About
James Engman, Ph.D. is an award-winning educator, broadly trained biologist and retired professor teaching in the departments of Biology and
Environmental Science at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. He has conducted research and taught courses at remote field camps north of the Arctic Circle, in the cloud forest of Central America’s Darien Gap, on the Mississippi River, on the islands of the indigenous Guna Yala Province of Panama, and in the Galapagos Islands.
He has worked on projects for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, the University of Alaska’s Institute of Arctic Biology, the National Science Foundation’s Long Term Ecological Research Network, the Illinois Natural History Survey, and a range of colleges and universities. His research interests include Caribbean coral reefs, zooplankton ecology of tundra lakes in northern Alaska and Denali National Park, and the microbial ecology of chemoautotrophic cave systems in Tennessee and Alabama.
He has led 36 study-abroad trips with high school and college students to Panama, Jamaica, Belize, the Galapagos Islands and Egypt. His teaching experience includes classes on marine biology, tropical marine biology, ornithology, entomology, freshwater ecology, neotropical ecology, zoology, geographic information systems, and a range of environmental science classes.