College of Science and Technology
Scholarly Presentations and Conference Proceedings

2006
Barham, K., J. W. Priest, and A. D. Nelson.  "Heart Rate Variability of Active and Inactive Athletes During Rest and Stress."  53rd Annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine.

Brister, J.S. (student) and A.D. Nelson. "Soils, hydrology, vegetative ecology, and floristics of natural and constructed wetlands along the Leon River in the West Cross Timbers, Comanche Co., Texas." 109th Annual Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science (TAS).

Goderya, S.N. and M. Hibbs. "Tarleton State University Observatory and Planetarium: A Unique Facility for Education and Research for K-12, Undergraduate, and Graduate Students." American Astronomical Society 207th meeting.

Higgins, C.L. "Modeling stream-fish assemblages with niche apportionment models: patterns, processes and scale dependence." Ecological Society of America. Memphis, TN.

Higgins, C.L. "Spatiotemporal variation in fish assemblages based on species composition and functional groups." Southern Division of the American Fisheries Society. San Antonio, TX.

Thompson, C.A. "Hydrogeomorphic analysis of muck wetlands at Gus Engeling Wildlife Management Area, Anderson County, Texas." Society of Wetland Scientists International Meeting. Cairns, Australia.

2005
Brawner, B. and B. Wyatt. “Situated  Learning.” Published abstract from School Science and Mathematics Association Annual Convention. Fort Worth, Texas, November 10-12, 2005.

Brawner, B. and B. Wyatt.  “Reinforcing Algebra Through a Function-Based Approach.” Published abstract from School Science and Mathematics Association Annual Convention. Fort Worth, Texas,  November 10-12, 2005.

Brister, J. S. (student) and A. D. Nelson.  "Hydrology, soils, ecology, and floristics of natural and constructed wetlands along the Leon River in the West Cross Timbers, Comanche Co., Texas."  Third Annual TAMUS Pathways Student Research Symposium.

Brister, J. S. (student) and A. D. Nelson.  "Hydrology, soils, ecology, and floristics of natural and constructed wetlands along the Leon River in the West Cross Timbers, Comanche Co., Texas. " Southwestern Association of Naturalists.

Charlton, A. and H. Rathburn.  “Development of a purification scheme for a trypsin inhibitor from a native Texas legume.”  Published abstract from the Third Annual TAMUS Pathways Research Symposium, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, November 4-5, 2005.

Chizinski, C.J., C.L. Higgins and K.L. Pope. "Fish communities in urban settings: multiple hypotheses testing of fish incidence patterns." Texas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society. Grapevine, TX.

Rinard, Beth. "Volcano Studies in Hawaii: An Opportunity to Expose Geology Students from the South to a New Geologic Environment." Abstract presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the South-Central Section of the Geological Society of America. San Antonio. April 15, 2005.

2004
Brawner, B. and B. Wyatt. “Function-Based Reform in College Algebra.” Published abstract from Texas Section, Mathematics Association of America. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, April 1-3, 2004.

Brister, J. (Student) and A. D. Nelson.  "Flora and ecology of natural and constructed wetlands along the Leon River in the Western Cross Timbers, Comanche Co., Texas." 107th Annual Meeting of the TAS.

Charlton, A. and H. Rathburn.  “Development of a purification scheme for a trypsin inhibitor from a native Texas legume.”  Published abstract from the Second Annual TAMUS Pathways Research Symposium, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, October 15-16, 2004.

Chizinski, C.J., C.L. Higgins, C.E. Shavlik and K.L. Pope. "Multiple hypotheses testing of fish incidence patterns in an urbanized ecosystem." American Fisheries Society. Madison, WI.

Goderya, S.N. "Research in Contact Binary Stars and Morphological Classification of Galaxies." presented at Workshop to Foster Broader Participation in NASA Space Science Missions and Research Programs, Chicago, IL.

Thompson, C.A. "Hydrogeomorphic analysis of muck wetlands at Gus Engeling Wildlife Management Area, Anderson County, Texas." Texas Academy of Science. Kerrville, TX.

West, T.C. and H. Rathburn. “Cloning of PCR fragments amplified with consensus dehydrin primers.” Published abstract from Third Annual TAMUS Pathways Research Symposium, Texas A&M University-Kingsville. November 4-5, 2005.

2003
Agapie, M. "Fractal traffic in high-speed data networks." IAFA 2003, Bucharest, Romania

Goderya, S.N., S.N. Philip and J. Andreasen. "Advances in automated algorithms for morphological classification of galaxies based on shape features." Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIII, Strasbourg, France.

Martinez, D. and K. Horak Smith. "An engineering and education interdisciplinary learning experience." Proceedings of the 33rd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference.

