Eric Juterbock, Associate Professor EEOB

Ph.D. (Zoology) The Ohio State University

M.S. (Zoology) The Ohio State University

B.S. (Evolution, Ecology, and Systematics) Cornell University

Contact Information:

Office:  Science Building 344

Phone: 419-995-8360

Email: juterbock.1@osu.edu

Mailing address:

            4240 Campus Dr.

          Lima, OH  45804

Teaching:

Professor Juterbock has been a faculty member at The Ohio State University at Lima since 1979, and he is the Coordinator of the fledgling Biology baccalaureate program at OSU-Lima.  He teaches, or has taught over the years, all of the introductory level biology courses, including the Honors Biology sequence, and courses in anatomy, anatomy and physiology, animal diversity, animal form and function, ecology, environmental science (introductory and second writing courses), ethology, and vertebrate biology.  A two-time winner of the OSU-Lima Distinguished Teaching Award, he won The Ohio State University Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2002.

Research:

Professor Juterbock is a behavioral ecologist and conservation biologist, working with vertebrate animals.  His two spheres of research interest are the occurrence and evolutionary significance of variation in life history characteristics, primarily among salamanders, and the community ecology of frogs and snakes in the Everglades (where he spent time on Faculty Professional Leave in 1988-89).  Currently, he is working on several aspects of life history of stream salamanders in southeastern Ohio, and frog population and community biology locally.  Most quarters, he directs one or more students’ independent research projects; four of these have been significant enough that they were accepted for presentation at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research.  Among recent published research, he has authored/co-authored chapters in Status and Conservation of Midwestern Amphibians (U. Iowa Press, 1998) and Measuring and Monitoring Biological Diversity: Standard Methods for Amphibians (Smithsonian Institute Press, 1994), and the forthcoming Status and Conservation of North American Amphibians (U. Calif. Press, 2005).  He also conducts pro bono biological survey work (e.g., Ohio Frog Call Survey transect in Marion County, ongoing).