STEVEN JOHN BEAUPRE

 

University of Arkansas                                                                          16035 Beechnut Lane

Department of Biological Sciences                                                         Fayetteville, AR 72704

601 Science-Engineering Building                                                          

Fayetteville, AR  72701

479-575-7561 (office), 479-575-4010 (FAX).

Email: sbeaupre@uark.edu

 

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1993.

Major fields: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

Dissertation: The physiological ecology of differences in body size between two

populations of the mottled rock rattlesnake (Crotalus lepidus lepidus).

Advisor: Arthur E. Dunham.

M.S. The University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1987.

Major field: Biophysical Ecology.

Thesis: The effect of ambient temperature, food type, and meal size on post feeding oxygen consumption and specific dynamic action in captive Dipsosaurus dorsalis.

Advisor: Warren P. Porter.  

B.S. The University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1982.  Major field: Zoology

 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:

Vice Chair, of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, (August 2008 - present)

Professor of Biology, University of Arkansas, (July 2006 - present)

Director, U of Arkansas Stable Isotope Laboratory, University of Arkansas (July 2002 - present)

Associate Professor of Biology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (July 2001 - June 2006)

Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (August 1995 - June 2001)

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Arizona State University West (Jan. 1994 - August 1995)

Lecturer, College of General Studies, University of Pennsylvania (Fall 1993).       

Associate Investigator, Earthwatch - Big Bend Program (Summer 1993).

Dissertation Fellow, The University of Pennsylvania (1991-1993).

Teaching Fellow,  The University of Pennsylvania (1987 ‑ 1991).

Research Assistant,  The University of Wisconsin (1986 ‑ 1987).

 

AWARDS:

Fulbright College Master Researcher Award, University of Arkansas Spring 2009.

Outstanding Mentor Award.  University of Arkansas, 2004; 2009.

Student Alumni Association Teaching Award, Nomination Fall, 2002.

Outstanding Teacher of the Year, Chi-Omega, Spring 1997.

Honorable Mention in the Stoye Award competition of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Austin, TX 1993.

Dean's Scholar, U. of PA School of Arts and Sciences: 1993

Dean's Dissertation Fellow, U. of PA School of Arts and Sciences: 1993

Dean's Dissertation Fellow, U. of PA School of Arts and Sciences: 1992

 

SOCIETIES:

Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology , Herpetologist's League Society for the Study of

Amphibians and Reptiles, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

The goal of my research is to understand various mechanisms that influence the distribution and abundance of terrestrial vertebrate ectotherms.  Specifically, I have been interested in how environmental variation (temperature and food abundance) interacts with time budgets and physiological processes of ectotherms to affect their allocations to growth and reproduction. Thermal effects impinge on the allocation of energy and resources to the competing functions of maintenance, growth, reproduction, and storage which in turn, produce variation in population level processes. My favored approach to these problems is to use comparative bioenergetics to learn about constraints and trade‑offs that operate on the physiological performance of individuals. Lately, my interests have expanded to address proximate and ultimate influences on the evolution of sexual size dimorphism (also a bioenergetic problem) the use of individual‑based physiologically structured simulations of growth, reproduction and population dynamics for predicting the responses of populations to environmental change, and implications of bioenergetics for conservation.

 

TECHNIQUES:

Field:  Mark-recapture methods, radio-telemetry, automated data collection, doubly-labeled water field metabolic rate measurement, operative temperature modeling and measurement, GPS.

Laboratory: Respiratory gas exchange (open and closed circuit), small animal surgery, feeding trials and studies of digestion, bomb calorimetry, Isotopic techniques, EM-SCAN, Isotope ratio mass spectrometry, physiologically structured modeling (individual-based simulations), programming (in Basic, Fortran, and Pascal), biostatistics.

 

FUNDING:

National Science Foundation Beaupre, S. J. (PI) 2009.  REU, Supplement $6000

National Science Foundation  Beaupre, S.J. (PI) 2007. Physiological and behavioral responses of a top predator to large-scale habitat manipulations. Organism-Environment Interactions, Awarded $270000 for three years April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2010

NSF-EPSCoR  S.J. Beaupre and D. Rhoads.  Summer Undergraduate Research and Outreach Program.  Starting Fall 2003.  Total request: $174K / year, three years = $523431.

National Science Foundation  Beaupre, S.J. (PI) 2002. Using physiological structure to model production: Determinants of female reproductive effort.  Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology, (IBN-0130633) Awarded $300000 for three years April 1, 2002 - March 31, 2005.        

Arkansas Biosciences Institute S. E. Ziegler, S. J. Beaupre, P. D. Hays, and J. O. Lay Jr.  2003.

Advanced stable isotope technology for major questions in human and environmental health.  Total award: $232200. (Note: funded in January 2004).

NSF-MRI   Limp, F.,  K. Kvamme, S. Beaupre, and  S. Bajwa.  2003.  Acquisition of High Accuracy/Resolution Landscape and Structure Characterization System. Three years, Fall 2003 - Fall 2006.  Total award (including match): $499,000.

SILO-SURF Undergraduate Research Fellowship Beaupre, S. J. and S. L. Edwards  2002.  Comparative study of the larval life history traits of tropical goatfishes. $3588

National Science Foundation Beaupre, S. J. (PI) 2004.  REU, Supplement $5000

National Science Foundation Beaupre, S. J. (PI) 2003.  REU, Supplement $5675

National Science Foundation Beaupre, S. J. (PI) 2001.  REU, Supplement $6284

National Science Foundation Beaupre, S. J. (PI) 2000.  REU, Supplement $6000

National Science Foundation Beaupre, S. J. (PI) 1999.  REU, Supplement $5000

National Science Foundation  Evans, R. D. (PI)  and S. J. Beaupre (Co-PI). 1998. Contributed section for the acquisition of an isotope ratio mass spectrometer to the Arkansas EPSCoR Cooperative Agreement (J. G. Hehr, Lead PI) $6000000 total, with $777583 designated for UASIL (University of Arkansas Stable Isotope Laboratory) facility.

National Science Foundation  Beaupre, S. J. (P.I.)  1997.  Using physiological structure to

model individual production: A simulation and test.  NSF Program in Evolutionary and Ecological Physiology.  (IBN-9728470) March 15 1998 - March 14, 2001. Total for 3 years: $200,000.

Arkansas Science and Technology Authority.  Beaupre, S. J.  (P.I.) 1996.  Physiological

Ecology of Native Arkansas Snakes.  18 month duration, total project cost: $71,536.  Total Award from ASTA: $41,559.

Research Incentive Fund University of Arkansas, $50,000 (1996-1997).

