Dr. Richard L. Meyer

1875 E. Overland Drive

Fayetteville, AR 72703-5279

P:  479 527-0632

Email:  RMeyer@SigmaXi.org

 

 

Family

            Spouse:   Mary Louise Meyer nee´ Wolfrum

            Daughter:  Jane Ann Meyer Burleson

            Granddaughers:  Margaux and Laurin Burleson

 

 

Education

            B.S.      l954      Missouri Valley College, Marshall, Missouri

                                    Biology and Education

 

            Ph.D.   1965     University of Minnesota, Department of Botany

                                    Dissertation:  Morphology, Cytology and Life History of Certain Chrysophyceae

                                    (associated areas of concentration in Microbiology & Zoology)

 

 

Professional Experience

 

Academic and Research Positions

            Statistical Quality Control Engineer, Aviation Gas Turbine Division                            1954

                        Westinghouse Corporation, Kansas City Division, MO

                        Quality control program for jet engines

 

            High School Teacher, Raytown, Missouri                                                         1954-1957           

                        Taught botany, zoology, general biology and general science courses

 

            Graduate Assistant, Department of Botany, University of Minnesota                 1957-1958

                        Minneapolis, MN

                        Taught Phycology, Cytology, General Botany, and General Biology

 

            Instructor, Department of Botany, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN    1958-1959

                        Taught General Botany, General Biology, Nuclear Cytology, Extra Nuclear Cytology

 

            Conway McMillan Fellow, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN               1959-1961

 

            Chief Staff Scientist R/V Altantis and R/V Anton Brunn                                  1961-1963

                        National Science Foundation, International Indian Ocean Expedition and

                        Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA

 

            Instructor, Department of Botany, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN    1963-1964

 

            Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, California State University 1965-1968      

                        at Chico.  Taught Phycology, Cytology, General Biology and served as

                        Assistant Director and Director of the Eagle Lake Biology Station.

 

            National Science Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow                1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970

                        University of Minnesota, Lake Itasca, MN

 

            Professor of Botany & Graduate Faculty 1966, ‑67, ‑68, ‑69, ‑70, ‑71, ‑72, ‑78, ‑79, ‑80 (Summer)

                        Itasca Biological Station, University of Minnesota, Lake Itasca, MN

                        Studied Freshwater Algae, Algal Ecology, and Research Prob­lems

 

            Research Scientist and Associate Professor, Department of Botany and Bacteriology 1968-1972

                        University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

 

            Professor of Biological Sciences, Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences           1972-1997

                        Department of Biologiacl Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

                        Taught Freshwater Algae, Algal Ecology, Algal Cytology, Algal Phylog­eny, Survey

                           of the Plant King­dom, Intro­duction to Envi­ron­mental Sci­ence, Man and the Envi­ronment,

                           Gener­al Bota­ny, Special Prob­lems, General Biology, Environ­mental Evalua­tion of the

                           Impact of Airports, and masters and doc­toral level Phyco­logical Re­search.

 

            Program Advisor, Environmental Sciences Program, Colleges of Agriculture     1974-1988

                        and Home Economics, of Arts and Sciences, and of Engineering                                     

                        University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

           

            Interim Director of Research and Sponsored Programs, University of Arkansas         1977

                        Fayetteville, AR

 

            Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer, Central         1981-1989

                        Emergency Medical Service, Inc., Fayetteville, AR

 

            Associate Director, Arkansas Water Resources Center, University of Arkansas 1990-1997

                        Fayetteville, AR

                        Planned, developed and supervised the Water Quality Laboratory, served as

                        Quality Con­trol/Quality Assurance Officer, prepared grant applications.   

 

            Professor of Agronomy (Adjunct), Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture 1991-1996

                        and Home Economics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

                        Taught Environmental Science, Special problems in Environmental Science,

                        Water Quality, Special Problems

 

            Professor Emeritus, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas 1997-present

                        Fayetteville, AR

 

Consulting

 

Professional consultant to governmental, industrial, and private organizations concerning algal research, data interpretation, and water quality problems.­  Expert witness in appropriate legal settings.

