S. Batty)

J. Tomas Olague 1997-2001 Microchemistry of Fish Otoliths

W. Rowlands 2001-2005 Is prey selection in young gadoids in the Irish Sea limited by gape size or by the spectrum of prey available? (co-supervision with R.D.M. Nash, M. Dickey-Collas)

J. Kennedy 2002-2006 Maternal effects and fecundity of plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) in the Irish Sea (co-supervision with R.D.M. Nash, C.J. Fox, P.R. Witthames)

PhD students at University of Bergen

A.L. Groison 2007-2010 Male reproductive biology of European hake Merluccius merluccius

T. Trofimova 2013-2017 expected finish. Annually resolved reconstructions of the variability of the Norwegian Atlantic Current based on growth chronologies of bivalves in the eastern Norwegian Sea (ARAMACC network)

F. Bonitz 2013-2017 expected finish. Annually resolved sclerochronological reconstructions of the climate variability of North Atlantic water masses around the Faroe Islands (ARAMACC network)

H.T. Nygen 2015-2018 expected finish. Acclimation processes of clownfish to anemones (NORHEED project)

MSc students University of Bergen

2006

Nkambo Mujibu, Assessing body and otolith morphological differences in fish (Cod, Gadus morhua) with vaterite and non-vaterite otoliths.

Oddbjorn Selsjet, Importance of prey abundance and size spectra for growth and survival in larval cod.

Marianne Pedersen, The effects of exposure of Atlantic cod spawners to alkylphenols and Produced Water on the survival characteristics of their offspring.

Marita Larsen, The effects of alkylphenols and oil production water on gamete characteristics and fertilization success of Atlantic cod.

2007

Rudi Jakobsen, Thermal marking of cod Otoliths (Gadus morhua).

Silje Siem, Shape changes during the growth of cod larvae, Gadus morhua, reared on different diets.

Anne-Christine Knag, The effect of produced water on the fecundity of Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua).

2008

Heidi Finden. Estimating reproductive potential of male Barents Sea cod

2010

Roslizawati Ab Lah. Development and survival of herring eggs after parental exposure to oil-contaminated food

Sansanee Srichanngam. Age and growth determination and stock identification using statolith microstructure of Indian squid, Loligo duvauceli

2011

Godfrey Ngupula. Characterization of the Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua L) eggs for estimation of spawning time and proportion of spawning females

2012

Ana Rita Guillot Caldas. Latitudinal gradients in goby morphology

2014

Lucasz Rebelski. Temperature dependent egg development in ballan wrasse

2015

Kristoffer Nordbø. Effects of fish cage effluent on coldwater corals

Karl-Michael Werner. Interaction of local and migratory populations of hake in western Norway coastal waters

2017

Ine Moksness. Reproductive biology of north-east arctic cod – mapping of skip-spawning

Evaluation activities:

Programme Evaluation:

Quality Assessor, Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (1994-95)

Internal examiner

Internal MSc examination panel, Department of Biology (2012-2014)

Internal PhD examiner, head of evaluation panel – (12 candidates since 2003)

External examiner/Opponent (PhD):

1990 – P.J. Wright, Department of Zoology, University of Glasgow

1998 – P. Fallon-Cossins, University of Aberdeen

2000 – D. Conway, University of Plymouth

2004 – E. Fancourt, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

2008 – O. Dwane, University College Galway

2008 – N. Burke, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology

- D. Demain, University of Aberdeen

2009 – A. Harwood, University of East Anglia

2010 – C. Longmore, University College Dublin

2012 – A. Lewis, University of Southampton

– R. Maneja, University of Kiel

2014 – D. March, University of the Balearics

– S. R. Sørensen, DTU-Aqua (Danish Technical University)

2016 – E. Bruno, DTU-Aqua (Danish Technical University)

Teaching related Projects awarded:

PhD Network Projects:

EU - Framework 7 – “CalMarO” - Calcification of Marine Organisms - A Marie Curie ITN (Initial Training Network) concerned with understanding biomineralization and the effects of ocean acidification on calcifying organisms 2008 – 2011

EEA - Managing effects of global climate on estuarine biodiversity and productivity, network project PT0010, Norway-Netherlands-Portugal 2008-2012

EU - Framework 7 – “ARAMACC” Annually-resolved archives of marine climate change – development of molluscan sclerochronology for marine environmental monitoring and climatology. Marie Curie ITN, associated partner

Masters programme

Erasmus+ - H2020 – “IMBRSea: International Masters in Marine Biological Resources”

Communication and publicity activities:

Publication of Larval fish teaching course in American Fisheries Society, Early Life History Section Newsletter “Stages”: “Fish Larvae in the Classroom”