Rate My Professor George Pickerell

Dr. George Pickerell is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Zoology within the Division of Sciences at the University of Otago. Pickerell specializes in 200-level undergraduate teaching, serving as the coordinator for ZOOL 223 Animal Physiology. This course delivers instruction through lectures, laboratory practicals, a student research project, and assigned readings on animal physiological mechanisms and adaptations. Pickerell also acts as a teaching fellow for ZOOL 221 Animal Designs for Living, which encompasses lectures, labs, field trips, formative assignments, and tutorials exploring animal form, function, and evolutionary designs. In addition, Pickerell is part of the teaching staff for ZOOL 319 Conservation Biology, supporting the course overview, assessments, and content on conservation strategies and biological diversity preservation.

Pickerell earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Otago in 2015, with the doctoral thesis titled Braided-river islands as refuges from introduced mammalian predators. This work was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Pickerell co-authored the publication Stoat density, diet and survival compared between alpine grassland and beech forest in the southern South Island, New Zealand, appearing in the New Zealand Journal of Ecology, volume 32, issue 2, pages 166-176, in 2008. Pickerell's professional contact in the Zoology department includes a direct dial phone number of +64 3 556 5787. Through these teaching appointments and research outputs, Pickerell contributes to zoological education and ecological research at the University of Otago.