 

·         Arkansas Department of Pollution Control and Ecology, Little Rock, AR

·         Arkansas Water Resources Center, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR (Technical Advisory Committee member)

·         Beaver Water District, Lowell, AR

·         Bio-Test, Inc., Northbrook, IL

·         City of Fayetteville, AR

·         City of Fayetteville, Pollution Control Committee, 1972‑80, Chairman 1975‑79  (expert witness)

·         DANTES program "Race to Save the Planet" (Committee of Examiners member)

·         Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ  (Member of the Committee of Examiners for the National Teacher Examination‑Biological/Environental Sciences)

·         EGIS, Inc., Bentonville, AR

·         Environmental Science and Engineering, Inc., Tampa, FL

·         Hendrix and Dial, NC

·         Hot Springs National Park, Hot Springs, AR

·         Limnetics, Inc., Milwaukee, WI

·         McClelland Consulting Engineers, Inc., Fayetteville, AR

·         Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

·         Minnesota Pollution Control Agency  (expert witness)

·         Minnesota State College at Moorhead

·         National Park Service (consultant and expert witness)

·         North Carolina Science Museum (advisor and reviewer)

·         Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (Technical Advisory Committee member)

·         Reserve Mining Company (taconite), Silver Bay, Minnesota

·         Resource Conservation Co., Seattle, WA

·         Soil Systems, Inc., Marietta, GA

·         Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, TN

·         U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (established quality control and quality assurance standards for phyto­plankton identification and enumera­tion)

·         University of North Dakota

·         Virginia Water Resources Research Center, VPI, Blacksburg, VA (reviewer)

·         Washington County Quoram Court, Arkansas (expert opinion)

·         Washington Regional Medical Center, Emergency Room, Poison Control Center. 1983‑1989

 

 

Awards, Honors and Memberships

            Scholastic and Research

Carolyn M. Crosby Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 1959, ‑60, ‑61

Conway McMillan Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 1959, ‑60, ‑61

Sigma Xi Research Award, 1959

National Science Foundation Predoctral Fellowship, 1960

National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships, 1965‑68, ‑70

 

Citations

American Men and Women in Science

Who's Who in American Education

Who's Who in the South and Southwest

 

Professional Organizations

American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Microscopical Society

American Society of Limnology & Oceanography

American Water Resources Association

                        Arkansas Academy of Sciences

                        Beta Beta Beta Fraternity, Biological Science

                        Botanical Society of America

                        British Phycological Society

                        Gamma Alpha, Graduate Student Fraternity

                        International Phycological Society

                        National Education Association, life member

                        Northwest Arkansas Laboratory Analyst Association

                        Phycological Society of America

                        Sigma Xi, The Research Society

 

 

Research and Scholarly Achievement

 

Current Projects and Interests

 

Assisted Drs. Don & Carla Ott in preparing the Xanthophyceae and Eustagmatophyceae chapters for FRESHWATER ALGAE OF NORTH AMERICA; R. Sheath & J. Wehr, eds.  Contributions include list of taxa collected, narrative, ecological information, development of a key to genera, general editing, ect.

 

Prepared notes, drawings, micrographs and other materials for deposit in an archive at the University of Minnesota Itasca Forestry and Biological Station at Lake Itasca, MN.

 

Refereed Publications

 

Meyer RL.  Primary Productivity via the carbon‑14 and chlorophyll techniques from the Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean. Proceedings of the All India Conference­ on Oceanography . 1962; 10 pages.

 

Meyer RL.  Certain members of the phytoplankton from the Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean.  Proceedings of the All India Conference on Oceanography I.  1962; 15 pages.

 

Meyer RL.  A comparison of the phytoplankton of DeSoto and Morrison Lakes, Lake Itasca State Park, Minnesota. Itasca Biology Station Reports No. 120: 20 pages.  1966.

 

Meyer RL.  A preliminary study of the algae of Itasca State Park and adjacent re­gions.  Itasca Biology Station Reports  No. 176: 33 pages.  1967.

 

Meyer RL, Brook AJ.  Freshwater algae from the Itasca State Park, Minnesota. I.  Introduction and Chlorophyta.  Nova Hedwigia. 1968;16:251‑266.

 

Meyer Rl, Brook AJ.  Freshwater algae from the Itasca State Park, Minnesota. II. Chrysophyceae and Xanthophyceae.  Nova Hedwigia. 1969;17:105‑112.

 

Meyer RL, Brook AJ.  Freshwater Algae from the Itasca State Park, Minnesota. III. Pyrrhophyta and Euglenophyta. Nova Hedwigia. 1969;18:367‑382.

 

Meyer RL, Brook AJ.  Freshwater algae from the Itasca State Park, Minnesota. IV. Cyanophyta, Rhodophyta, Chloromonadaceae, and Cryptomonadales.  Nova Hedwigia. 1971;22:649‑658.

 

Meyer RL.  The freshwater algae of Arkansas.  Introduction and Recent Additions. Arkansas Acad. Sci., Proc.  1969;23:145‑156.

