Hello! I teach courses in support of the Conservation Biology major under the Interdisciplinary Environmental Science degree program.

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I have been a wildlife biologist with the research branch of the U.S. Forest Service in Texas and Arkansas and from 2000 – 2002 worked in Houston at Alto Technology Resources, a remote sensing firm affiliated with Texaco.

My research interests are mammal (and other vertebrates) ecology and behavior and applications of renewable energy technologies.

I have used geographic information systems in research and will teach special research courses in applications of GIS.

My postdoc research on habitat mapping for bird conservation for Partners in Flight and The Nature Conservancy is presented at this web site:

http://www.cast.uark.edu/pif/main/maincont.htm

During Fall 2003 at OLC, I taught a GIS applications course in which we created a database in ArcView of all fatal highway accidents during 1983-2001 for 8 counties in southwestern South Dakota on and around the Pine Ridge Reservation. Data from SD Dept. of Transportation contained complete information on each accident event. We entered all available information into the database and now anyone can analyze those data and examine factors between counties, look at ages of drivers involved, the influence of drugs and alcohol, vehicle types, the efficacy of seat belt usage, effects of weather, and many other variables. Sample analyses from that database can be viewed at my coursepage or at this link: http://www.olc.edu/~jtaulman/analysis.htm.

I am very interested in advancing the knowledge and use of renewable energy technologies, such as wind, solar photovoltaics, passive solar heating, and energy efficient building design. I taught the first course in Renewable Energy Technologies, EnS 483, during Spring 2004. I believe that these technologies offer great potential benefit to rural areas with low population density, and reservations in particular. Wind, solar, and efficient building design can provide satisfying new career paths for entrepreneurs as well as providing clean, renewable power, and energy savings to individual homes and communities.

Thanks for visiting this site and feel free to contact me any time.

Email: jtaulman@olc.edu or jimtaulman@yahoo.com

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