CURRICULUM
VITA
CRTC FORMAT
This vita is in the standardized format of the College Rank and Tenure Committee (CRTC) for Loyola University New Orleans. It is the format necessary so that faculty of many disciplines across the University can be more easily compared. It is the most complete Vita and one used for all promotions and salary negotiations at the University.
DAVID ALLEN WHITE
I. VITA
a) Biographical Data
Born: 4 February 1952
Aurora, CO
Home 7613 Willow St.
Phone: (504) 866-6053 (Home)
Address: New Orleans, LA 70118
Present Professor
Phone: (504) 865-2288 (Office)
Position: Dept of Biological Sciences
(504) 865-2770 (Office)
Loyola University
New Orleans, LA 70118 Internet: dawhite@loyno.edu
b) Degrees earned
Ph.D. 1979. Tulane University - Biology
M.S. 1976. Tulane University - Biology
B.S. 1974. Tulane University - Biology
c) Employment history
Present - 2003 Loyola University. Dept of Biological Science
Full Professor. Full time teaching and research with
academic advising, committee work and other
service activities.
2003 - 1987 Loyola University. Dept of Biological Sciences
Associate Professor.
1987 - 1983 Loyola University. Dept of Biological Sciences
Assistant Professor.
1983 - 1979 Tulane University. Biology Department
Instructor. Full time teaching & research.
1979 - 1976 Tulane University. Biology Department
Teaching Assistant. Part-time.
1976 Xavier University. Biology Department
Instructor. Part-time.
II. TEACHING RECORD
a) Courses taught
Loyola University
Undergraduate
Courses
General Biology I w/lab (majors) Fall 1983 - Spring 1990
General Biology II w/lab (majors) Spring 1984
Bioecology w/lab (majors) Fall 1984 - Spring 1990
Cultural Biology (common) Fall 1983 - Spring 1988
Cultural Biology Lab (common) Fall 1983 - Spring 1988
Botanical Diversity w/lab (majors) Fall 1992 - Spring 1997
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (majors) Fall 1990 - 1998
Human Ecology (common) Spring 1984 - present (web
page)
Ecology w/lab (majors) Fall 1992 - present (web
page)
Ecology & Evolution (majors) Fall 1999 - present (web
page)
Conservation Biology (majors) Spring 1997 - present (web
page)
Human Ecological Sci (honors) Spring 1998 - present (web
page)
Organismal Biology Lab (majors) Fall 1999 - present
Independent Study Fall 1983 - present
Research Proposal/Independent Research/Research Thesis (majors)
Fall 2000 - present
Graduate
Courses
Plant Morphology Fall 1986
Wetland Vegetation (LUMCON) Summer 1994
Tulane University
Undergraduate Courses
Man, Nature & Society
Man, Heredity & Society
General Biology
Graduate Courses
Advanced Plant Ecology
Xavier University
General Biology Laboratory
b) Courses Created
During my tenure at Loyola University, I have created four new courses for undergraduates and two graduate courses. I have also contributed substantially to the complete revision of the curriculum in the Department of Biological Sciences, one time while I was chair.
Botanical Diversity - This discontinued freshman level "core" course was developed to be the first majors course in the curriculum. Through lecture, it introduced the student to organismal diversity excluding animals.
Ecology & Evolution - This sophomore (former freshman/sophomore) level "core" course introduces students to the biological fields of ecology and evolution. In addition to the standard text readings, seminal scientific papers and popular articles were assigned for class discussion and a field trip is sometimes required.
Conservation Biology - This junior/senior level elective course introduces the students to the expanding and applied biological discipline of conservation biology. A standard text is used and supplemented with considerable additional readings. Several writing assignments are required and as well as one field trip.
Human Ecological Science - This fast pace honors course gives the non-biology major a taste of the exciting subject of environmental biology. Through readings, several field trips and discussion students learn about the impact of humans on the biosphere. Numerous writing assignments are required.
Plant Morphology and Wetland Vegetation are the two graduate level courses that I created. Each was taught once. Plant Morphology was a classical course covering the world of plants, from the unicellular algae to flowering plants. This primarily lecture course had several field excursions and laboratory exercises. The Wetland Ecology course was taught at the LUMCON field station about 1.5 hrs west of New Orleans during a summer session. This very intense course was field oriented and primarily exposed the students to the plants of Louisiana's wetlands and their basic ecology.
c) Creative Teaching Techniques
Lecture courses: use of videos, models, class demonstrations (some approach the form of mini-labs) and short in-class field trips. For some courses I require an organized Friday afternoon trip to local ecosystems for time to show and tell and discuss topics covered in lecture. I work long hours to teach biological writing in my upper level courses for majors. In lecture courses, I insist that students write critiques: of primary source journal articles, whole journal articles, videos, local conferences, local nature institutions, scientific seminars, books. I create an environment of learning to read and interpret data in Figures and Tables.