Selective Excellence in Doctoral Programs, Beaupre, S., D. Rhoads, J. Turbeville, and M.

Ivey. Graduate Program Infrastructure Improvement Funds, Arkansas Department of Higher Education.  One year duration, total funding: $115,125.

Research Incentive Fund University of Arkansas, $50,000 (1995-1996).

The Shell Foundation of The University of Pennsylvania $3,000 (1988-1991).

Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Foundation $1,600 (1989, 1990).         

Explorers Club Fund $1,000 (1988).

 

PUBLICATIONS:

Beaupre, S. J. and  H. W.  Greene.  200?. In Press.  Handling Hazardous Live Reptiles. Appendix for R. McDiarmid (ed.) Reptiles: Standard Methods of Inventory and Monitoring.

Beaupre, S. J. and L. E. Douglas.  (2009). Snake populations as indicators of ecosystem

health.  Book Chapter, In S. Mullin and R.A. Seigel, eds. Snakes: Applied Ecology and

Conservation. In Press.

Gardner-Santana, L.C. and S. J. Beaupre. 2009. Timber Rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) exhibit elevated and less variable body 
            temperatures during pregnancy. Copeia, In Press

Hill, J.G. III. I. Hanning, S.J. Beaupre, S.C. Ricke, and M.M. Slavik. 2008. Denaturing gradient

 gel electrophoresis for the determination of bacterial species diversity in the

 gastrointestinal tracts of two Crotaline snakes.  Herpetological Review, 39:433-438.

Hill, J.G. and S.J. Beaupre  2008. Body size, growth and reproduction in a population of

western cottonmouths (Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma) in the Ozark Mountains of

Northwest Arkansas. Copeia, 2008:103-112.

Beaupre, S. J.  2008. Annual variation in time-energy allocation by Timber Rattlesnakes

(Crotalus horridus) in relation to food acquisition. In  Biology of Rattlesnakes (W.K. Hayes, S.P. Bush, D. Caldwell, and K. Beaman Eds.).  Loma Linda Press.

Beaupre, S. J. and C. E. Montgomery.  2007.  The meaning and consequences of foraging mode

in snakes.  Chapter 14 in Foraging Behavior in Lizards. S. M. Reilly, D. Miles, and L. McBrayer (eds.).  Cambridge University Press. 

Beaupre, S. J. 2005.  Technical Comment:  Ratio representations of specific dynamic

action (mass-specific SDA and SDA coefficient) do not standardize for body mass and meal size. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology.  78:126-131.

Browning, D. M., S.J. Beaupre, and L. Duncan.  2005. Using partitioned malahanobis D²(k) to formulate a GIS-based model of Timber rattlesnake hibernacula.  Journal of Wildlife Management, 69:33-44.

Montgomery, C. E., N. E. Haertle, and S. J. Beaupre.  2004. Agkistrodon contortrix (Copperhead) Predation.  Herpetological Review, 35(3): 271.

Beaupre, S. J., E. R. Jacobson, H. B. Lillywhite, and K. Zamudio.  2004.  Guidelines for the use of live amphibians and reptiles in field and laboratory research.  A publication of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Approved by board of Governors  June 30, 2004, Norman Oklahoma. 

Zaidan III, F., D.L. Kreider, and S.J. Beaupre.  2003.  Testosterone cycles and reproductive energetics:  Implications for northern range limits of the cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma).  Copeia, 2003: 231-240.

Zaidan, III, F., and  S. J. Beaupre.  2003.  The effects of body mass, meal size, fast length, and temperature on specific dynamic action (SDA) in the Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus).  Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 76:447-458.

Beaupre, S. J.  2002. Modeling time-energy allocation in vipers: individual responses to

environmental variation and implications for populations.  In G. Schuett, M. Hoggren, M. E. Douglas and H. W. Greene  (eds), Biology of Vipers. Eagle Mountain Publishing LC.

Cundall, D.  and  S. J. Beaupre.  2001.  Field records of predatory strike kinematics in Timber Rattlesnakes, Crotalus horridus.  Amphibia-Reptilia, 22:492-498.

Beaupre, S. J.  and F. Zaidan.  2001 Scaling of CO₂ production in the timber rattlesnake

(Crotalus horridus), with comments on the cost of growth in neonates and comparative patterns.  Physiological and Biochemical Zoology.  74:757-768.

Petraitis, P., S. J. Beaupre, and A. E. Dunham. 2001.  Non-parametric and randomization

approaches to analysis of covariance: ecological applications.  Pages 116-133 In Design and Analysis of Ecological Experiments (2^nd Ed) S.M. Scheiner and J. Gurevitch (eds).  Chapmann and Hall, New York.

Beaupre, S. J. and K. Roberts.  2001. Agkistrodon contortrix, chemotaxis, diet and arboreality. Herpetological Review, 32:44-45.

Wills, C. A. and S. J. Beaupre. 2000.  An application of randomization for detecting

thermoregulation in timber rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) from northwest Arkansas.  Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 73:325-334.

Ungar, P.  and S.  Beaupre.  1999.  Feeding adaptations: Vertebrates.  Encyclopedia of

Paleontology. R. Singer (ed.), Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago, IL.

Beaupre, S. J. and D. Duvall.  1998.  Variation in oxygen consumption of the western

diamondback rattlesnake, Crotalus atrox: Implications for sexual size dimorphism.  Journal of Comparative Physiology, B 168:497-506.

Beaupre, S.J., and D. Duvall.  1998.  The integrative biology of rattlesnakes: Contributions

to ecology and evolution. BioScience, 48:531-538.

Duvall, D.  and S.  J.  Beaupre.  1998. Sexual strategy and size dimorphism in rattlesnakes:

integrating proximate and ultimate causation.  American Zoologist, 38:152-165.

Dunham, A. E. and S. J. Beaupre.  1998.  Ecological experiments: Scale, phenomenology,

mechanism and the illusion of generality. in Experimental Ecology: Issues and Perspectives. (J. Bernardo, and W. Resetarits eds.). Oxford University Press, NY

Beaupre, S. J., D. Duvall, and J. O’Leile.  1998. Ontogenetic variation in growth and sexual

size dimorphism in a central Arizona population of the western diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox).  Copeia, 1998: 40-47.

Beaupre, C. E., C. J. Tressler, S. J. Beaupre, J. L. Morgan, W.  G. Bottje, and J. D. Kirby.

1997.  Determination of testes temperature rhythms and effects of constant light on testicular function in the domestic fowl (Gallus domesticus).  Biology of Reproduction, 56:1570-1575.

