{"id":2268,"date":"2026-02-05T18:08:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T00:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/bio-150\/?p=2268"},"modified":"2026-02-05T20:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:50:16","slug":"welcome-to-foundations-of-biodiversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/bio-150\/2026\/02\/05\/welcome-to-foundations-of-biodiversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Foundations of Biodiversity!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\ud83e\udd95\ud83c\udf34\ud83e\uddec\ud83d\udc1d\ud83e\udda0\ud83e\udd88\ud83e\udda0\ud83d\udc1d\ud83e\uddec\ud83c\udf34\ud83e\udd95\ud83e\udd88<\/p>\n<p>Welcome EVERYONE!<\/p>\n<p>I hope you all had a great January and are ready to learn. You might want to save the link to this particular page because reminders will be posted here. By selecting the different topics at the top you can then step through the rest of the website.<\/p>\n<p>Who am I?<\/p>\n<p>I have been teaching at St. Olaf for more than 20 years in both biology and environmental studies. My background is in evolutionary biology, animal behavior, conservation and small mammals (squirrels, mice and voles), but more recently I have been working with bumble bees. I have a husband, three kids and two very cute granddaughters-one just a couple weeks old (see below). None of my kids live close by anymore! I also have a 3 year old dog named Willa who has been enthusiastically clearing our backyard of chipmunks and bunnies this winter.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to getting to know you all this semester!<\/p>\n<p>Diane (yes feel free to call me Diane)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2271\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/bio-150\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1229\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-05-at-6.13.41-PM-156x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/bio-150\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1229\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-05-at-6.13.41-PM-156x300.jpg 156w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/bio-150\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1229\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-05-at-6.13.41-PM-534x1024.jpg 534w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/bio-150\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1229\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-05-at-6.13.41-PM-78x150.jpg 78w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/bio-150\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1229\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-05-at-6.13.41-PM.jpg 708w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 156px) 100vw, 156px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2275\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/bio-150\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1229\/2026\/02\/IMG_0678-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/bio-150\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1229\/2026\/02\/IMG_0678-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/bio-150\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1229\/2026\/02\/IMG_0678-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/bio-150\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1229\/2026\/02\/IMG_0678-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/bio-150\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1229\/2026\/02\/IMG_0678-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/bio-150\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1229\/2026\/02\/IMG_0678-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/bio-150\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1229\/2026\/02\/IMG_0678.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83e\udd95\ud83c\udf34\ud83e\uddec\ud83d\udc1d\ud83e\udda0\ud83e\udd88\ud83e\udda0\ud83d\udc1d\ud83e\uddec\ud83c\udf34\ud83e\udd95\ud83e\udd88 Welcome EVERYONE! I hope you all had a great January and are ready to learn. You might want to save the link to this particular page because reminders will be posted here. By selecting the different topics at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/bio-150\/2026\/02\/05\/welcome-to-foundations-of-biodiversity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/bio-150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/bio-150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/bio-150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/bio-150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/bio-150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/bio-150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/bio-150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/bio-150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/bio-150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/bio-150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}