Laboratory courses: extensive use of diverse field trips for hands-on experiences. Some trips have been weeklong expeditions. I have developed a couple of very effective computer demonstrations covering advanced data analysis techniques to illustrate ecological and evolutionary principles. I also have developed a truly experiencial outdoor lab activity where students role-play for a predator-prey modeled system. I use web sites for instructional purposes in both laboratory and lecture courses.
d) Student advising
In the Department of Biological Sciences, student academic advising is a major, time consuming service, that is expected of each faculty member. Each department faculty has between 20 and 30 major students to advise each academic year. Additionally, I write large numbers of letters of recommendation for professional schools, graduate schools or job applications for our students. On average, I write between 15 - 30 letters each calendar year.
e) Normal Teaching Load
I am/will be teaching 3 courses/semester, which includes 5 different courses every year. I usually teach 9 contact hours of formal courses and usually have one to several undergraduates working on independent research or departmental honors theses. During my tenure here at Loyola, I have been 'released' from a course from time to time, either as a result of external grant funding or because of departmental chair duties.
f) Evaluations
I have undertaken student course evaluations since my
instructorship days at Tulane University. I critically review student
written evaluations immediately after grades are assigned in each course
and write-up a summary evaluation from the student input and my own written
notes taken during the semester. Copies of my former evaluation form
are available. Now, the college is using a standardized form.
These evaluations are reviewed when I begin organizing the course the next
time it is taught. Changes are routinely made in basic structure
and pedagogy. One could say that my courses are dynamic in
outline and content often because of my struggle with evaluations.
No course of mine is perfect.
Undergraduate Student Research Theses Directed
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY
2004. Gabler, Christopher. Modeling the growth of
a Louisiana wetland: the
dynamics
of the Brants Pass Splay area.
2002. LeDee, Olivia. Avian risk assessment in three dimensions. (sponsored)
2001. LeDee, Olivia. The status of lichens on Santa
Cruz island of the
Galapagos
archipelagos: 30 years after the initial survey. (sponsored)
2000. Wilkinson, Laura Lee. The annual accretion
and plant biomass
accumulation in different habitats of the Mississippi River delta.
1998. Authement, Stephanie. Abundance and distribution
of woody species in
remnant
bottomland hardwood forests of extreme southeastern Louisiana.
Crane,
Tiffaney. The effects of habitat on vertical accreation on natural
crevasse
splays at Delta National Wildlife Refuge.
1997. Powers, Kim. Seasonal variability in the brood
cell provisioning of a
Sphecid
wasp (Chalybion zimmermani). (sponsored)
Nystrom, Michael. Foraging behavior of the striped bass larvae, Morone
saxatilis. (sponsored)
1995. Luu, Thao. Morphological differentiation in
clones of Phragmites
australis
within the Mississippi River delta.
Breithoff,
Cathy. Dendrochemical analysis of cypress tree cores: natural
environmental
remediation in Bayou Trepagnier. (sponsored)
1994. Lefevre, K. A comparison of the composition
of mudflat seed banks
within
three Sagittaria-dominated communities and one
Scirpus-dominated
community in the Mississippi River delta.
1993. Skinner, N. Comparison of the composition
of the seed banks within
Scirpus
- and Sagittaria -dominated communities of the Mississippi River
delta.
1992. Metzger, C.A. Population dynamics in four Salix
nigra (Black Willow)
communities
of different ages within the Mississippi River delta.
1991. Buddendorff, C. Phytosociological study of the Oak River forest.
1989. Vizzi, P.D. A phytosociological study of a
bottomland hardwood forest
near the intersection of Airline Highway and Dickory in Metairie,
Louisiana.
1988. Garrison, M.K. A phytosociological study of the Verrett Forest, Louisiana.
Schott,
J.M. Morphological variations in Phragmites australis of the
Mississippi
River delta and a hypothesis for the formation of their growth
patterns.
DeSena,
C.W. A phytosociological study of a forest in Jean Lafitte
National
park.
1987. Holmes, D.R. A quantitative and qualitative
investigation of macroscopic
infauna
of an accreting mudflat in the Mississippi River delta.
1986. Simmons, M.J. Determination of net aerial
primary production and a
phenological
survey of plants in a marsh of intermediate salinity in
southeast
Louisiana.
Egan,
J.W. The autecology of a shade tolerant pine, Pinus glabra,
in a
climax
hardwood bottomland forest.
1985. Smith, R.C. Arborescent analysis of the English
Bend forest, Belle
Chase,
Louisiana.
Laville,
M.R. Net primary productivity of a freshwater marsh within the
lower
Pearl River basin, Louisiana.
TULANE UNIVERSITY
1979. Mott, R.M. Gradient analysis of understory
vegetation in Honey Island
Swamp.