Beaupre, S.J. 1996. Field metabolic rate, water flux, and energy budgets of mottled rock

rattlesnakes, Crotalus lepidus from two populations.  Copeia, 1996:319-329.

Beaupre, S.J. and A.E. Dunham, 1995. A comparison of ANCOVA and ratio-based analyses

of a nutritional data set.  Functional Ecology, 9:876-880.

Beaupre, S.J. 1995. Effects of geographically variable thermal environment on bioenergetics

of mottled rock rattlesnakes, Crotalus lepidus.  Ecology, 76:1655-1665.

Beaupre, S.J. 1995. Comparative ecology of the mottled rock rattlesnake, Crotalus lepidus in

Big Bend National Park. Herpetologica, 51:45-56.

Beaupre, S.J. and R.W. Beaupre. 1994. An inexpensive data collection method for

temperature telemetry.  Herpetologica, 50(4):509-516.

Beaupre, S.J., A.E. Dunham, and K.L. Overall. 1993. Metabolism of a desert lizard: the

effects of mass, sex, population of origin, temperature, time of day, and feeding on oxygen consumption of Sceloporus merriami. Physiological Zoology, 66(1):128-147.

Beaupre, S.J., A.E. Dunham, and K.L. Overall. 1993. The effects of consumption rate and

temperature on ADC, urate production, MEC, and passage time in canyon lizards (Sceloporus merriami) from two populations. Functional Ecology, 7:273-280.

Beaupre, S.J. 1993. An ecological study of oxygen consumption in the mottled rock

rattlesnake, Crotalus lepidus lepidus and the black-tailed rattlesnake, Crotalus molossus molossus.  Physiological Zoology, 66(3): 437-454.

 

MANUSCRIPTS IN REVIEW:

Montgomery, C. E. and S. J. Beaupre (In Review). Natural history of the copperhead,

Agkistrodon contortrix, (Viperidae) in northwest Arkansas.  In review

Montgomery, C. E. and S. J. Beaupre (In Review). Diet separation between syntopic

copperheads (Agkistrodon contortrix) and timber rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) in

Northwest Arkansas.  In review

Hill, J.G. and S.J. Beaupre (In Review). Hibernation in western cottonmouth (Agkistrodon

piscivorus leucostoma) in the Ozark Mountains of  Northwest Arkansas.  In review,

 

POPULAR PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS (NON-PEER REVIEW):

Beaupre, S. J. 2006. Comments on teaching and assembling a new course. American Society of

Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.  Graduate Student Workshop, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, July 2006 (Copy available upon request).

Gardner, L. C. and S. J. Beaupre.  2004.  Thermoregulation and area use by gravid timber rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) in northwest Arkansas.  Inquiry, Undergraduate Research Journal of the University of Arkansas, Volume 5, 2004.  Online article found at: http://advancement.uark.edu/pubs/inquiry.

Beaupre, S. J. 2000. UA Q&A: Why are some snakes poisonous while others are not?  University of Arkansas Research Frontiers. Spring, 2000.

Beaupre, S. J.  1999.  Herpetology at the University of Arkansas.  The Newsletter of the

Herpetologists’ League. 6:3-5.

Beaupre, S.J. 1999.  Snake Lab Procedures Manual, Version 1.1.  5/21/99 

Beaupre, S.  J.  1999.  Book Review: Herpetology by F. H. Pough et al.  Quarterly Review of

Biology.

Beaupre, S.  J.  1998.  Book Review: The Garter Snakes: Evolution and Ecology.  Copeia.

Plummer, M. V., S. J. Beaupre, and S. Trauth, 1998. Timber Rattlesnake Conservation Action Plan - Arkansas Account.  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Duvall, D., J.K. O’Leile, S. Heald, and S.J. Beaupre.  1995.  Population status, behavioral

ecology, and conservation of tiger and speckled rattlesnakes (Crotalus tigris and mitchelli) in urban Phoenix, Arizona.  Final report, Arizona Game and Fish.

Beaupre, S.J., and D. Duvall. 1995. Sexual size dimorphism in the western diamondback

rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox): Integrating natural history, behavior, and physiology.  Sonoran Herpetologist, a publication of the Tucson Herpetological Society. 

Beaupre, S. J. 1995.  Status of McDowell Mountain western diamondback rattlesnakes:

preliminary post-fire report. McD. Mount. Pres. Soc. Newsletter, September, 1995.

 

INVITED LECTURES AND SYMPOSIA:

Beaupre, S. J.  Integrative biology of the timber rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus: Modeling,

measuring, and manipulating time-energy allocation.  Invited seminar. Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, IL.  May  6, 2008.

Beaupre, S. J.  Integrative biology of the timber rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus: Modeling,

            measuring, and manipulating time-energy allocation.  Invited seminar. Truman State University, Biology Department, Kirksville, MO  February 29, 2008.

Beaupre, S. J.  Applications of mathematics in physiological ecology: Data representation, analysis, and

simulation.  Invited seminar. Truman State University, Mathematical Biology Group, Kirksville, MO  February 28, 2008.

Beaupre, S. J.  Integrative biology of the timber rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus: Modeling,

            measuring, and manipulating time-energy allocation.  Invited seminar. University of Louisiana, Lafayette, Lafayette, LA  November 29, 2007.

Beaupre, S. J. 2007. Philosophy of handling venomous animals: Human and animal behavior.  Venom Week Symposium, September 4, 2007, Sonoran Desert Museum. Tucson, AZ

Beaupre, S. J.  2005. Annual variation in time-energy allocation by timber rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) in relation to food acquisition.  Biology of the Rattlesnakes Symposium, January, 2005.  Loma Linda University, Loma Linda CA.

Beaupre, S. J. 2005. Timber Rattlesnakes: A model system for environmental change.  Howard Hughes

Seminar Series,  University of Texas, Pan American, Edinburg TX April 22, 2005.

Beaupre, S. J. 2005. Timber Rattlesnakes: A model system for environmental change. Biology Seminar

            University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, April 6, 2005.

Beaupre, S. J. 2005. Timber Rattlesnakes: A model system for environmental change.  ENDY Colloquium, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, February 21, 2005.

Beaupre, S. J.  Integrative biology of the timber rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus: Modeling,

measuring, and manipulating time-energy allocation.  Invited seminar. University of Wyoming, Laramie.  October 22, 2004.

Beaupre, S. J. 2004. Timber Rattlesnakes: A model system for environmental change.  The Wildlife

Society, Fall Meeting, September 9, 2004.  University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. 

Beaupre, S. J. 2004. Snakes as model organisms for connecting climate change to population dynamics..

Snake Ecology Group IV Meeting, Carbondale IL May 24, 2004.

