Directory of Members
Last updated: December 2007
PAUL BARTELT
Biology Dept,
Forest City
Phone: office (515)582-8236; home (515)585-4884
Fax: (515)582-8194
Email: barteltp@waldorf.edu
* Principle field of interest: conservation biology, physiological
ecology, herpetology, ornithology
* Current project(s):
1) finishing some manuscripts on habitat relationships of western toads in
2) movements/habitat use of leopard frogs on Union Slough Nat'l Wildl. Refuge;
3) hope to receive funding to extend #2 to explore questions about effects of
agricultural practices on adult leopard frogs (e.g., Round-Up / Ready
technology)
ANDREA BIXLER
NEIL P. BERNSTEIN
Mount Mercy College
1330 Elmhurst Dr NE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52402
Phone: office (319)363-8213; home (319)364-1047
Fax: (319)363-7543
Email: nbernstein@mtmercy.edu
* Principle field of interest: ornithology, conservation, environmental issues,
vertebrates
* Current project(s): tracing movements of Ornate Box Turtles; planning
symposium on impacts of introduced species to Iowa's natural areas and species,
to be held October 6-7, 2000
JAMES L. CHRISTIANSEN
Retired from Drake University, Des Moines
Currently at Texas Memorial Museum, Austin Texas
Phone: (512) 868-3504; Fax: (512) 868-3514
Email: james.christiansen@drake.edu
* Principle field of interest: herpetology of
* Current project(s): hypothermia in reptilian melanomacrophages
and mammalian j774 macrophages. Stability of Blanding's
turtle populations in
Jim suggests that we need to work together to get funding for a repeat of the Loess Hills study. He has preliminary evidence of decline in several species.
JAMES DEMASTES
GARY DONNERMEYER
DON FARRAR
Botany Dept, Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011
Phone: office (515) 294-4846; home (515)232-3525
Email: dfarrar@iastate.edu
* Principle field of interest: forest ecology, fern biology
* Current project(s): ecology of Botrychium campestre in
JOHANNA FOSTER
Email: johanna.foster@wartburg.edu
PAUL FRESE
ROSANNE HEALY
Research Associate, Department of Botany
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011
Email: rhealy@iastate.edu
Current projects include: Truffles and false truffles of
ELIZABETH HILL
DARYL HOWELL
Ecological Services, Iowa Dept of Natural Resources
Wallace State Office Building
Des Moines, Iowa 50319-0034
Phone: office (515)281-8524; home (515)961-2490
Fax: (515)281-6794
Email: dhowell@max.state.ia.us
* Principle field of interest: distribution and habitat requirements of Iowa's
bats
* Current project(s): summer habitat requirements for the Indiana bat at Walnut
Creek National Wildlife Refuge
STEPHEN JOHNSON
ERWIN (ERV) KLAAS
Iowa Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
11 Science II, Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
Phone: office (515)294-7990; home (515)233-3327
Fax: (515)294-5468
Email: eklaas@iastate.edu
* Principle field of interest: restoration ecology, vertebrate natural history.
* Current project(s): Iowa Gap Analysis Project.
Erv retired in December, 1999, he
can be reached at his home address:
As part of the Iowa Gap Project, Erv
is working with John Bowles to organize his large collection of data on
Erv reports that Liessa Thomas, a masters student
at
RICHARD LAMPE
Professor. of Biology
Buena Vista University
610 West 4th St
Storm Lake, Iowa 50588
Phone: office (712)749-2272
Fax: (712)749-2012
Email: lamper@bvu.edu
* Principle field of interest: Mammals of Iowa
* Current project(s): Trying to get back into field research with mammals;
presently working on a roadside survey of badger abundance.
