Brian Smithers, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor
Montana State University
Courses
Rocky Mountain Vegetation
Montana State University
Fall 2019 - present
Rocky Mountain Vegetation is an upper division course focusing on the ecology of the plant species and communities of the Rocky Mountains. Dr. Smithers teaches a field-based version of the course that spends a good chunk of the course in the mountains near Bozeman.
Principles of BiodiversityMontana State University
Principles of Biodiversity is a lower division summary course including the topics of evolution, the tree of life, and ecology.
Fall 2018 - present
Conservation BiologyMontana State University
Fall 2018
Conservation Biology is an upper division undergraduate and graduate level course covering the topics of population dynamics, biodiversity conservation, population estimation, and global climate change.
​General Ecology
UC Davis
Fall 2016
General Ecology is an upper division undergraduate course covering the topics of species distribution and abundance, biodiversity, population dynamics, global climate change, and consvertion.