Beaupre, S. J.  Timber rattlesnakes as models for studying the effects of climate change.  Invited

 seminar. Annual meeting of the Arkansas Herpetological Enthusiasts, Mt. Magazine, April 17, 2004.

Beaupre, S. J.  Integrative biology of the timber rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus: Modeling,

measuring, and manipulating time-energy allocation.  Invited seminar. Washington State University, Pullman.  March 8, 2004.

Beaupre, S. J.  Integrative biology of the timber rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus: Modeling,

measuring, and manipulating time-energy allocation.  Invited seminar. Oklahoma State University, Tahlequah January 28, 2004.

Beaupre, S. J.  Integrative biology of the timber rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus: Modeling,

measuring, and manipulating time-energy allocation.  Invited seminar. Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.  March 17, 2003.

Beaupre, S. J.  Integrative biology of the timber rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus: Modeling,

measuring, and manipulating time-energy allocation. Keynote Speaker, Annual meeting of the Kansas Herpetological Society, Emporia, KS November 8, 2003.

Beaupre, S. J.  Integrative biology of the timber rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus: Modeling,

measuring, and manipulating time-energy allocation.  University of Arkansas, Sigma Xi, Lunch meeting featured speaker.  November 21, 2002.

Beaupre, S. J.  Integrative biology of the timber rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus: Modeling,

measuring, and manipulating time-energy allocation.  Stetson University, DeLand, FL Nov. 7, 2002

Beaupre, S. J.  Applications of isotope-ratio mass spectrometry to problems in animal physiological

ecology.  Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arkansas, April 26, 2002.

Beaupre, S. J. Integrative biology of the timber rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus: Modeling,

measuring, and manipulating time-energy allocation.  Indiana State University, Department of Biology, Terre Haute, IN.  February, 2002.

Beaupre, S. J. Integrative biology of the timber rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus: Modeling,

measuring, and manipulating time-energy allocation.  University of Florida, Department of Biology, Gainesville, FL. May, 2001.

Beaupre, S. J.  Modeling time-energy allocation in vipers: individual responses to environmental

variation and implications for populations.  Biology of Vipers Conference Uppsala, Sweden May 17-20, 2000.

Beaupre, S.J.  Integrating response variables: telemetry, present and future.  Snake Ecology Group

Meeting, Ozark Natural Science Center, Sept. 22-24, 2000.  Workshop Leader.

Beaupre, S. J. Integrative biology of the timber rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus: Why you should care about rattlesnake research.  Harding University, Dept of Biology,  Searcy, AR.  Feb. 21, 2000.

Beaupre, S. J. Integrative biology of the timber rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus: Modeling,

measuring, and manipulating time-energy allocation.  Hendrix College, Department of Biology, Conway, AR.  5 October, 1999.

Beaupre, S. J. Integrative biology of the timber rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus: Modeling, measuring,

and manipulating time-energy allocation.  Northeastern State University, Department of Biology, Tahlequah, OK   10 February, 1999

Beaupre, S. J. Integrative biology of the timber rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus: Modeling,

measuring, and manipulating time-energy allocation.  University of Ohio, Department of Biology, Athens, OH   22  February, 1999.

Beaupre, S. J. Integrative biology of the timber rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus: Modeling,

measuring, and manipulating time-energy allocation.  Rutgers University, Graduate Group in Ecology and Evolution.  29 October, 1998, New Brunswick, NJ.

Beaupre, S. J. Integrative biology of the timber rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus.  University of

Oklahoma, Department of Zoology Seminar.  18 February, 1998, Norman, OK.

Beaupre, S. J.  Integrative biology of the timber rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus): Modeling

time-energy allocation.  Oklahoma State University, Department of Zoology.  14 November, 1997, Stillwater, OK.

Beaupre, S.  J.  Integrative biology of the timber rattlesnake: Modeling growth and

reproduction using physiologically-structured simulation.  Snake Ecology Group, annual meeting, Tyler Texas, October 1997.

Beaupre, S.  J.  Integrative biology of the timber rattlesnake: Modeling growth and

reproduction using physiologically-structured simulation.  Keynote Address, Prairie States Ecology Conclave, October 1997.

Beaupre, S.  J.  and D.  Duvall.  Field studies of allocation in snakes: Linking environmental

variation to population properties.  Savannah River Ecology Laboratory Symposium.  February, 1997.  and University of Iowa, Department of Biology, Spring 1997.

Duvall, D.  and S.  J.  Beaupre. Sexual strategy and size dimorphism in rattlesnakes:

integrating proximate and ultimate causation.  Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology, Annual Meeting, December 1996, Albuquerque, NM.

Beaupre, S.J., and D. Duvall. Sexual size dimorphism in the western diamondback

rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox):Integrating natural history, behavior, and physiology.  Department of Biology, Stetson University.  February 23, 1996 and University of Tulsa, Department of Biology, March 8, 1996.

Beaupre, S.J., and D. Duvall. Sexual size dimorphism in the western diamondback

rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox):Integrating natural history, behavior, and physiology.  Department of Biology, Southwest Missouri State University.  November 1995.

Beaupre, S.J., and D. Duvall. Sexual size dimorphism in the western diamondback

rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox):Integrating natural history, behavior, and physiology.  Tucson Herpetological Society.  Summer 1995.

Beaupre, S.J., and D. Duvall. Sexual size dimorphism in the western diamondback rattlesnake

(Crotalus atrox):Integrating natural history, behavior, and physiology.  In Patterns in the natural history of amphibians and reptiles.  A symposium sponsored by ASIH and HL, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta.  Summer 1995.

Beaupre, S. J.  1995. Understanding variation in life history: Contributions of comparative energetics.

University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, and Florida International University at Miami.  Spring 1995.

Dunham, A. E.,  and S. J. Beaupre.  Ecological experiments: scale, phenomenology, mechanism, and the

illusion of generality.  In Experimental Ecology.  A symposium sponsored by ASZ.  January 1995, St. Louis.

Beaupre, S.J.  Understanding geographic variation in life history: Contributions of comparative

energetics. In Interfaces among inter-individual variation, life histories, and population dynamics of reptiles and amphibians. A symposium sponsored by the Herpetologist's League. Athens GA, Summer 1994.

Beaupre, S.J.  Physiologically structured models of populations: a case study.  Department of

Life Sciences, Arizona State University West. Spring 1994.

Beaupre, S.J.  Physiological ecology of differences in body size between two populations of

the mottled rock rattlesnake.  Department of Zoology, Arizona State University, Tempe. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lunch Seminar Series. Spring 1994.

