Present Position:
Assistant Professor of Biology
Department of Biological Sciences
East Stroudsburg University
East Stroudsburg, PA
September 2003 – present
Previous Positions:
Assistant Professor of Biology
Augustana College
Rock Island, Illinois
September 1999 – August 2002
Assistant Professor of Biology
Central College
Pella, Iowa
September 1993 – August 1999
Tenured & Promoted to Associate Professor, 1999
Education:
University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Ph.D. in Biology.
Dissertation: Comparative myology of North American moles with
comments on the phylogeny of the Talpidae. Major adviser:
David J. Klingener. 1995.
University of Florida, Gainesville. Master of Science in Zoology.
Thesis: An electrophoretic examination of the genus Pseudobranchus.
Major adviser: Michael M. Miyamoto. 1989.
University of Vermont, Burlington.
Master of Science in Botany.
Non-thesis Field Naturalist Option. 1987.
Hobart College, Geneva, NY. Bachelor of Science. Biology
Major. 1981.
Courses Taught:
Mammalogy
Conservation Biology
Introductory Biology I
Human Anatomy & Physiology I
Developmental Anatomy
Vertebrate Zoology
Field Ornithology
Vertebrate Natural History
Diversity of Life
Introduction to Environmental Studies
Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy
General Biology
Evolution
Developmental Biology
Local Natural History
Natural History of the Yucatan
Biology Seminar
Research Grants:
Registration for International Colloquium on the Biology of the Soricidae
II. 2002. Faculty Development and Research Grant, East
Stroudsburg University, East Stroudsburg PA. $350.
Survey of small mammals and bats at Fort Defiance State Park and Cayler
Prairie, with evaluation of habitat preferences for Masked and Hayden's
Shrews. 2001. Iowa Department of Natural Resources. $994.
An inventory of small mammals and bats at Searryl's Cave State Preserve,
Jones County, Iowa. Iowa State Preserves Advisory Board and Iowa
Department of Natural Resources. $1260.
An inventory of the mammals of Cedar Bluffs State Preserve, Mahaska
County, IA. 1998. State Preserves Advisory Board and Iowa Department
of Natural Resources, Des Moines, IA. $2100.
Taxonomic revision and phylogenetic analysis of Nesophontes. 1996.
Faculty Research and Development Grant, Central College, Pella, IA. $600.
The phylogenetic affinities of Solenodon. 1995.
National Science Foundation Research Opportunity Award. Sponsoring researcher
R. D. E. MacPhee, Department of Mammalogy, American Museum of Natural History,
New York, NY. $13,000.
Preliminary survey for mammals of the Horseshoe Bend National Wildlife Refuge
(part of Horseshoe Bend National Wildlife Refuge Restored Floodplain Monitoring).
1995. National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Mammal portion: $900.
Population fluctuations and habitat preferences of small mammals in Iowa. 1993.
Faculty Research and Development Grant, Central College, Pella, IA. $1100.
Comparative morphology and systematics of Old World moles (Talpidae).
1992. Collection Study Grant, American Museum of Natural History,
New York, NY. $200.
Head and neck muscles of North American moles. 1991. Roosevelt
Grant, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY. $300.
Survey for Southern Bog Lemming. 1991. Massachusetts Natural
Heritage and Endangered Species Program, Boston, MA. $900.
Publications:
Extrinsic snout musculature in Afrotheria and Lipotyphla. 2002.
Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 9: 161-183.
Identification and distribution of masked and Hayden's shrews (genus Sorex)
in Iowa. 2002. A. W. Ray, H. P. Whidden, and J. B. Bowles.
Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science, 109: 19-24.
The origin of the Greater Antillean insectivorans. 2001.
Pp. 237 - 252 in: Biogeography of the West Indies: Patterns and Perspectives (Charles A. Woods and Florence
E. Sergile, eds.). CRC Press, Boca Raton, 608 pp. (With Robert J. Asher.)
Comparative myology of moles and the phylogeny of the Talpidae
(Mammalia, Lipotyphla). 2000. American Museum Novitates, 3294: 1-53.
Insectivora. 1999. Invited article in: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences.
London: Nature Publishing Group.
Mammals of Iowa: Holocene to the end of the 20th Century. 1998.
J. B. Bowles, D. L. Howell, R. P. Lampe, and H. P. Whidden. Journal
of the Iowa Academy of Science, 105(3): 123-132.
Myocastor coypus. 1992. C. A. Woods, L. Contreras, G. Willner-Chapman,
and H. P. Whidden. Mammalian Species, 398: 1-8, 3 fig.
Published Abstracts:
Assessment of sexual dimorphism in the Antillean insectivoran Nesophontes. 2000. American Zoologist, 40(6): 1257. (With C. A. Woods.)
The evolution of locomotor specializations in moles. 1999. American
Zoologist, 39(5): 134A.