Martinez, D. and M. Hibbs. "Using summer campus to motivate rural students in science and engineering." Proceedings of the 33rd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference.

Nelson, A. D.  "Impacts of new certification requirements on life science certification at Tarleton State University." 106th Annual Meeting of the TAS.

Yao, L., M. Agapie, and J. Ganbar. "Long range dependence in Internet backbone traffic." IEEE IC 2003, Anchorage, AK.

2002
Brister, J. S. (Student) and A. D. Nelson.  "Floristics and vegetative ecology comparison in wetlands of different ages." 105th Annual Meeting of the TAS.

Little, B.B., W.L. Johnson, Jr., A.C. Lovell, R.M. Rejesus, and S.A. Steed. “Collusion in the U.S. Crop Insurance Program: Applied Data Mining.” Proceedings of the Eighth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. 8:594-598, 2002.

Little, B.B., W.L. Johnson, Jr., A.C. Lovell, R.M. Rejesus, and S.A. Steed. “Collusion in the U.S. Crop Insurance Program: Applied Data Mining.”  Proceedings of the Second SIAM International Conference on Data Mining. 2:583-597, 2002.

Nelson, A. D., M. Samuel, C. Jackson, A. Stahlecker-Roberson.  "Assessment of genetic diversity and sectional boundaries in tetraploid peanuts." 105th Annual Meeting of the TAS.

Shridhar, S., H. Rathburn, and A. Nelson.  “Analysis of peanut germplasm for drought responsive genes.” Published abstract from the Spring Student Research Symposium, Tarleton State University. April 24, 2002.

Shridhar, S., H. Rathburn, and A. Nelson.  “Analysis of peanut germplasm for drought responsive genes.” Published abstract from the 105th Annual Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science, Texas A&M University, Laredo, Texas.  February 28-March 2, 2002.

Thompson, C.A. "Geological Controls on Nitrogen Movement in the South and Middle Bosque Basins." American Water Resources Regional Conference, Fort Worth, TX and Texas Academy of Science, Laredo, TX.

Winton, L. and H. Rathburn. “Development of a purification scheme for a trypsin inhibitor from a native Texas legume.” Published abstract from the Tarleton Spring Student Research Symposium, April 24, 2002.

2001
Agapie, M. and K. Sohraby. "Algorithmic solution to second-order fluid flow." Proceedings of the IEEE Infocom 2001, volume 3.

Goderya, S.N. "How to use computer vision and artificial neural network for automated classification of galaxies." Tenth UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science, Exploring the Universe: Sky Surveys, Space Explorations and Space Technologies, Reduit, Mauritius.

Goderya, S.N. "Doing research on eclipsing binary stars with small telescopes and PC computers." Tenth UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science, Exploring the Universe: Sky Surveys, Space Explorations and Space Technologies, Reduit, Mauritius.

Goderya, S.N. and P.C. McGuire. "Using neural networks to classify digitized images of artificial neural networks: a description of the computational scheme." 197th Meeting of AAS, San Diego, CA.

Hice, C. L. and A. Nelson.  "A biogeographical analysis of floral and faunal diversity patterns: the example of the Texas Coast."  Annual Meeting of the Texas Society of Mammalogists, Texas Tech Center at Junction, Junction, Texas.

Jurney, J., J. Brister, N. Leslie, K. Smith, H. Rathburn, and A. Nelson.  "Assessment of wild and cultivated polyploid peanuts (Arachis) for the presence of dehydrin-like DNA sequences." 104th Annual Meeting of the TAS.

Nelson, A., A. Lucksinger, and J. Goetze.   "A comparison of the flora of northern Padre Island to that of Matagorda Island, Mustang Island and southern Padre Island, Texas."  104th Annual Meeting of the TAS.

Samuel, M., C. Jackson, and A. Nelson.  "Assessment of genetic diversity in allopolyploid peanuts (Arachis)." 104th Annual Meeting of the TAS.

Thompson, C. A. "Temperate Zone Fens of the Glaciated Midwestern USA." Society for Wetland Scientists National Meeting, Chicago, IL.

2000
Agapie, M. and K. Sohraby. "Storage system with general fluid flow: an algorithmic approach." Proceedings of the 5th Bilkent International Symposium on Computer Networks (BAS2000), Ankara, Turkey.

Negrete, I. G., A. Hempel, C. Galloway, and A. Nelson.  "South Texas endemics from Padre Island National Seashore and the upper arm of Laguna Salada on Baffin Bay. " 103rd Annual Meeting of the TAS.

Roberson, A. and A. Nelson.  "Assessment of genetic diversity in tetraploid peanuts (Arachis)."  103rd Annual Meeting of the TAS.