Beaupre, S.J.  Natural history of the western diamondback rattlesnake in the McDowell

Mountains.  Special Seminar at the Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ.  Spring 1994, and Spring 1995, and  McDowell Mountain Preservation Society. Spring, 1995.

 

OTHER PRESENTATIONS:

Beaupre, S. J. 2008. Food as a conservation tool: Lessons from the physiological ecology of rattlesnakes. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.  Annual meeting, Montreal, Qub, 23  July - 29 July, 2008.

Beaupre, S.J. 2007. Long-term studies of field metabolic rate in Timber rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus): Annual variation, critical factors, and implications for bioenergetic studies.  American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.  Annual meeting, St Louis MO, 11  July - 16 July, 2007

Agugliaro, J. and S. J. Beaupre. 2007. A comparison of metabolic rates before and after first ecdysis in timber rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.  Annual meeting, St Louis MO, 11  July - 16 July, 2007.

Douglas, L, Roberts, K. and Beaupre S. J. 2007. Habitat selection by timber rattlesnakes in Northwest Arkansas. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.  Annual meeting, St Louis MO, 11  July - 16 July, 2007.

VanDyke, J., Plummer, M. and Beaupre, S.J. 2007. Effects of yolkecotmy on metabolism and growth of nopnate smooth softshell turtles (Apalone mutica) from central Arkansas.  American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.  Annual meeting, St Louis MO, 11  July - 16 July, 2007.

Beaupre, S. J.  2006.  On the estimation of body condition in snakes: statistical and theoretical pitfalls. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.  Annual meeting, New Orleans, LA 13  July - 18 July, 2006.

VanDyke, J. U. R. and S. J. Beaupre 2006. Embryonic and hatchling metabolism of smooth softshell

turtles (Apalone mutica) American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.  Annual

meeting, New Orleans, LA 13  July - 18 July, 2006.

Monteiro, C. and S. J. Beaupre 2006.  Bioenergetics of female timber rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus, Serpentes, Viperidae). American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.  Annual

meeting, New Orleans, LA 13  July - 18 July, 2006. 

Beaupre, S. J.  2005. Long-term responses of timber rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) to food

augmentation.  American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.  Annual meeting, Tampa, FL 5 July - 12 July, 2005.

Beaupre, S. J., W. Thompson, and B. Collier. 2004. Factors affecting survival rates of radio tagged Timber Rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) in Northwest Arkansas. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, annual meeting. Norman Oklahoma, May 31, 2004.

Montgomery, C.E. and S. J. Beaupre. 2004. Energy allocation in relation to foraging mode.  American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, annual meeting. Norman Oklahoma, May 31, 2004.

Beaupre, S. J.  2004. On the representation and analysis of specific dynamic action (SDA). Society of

Integrative and Comparative Biology, annual meeting.  New Orleans, LA   January 5-9 2004.

Beaupre, S. J.  2003. On the representation and analysis of specific dynamic action (SDA).  American

Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, annual meeting.  Manaus, Brazil June 26- July 1 2003.

Montgomery, C. E. and S. J. Beaupre.  2003. Ecology and natural history of the copperhead,        

Agkistrodon contortrix in northwest Arkansas.  American Society of Ichthyologists and

Herpetologists, annual meeting.  Manaus, Brazil June 26- July 1 2003.

Beaupre, S. J.  2002. Annual variation in body temperatures of the Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus

horridus) as measured with a Lotek data logging receiver.  American Society of Ichthyologists

and Herpetologists, annual meeting.  Kansas City, KS July 3-8 2002.

Parker, M.R. and S. J. Beaupre.  2002. Timber Rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) use aerial cues

in post-strike trailing. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, annual meeting.  Kansas City, KS July 3-8 2002. 

Beaupre, S.J., Duvall, D. and Congdon, J. D.  2002.  An analysis of proximate bioenergetic sources of

sexual size dimorphism (SSD) in the Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnake.  Current Research on the Herpetofauna of the Sonoran Desert II.  April 5-7, 2002, Tucson AZ. 

Browning, D.M., Beaupre S.J. and Duvall, D.  2002.  Home range estimates for Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnakes: the effects of sex and size. Current Research on the Herpetofauna of the Sonoran Desert II.  April 5-7, 2002, Tucson AZ.

Beaupre, S. J.  2001. Effects of food supplementation on time-energy allocation in free-ranging timber

rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus).  Annual Meeting of American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, College Park, PA July 2001.

Zaidan, F, S.J. Beaupre 2001. Specific dynamic action (SDA) in timber rattlesnakes (Crotalus

horridus). Annual Meeting of American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, College Park, PA July 2001. 

Beaupre, S. J. 2000. On the metabolic cost of pregnancy, and reproductive effort in timber rattlesnakes

(Crotalus horridus) in northwest Arkansas. Annual Meeting of American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, La Paz, B.C.S., Mexico,  June 2000.

Beaupre, S. J. 1999.  A dynamic energy budget simulation of generic Crotalus: Implications for growth

and reproduction.   Annual Meeting of American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Happy Valley, PA June 1999.   

Wills, C. A. and S. J. Beaupre. 1999.  An application of randomization for detecting thermoregulation

in timber rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) from northwest Arkansas.  Annual Meeting of American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Happy Valley, PA June 1999.

Zaidan, F. and S. J. Beaupre. 1999. The effects of body temperature on energy extraction and

allocation in timber rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus).  Annual Meeting of American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Happy Valley, PA June 1999.     

Beaupre, S. J. 1998. Time-energy allocation in timber rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus): effects

of annual variation in foraging success. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting July, 1998 Guelph, Ontario.

Beaupre, S.  J.  1997.  Energy expenditure of free-ranging timber rattlesnakes (Crotalus

horridus) in Northwest Arkansas.  American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting June, 1997 Seattle, WA.

Hill, J.  G.  and S.  J. Beaupre.  1997.  Evaluation of two non-invasive techniques to estimate

total body fat in copperheads, Agkistrodon contortrix.  American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting June, 1997 Seattle, WA.

Roberts, K.  G.  and S.  J. Beaupre. 1997.  Habitat use in a Northwest Arkansas population of

the timber rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus), with comments on arboreality.  American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting June, 1997 Seattle, WA.

Beaupre, S.  J., D.  Duvall, and J.  O’Leile.  1996.  Analysis of growth and sexual size

dimorphism in the western diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox) from central Arizona.  American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting June, 1996 New Orleans, LA.

Beaupre, S. J. 1994. Sex differences in inactive metabolism: Implications for sexual size

dimorphism.  American Society of Zoologists, St. Louis.

