Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Identifier

SDAS_088

Subject Headings

Science--Periodicals; Science; South Dakota; Conference papers and proceedings; DeWitt, Krisma D.

Publication Date

2009

Description

Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science, 2009, Volume 88. The Proceedings includes the consolidated minutes of the ninety-fourth annual meeting of the South Dakota Academy of Science, held April 3–4, 2009. This volume features a special symposium titled Year of Science, the complete senior research papers, and abstracts presented during the meeting. The presidential address, titled Examining South Dakota Academy of Science’s Roles in the Scientific Landscape of South Dakota, was delivered by Krisma D. DeWitt. Special Symposium: Year of Science 2009: The Year of Science: Public Understanding of Science by Charles R. Berry, Jr.; Preparing a Scientifically Literate Populace for the 21st Century: From Secondary Teacher Enhancement to University General Education to the South Dakota Academy of Science by Miles D. Koppang; Science in the Political Arena of Policy, Regulation, and Legislation: A Biologist/Bureaucrat’s Perspective by Douglas R. Hansen; From SNPs to Chips: A View of Modern Human Evolution from the Perspective of a Clinical Cytogeneticist by Patricia L. Crotwell; Science and Christianity: Positive Historical Modes for Interaction by Michael K. Wanous; Establishment of the Avera Institute for Human Behavioral Genetics: An Example of a Successful Collaboration Between Academic and Health Care in South Dakota by Gareth E. Davies; and An Endangered Species: South Dakota Science Teachers – A Suggested Model for Partnerships Between Universities and Public Schools by Cathy Mariotti Ezrailson. Complete Senior Research Papers: A Review of Lab Scale Photobioreactor Development by Gary A. Anderson, Anil Kommareddy, and Joanne Puetz Anderson; Procedures for the Effective Comparison of Red and White Winter Wheat by Benjamin Meyerink, Brian Kontz, Ryan Gerarts, and Fedora Sutton; Resistive Loads and Loading Implemented by Direct-Write Fabrication by Thomas P. Montoya and Andrew W. Downs; Precipitation in Aberdeen, South Dakota: A Data Analysis Approach by Boris A. Shmagin; Annual and Seasonal Patterns of Soil Profile Temperature for 2003 in Brookings, South Dakota by I.E. Vahyala; Estimating Standing Vegetation with a Modified Robel Pole on Meadows and Grasslands in the Southern Black Hills of South Dakota by Daniel W. Uresk, Daryl E. Mergen, and Ted A. Benzon; Tree Saplings and Shrub Heights After 25 Years of Livestock Grazing in Green Ash Draws in Western South Dakota by Daniel W. Uresk, Jody Javersak, and Daryl E. Mergen; Effects of Burn Intensity on Soil Organic Carbon and Nitrogen Three Years Post-Fire in a Pinus ponderosa Forest by Meghan J. Calhoon, Lee A. Vierling, and Steven L. Matzner; Distinguishing Between Glaucomys volans and G. sabrinus Using Microsatellite Analyses by E. W. Viall, C. R. Fellnaum, and A. M. Kiesow; Stream Fishes Inhabit Livestock Watering Ponds (Dugouts) Near Six Mile Creek, Brookings County, South Dakota by Sheila K. Thomson and Charles R. Berry, Jr.; The Release of a New Beneficial Insect for the Biological Control of Soybean Aphid, a Crop Pest in South Dakota by Ann Micijevic, Kelley J. Tilmon, Roger Barrick, Steve Sutera, Larry Wagner, Connie Strunk, Paul Johnson, Gary Erickson, and Roy Gosmire; and PCR Comparison of Trichostrongyle Genera Present in South Dakota Cattle With and Without Springtime Deworming by A. F. Harmon, B. C. Lucas, and M. B. Hildreth. Abstracts of Senior Research Papers: Included are abstracts covering topics in aquaculture, vector-borne disease, wildlife biology, native and invasive plant species, ecological genomics, veterinary parasitology, microbiology, biochemistry, and environmental chemistry. Studies range from Use of DVAqua, a Fully Fermented Yeast Culture, During Long Term Hatchery Rearing of Shasta Strain Rainbow Trout to Computational Chemistry in a Parallel Computing Environment: NWChem on the SDSU Cluster. Research also includes topics such as Anti-Microbial Screening on Traditional American Indian Medicinal Plants, *DNA Isolation from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, The Effects of Genetic Background on Maize B Chromosome Behavior, and *Sequencing the Predominant Root Storage Protein from Pediomelum esculentum.

Volume

88

Pages

228

Language

English

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