Richard
L. Meyer
Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 1965
Sigma
Xi, The Research Society. Dr. Meyer has been a
member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee and Treasurer from
2002 to the present. Since July 2007, he
has been Acting Executive Director and Acting Publisher of American Scientist. His
activities with Sigma Xi at the local, regional and nation level include
service on multiple committees: membership, regions, awards, audit, finance,
strategic planning and others. He was
responsible for the 1989 forum “Science as a Way of Knowing.” Dr. Meyer has represented the society on
numerous occasions, including the installation of chapters and the initiation
of new members and the promotion of associate members.
Dr.
Meyer was initiated as a full member by the University of Minnesota
chapter (1965). He served on the board,
as program director, secretary, vice-president, and president of the University of Arkansas chapter. He also was associate director and director
of the Southeast Region. He was selected
as a mentor to the board and long-term delegate. After retiring he moved to Portland, OR
where he became a board member of the Columbia-Willamette Chapter.
Teaching
and Research. Dr.
Meyer is a professor emeritus from the Department of Biological Sciences
at the
University of Arkansas—Fayetteville.
His specialization is understanding multiple facets of the life-history,
morphology and cytology of certain algal taxa, dynamics of algal populations in
reservoirs with associated chemical, physical and biological parameters, mathematical modeling of these interactions,
and the chrysophyceae, xanthophyceae and phyrrophyceae of bog and fens.
He also served as Professor of Botany and Graduate Faculty member at the
University of Minnesota-Itasca Forestry and Biology Station. His research on a wide spectrum of
Phycological topics has produced eight doctoral students and twenty masters
level students.
Management
and Administration. At the University of Arkansas,
Dr. Meyer served as director of Research and Sponsored Programs, associate
director of the Arkansas Water Resources
Research Center,
supervisor of the Water Quality Analytical Laboratory, and director of the
interdisciplinary Environmental Science Program (Biological Sciences, College of Agriculture,
Chemical and Civil Engineering, and School
of Architecture). As chairman of the board and chief executive
officer for the Central Emergency Medical Services of Washington County, AR, Dr.
Meyer was responsible for overseeing the operating budget, reserve funds,
long-range fiscal planning and initiation of external audit. He also served as the Phycological Society of
America’s Endowment Fund Manager for ten years as a member of the board and
President. Meyer’s oceanographic
experiences include scientist and chief scientist on several of Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institutions research vessels. He was chief scientist of the
National Science Foundation sponsored R/V Anton Bruun as part of the
International Indian Ocean Expedition. In addition, he has experience as the
director of the Eagle Lake Biological Station of California State
University-Chico.
Contact: RMeyer@SigmaXi.org
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