1978. Norton, S.A. Arborescent community analysis of Honey Island Swamp.
1977. Welden, C.W. Net annual aerial productivity
of three species of marsh
grasses.
Graduate Student Research Involvement
2000 - Present
Greco, Robert. Evaluating wetland
dynamics of Brant Pass Crevasse Splay,
Mississippi River delta, Louisiana
through the use of GIS. Masters Thesis.
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Thesis committee member.
Brown, Christopher. Forest communities
and woody plant distributions in the
Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Campeche,
Mexico. Ph.D. Dissertation.
Tulane University. Thesis committee
member.
1995.
Harper, Mary Garrison. A model
of the invasion of Chinese tallow tree
(Sapium sebiferum (L.) Roxb.) into
a bottomland-hardwood forest in
Louisiana. Masters Theses. Tulane
University. Adjunct thesis committee
member.
III. RESEARCH ACTIVITY
a) Publications prior to Loyola
White, D.A. 1983. Plant communities of the lower Pearl River basin, Louisiana. American Midland Naturalist. 110:381-396. (web abstract)
White, D.A., S. Darwin and L. Thien. 1983. Plants and plant communities of the core area Jean Lafitte National Historical Park. Tulane Studies Zoology Botany. 24:101-129.
Thien, L.B., D.A. White and L. Yatsu. 1983. Reproductive biology of a relict: Illicium floridanum. American Journal Botany. 70:719-727. (web abstract)
White, D.A. and J. Trapani. 1982. Factors influencing disappearance of Spartina alterniflora from litterbags. Ecology. 63:242-245. (web abstract)
Weiss, T.E., D.A. White and L.B. Thien. 1979. Seasonal dynamics of salt marsh plant associations in Louisiana. Contributions Marine Science. 22:41-52.
Kores, P., D.A. White and L.B. Thien. 1978. Chromosomes of Corsia (Corsiaceae). American Journal Botany. 65:584-585.
White, D.A., E. Weiss, J. Trapani and L. Thien. 1978. Productivity and decomposition of the dominant salt marsh plants in Louisiana. Ecology. 59:751-759. (web abstract)
White, D.A. and J. Ewan. 1975. Classification
of flowering plants in Louisiana. A chart. Copyrighted by the authors.
b) Publications at Loyola
White, D.A., D. P. Hauber and C.S. Hood. 2004.
Clonal differences in Phragmites australis from the Mississippi
River delta. Southeastern Naturalist. In press.
White, D.A. and C.S. Hood. 2004. Vegetation patterns and environmental gradients in tropical dry forests of Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Journal of Vegetation Science. 15:151-160.
Martinez, M.L., G. Vazquez, D.A.White, G. Thivet & M. Brenges. 2002. Germination responses of five tropical beach and dune species exposed to artificial sand burial and inundation by fresh- and sea-water. Canadian Journal Botany. 80:416-424.
White, D.A. and S.A. Skojac. 2002. Remnant bottomland forests near the terminus of the Mississippi River in southeastern Louisiana. Castanea. 67:134-145.
Suttkus, R.D., D.A. White and M.F. Mette. 1999. Atlas of fishes of the St. Louis Bay drainage in southern Mississippi. Gulf Research Reports. Supplement I:1-92.
White, D.A. and S.P. Darwin. 1995. Woody vegetation of tropical lowland deciduous forests and Mayan ruins in the north-central Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Tulane Studies Zoology Botany. 30:1-25. (web abstract)
White, D.A. 1993. Vascular plant community
development on mudflats in the Mississippi River delta, Louisiana, U.S.A.
Aquatic Botany. 45:171-194.
(web abstract)
Hauber, D.P., D.A. White, S.P. Powers and F.R. DeFrancesch. 1991. Allozyme variation and correspondence with unusual infrared reflectance patterns in Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steudel. Plant Systematics Evolution. 178:1-8. (web abstract)
White, D.A. 1989. Accreting mudflats at the Mississippi River delta: sedimentation rates and vascular plant succession. pp. 49-57. In: Duffy, W.G., and D. Clark, eds. Marsh management in coastal Louisiana: effects and issues - proceedings of a symposium. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and Louisiana Dept. Natural Resources. U.S. Fish Wildl. Ser. Biol. Rep. 89(2). 378 p.
White, D.A. and M.J. Simmons. 1988. Productivity of the marshes at the mouth of the Pearl River, Louisiana. Castanea. 53:215-224. (web abstract)
White, D.A. 1987. An American beech-dominated original growth forest in southeast Louisiana. Bulletin Torrey Botanical Club. 114:127-133. (web abstract)
Dundee, H., D.A. White and V. Rico-Gray. 1986. Observations on the distribution and biology of some Yucatan Peninsula amphibians and reptiles. Bulletin Maryland Herpetological Society. 22(2):37-50.
