Position
Description
Research
Responsibilities
Conduct a
research program on weed biology to understand and characterize the most
important weedy traits of the worst weeds in Iowa corn and soybean production
systems, especially the seed behavior of the weedy foxtails.
Then, to elucidate the biotic and environmental factors regulating their
behavior and to use this information to develop improved, sustainable weed
management systems.
Teaching/Advising Responsibilities
Graduate.
Teach a graduate course Agronomy 517, Weed Biology and Ecology in
alternate years (e.g. 2000, 2002); beginning in 2004 every year with both
on-campus (517) and off-campus long distance (517LD) students.
Supervise graduate students. Advise
and serve on committees of others graduate students.
Undergraduate. Teach an undergraduate course Agronomy 317LD, ending
in 2003, a national long distance (entirely on the WWW) course, Principles
of Weed Science. On an individual
student basis I participate in the Freshman Mentor Program, the Undergraduate
Research Assistantship Program and special projects with individual
undergraduates.
Education
B.A.,
Anthropology
Michigan State University
l974
B.S., Agronomy University of Minnesota
l977
M.S., Agronomy/Weed Science
Michigan State University
l978
Ph.D., Agronomy/Weed Science
Michigan State University
l980
Positions
Held
l977-l980;
Graduate Research Assistant; Crop
& Soil Sciences Dept., Michigan State University
l980-l984; Assistant Professor;
Crop Science Dept; University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
l985-l986;
Assistant Professor; Dept.
of Plant Pathology, Seed & Weed Sci., Iowa State University
1989; Visiting Professor; Botany
Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison
l986-present; Associate Professor; Dept.
of Agronomy; Iowa State University
1993-1994; Visiting Professor;
Dept. of Plant Physiology, Wageningen Agricultural University, The
Netherlands
2001; Visiting Professor;
Dept. of Plant and Microbial Biology, Univ. of California, Berkeley
Professional
Affiliations
Botanical
Society of America
Ecological Society of America
European Weed Research Society
International Society for Seed Science
North
Central Weed Science Society
Society for the Study of Evolution
Weed Science Society of America
Iowa State
University Affiliations
Agronomy
Department: Crop Physiology Faculty
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Faculty
Interdepartmental Complex Adaptive Systems Faculty: Supervisory Committee
Interdepartmental Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Faculty: Supervisory
Committee
Interdepartmental Plant Physiology Faculty
Osborn Research Club