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SUPERVISION OF MASTERS LEVEL RESEARCH
Chair:
Marylee Ramsay “Population Biology of Yucca Moth”
Best Master’s Paper [Dehner Award] at 1994 Kansas Academy of Sciences
Erick Jensen “Effectiveness of a Purported Insect Sound Repellant”
–completed an Ed.D. from K.S.U. in 2000
Larry Wahl “Habitat Analysis of Seaman Area.”
Alice Halloran (current student)
Committeemember:
Lou Ding Han (Chemistry)
Jim Peterson (Tick Ecology)
Tony Spaar (Copepod Ecology)
Judy Schnell (Ecology of Illinois Bundleflower)
Michael Heffron (Bioenergenetics of Wintering Prairie Chicken)
Lisa Volland [2001 OBTA] (Comparison of Tallgrass Prairie and Woodland Communities)
Phil Duerkson (Soil Seed Banks in Kansas Prairie and Re-seeded Field)
Dena K. Podrebarac (Distribution of the House Finch in Kansas and Studies of Competition between the House Finch and the House Sparrow in Kansas During the Winter)
Suzanne Springer (‘Alcide’ Effectiveness on Representative Bacteria)
Chen Li-Hua (LDH-Activity and Isozyme Patterns in Crayfish Under Conditions of Seasonal Change)
James A. Hartman (Diversity of Riffle Community Fishes in Pottawatomie Creek Watershed)
Nu Nu Wai (Water Relations in Vetiver Grass, 2000)
Grants and Grant Participation
1984 Office of Surface Mining; Soils on Unreclaimed Stripmines......................................... $500
1987-88 Indiana Academy of Sciences; development of template for classification schemes.. 800
1988 STS: “Bioethics”; one of five instructors in Science Education Summer Institute,
State-Funded (Eisenhower); Dr. George Davis, principle investigator (P.I.) ($60,000)
1989 Human Reproductive Biology; one of four instructors in Sci. Educ. Summer Institute,
State-Funded (Eisenhower); Dr. George Davis, principle investigator ($60,000)
1990 Instruct in-service teachers in Human Reproductive Biology; one of five instructors in Science Education Summer Institute, State-Funded (Eisenhower); Dr. George Davis, principle investigator (approx. $65,000)
1991 Survey of Kansas biology teachers; one of five surveyors in SMEC; Dr. Bill Yates, P.I. (approx. $6,000)
Kansas School Naturalist Grants:
1991 DeBoer Charitable Foundation........................................................................................$ 25
1991 Emma Balsinger Foundation............................................................................................ 250
1991 Price and Flora Reid Foundation Trust............................................................................ 250
1991 Ross Foundation............................................................................................................. 100
1991 Biological Supply Companies for Reprint of “Dissection” issue KSN............................ 2500
1992 Price and Flora Reid Foundation Trust............................................................................ 500
1992 W.A. Reynolds & Humana Foundation............................................................................. 200
1992 Ross Foundation............................................................................................................ 500
1992 Price and Flora Reid Foundation...................................................................................... 500
1992 Emma Balsinger Foundation........................................................................................... 250
1992 Bay Foundation, Wall Street, NY (“Prairie Fires”).......................................................... 3042
1993 AMAX Coal Company (“Coal Surface Mining”)............................................................ 2210
1993 Ross Foundation.............................................................................................................. 500
1994 Ross Foundation.............................................................................................................. 800
1994 Central States Entomological Society.............................................................................. 920
1994 Ross Foundation.............................................................................................................. 500
1994 Ross Foundation.............................................................................................................. 500
1994 Central States Entomological Society.............................................................................. 960
1995 Bay Foundation, Wall Street, NY (Reprint of “Prairie Fires”)......................................... 4000
1995 Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (“Backyard Birds”)........................................ 8088
1996 Environmental Protection Agency (“Role of Animals in Succession”)............................ 3700
1996 Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (“Dragonflies”).............................................. 5877
1997 Price and Flora Reid Foundation Trust............................................................................ 1000
1997 Hansen Foundation ........................................................................................................ 1500
1997 Central States Entomological Society (“Tardigrades”).................................................... 1048
1998 Central States Entomological Society (“Damselflies”)...................................................... 1060
2001 Emma Balsinger Foundation........................................................................................... 500
2002 Emma Balsinger Foundation........................................................................................... 1000
2005 Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (“Stream Ecology”)........................................ 1800
KABT Kansas Biology Teacher Grants
1992 Carolina Biological Supply Company............................................................................. $200
1993 Hawkhill Publishing......................................................................................................... 200
1993 Nasco Scientific...............................................................................................................200
1995 RANACO Scientific........................................................................................................320
1996 Carolina Biological Supply Company............................................................................... 520
1997 Southern Biological Supply Company...............................................................................360
1998 WARDS..........................................................................................................................400
1999 Nasco Scientific............................................................................................................... 400
1999 Carolina Biological Supply Company and................... 500
Kansas Department of Agriculture 200
2000 RANACO Scientific.......................................................................................................... 200
2000 Hawkhill Publishing........................................................................................................... 100
Travel Grant to Attend World Congress on Animal Use Alternatives
1993 WARD’s Science Establishment and Central Scientific Inc............................................... $ 1000
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