White, D.A. and L.B. Thien. 1985. The pollination
of Illicium parviflorum Mich. ex Vent. (Illiciaceae).
Journal Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society. 101:15-18. (web
abstract)
Manuscripts submitted for publication
none
Manuscripts in preparation
White, D.A. Causes of fifteen years of biomass change
in the wetlands of the Mississippi River delta: not a steady state environment.
Manuscripts in progress
White, D.A. Elevation dynamics in a rapidly subsiding
and dynamic wetland environment – the effects of site location and vegetation.
c) Papers read (at
annual meetings asterisked if not published as an abstract
by the society. Loyola students are listed in bold.)
Prior to Loyola
White, D.A. 1981. Influences on the vegetation of the lower Pearl River basin, Louisiana. Bulletin Ecological Society America. 62:96.
White, D.A. 1981. Plant communities/edaphic conditions of the lower Pearl River basin, Louisiana. Proceedings Louisiana Academy Sciences. 44:159.
White, D.A. 1980. Decomposition of Spartina alterniflora - a predictive model dependent on biotic/abiotic factors. Bulletin Ecological Society America. 61:59.
White, D.A. 1980. Elevation, flooding, vegetation - lower Pearl River, Louisiana. Proceedings Louisiana Academy Sciences. 41:180.
Whipple, S.A. and D.A. White. 1978. Succession in Louisiana marshes. Proceedings Louisiana Academy Sciences. 43:133.
Whipple, S.A. and D.A. White. 1977. The effects
of fire on two Louisiana marshes. Association Southeastern Biologists Bulletin.
24:95.
At Loyola
White, D.A., D.P. Hauber, and C.S. Hood. 2004. Clonal differences in Phragmites australis from a unique wetland landscape - the Mississippi River delta. Society of Wetland Scientists. Seattle, Washington. Book of Abstracts. p. 188.
White, D.A. and S.A. Skojac. 2002. Remnant bottomland forests near the terminus of the Mississippi River in southeastern Louisiana. Society of Wetland Scientists. Lake Placid, New York. Book of Abstracts. p. 155.
White, D.A., D.R. Cahoon and J.C. Lynch. 2001. Sediment elevation dynamics along a wetland gradient in a rapidly subsiding environment. Society of Wetland Scientists. Chicago, Illinois. Book of Abstracts. p. 70.
White, D.A. and C.S. Hood. 2000. Patterns of species composition and environmental variables in deciduous forests and Mayan ruin sites in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Association Southeastern Biologists Bulletin. 47:185.
White, D.A. 2000. Annual changes in plant dominance and biomass over 15 years in the Mississippi River delta. International Association Ecology (INTECOL) 6th Annual International Wetland Symposium. Quebec City, Quebec.
White, D.A. 1999. Changes in plant species dominance and biomass in a wetland community in a very dynamic environment: contrasting the years during 15 years of study. Ecological Society of America. Spokane, Washington.
Crane, T.E., D.A. White, J. Lynch and D. Cahoon. 1999. Effects of habitat and vegetation on changes of wetland elevation - first results. Society of Wetland Scientists Bulletin 16(2):P-36.
*White, D.A. and D.P. Hauber. 1998. Plant communities of the Mississippi River delta: consequences of geological and hydrological events over the past 200 years. World Deltas Symposium. New Orleans, Louisiana.
*Hauber, D.P., D.A. White and W. Fournier. 1998. A genetic and morphological survey of Phragmites australis throughout the Mississippi River delta: evidence of introduced genotypes and infrequent sexual propagation. World Deltas Symposium. New Orleans, Louisiana.
White, D.A. 1996. Dynamics of the major plant species within the interior marshlands of the Mississippi River delta. American Journal Botany - Abstracts. 83:79.
*White, D.A. 1995. A comparison of overstory to understory woody vegetation in the dry tropical forests of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Association Tropical Biologists. San Diego, California.
Fournier, W., D.P. Hauber and D.A. White. 1995. Evidence of infrequent sexual propagation of Phragmites australis throughout the Mississippi River delta. American Journal Botany. - Abstracts. 82:71.
White, D.A. 1994. Woody vegetation of tropical lowland deciduous forests and Mayan ruins on the north-central Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Bulletin Ecological Society America. Supplement. 75(2):247.
Luu, T., D.A. White and D.P. Hauber. 1994. Phragmites australis clones within the Baptiste Collete subdelta of the Mississippi River: their morphological differences. American Journal Botany. Supplement. 81(6):64.
White, D.A. 1992. Seven years of vascular plant community development on new mudflats within the Mississippi River delta. Bulletin Ecological Society America. 73:386.
White, D.A. 1992. Plant community development over seven years on mudflats within the Mississippi River delta. Association Southeastern Biologists Bulletin. 39:92-93.
