| UWA Position
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Sciences |
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Department
of Biological and Environmental Sciences
College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics |
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| Professional
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Doug received the Bachelor of Science degree in Biology
with a minor in Chemistry from Shorter College, a small private college in Rome,
GA. Before beginning his master’s
degree, he spent 6 months as an interpretive naturalist at Sarett Nature Center
in Benton Harbor, MI. Doug
completed the Master of Science degree in Entomology (the study of insects) in
December 1997 at Clemson University in Clemson, SC.
Doug’s Masters thesis was focused on the ecology of Trichoptera (caddisfly)
communities on snag habitat in headwater streams in the sandhill region of South
Carolina.
He
completed the Ph.D. degree at Tennessee Technological University studying
aquatic insect community structure and function in the Great Smoky Mountains
National Park. Doug's Ph.D.
research also examined the response of aquatic insect communities to southern
Appalachian brook trout restoration in the park.
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Environmental
Sciences Program |
| Academic/Research
Interests: |
- Aquatic insect community ecology and factors affecting
community structure and function.
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| Recent
publications: |
- Wymer, D.A., and J.C.
Morse. 2000. Larva, pupa, and adults of Glossosoma
nigrior (Trichoptera: Glossosomatidae) with a review of the eastern North
American species of Glossosoma. Entomological News 111(3): 149-158.
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| Recent
presentations: |
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Distinct Upstream/Downstream Variation in a Great Smoky
Mountains National Park Stream. Natural or Anthropogenic? Presented at The North American
Benthological Society Conference, Duluth, MN, June 2001.
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The Effects of Chironomidae Taxonomic
Resolution on Statistical Analyses of Samples Collected in the Great Smoky
Mountains National Park.
Presented at The North American Benthological Society Conference,
Keystone, CO, May 2000.
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| Additional
information: |
- Three of the five sections of Doug’s Ph.D.
Dissertation are currently in the review process, one each with Freshwater
Ecology, American Midland Naturalist, and Southeastern Naturalist.
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