The snout muscles of insectivorans. 1996. American Zoologist, 36(5): 23A.
The shoulder anatomy of the Asiatic shrew mole, genus Uropsilus. 1992.
American Zoologist, 32(5).
Professional Reports:
Survey of small mammals and bats at Fort Defiance State Park and
Cayler Prairie. 2001. Submitted to: Iowa Department of Natural
Resources, Des Moines, IA.
Identification of small mammals pitfall-trapped in North Cascades
National Park. 2000. Submitted to: North Cascades National Park,
Sedro Woolley, WA.
The mammals of Cedar Bluffs State Preserve. 1999. Submitted to:
Iowa State Preserves Advisory Board, Iowa Department of Natural Resources,
Des Moines, IA.
Horseshoe Bend National Wildlife Refuge Restoration, Floodplain Monitoring -
Final Report. 1995. Submitted to: U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Foundation, Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation, and The Nature Conservancy.
J. L. Christiansen, N. Bernstein, D. Roosa, C. Thompson, and H. P. Whidden.
A survey of the Southern Bog Lemming (Synaptomys cooperi) in the
Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts. 1992. Submitted to:
Massachusetts Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program,
Boston, MA.
Papers and Posters Presented at Scientific Meetings:
The evolution of locomotor specializations in moles. 2000.
Annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Atlanta, GA.
A cladistic morphological analysis of the Talpidae. 1998.
Euro-American Mammal Congress, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
The evolution of aquatic habits in the Talpidae. 1998.
Euro-American Mammal Congress, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Dimorphism in West Indian shrews: is it sexual? 1998.
Annual meeting of the Julia B. Platt Club, held in association with the Society for
Integrative and Comparative Biology, Boston, MA.
Iowa’s mammal fauna at the end of the 20th Century. 1997.
Annual meeting of the Iowa Academy of Science, Dubuque, IA. (Co-authored
with J. B. Bowles, D. Howell, and R. P. Lampe).
The snout muscles of insectivorans. 1996. Annual meeting of the
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Albuquerque, NM.
Comparative myology and the phylogeny of the Talpidae. 1995. Annual
Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists, Burlington, VT.
The head and neck muscles of North American moles. 1991. American
Society of Zoologists, Division of Vertebrate Morphology, New England Regional Meeting,
Amherst, MA.
Student Presentations at Scientific Meetings:
Landmark analysis for the identification of Iowa Sorex. 2002.
Annual meeting of the Iowa Academy of Science, Des Moines, IA. (Presentation
given by David Pearson.)
Vertebral specializations for burrowing in North American moles. 2000.
Annual meeting of the Iowa Academy of Science, Ames, IA. (Presentation
given by John MacGregor.)
Identification of Iowa Peromyscus using salivary amylases. 1999.
Annual meeting of the Iowa Academy of Science, Ames, IA. (Presentation
given by Shannon Ryan.)
The distribution of Masked and Hayden's shrews in Iowa. 1998.
Annual meeting of the Iowa Academy of Science, Mason City, IA. (Presentation
given by Alison W. Wilson).
A discriminant function for identifying skulls of Iowa specimens of Peromyscus leucopus
and Peromyscus maniculatus. 1998. Annual meeting of the
Iowa Academy of Science, Mason City, IA. (Presentation given by Mikel A. Tinich).
Zinc levels in bluegill tissues from three mine drainages in Iowa. 1998.
Annual meeting of the Iowa Academy of Science, Mason City, IA. (Presentation
given by Christopher T. Huston).
Distribution of mottled and slimy sculpins in Iowa. 1996. Annual meeting
of the Iowa Academy of Science, Indianola, IA. (Presentation given by
Dale A. Dennler).
Professional Societies and Year Joined:
American Society of Mammalogists. 1988.
Society of Systematic Biologists. 1988.
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. 1992.
Society for the Study of Mammalian Evolution. 1993.
The Willi Hennig Society. 1995.
Pennsylvania Academy of Science. 2003.
Professional Service:
Reviewer, Pennsylvania Academy of Science Student Research Grants. 2003.
Volunteer, New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife. Collected brainstem
tissues for a study of chronic wasting disease in White-tailed Deer. 2002.
Reviewer, Iowa Gap Analysis Program, Iowa State University, Ames. 2001.
Co-convener of Second Midwest Regional Meeting, SICB's Division of Vertebrate Morphology.
Augustana College, Rock Island, IL. November 2000.
Zoology Section Chair, Iowa Academy of Sciences. 1998 - 2000.
Co-convener of symposium Biology and Conservation of Semi-aquatic Insectivores ,
Euro-American Mammal Congress, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 1998.
Reviewer for Fieldiana. 1997, 1998.
Reviewer for Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science. 1997, 1998, 2000.
Session co-chair, Vertebrate Morphology Division, annual meeting of Society for Integrative
and Comparative Biology, Albuquerque, NM. 1996.
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