White, D.A. 1991. Vascular plant community development on new and old mudflats which are a part of two inner deltaic splays within the Mississippi River delta: a 7-year study. Coastal Wetland Ecology and Management Symposium. New Orleans, LA.
Hauber, D.P. and D.A. White. 1992. Patterns of genetic variation in Phragmites australis along the U.S. Gulf Coast. American Journal Botany - Supplement 79:92-93.
Powers, S.P., M. Meunier, D. Hauber and D.A. White. 1990. Correspondence of genetic variation with infrared reflectance patterns in Phragmites australis in the Mississippi River delta. Association Southeastern Biologists Bulletin. 37:96.
Meunier, M., S. Powers, D.P. Hauber and D.A. White. 1990. Genetic variation in infrared patterns of populations of Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud. (Poaceae) in the Mississippi River delta. Proceedings Louisiana Academy Sciences. 53:56.
Gaudreault, S.M, D.A. White and D.P. Hauber. 1989. Phragmites australis: an analysis of reproductive differences in two adjacent populations in the Mississippi River delta. Botanical Society America Bulletin. 76(6):103.
White, D.A. 1988. Vascular Plant succession on accreting mudflats at the Mississippi River delta. Ecological Society America Bulletin. 69:340.
White, D.A. and M.J. Schott. 1988. Phragmites australis in the Mississippi River delta: a morphometric analysis. Botanical Society America Bulletin. 75:86.
Schott, M.J. and D.A. White. 1988. Morphometric analysis of two adjacent populations of Phragmites australis in the Mississippi River delta. Association Southeastern Biologists Bulletin. 35:54.
White, D.A. 1987. Sedimentation, plant colonization, and succession on accreting mudflats within the Mississippi River delta - year 2. Association Southeastern Biologists Bulletin. 34:124.
White, D.A. 1986. Sedimentation and plant colonization on two inner deltaic splays within the lower Mississippi River delta. Association Southeastern Biologists Bulletin. 33:79.
White, D.A. and M.J. Simmons. 1986. Phenology and primary productivity within the marshes of the lower Pearl River basin, Louisiana. Association Southeastern Biologists Bulletin. 33:80.
White, D.A. and S. Darwin. 1984. Plants and
plant communities of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park, Louisiana.
Proceedings Louisiana Academy Sciences. 47:58.
d) Research proposals authored or co-authored
Funded Grants
1997 United States Geological Survey - National Biological Service. $32,602. The effects of habitat on vertical accretion on natural crevasse splays at Delta National Wildlife Refuge. 1997 - 1999.
1996 United States Fish & Wildlife Service. $5,000. Effects of vegetative cover on sediment deposition on natural crevasse splays at Delta National Wildlife Refuge.
1995 Faculty Research Grant. $1,125. Page charges for a seminal paper on the forest vegetation of the central Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.
1991 Faculty Research Grant. $1,058. Loyola University. Herbaria and library travel for study of the vegetation in Yucatan, Mexico.
1990 Faculty Research Grant. $1,860. Loyola University. Analysis of genotypic variation and vegetative propagation among clones of Phragmites australis. Co-Pl w/D. Hauber.
1989 Faculty Research Grant. $2,500. Loyola University. Genetic variation within and between populations of Phragmites australis in the Mississippi River delta. Co-Pl w/D. Hauber.
Course Development Grant. $760. Loyola University. Undergraduate instruction on the ecology and natural history of Big Bend National Park. Co-PI w/C. Hood.
1988 NOAA - Sea Grant Program. $30,000. Natural processes controlling plant succession in emerging coastal deltas. Two year study.
1987 NOAA - Sea Grant Program. $8,000. Sedimentation, plant colonization and second year succession on two deltaic splays within the Mississippi River delta. A subgrant on Gosselink, J.G. and C.E. Sasser. Successional pathways and the rates of vegetation recovery after disturbance in deltaic environments.
1986 NOAA - Sea Grant Program. $20,995. Sedimentation, plant colonization and second year succession on two deltaic splays within the Mississippi River delta.
1986 Faculty research Grant. Loyola University. $1,000. Vegetation of the southern Yucatan Peninsula.
1984 NOAA - Sea Grant Program. $9,435. Plant colonization and succession on two inner deltaic splays within the lower Mississippi River delta.
Faculty research Grant. Loyola University. $2,450. Productivity of the major plant communities within the Pearl River basin, Louisiana.
1983 Tinker Foundation Fellowship renewal. $2,500.
1982 Tinker Foundation Fellowship renewal. $2,400.
1981 Mesoamerican Ecology Institute. Tulane University. Tinker Foundation Fellowship. $5,000. Phytosociological study of the Sierra de Ticul, Yucatan, Mexico.
1981 U.S. Department of the Interior. $15,107. Floristic and faunistic inventory of the core area Jean Lafitte National Historical Park. Co-PI w/S. Darwin & L. Thien.
