I help create and administer innovative environmental programs and teach environmental and ecology courses at Albion College, a small liberal arts college. We feature majors in environmental science, environmental studies, and sustainability studies, as well as concentrations in environmental science and environmental studies. Our instruction emphasizes hands-on experiences and individual attention including field trips, study abroad, internships, living-learning housing, mentored research, service learning, and supported student initiatives. The Sustainability Studies major is a joint venture with the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines in France. Trained as an evolutionary ecologist, my research has focused on the coevolution of birds and bird-dispersed fruits, the population and breeding biology of cavity-nesting birds, and aspects of conservation biology including woodland and watershed protection, impacts of introduced species, and inter-specific competition in birds. I am currently studying incubation behavior in a population of House Wrens that I have been following for 19 years.