ACADEMIC HISTORY
GRADUATE
Ph.D., December 2001 
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Dissertation:  Spatio-temporal dynamics in Colorado potato beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae:
                    Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say)) populations

Master of Science, Entomology,  May 1990
University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho
Thesis:  Potential Impacts on Radioactive Waste Disposal Situations by the Harvester Ant, 
            Pogonomyrmex salinus Olsen (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).

Master of Divinity, May 1985
Wartburg Theological Seminary
Dubuque, Iowa  52001
 

POSTGRADUATE

GIS Certificate Program, September 2003
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
 

UNDERGRADUATE

Bachelor of Science, Biology and Psychology,  May, 1978
College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho
Magna Cum Lauda
Thesis:  The Cacti of the Central Desert of Baja California: An Ecological Perspective
 

AWARDS

NASA Space Grant Fellowship, 1999 - 2001  (Pennsylvania State University)
Comstock Nominee, Pacific Branch of the Entomological Society of America, June 1990 
     (University of Idaho)
H.C. Manis Award, for the outstanding entomological thesis or dissertation 
     submitted May 1989-April 1990 (University of Idaho)
Best Undergraduate Paper, Idaho Academy of Sciences, April 1979  (College of Idaho)
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