Pending Grants
2002 Darwin, S.P. and D.A. White. A proposal for an inventory of the vascular flora of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve. U.S Department of Interior - National Park Service. $235,421.
Denied External Grants
1995 Cahoon, D. and D.A. White. Coastal marsh restoration: understanding the processes of marsh formation in artificial crevasse splays of the Mississippi River delta. U.S. Department of Interior - National Biological Service. $191,244.
1994 White, D.A. Effects of different freshwater and low salinity marsh vegetation on accretion rates in a system of high sediment input. Sea Grant pre-proposal w/D. Cahoon of National Biological Service. $93,142.
1993 White, D.A. and D. Hauber. Invasive potential and negative ecological impact of Phragmites australis. $53,571. Pre-proposal. Louisiana Sea Grant Program.
1989 White, D. and D. Hauber. Phragmites australis: isozymic, morphometric, chromosomal investigations of Mississippi River delta populations. $98,238. NSF.
1988 White, D. and D. Hauber. Phragmites australis: isozymic, morphometric, chromosomal investigations of Mississippi River delta populations. $75,752. Louisiana Board of Regents. LEQSF.
1983 White, D. Botany of the archaeological
ruins of Coba, Quintana Roo, Mexico. $7,480. National Geographic
Society.
Funded Contracts
2001 Developing the GIS analysis of the Octave Pass splay and biomass, sedimentation, and elevation sampling of the Brants Pass splay in the Mississippi River delta. United States Geological Survey. $9,377.
2000 Developing the GIS analysis of the Octave Pass splay and biomass, sedimentation, and elevation sampling of the Brants Pass splay in the Mississippi River delta. United States Geological Survey. $9,063.
1996 Regional Academic Advisor. Coastal Wetland Policy & Protection Act (CWPPRA). LUMCON. State of Louisiana. $6,050.
1995 Regional Academic Advisor. Coastal Wetland Policy & Protection Act (CWPPRA). LUMCON. State of Louisiana. $13,000.
1980 Research Consultant. Lockheed Corporation.
$8,000.
e) Exhibitions on or off campus
none
f) Plays or musical performances
none
g) Invited seminars on or off campus
Professional research seminars
2002 The Mississippi River delta: a landscape perspective on its dynamic ecology. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Tulane University. New Orleans, LA.
2001 The Mississippi River delta: it's not a static
ecosystem. Department of
Biological Sciences Research Seminar Series. University
of New Orleans. New Orleans, LA.
2000 Historical changes at the landscape scale in the plant communities of the Mississippi River delta and a long term study. Coastal Wetland Institute. Louisiana State University. Baton Rouge, LA.
Ecological research in Mexico and other adventures while on sabbatical leave. Departmental of Biological Sciences. Loyola University. New Orleans, LA.
1999 Wetlands of the coastal plain - southern United States: their community ecology relationships. Instituto del Ecologia. Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.
1997 The Mississippi River delta - geology and vegetational history. Insituto del Ecologia. Xalapa, Veracruz Mexico.
1996 Plant communities and their development within the Mississippi River delta. Southeastern Louisiana University. Hammond, LA.
1993 Plant communities in the Mississippi River delta: their history and development. University of New Orleans. New Orleans, LA.
Woody vegetation of the north-central Yucatan Peninsula forest versus ruin sites - a preliminary interpretation. Tulane University. New Orleans, LA.
Seven years of wetland accretion and plant successional patterns in the active Mississippi River delta. LUMCON. Cocodrie, LA.
1991 Colonization and succession events on mudflats in the Mississippi River delta: a seven-year study. Loyola University. New Orleans, LA.
Wetland disappearance in the United States: the Mississippi River delta, a case study. Missouri Botanical Garden. St. Louis, MO.
Ecological and floristic data gathering in the Yucatan Peninsula. Missouri Botanical Garden. St. Louis, MO.
Ecology of wetlands and their disappearance. St. Louis University. St. Louis, MO.
1990 Louisiana Wetlands: research and personal experiences in wetland loss and restoration within the Mississippi River delta - particularly projects aided by undergraduates. AAAS meeting. New Orleans, LA.
Wetlands ecology - the Mississippi River delta. Distinguished Scholars Lecture. California State University. Bakersfield, CA.
1989 Mississippi River delta wetlands: a look at hydrology, sedimentation, subsidence and plant succession in a very dynamic ecosystem. Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Oak Ridge, TN.
1986 Herbaceous productivity and plant communities of the Pearl River basin, Louisiana. Department Marine Science. Louisiana State University. Baton Rouge, LA.
1984 Lower Pearl River basin plant communities and their distribution. University of New Orleans. New Orleans, LA.
Plant communities and their distribution within the lower Pearl River basin. Gulf Coast Chapter Sigma XI. National Space Technology Laboratory. NSTL, MS.