 

Meyer RL, Brown JF, Gearheart RA.  Cattle poisioning related to the blue­green alga Polycystis aeruginosa Kutz.  Arkansas Acad. Sci., Proc. 1969;23:176‑18­6.

 

Meyer RL.  The freshwater algae of Arkansas.  II. New Additions. Arkansas Acad. Sci., Proc. 1970;23:32‑35.

 

Meyer RL.  Notes on the algae of Arkansas.  I. Chrysococcus, Kephyrion, Kephy­riopsis, Pseudokephyrion, and Stenokalyx.  Arkansas Acad. Sci., Proc. 1971;25:32‑41.

 

Meyer RL.  A study of phytoplankton dynamics in Lake Fayetteville as a means of assessing water quality.  Arkansas Water Resources Research Center Publ. No. 10: 58 pages.  1971.

 

Meyer RL.  Phycological report.  In: Babcock R, ed.  Preliminary Reconnaissance Water Quality Survey of the Buffalo River.  Arkansas Water Resources Research Center Report No. 4.  1973.

 

Nix J, Meyer RL, MacDonald H.  Collection of Environmental Data on DeGray Reservoir and the Watershed of the Caddo River.  Arkansas Water Resources Research Center Report No. 6.  1973.

 

Meyer RL, Wheeler JH.  Seasonal Survey of Phytoplankton Populations in West­ern Lake Superior.  Reserve Mining Co. Reports.  1973;101 pages.

 

Meyer RL.  Studies on Near Shore Phytoplankton Populations in Western Lake Superior. Reserve Mining Co. Reports.  1973;163 pages.

 

Meyer RL.  Spatial and temporal distribution of algae, with associated parameters, along the Buffalo River.  Proceedings of the National Park Service Southwest Region Natural Science Conference.  1974;199‑209

 

Meyer RL.  Phytoplankton studies.  In:  Nix J, et al, eds.  Collection of Environmental Data on DeGray Reservoir and the Watershed of the Caddo River, Arkansas.  Little Rock District, U.S. Corps of Engineers; 1974: 45 pages.

 

Meyer RL.  Water quality.  In: Dale EE, Jr., ed. Environmental Evaluation Report on Various Complete Channel Projects in Eastern Arkansas.  Little Rock District, U.S. Corps of Engineers; 1974: 45 pages.

 

Meyer RL.  Biochrome Analysis as a Method for Assessing Phytoplankton Dynamics. Phase I.  Arkansas Water Resources Research Center Publ. No. 27: 65 pages.  1975.

 

Meyer RL.  Biochrome Analysis as A Method for Assessing Phytoplankton Dynamics. Phase II.  Arkansas Water Resources Research Center Publ. No. 32:57 pages.  1975.

 

Meyer RL.  Spatial and temporal distribution of algae and associated parameters.  In: Babcock R, MacDonald H, eds. Buffalo National River Ecosystem.  Arkansas Water Resources Research Center Publ. No. 34:103‑115.  1975.

 

McNutt AM, Buchanan TM, Kraemer LR, Meyer RL, Schmitz EH.  An Evaluation of the Effects of Dredging within the Arkansas River Navigation System.  Vol. I. Introduction, Summary and Conclusions, and Recommendations.  Arkansas Water Resources Research Center Publ. No. 43: 127 pages.  1976.

 

McNutt AM, Meyer RL.  An Evaluation of the Effects of Dredging within the Arkansas River Navigation System.  Vol. II. The Effects upon the Phytoplankton Association. Arkansas Water Resources Research Center Publ. No. 45: 127 pages.  1976.

 

Meyer RL.  Phytoplankton.  In:  Nix J, et al, eds. Collection of Environmental Data on Degray Reservoir and the Watershed of the Caddo River. Vicksburg, MS: Waterways Experiment Station Report, U.S. Corps of Engineers; 1977:448 pages.

 

Meyer RL.  Water Quality and Phytoplankton Analysis in the Buffalo National River Ecosystem.  Part III.  Arkansas Water Resources Research Center Publ. No. 49.  1977; Sec. III:1‑19.

 

Andersen RA, Meyer RL.  Scaled chrysophyceae from Arkansas. Arkansas Acad. Sci., Proc. 1977;31:12‑16.

 

Rice RG, Meyer RL.  Algal assemblage distribution as related to seasonal fluctuations of selected metal concentrations.  Arkansas Acad. Sci., Proc. 1977;31:90‑91.