DEBORAH Q LEWIS
Ada Hayden Herbarium
341A Bessey, Dept of Botany, ISU
Ames, Iowa 50011-1020
Phone: office (515)294-9499; home (515)296-2493
Fax: (515)294-1337
Email: dlewis@iastate.edu
* Principle field of interest: Iowa flora (Botany--Systematics)
* Current project(s):
Floristic surveys in Ames and at several parks and preserves in northeast Iowa;
Iowa's botanical history and biographical studies (esp. George Washington
Carver and women field botanists);
A revision of Lindernia (Scrophulariaceae)
in the New World (this was my thesis work 15 years ago, finally updated and
submitted for publication!);
Databasing our Iowa herbarium records and possible
production of an Iowa Flora; Iowa's poisonous plants, weeds and exotic plants.
BARBARA LIDEL
ROBIN M. LILLIE
Office of the State Archaeologist
700 Clinton St Bldg., University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa 52242
Phone: office (319)384-0739; home (319)354-2961
Fax: (319)384-0768
Email: robin-lillie@uiowa.edu
* Principle field of interest: skeletal biology, physical anthropology
* Current project(s): cultural affiliation of the Effigy Mounds culture
people in Iowa using a bioarchaeological approach
DAVID LYON
Mt
Phone: home 319)895-8240
Email: DandVLYON@earthlink.com
CATHY MABRY
Waverly, IA 50677
Phone: office (319)352-8386; home (319)352-1629
Email: main@wartburg.edu
* Principle field of interest: algal taxonomy and ecology (especially diatoms)
* Current project(s): diatoms of
DAVID A. McCULLOUGH
Wartburg College, Biology Dept
Waverly, IA 50677-0903
Phone: office (319)352-8432; home (319)352-5867
Email: david.mccullough@wartburg.edu
* Principle field of interest: conservation and population genetics
* Current projects: Utilization of urban green spaces as refugia
for native organisms (vertebrates), response of Bailey's woodrat
to a fire management regime, Population genetics of Bailey's woodrat, Effectiveness of wetland mitigation sites in
providing suitable habitat for native organisms.
CONNIE MUTEL
Historian and Archivist
IIHR - Hydroscience & Engineering
C. Maxwell Stanley Hydraulics Laboratory
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
Phone: 319-335-5315
Fax: 319-335-5238
Email: connie-mutel@uiowa.edu
* Principle field of interest: botany, natural history writing
* Current project(s): natural history essays
FRANK OLSEN
1513 Parkwood Lane NE
Cedar Rapids, IA 52402
Phone: home (319)393-5758
Email: dolsen@cedar-rapids.net
* Principle field of interest: Lepidoptera
* Current project(s): preserving prairie biodiversity; inventory of butterflies
and skippers at the Hayden Prairie State Preserve; survey of moths species in
Linn County; investigating Satyrodes eurydice and related species in Iowa.
JEFF PARMELEE
Simpson College
Department of Biology and Environmental Science
701 North C Street
Indianola, IA 50125
Phone: office (515) 961-1821 cellphone (515) 418-7711
Fax: (515) 961-1498
Email: jeff.parmelee@simpson.edu
Web Page:
http://www.simpson.edu/~parmelee
* Principle field of interest: herpetology, and all aspects of natural history
* Current project(s): Amphibian and Reptiles of Iowa book with Jim
Christiansen, Online Herpetological Atlas of Iowa, Timber rattlesnakes in
Madison County (radiotelemetry, conservation).
JOHN PEARSON
Preserves and Ecological Services, Iowa DNR
Wallace State Office Building
Des Moines, Iowa 50319-0034
Phone: office (515)281-3891; home (515)961-3053
Fax: (515)281-6794
Email: jpearso@max.state.ia.us
* Principle field of interest: state preserve system, natural area inventory,
endangered species, state park management plans, ginseng, GIS applications
* Current project(s): long-range plan for state preserves, revision of
endangered species list, fen landowner contact program
John, in cooperation with the Geological Society of Iowa, has contributed
chapters on vegetation to guidebooks on the natural history of Backbone,
Wildcat Den, Springbrook, and Palisades-Kepler state parks.