Beaupre, S.J. 1993. Field metabolic rates and annual energy budgets of mottled rock

rattlesnakes from two populations: implications for body size.  American Society of Zoologists, Los Angeles.

Beaupre, S.J. 1993. Variation in body temperatures of mottled rock rattlesnakes from two

populations: implications for body size.  Ecological Society of America, Madison, WI.

Beaupre, S.J. 1993. Thermal constraints on body temperatures of mottled rock rattlesnakes

from two populations: implications for body size. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Austin, TX.

Beaupre, S.J. 1992. Variation in oxygen consumption of desert rattlesnakes from two

populations.  American Society of Zoologists, Vancouver. Meeting Abstract: American Zoologist. 32(5):88A.

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

ASIH Board of Governors, Re-elected 2006 - Present

ASIH, Chairman Stoye and Storer Awards Committee,  Annual meeting, New Orleans, LA 13

July - 18 July, 2006.

ASIH, Discussion Panel Member, Graduate student workshop on teaching and course design.

Annual meeting, New Orleans, LA. 13 July - 18 July, 2006.

ASIH Board of Governors, 1998 – 2005.

Program Reviewer: External reviewer for the University of Texas Pan American, HHMI

undergraduate research program.  2-6 August, 2006.

ASIH, Associate Editor, Copeia.  Physiology and Physiological Ecology. Sp. 2002 – 2005.

ASIH - Herpetological Animal Care and Use Committee - Chair, 1999 - 2004.

ASIH, Fitch Award Committee, Chair,  2002

Board of Directors, Ozark Natural Science Center, 1997 - 2005

NSF, Panel Member - Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology Fall, 1998; Spring 2001.

Associate Editor, Herpetological Natural History, Fall 1995 - Spring 2002.

Student Competition Judge, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Stoye Award

Competition.  Annual meetings 1996, 1997, 2005

Article Referee, for Physiological Zoology, Functional Ecology, J. Herpetology, Copeia,

American Midland Naturalist, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Behav. Ecol. and Sociobiology, Herpetologica, Oecologia, American Zoologist, American Naturalist.  BioScience, Herp. Review. Herpetological Natural History, Texas Journal of Science.

Proposal Review, NSF, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

Conference Organizer, Snake Ecology 2000.  Held September 22 - 24, 2000 at the Ozark Natural

Science Center, with approximately 100 participants from around the world (Europe, Asia, North, South and Central America).

ASIH - Resolutions Committee, Chair, Annual Meeting, La Paz, B.C.S.  Mexico 2000.

Herpetologist’s League - Committee for study of electronic publishing.  1999 - 2002.

ASIH Student Awards Competition Chair, Guelph, Ontario 1998 meeting.

Student Competition Judge, Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology, Best Student Paper

Award Competition.  Annual meetings December 1996.

Nominating Committee, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 1995, 1996, 1997.

Graduate Student / Postdoctoral Affairs Committee Representative, ASZ, 1994-1996.      

 

DEPARTMENTAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE:

Director, University of Arkansas Stable Isotope Laboratory, A State service and research facility.

Summer 2002 - Present.

            Search Committee, Chairman, Global Change Biology Endowed Chair Search Committee.

                        Department of Biological Sciences, UA, Fall 2006 - In Progress.

Director, UA NSF-EPSCoR Outreach Program, Summer 2004, 2005, 2006. Over saw the

logistics of bringing 10 students and 3 faculty to the UA from NSU in Tahlequah, OK and from UAPB, in Pine Bluff,  AR for summer research experience. Multiple recruiting trips to UAPB and NSU.

 Search Committee, Chairman, University of Arkansas Stable Isotope Laboratory Manager Search Committee.  Department of Biological Sciences, UA, Fall 2006 - In progress.

Strategic Planning Committee, Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, 2006

Walmart Sustainable Enterprise Task Force, Member, 2006

RSSP Advisory Committee University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 2006.

Planning and Chair’s Advisory Committee, Departmental Strategic Planning. Fall 2001 - Present

Search Committee, member,  Ecology Search Committee.  Department of Biological Sciences, UA, Fall 2004

Inventory Committee, Department of Biological Sciences, UA  (Summer 2004)

Facilities Committee: Chair, Spring 2004.

Personnel Committee (elected), Biological Sciences, UA (96, 97, 98, 99, 00 01, 02, 03, 04, 06)

State EPSCoR Meeting, Presentation: University of Arkansas Summer Outreach Research

Fellowship Program in the Life Sciences.  September 6, 2006, Little Rock, AR.

INBRE, Featured Speaker, and Workshop coordinator, February 25, 2006.

Departmental Committee on Promotion and Tenure: (elected) Fall 2004. 

Chair of BISC Search Committee, Chair, coordinated committee activities and discussion of the

future of the BISC Chair position.  Spring 2004.

Graduate Studies Committee, Chair, coordinating graduate admissions and evaluations.  Fall

2002 -Summer 2003.

Faculty Adviser, Biology Graduate Student Association (Spring, Fall 1999, Fall 2003- Present)

Faculty Adviser, University of Arkansas, Intramural Kendo Club (Spring 1998 - Summer 2003)

Statistics Consulting, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas (1995 - Pres.)

Facilities Committee: Fall 2002 - Summer 2004.

Search Committee Chair, University of Arkansas Stable Isotope Laboratory (UASIL), Lab

Manager. Summer 2002 -Summer 2003

Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee  Member of IRB, Spring 2002 - Spring 2003.

Search Committee, member, Department of Biological Sciences, UA, Evo-Devo  (2003-04)

Search Committee, Chair, Department of Biological Sciences, UA, Evo-Devo (2002-04)  

Space Committee, Ferritor Building logistics, Summer 2000.

Search Committee, Department of Biological Sciences, UA, Assistant Coop Leader (Fall 2000)

Logistical Revision of Principles of Biology, Committee Chair, Fall 1999.

Search Committee, Department of Biological Sciences, UA, Animal Cell Physiologist (1998)

Search Committee, Department of Biological Sciences, UA, Assistant Coop Leader (Fall 1999)    

Search Committee, Department of Biological Sciences, UA, UASIL, Lab Manager  (Fall 1999)

Computing Committee, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas (1997-Fall

2002)

Inventory Committee, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas (1997-Sp 2003)

Seminar Committee, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas (1996-Sp 1998)

Faculty Secretary, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas (1995 - 1996)

Statistics Consultant, Department of Life Sciences, ASU West (1994).

Tenure Ineligible Faculty Committee, Department of Life Sciences, ASU West (1994).

Computing Consultant, Department of Biology, U. of PA (1993).

Representative to Graduate Student Association Committee, U. of PA (1991).