 

Meyer RL, Rippey LL. 1978.  Spatial and temporal distribution of algae and selected water quality parameters in the Buffalo River, Arkansas.  In:  Linn RM, ed.  First Conference on Scientific Research in the National Parks. American Institute for Biological Sciences and U.S. Department of Interior. 1978;1:531‑538

 

Meyer RL.  Water quality and phycological studies.  In:  Dale EE, Jr., et al, eds. Buffalo National River Ecosystem.  Part IV, An Interdisciplinary Study.  Arkansas Water Resources Research Center Publ. No. 62: 19‑41.  1978.

 

Brown AV, Meyer RL, Babcock RE.  An Ecological Reconnaissance of the White River Sylamore Bottom.  Arkansas Water Resources Research Center Publ. No. 76: 40 pages.  1980.

 

Meyer RL, Babcock RE.  Classification and Ranking of Selected Arkansas Lakes. Arkansas Water Resources Research Center Publ. No. MSC‑23:  324 pages.  1980.

 

Meyer RL.  A Qualitative Evaluation of the Algae Associated with the Springs and Formations in Hot Springs National Park.  National Park Service Report.  27 pages.  1980.

 

Meyer RL.  Application of a New Method for Quantitivive Evaluation of Stream Benthic Algal Populations.  Arkansas Water Resources Research Center Publ. No. 80.  28 pages.  1980.

 

Chapman R, Meyer RL.  A preliminary list of freshwater and marine field stations of the world.  In:  J. Rosowski J, Parker B, eds. Selected Papers in Phycology II.  Phycological Sociey of America, Book Division. Sec V, p. 827‑842.  1982.

 

Rienke DC, Meyer RL.  A Guide to the Specific Literature of Freshwater Algae. Report of the State Biological Survey of Kansas; Lawrence, KS; 1982; No. 26; 26 pages.

 

Thompson RH, Meyer RL.  Cystodinium acerosum n. sp. and certain "horned" species of the genus Cystodinium Klebs.  Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 1984;87:83‑90.

 

Meyer RL, Green WR.  Evaluation of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Enrichment Using in situ Enclosure Bags with Temporal Indigenous Phytoplankton Populations.  Arkansas Water Research Center Publ. No. 110:  33 pages.  1984.

 

Meyer RL.  Qualitative and Quantitative Aquatic Algal Data Compilation to Determine Macrotrends.  Arkansas Water Resources Research Center Publication No. 114:  7 pages.  1985.

 

Meyer RL, Green WR.  The application of the algal assay bottle test to define potential algal production through time and space.  In:  Meyer RL, Mack LE, eds. Water Quality Management Strategies for Beaver Reservoir.  Arkansas Department of Pollution Control and Ecology and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; 41 pages.  1985.

 

Meyer RL.  Conjugatophyceae of Itasca State Park, Minnesota.  In:  Beibel P, Mollenhauer D, eds.  Second International Symposium on Desmids.  Beih. Nova Hedwigia. 1986;56:23‑42.

 

Meyer RL.  A proposed phylogenetic sequence for the loricate rhizopodial chryso­phyce­ae.  In:  Andersen R, Kristiansen J, eds. Chrysophytes:  Aspects and Problems. Cambridge University Press; 1986:75‑85.

 

Meyer RL.  Qualitative and Quantitative Aquatic Algal Data Compliation to Determine Microtrends‑II.  Arkansas Water Resources Research Center Publication No. 121:  6 pages.  1986.

 

Meyer RL, Green WR, Steele KR, Wickliff D.  Algal Growth Potentials and Heavy Metal Concentrations of the Primary Streams to Upper Beaver Lake.  Arkansas Water Resources Research Center Publication No. 122:  94 pages.  1986.

 

Meyer RL.  Phytoplankton Succession in DeGray Reservoir (1975‑1980):  Proceedings of the DeGray Symposium on Arkansas Lakes.  U.S. Corps of Engineers; U.S. Government Printing Office.  1987.

 

Meyer RL.  Qualitative and Quantitative Aquatic Algal Data Compliation to Determine Macrotrends‑IV.  Arkansas Water Resources Research Center Publication No. 133:  7 pages.  1988.

 

Meyer RL.  Presentation of Verified Algal Taxa as Reference Sources.  Arkansas Water Resources Research Center Publication No. 143: 10 pages.  1989.

 

Meyer RL.  Presentation of Verified Algal Taxa as Reference Sources, Phase II. Arkansas Water Resources Research Center Publication No. 153: 17 pages.  1989.