KELLY
RYAN REHMEIER
Simpson College
Department of Biology and Environmental Science
701 North C Street
Indianola, IA 50125
Phone: office (515) 961-1823
Fax: (515) 961-1498
ryan.rehmeier@simpson.edu
BECKY RICHTSMEIER
TOM ROSBURG
Dept of Biology
Olin Hall, Drake University
2507 University Ave.
Des Moines, IA 50311
Phone: office (515)271-2920; home (515)377-2930
Fax: (515)271-3702
Email: thomas.rosburg@drake.edu
* Principle field of interest: Prairie ecology, Plant population and community
ecology
* Current project(s):
Prairie reconstruction and effects of fire, mowing, haying on prairie;
Effects of deer herbivory on forest composition and
structure;
Vegetation composition and dynamics on Mississippi River dredge placement
sites;
Floristic inventories of natural areas;
Flora of Iowa project;
Remote sensing for vegetation mapping on Iowa GAP and to assess prairie
productivity, quality, and pathogen incidence.
DENNIS SCHLICHT
1108
Phone: home (319)849-1489
Email: dws1108@aol.com
* Principle field of interest: Lepidoptera
* Current project(s): preserving prairie biodiversity; completing research on
rare prairie obligate lepidoptera for the Minnesota
DNR.
DARYL SMITH
Biology Dept, 113 CEEE
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614
Phone: office (319)273-2238; home (319)266-5424
Fax: (319)273-7140
Email: daryl.smith@uni.edu
* Principle field of interest: Prairies, prairie restoration, reconstruction
and management, integrated roadside management, native vegetation analysis
* Current project(s):
Iowa “Ecotype” Project - established in 1991 to develop a basic native
seed mix of 26-30 prairie species for roadside planting and prairie
reconstructions that is economically competitive with western cultivars;
Native Roadside Vegetation (NRV) Center - Funding received from Transportation
Equity Act for 21st Century (TEA 21) to develop a center at the
MARTIN ST.CLAIR
MARY STARK
LARRY A. STONE
Phone: (563) 245-1517
1-888-807-1828
Email: lstone@alpinecom.net
Freelance writer, photographer and
lecturer.
Principle field of interest: Iowa’s natural heritage,
with
emphasis on northeast
Books:
Whitetail: Treasure, Trophy or Trouble – A History of Deer in Iowa; for Iowa
Dept. of Natural Resources, 2003;
Sylvan T. Runkel: Citizen of the Natural World; Jon Stravers, coauthor; 2003;
Iowa: Portrait of the Land; lead writer, for Iowa Dept. of Natural Resources,
2000;
Listen to the Land; selected essays and photos from The Des Moines Register,
1999.
Available for natural history writing, photography and speaking assignments.
KEITH SUMMERVILLE
LOIS TIFFANY
Dept of Botany, Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011
Phone: office (515)294-3121; home (515)292-7206
Fax: (515)294-1337
Email: jnystrom@iastate.edu
* Principle field of interest: Fungi
* Current project(s): Fungal parasites of prairie plants; fleshy fungi of
of
Lois encourages us all to be aware of the Adult Nature Weekend at Iowa Lakeside Laboratory, Aug. 18-20, 2000, “an interesting field opportunity.
TERRY VANDEWALLE
Senior Environmental Scientist
Natural
Resources Consulting, Inc.
319-334-3755
office
319-327-0411
cell
319-334-3780
fax
Email: tvandewalle@nrc-inc.net
PAUL WEIHE
Central College-Box 015
Pella, IA 50219;
Phone: office (515)628-5204
Fax: (515)628-5316
Email: weihep@central.edu
*Principal field of interest: Wetland ecosystems,
plant ecology, ecological restoration, invasive species
*Current project(s): New Field Station for
Paul, a new member, reports that he did his master’s thesis on competition between Purple Loosestrife
and Broad-Leaved cattail, both of which are weeds in