Vice President, U. of PA Biology Graduate Student Association (1990 ‑ 1991).

Social Chairman, U. of PA Biology Graduate Student Association (1988 ‑ 1989).

 

MEDIA AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH:

News Article: Snake Safety. Arkansas Family Magazine.  February 17, 2006.

University Day: Day-long special activities for visiting K-12 students: Two Workshops:

Venomous Animals of Arkansas, and Electric Fish.  February 17, 2006.

Safety Presentation: Pitvipers of Arkansas. Southwest Electric Power Company (SWEPCO), Feb

13, 2006.

News Article: “Snakes Rattle and Roll: Program offers close, safe encounter with reptiles.” The

Morning News, Outdoors, Friday July 29, 2005.

News Article: “Snakes Alive.” The Northwest Arkansas Times.  July 9, 2005.

Public Presentation: Arkansas Pit Vipers.  Fayetteville Farmer’s Market, July 23, 2005.

NWA Regional Science Fair Judge, Spring 2005.

Fayetteville Parks and Recreation, Safety Meeting - “Venomous snake identification and safety”.

Informational presentation for Fayetteville Parks and Recreation personnel. 23 Jul. 2004.

            Ozark Natural Science Center, Project Wet and Wild presentation "The Biology of

Rattlesnakes" June 11, 2004

Arkansas Academy for Math and Sciences, "The Biology of Rattlesnakes" June 30, 2004.

Board of Directors, Ozark Natural Science Center, 1997 - Fall 2004.

Co-Chair of ONSC Facilities and Grounds Committee, 1999 - 2003.

Jason Project Featured Scientist Presentation to K-12 teachers and students on the importance and relevance of scientific research. February 6 & 8, 2003.

Public Presentation: Venomous snakes of the Ozarks. Fayetteville Rotary Club business

meeting, May 15, 2003. Fayetteville, AR

Ozark Natural Science Center, Project Wet and Wild "The Biology of Rattlesnakes" June 13, 03

University Day: Day-long special activities for visiting K-12 students: Venomous Animals of

Arkansas, February 21, 2002.  Keynote speaker for lunch.

Science Fair Judges Panel: Discussed strategies for making good Science Fair projects with K-12 teachers.  October 3, 2003.

Public Presentation: Venomous snakes of the Ozarks. Fayetteville Lions Club business

meeting, November 20, 2002. Fayetteville, AR

Arkansas Great Snake Outing:  Sponsored by Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.  Media

information event, September 4 & 5, 2002.  5 Newspaper articles, and news programs:

AETN (Arkansas Educational Television Network) Arkansas Outdoors

KYTV Springfield, MO  6:00 PM News 4 September, 2002

KTHV Little Rock, AR  10:00 PM News 5 September, 2002

KHBS Ft. Smith, AR  6:00 PM News, 5 September, 2002

KAIT Jonesboro, AR  6:00 PM Newsw, 5 September, 2002

KHBS Ft. Smith, AR  Sunrise News, 6 September, 2002

WREG Memphis, TN  Mid-South Outdoors 24 September, 2002

WREG Memphis, TN  9:00 AM News 27 September, 2002        

Public Presentation: Venomous snakes of the Ozarks. Keynote Speaker, Ozark Society annual

business meeting, October 5, 2002.  Mount Nebo, AR

Jason Project  Featured Scientist Presentation to K-12 teachers on the importance and relevance

of research on reptiles. September 7, 2002.

Ozark Natural Science Center, Project Wet and Wild presentation "The Biology of Rattlesnakes"

June 14, 2002

Expert Witness: Testimony on snake safety and handling, Lawrence, KS, Spring - Summer 2002.

University Day: Day-long special activities for visiting K-12 students: Venomous Animals of

Arkansas, February 15, 2002. 

Public Presentation: Venomous snakes of the Ozarks.  An ONSC Special Seminar, Giffels

Auditorium, University of Arkansas,  January 22, 2002

Ozark Natural Science Center, Rattlesnake Walks: Upward Bound, Arkansas Math and Sciences

Academy, and Junior Naturalist’s Summer Camp.  July 15, 2001.

Ozark Natural Science Center, Project Wet and Wild "The Biology of Rattlesnakes" July 12,

2001

Discovery Channel Documentary on North American Venomous Snakes, Filmed August

2000,  aired Fall 2001: Four days of filming and audio.

Ozark Natural Science Center, Elderhostel field trip "Pitvipers of the Ozarks" October 18, 2000.

Ozark Natural Science Center, Rattlesnake Walks: Upward Bound, Arkansas Math and Sciences

Academy, and Junior Naturalist’s Summer Camp.  July  6, 2000.

Ozark Natural Science Center, Project Wet and Wild "The Biology of Rattlesnakes" July 10,

2000

Ozark Natural Science Center, Elderhostel  field trip "Pitvipers of the Ozarks"  May 24, 2000. 

Public Presentation: The Biology of Pit Vipers.  Bella Vista Dakota Club. April 24, 2000

News Article: Reluctant rattlers: research on the timber rattlesnake focuses on the private lives of

shy, elusive reptiles.  Arkansas Democrat Gazzette, Thursday May 11, 2000.

News Interview: Snake Risk in Northwest Arkansas. Channel 40/29, Aired 14 April, 2000

Public Presentation: The Relevance of Rattlesnake Research.  Rogers Rotary Club, 14 March, 2000

Public Presentation: The Biology of Pit Vipers.  Boy Scouts of America. Sequoia Methodist Church, 6 Dec, 1999

Public Presentation: The Biology of Pit Vipers.  Bella Vista Garden Club. 27 October, 1999

            Public Presentation: Public Risk From Pit Vipers.  SWEPCO  Safety Meeting, July  27, 1999

Fayetteville, AR

News Articles (3): Morning News, Springdale, AR “No fear, just healthy respect”, “Project wet

and wild educates students through experience” and “Beaupre’s childhood fascination led to enjoyable rewarding career”.  By Kandra Porter, July 24, 1999.

News Article, Arkansas Times, “Rattlers On the Move, Snake Doctor Says.” by Michael

Haddington, July 23, 1999 Little Rock, AR.

Radio Interview, KIX 104, Fayetteville,  AR “Biology of rattlesnakes” 

Ozark Natural Science Center, Project Wet and Wild presentation "The Biology of Rattlesnakes"

July 12, 1999

News Article “High profile rattlesnakes get bad rap” by Melissa Blouin, API July 8, 1999.

Television Interview: Channel 40/29, interview regarding public risk from snake bite.  Aired

approximately June, 5 1999.