1983 Vegetation of the Sierra de Ticul, Yucatan, Mexico. Mesoamerican Ecology Institute. Tulane University. New Orleans, LA.
1981 Wetland plant communities of the Pearl River basin, Louisiana. Center Wetland Resources. Louisiana State University. Baton Rouge, LA.
h) Films and/or videotapes produced
none
i) Conventions
attended (I have delivered papers at all annual meetings
attended and chaired sessions at the ones marked with an asterisk)
Ecological Society of America 1999 1994 1992* 1988 1981 1980
Botanical Society of America 1996 1995 1994 1992 1989 1988
Association of Southeastern Biologists 2001* 2000
1999 1992 1991*! 1990
1988 1987 1986 1977
Louisiana Academy of Sciences 1990 1984* 1981 1980 1978
Society of Wetland Scientists 2004 2003* 2002 2001 2000* 1999
Association of Tropical Biologists 1995
(! no paper presentation was made at these
meetings)
j) Written
evaluations of the above items
k) Other -
research endeavors
i) Workshops attended
"The basics of the basin research program." University of New Orleans.
1999, 1998
“Workshop on the Sedimentation Erosion Table (SET) and it's use for
evaluating the elevation of intertidal sediments.” Estuarine Research
Federation.
Annual meeting. New Orleans. 1999.
"Recent research in coastal Louisiana: natural system function and
responses to human influences." Department of Natural Resources &
LUMCON. Lafayette, LA. 1999.
"Status of the biosphere reserves in the Yucatan Peninsula." Tulane
University. 1999
"Natural and human causes of coastal land loss in Louisiana."
Department of Natural Resources. Baton Rouge. 1996.
United States Coast Guard Skills and Seamanship, 8 - week course at
University of New Orleans. Graduated November 1994.
"Environmental challenges in a changing east-central Europe". Center
for International Security and Strategic Studies. Mississippi State
University. Mississippi State, MS. 1991.
"International symposium on the biogeography of Mesoamerica".
Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. 1984.
ii) Editorial
reviewer (Reviewed manuscripts, books and grant proposals for
the following journals and professional organizations during my tenure
at Loyola)
Ecological Society of America
American Journal of Botany
Estuarine Research Foundation
National Science Foundation
Southeastern Naturalist
Society of Wetland Scientists
Canadian Journal of Botany
Forest Ecology and Management
Southern Appalachian Botanical Club
National Wildlife Federation
Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society
Louisiana Academy of Sciences
Fish and Wildlife Service
National Geographic Society
Louisiana Natural Heritage Program
Tulane Studies Zoology and Botany
Marine Biology
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
Forest Ecology & Management
Estuarine Coastal & Shelf Science
Journal of Tropical Ecology
iii) Sabbatical leaves
1. Missouri Botanical Garden. St. Louis, MO. Spring, 1990.
2. Instituto de Ecologia. Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. Spring,
1999.
iv) Miscellaneous
1. Co-organized with Dr. Hank Bart (Tulane) a symposium, "Lower Mississippi River and coastal Louisiana: challenges of the past and present, opportunities for the future" at the annual meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists, New Orleans, April, 2001.
2. Attended the Systematics Symposium at the Missouri Botanical Garden during the late 1980's through mid 1990's.
3. Regular attendee and participant in the Journal Club at Tulane University in the Department of Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology.
4. Regular attendee at regional research seminars at area universities.
5. Invited to participate in the field component of a scientific study of pupfish fish community ecology study in Quintana Roo, Mexico.
6. Traveled extensively to natural areas for work and pleasure, including but not limited to Puerto Rico, Yucatan Peninsula, Central Mexico, Southeast United States, Canadian Rocky Mts., Sierra Nevada Mts., Desert Southwest.
7. Awarded $3000 by the Mexican government for travel and research endeavors as a 'visiting scientist' to the Instituto de Ecologia in Xalapa, Veracruz as a part of my 1999 sabbatical leave.
8. Professional Recognition.
a. 1990.
California's Distinguished Visiting Scholar Program. California
State University. Bakersfield, CA. Gave a public lecture, met
with
faculty and students.
b. 1987.
Nominated for vice-president of the southeastern chapter of the
Ecological Society of America.
c. 1980.
Received the 1979 Tulane University Biology Department's
George Henry Penn Memorial Award for outstanding graduate student
research.
IV. SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY
a) Service on committees
University Committees
University Planning Team, Graduate
Council, University Honors Board,
University Grants & Leaves Committee,
Hazardous Materials Safety
Committee, Environmental Studies Minor
Committee (chair 03/04, 04/05)
Arts & Sciences Committees
Curriculum Committee, Council of Chairs,
Common Curriculum Committee,
Rank & Tenure Committee, Instructional
Development Committee,
Equipment Budget Committee
Department Committees
Faculty Search Committee (7 searches),
Curriculum Committee (two
complete departmental revisions),
Equipment Committee
Other - Departmental Service
b) Special
service for the benefit of Loyola
Affiliate University representative. Louisiana Universities Marine
Consortium (LUMCON). 1990 - 2002
Board Member. State of Louisiana. Ecology & Environment
of the
Gulf of Mexico group. 1996 - 1997.
