Richard L. Meyer
EDUCATION
Botany, Zoology and Microbiology
Biology and Education
Minors:
Mathematics & Chemistry
Professional
Experience
Education
Professor
Emeritus. 1997.
Professor of Biological Sciences. 1972-1997.
Adjunct Professor of Agronomy. 1991-1996.
Instructor,
Associate Director,
Interim Director of Research and Sponsored Programs. 1977.
Research Scientist and Associate Professor of
Biological Sciences. 1968-1972.
Professor of Botany & Graduate Faculty,
Post-Doctoral
Fellow, National Science Foundation. 1965-1968, 1970.
Instructor of Botany and Biology. 1963-1964.
Instructor of Botany & Biology. 1958-1959.
Graduate
research and teaching assistant. 1957-1958.
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences,
Chief Scientist R/V Atlantis & R/V Anton Bruun, National Science Foundation, International Indian
Ocean Expedition, Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution. 1961-1963.
Science teacher, Raytown
Highschool,
Business and Industry
Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive
Officer; Central Emergency Medical Services, Inc.
Statistical quality control engineer, Westinghouse Corporation. 1954.
Consulting
·
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National Park
Service, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, University of North Dakota,
Minnesota State University—Moorehead
·
US Army Corps of
Engineers, Depatment of Interior, Environmental
Protection Agency
·
Numerous
industries, consulting firms, municipalities, state and federal agencies
·
Expert witness
for legal firms, private parties, municipal, state and federal agencies
Awards
National Science Foundation
Postdoctoral Fellowships,
National
Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship,
Carolyn M. Crosby Fellowship,
Citations
American
Men and Women of Science
Who’s
Who in American Education
Who’s
Who in the South and Southwest
Professional Organizations
AAAS,
Amer. Microscopical Soc., Amer. Soc. Limnology &
Oceanography, Amer. Water Resources Assoc., Ark. Acad. Sci.,
Beta Beta Beta
Fraternity—Biological Sciences, Botanical Soc. Amer., British Phycological Soc., Gamma Alpha—Graduate Student Fraternity,
Internat. Phycological
Soc., Nat. Educational Assoc., Phycological Soc. Amer., Sigma Xi, The
Research Society
Refereed Publications (examples)
Journals and Proceedings
Meyer
RL. Primary
productivity via the carbon-14 and chlorophyll techniques from the
Meyer
RL. Certain members of the phytoplankton from the
Meyer
RL, Brook AJ. Freshwater algae from the
Meyer
RL. Notes on the algae of
Meyer
RL, Rippey LL. 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.
Proc. 1978;1:531-538
Thompson
RH, Meyer RL. Cystodinium acerosum n. sp. and certain horned species of the genus Cystodinium. Trans.
Kansas Acad. Sci. 1984;87:83-90
Meyer
RL. Conjugatophyceae of
Meyer
RL. A proposed phylogenetic
sequence for the Loricate Rhizopodial Chrysophyceae.
In: Andersen R, Kristiansen J, eds. Chrysophytes: aspects
and problems.
Meyer
RL. The Rediscovery of Phormidium Treleasei Gomont. Beh. Nova Hedwigia 1996;112:101-104.
Non-refereed publications and abstracts not included.
Papers read as an invited lecturer and speaker: >100
Professional Service
Activities
Sigma Xi, The
Research Society
Board
of Directors, 1989-96, 2002-present
Executive
Committee, 1990-92, 2002-present
Acting
Executive Director, July, 2007
Executive
Director Search Committee, 2006, 2007
Executive
Director Review Committee, 2002-present, Chair
Acting
Publisher of American Scientist,
July, 2007
Treasurer,
2002-present
Committee
on Finances, 1995—present
Committee
on Awards, 1989-92, Chair
Committee
on Audit Review, 1990-92, Chair
Director,
Southeast Region, 1992-96
Director-at-Large,
1989-92
Committee
on Credentials, Chair
Committee on Meetings 1987-91;
Chairman and Host of the 1989 Annual Meeting “Science as a Way of Knowing.”
Phycological
Society of
National Science Foundation - National
Advisory Group for undergraduate
education in science, engineering and mathematics
Reviewer for J. Phycology, Phycologia,
Water Resources Research Bulletin, Amer, J. Botany,
Amer. Microscopical Soc., Phycological
Soc. Amer. Book section, Michigan Botanists, Scott-Forseman
Book of environmental science, Wm. C. Brown books, NSF, Univsrsity
Councils on Water Resources, US Bureau of Reclamation, US Geological Survey, US
Dept. of Interior
University, College, and Department
committees—numerous
State and local: Game &
Fish Commission, Environmental Quality, Pollution Control Board—Fayetteville,
AR, Emergency Services/911, Goshen Fire Department, NW Arkansas Airport
Authority, Environmental Guardianship Council