            Public Presentation: Public Risk From Pit Vipers.  City of Fayetteville, Parks and Recreation,

Safety Meeting, May 27, 1999

Ozark Natural Science Center, Elderhostel presentation and field trip "Pitvipers of the Ozarks"

May 26 1999. 

Documentary Filming: Yorkshire TV, Filmed documentary on timber rattlesnake research, to be

aired on Discovery Channel, Winter 1999-2000 May 15-16, 1999.

Public Presentation: The Biology of Arkansas Pit Vipers, USFS, Safety Meeting. 13 May, 1999

Public Presentation: The Biology of Pit Vipers.  Bella Vista Fly Tyers. 8 April, 1999

Ozark Natural Science Center Journal: Authored an article in Summer 1998 ONSC Journal

entitled: National Science Foundation Funds University Research at ONSC. 

Regional Newspapers: Authored a popular science article entitled “The secret life of Timber

Rattlesnakes” that was run in several NW Arkansas news papers including the Benton County Daily Record. Late summer, 1998.      

Ozark Natural Science Center, Elderhostel presentation and field trip "Pitvipers of the Ozarks"

July 15 and October 22, 1997; July 25 1998.  October 23, 1998

Ozark Natural Science Center, Project Wet and Wild presentation "The Biology of Rattlesnakes"

July 28, 1998.

First United Methodist Church, Springdale, Invited Presentation “Biology of Arkansas Pitvipers”

April 7, 1998.

University Museum, Special Presentation:“Biology of Arkansas Pitvipers” April 4, 1998.

NWAR Science and Engineering Fair, Keynote Speaker, “Biology of Arkansas Pitvipers” March

13, 1998.

Ozark Natural Science Center, Riparian Ecosystem Workshop presentation "The Biology of

Rattlesnakes" Sponsored by Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.  September 27, 1997.

Ozark Natural Science Center, Project Wet and Wild presentation "The Biology of Rattlesnakes"

July 19, 1997.

Phi Kappa Phi, Keynote Presentation, “Pitvipers of the Ozarks” May 1, 1997

            Sigma-Xi, Invited public talk.  “Natural History and Physiological Ecology of Ozark Pit Vipers.

September 13, 1996.

Northwest Arkansas Times, Human Interest Article “Update on that Tree Climbing Timber

Rattlesnake” by Steve Wright August 29, 1996.

KFSM TV ch.  5, Fayetteville, AR - news interview.  Escaped Burmese Python.  Summer 1996.

Ozark Natural Science Center, Project Wet and Wild presentation "The Biology of Rattlesnakes"

July 30, 1996.

Northwest Arkansas Times, Human Interest Article “One More Look at Hysteria Caused by

Rattlesnakes” by Steve Wright June 16, 1996.

Northwest Arkansas Times, Human Interest Article “Making the Effort to Live in Peace with

Rattlesnakes”, “Tree Climbing Brings New Meaning to Name Timber Rattlesnake”, and “Timber Rattlesnakes Protected in Some States” by Steve Wright June 9, 1996.

Northwest Arkansas Audubon Society, Public presentation “The Biology of Rattlesnakes” Mar.  14, 1996

Ozark Natural Science Center, Public presentation "The Biology of Rattlesnakes" Nov. 11, 1995.

Northwest Arkansas Times, Human interest articles "Looking For Snakes in all the Right Places" and "Snakes Moving to Dens" by Steve Wright, Published 24 September, 1995.

BBC Consultant, Nature documentary series, "Animal Migrations"  aired in 1997. 

Scientific American Frontiers "Ask the Scientist", Internet public education interface 10/1995.

Scientific American Frontiers PBS, Documentary. "Science in the West" aired October 4, 1995.

KNXV TV ch 15, Phoenix, AZ - news interview.  Post-fire status of the western diamondback.12 August, 1995.

KJZZ NPR, Phoenix AZ - news interview.  Post-fire status of the western diamondback. 15/10/95.

KTAR News Radio, Phoenix, AZ - news interview.  Effects of wildfire on western diamondback

rattlesnakes.  18 July, 1995.

KSAZ TV ch 10, Phoenix, AZ - news interview.  Effects of wildfire on western diamondback rattlesnakes.  11 July, 1995.

KSAZ TV ch 10, Phoenix, AZ - news interview.  Rattlesnake Spring emergence. 23 Mar. 1995.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Professor, University of Arkansas (July 2006- present)

Associate Professor (July 2001- June 2006)

Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas (1995-2000),

Principles of Biology (Sp. 01, Sp. 02)

General Zoology, (Sp. 00)

Human Physiology, (Sp. 96, Sp. 97, Sp. 98, Fa. 98)

Comparative Animal Physiology, (Fa. 96, Fa. 97, Fa. 98, Fa. 99, Fa. 00, Fa. 01, Fa. 02,

Fa 03, Fa 04, Fa. 05, Fa. 06, Fa. 08)

Animal Physiological Ecology, (Sp. 97, Sp. 99, Sp. 01, Sp 03, Sp 05, Sp 07, Sp 09)

Herpetology (Sp. 02, Sp. 04, Sp. 06, Sp. 08)

Graduate Seminar in Biotic Interactions and Global Change, (Sp. 96)

Graduate Seminar in Statistical Applications in Ecology and Evolution. (Sp. 99)

Lecturer, Arizona State University West (1994), Biometry

Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, College of General Studies (1993), Human Biology 

Teaching Assistant, University of Pennsylvania (1987-1991), Introductory Biology  (one

semester), Honors Introductory Biology (two semesters), Probability and Statistics for Biologists (four semesters), Evolution (one semester).

Co-instructor, of "Ecology of Winter Environments," a Teton Science School minicourse

accredited through the University of Wyoming (1986-1988).

STUDENTS SUPERVISED:

Graduate Students In Progress:  Joseph Agugliaro (Ph.D.); Rod Wittenberg (Ph.D.); Lara Douglas (Ph.D.); Matthew Smith (Ph. D.); James VanDyke (Ph.D.); Jason Ortega (Ph.D.).

 

Graduate Students Matriculated:  Marshall McCue (Ph.D. UARK Spring 2008); Carol Montiero (M.S. UARK Fall 2006); Nick Haertle (M.S., UARK, Sum 2006);  Jacques G.  Hill, III (Ph.D. UARK, Sp. 2004);  Chad Montgomery (Ph.D. UARK, Sp 2005); Melissa Pilgrim, (Ph.D. UARK Sp 2005); Frederic Zaidan, (Ph.D., UARK, Fall 2001); Dawn Browning (M.S. UARK, Fall 2000); Douglas Meredith, (M.A., UARK, Spring 1999).