University representative. Department of Environmental Quality
(DEQ). Council of the Louisiana Consortium of Universities for
Research and Education. 1987.
Sponsored two world known Ecology and Evolutionary biologists for
visits to Loyola University - Dr. Jared Diamond (May, 1997) & Dr.
Paul Ehrlich (Fall, 2000). Both members of the National Academy
of Sciences.
Lead professional field trips to regional ecosystems for a number
of eminent biologists, groups and organizations, including: Sir
Ghillean Prance, Jared Diamond, Peter and Rosemary Grant,
Peter Vitousek, Paul Ehrlich, an internationally respected Japanese
ecology group, International Society for Vegetation Scientists, Estuarine
Research Federation, International Scientific Research Program of
the Japanese Ministry of Education delegatio, Association of
Southeastern Biologists, Society of Wetland Scientists.
Campus guest lecturer
Environmental Business Course of Dr. Eugene Buchlolz. 'The
biological discipline of ecology'. 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998.
Environmental Communication Course of Dr. Robert Thomas. 'How
do scientists think?' 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003.
c) Service to the New Orleans community
Public talks
2003 “Threats the lower Pearl River basin.” And, panel discussant. Sierra Club monthly meeting.
2001 "A historical perspective on the wetlands of the Mississippi River delta: a dynamic region, to say the least!" Orleans Chapter Audubon Society.
1999 "Wetlands of southern Louisiana." Bayou Segnette State Park.
1998 "The Pearl River basin: ecological concerns for its protection." Sierra Club. Delta Chapter. New Orleans, LA.
1991 "Wetland loss issues in Louisiana." Seminar. Environmental Law Society. Tulane University. New Orleans, LA.
1990 "Ecology of the Pearl River area." Sierra Club. Delta Chapter. New Orleans, LA.
1990 "Louisiana Wetlands: a vanishing resource." Seminar. Tulane University Environmental Law Society. New Orleans, LA.
1989 "Louisiana wetland loss issues." American Business Women's Association. New Orleans, LA.
1989 "Louisiana wetland erosion." Green Club, Tulane University. New Orleans, LA.
1988 "Bearing Witness." U.S. District Court - Probation Office. Invited Speaker Program. New Orleans, LA.
1988 "Wilderness travels in the Canadian Rocky Mts." Monthly Speaker Series. Orleans Club of New Orleans. New Orleans, LA.
(others were not recorded prior to 1985)
Other
Greater New Orleans Science Fair Judge. 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002.
Lafitte National Historical Park. Visitor Center area landscape consultant. 1990.
United States Fish & Wildlife Service. Wild Things 2000 weekend. "Research on Delta National Wildlife Refuge" display.
Active opponent of ecological disturbances to the Pearl River basin. Expert witness in federal district court among other occasional involvement
"Our vanishing wetlands". Panelist. Conservation
Awareness Week for the Audubon Park Zoological Garden. New Orleans,
LA. 1988.
d) Service at the state and/or national level
Mississippi Crosby Arboretum Scientific Advisory Board - reviewed research proposals for the work at the arboretum. 1988 - 1996.
Regional academic for the State of Lousiana Coastal Wetland
Protection Policy Research Act (CWPPRA) from 1996 - 1999. Involved
a large number of field trips and planning meetings
e) Contributions to the profession
Chair of the 'Field Trip Committee' for the year 2003 Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS) annual meeting in New Orleans. Coordinated 21 field trips.
On the Local Committee for the year 2001 Association of Southeastern Biologists (ASB) annual meeting in New Orleans. Coordinated 11 field trips - lead one.
Annually organized with Dr. Craig Hood, the social and dinner for the Southeastern Lousiana Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (SELEEB) Group.
Professional Societal Membership
Ecological Society of America
Society of Wetland Scientists
Botanical Society of America
Estuarine Research Federation
Southern Appalachian Botanical Club
Torrey Botanical Club
Association of Southeastern Biologists
Louisiana Academy of Sciences
Association of Tropical Biologists
Society for Conservation Biology
American Association for the Advancement
of Science
Education and Conservation Group Memberships
World Wildlife Fund
Nature Conservancy
Crosby Arboretum
Audubon Society
Sierra Club
f) Department Infrastructure Grants (and effort)
White, D. and D. Hauber. 1993. Enhancement of field biology instruction and research i wetlands of southeastern Louisiana. $38, 504. Louisiana Board of Regents. LEQSF. (denied)
As chair, condsiderably increased the infrastructure for teaching and research.