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Kenneth W. Stewart, 1935•Fi2012 Western North American Naturalist Volume 73 Number 1 Article 15 4-30-2013 Kenneth W. Stewart, 1935–2012: obituary and list of publications Bill P. Stark Mississippi College, Clinton, MS, [email protected] Richard W. Baumann Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/wnan Part of the Anatomy Commons, Botany Commons, Physiology Commons, and the Zoology Commons Recommended Citation Stark, Bill P. and Baumann, Richard W. (2013) "Kenneth W. Stewart, 1935–2012: obituary and list of publications," Western North American Naturalist: Vol. 73 : No. 1 , Article 15. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/wnan/vol73/iss1/15 This Obituary is brought to you for free and open access by the Western North American Naturalist Publications at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Western North American Naturalist by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. Western North American Naturalist 73(1), © 2013, pp. 118–126 KENNETH W. STEWART, 1935–2012: OBITUARY AND LIST OF PUBLICATIONS Department of Biological Sciences from 1961 to 2000, as Chairman of the department from 1979 to 1983, and as Director of the Division of Environmental Sciences from 1988 to 1990. In 1994, he was appointed Regents Professor by the Texas Board of Regents and he continued as Regents Professor Emeritus and Adjunct Research Professor in the UNT Biology de - partment until his death on 9 December 2012. In addition to these appointments, Ken served as Visiting Professor at the University of Okla- homa Biological Station during the summers of 1966, 1991, and 1993 and at the University of Montana Biological Station during the sum- mer months of 1981, 1985, 1987, and 1989. At UNT, Ken taught several graduate and undergraduate courses including Freshman Zoology, Environmental Biology, Conservation Management, Entomology, and Aquatic Ento- mology. He was a master teacher noted for delivery of organized lectures filled with the Kenneth W. Stewart intricate and fascinating details peculiar to the systematics, biogeography, trophic dynamics, Kenneth Wilson Stewart was born to Bill drift, and behavior of stoneflies and other and Dorothy McAlister Wilson on 5 March creatures. During his career he supervised 43 1935 in Walters, Cotton County, Oklahoma, graduate students who completed 25 M.S. and and grew up in the home of his stepfather, 21 Ph.D. degrees. His personal research evolved over the years, and perhaps an epiphany-like Anderson Stewart, and mother, Dorothy Mc - experience occurred in 1968 with the discov- Alister Stewart. He graduated from Hugoton ery of a population of the stonefly Perlesta (Kansas) High School in 1953 and married placida in nearby Denton Creek; this discov- Francene Brewer of Hugoton in 1956. To - ery prompted his first stonefly study on repro- gether they raised 3 children, Dana, Daryl, ductive morphology and mating behavior in and Dwight. Ken attended Oklahoma State Perlesta, coauthored with Gerald Atmar and University (then Oklahoma A&M) and re - Bernie Solon in 1969. Although stoneflies be - ceived his B.S. in Forestry/Botany in 1958, his came the focus of his subsequent research, he M.S. in Entomology in 1959, and a Ph.D. in continued to work with students on a variety of Entomology/Zoology in 1963. He worked dur- other groups including odonates, spiders, may - ing the summer months for the U.S. Soil Con- flies, caddisflies, hellgrammites, lepidopterans, servation Service and the U.S. Forest Service nematodes, and fish. His publication re cord in 1954, 1956, and 1958 and took his first aca- includes 191 articles, book chapters, and books demic position as a biology instructor at Cof- authored singly or with 67 different coauthors. feyville (Kansas) College for the 1960/61 school Frequent topics of study include life histories, year before moving to the University of North food habits, faunistics, drift, and benthic ecology, Texas (UNT) in Denton, Texas, where he but many of Ken’s studies are based on the served as a full-time faculty member in the analysis of drumming signals among stoneflies. 118 2013] OBITUARY 119 Early work on this topic was done by Euro- of his life’s work and he often reminded him- pean workers such as Rainier Rupprecht, but self and colleagues that “the logical continua- Ken, together with a cadre of students and col- tion” of the nymph work was the association leagues (Stan Szczytko, David Zeigler, Rosalyn and study of additional species in order to test Snellen, Monchan Maketon, Rodney Hassage, the validity of descriptions and keys. Several Boris Kondratieff, Fred Kirchner, Richard Bot- of us are still actively involved in exercising torff, Steve Moulton, Kevin Alexander, John this “logical continuation” as we attempt to Abbott, J.M. Tierno de Figueroa, J.M. Luzon- complete studies initiated with Ken in recent Ortega, and John Sandberg), became the un - months. Colleagues who have collaborated questioned leaders of this line of investigation recently with Ken in these studies include as collectively they moved the process through Norm An derson, Richard Baumann, Eugene several phases of technology, addressed many Drake, Jane Earle, Fred Kirchner, Boris Kon- of the basic questions, and helped in develop- dratieff, John Sandberg, Larry Serpa, Bill ment of standards for signal analysis. Stark, and Stan Szczytko. Ken also collected in In 1978, inspired by the publication of 2 Alaska for many years and collaborated with classic works on larval aquatic insects (Ed - Mark Os wood in a study of stoneflies of Alaska munds, Jensen, and Berner’s 1976 book on and western Canada published by The Cad- mayflies and Wiggins’ 1977 book on caddis dis Press in 2006, and he coauthored the larvae), Ken initiated a similar study on stone- stonefly chapter with Peter Harper in Merritt fly larvae, together with Bill Stark, which led and Cummins’ 2nd and 3rd editions of An to publication of, perhaps, his most notewor- Introduction to the Aquatic In sects of North thy work, Nymphs of North American Stonefly America and with Bill Stark in the 4th edition Genera (Plecoptera) published in 1988, re - (Merritt, Cummins, and Berg). printed in 1993, and released in a second edi- Although not the major thrust of his work, tion in 2002. A major part of this study Ken coauthored several taxonomic papers with involved collecting specimens of several rare students and colleagues (Kevin Alexander, genera unknown in the larval stage, and this Richard Bottorff, Ed DeWalt, Mark Ernst, led Ken and his colleagues on numerous for- Jack Feminella, Fred Kirchner, Boris Kon- ays in search of these stoneflies. Although all dratieff, Steve Moulton, Mark Oswood, Barry these trips were iconic in their own way, one Poulton, Jean Stanger, Bill Stark, and Stan which stands out for the authors became Szczytko) in which species (or genera) of stone - known (to us) as the “Great Stonefly Expedi- flies or caddisflies were proposed. The list tion of 1979.” A major target for this trip was includes 28 stonefly species, 6 caddisfly spe - the nemourid genus Lednia, known at the cies, and 6 stonefly genera (Alaskaperla Stew- time from a few adults collected in 2 glacial art & DeWalt, 1991; Baumannella Stark & streams in Montana’s Glacier National Park. Stewart, 1985; Cascadoperla Szczytko & Stew- There, in a small stream at Logan Pass on 20 art, 1979; Oconoperla Stark & Stewart, 1982; and 22 July 1979, the 3 of us (Stewart, Bau- Susulus Bottorff & Stewart, 1989; Tallaperla mann, and Stark) collected 42 mature, pre- Stark & Stewart, 1981). In addition, Ken has emergent Lednia nymphs, the first documen- been honored with 3 patronyms: Beloneuria tation of the immature stage of this interesting stewarti Stark & Szczytko, 1976; Neoperla genus. A photograph made of Ken on 20 July stewarti Stark & Baumann, 1978, and Zealeuc- in Logan Creek was published by Stark, tra stewarti Kondratieff & Zuellig, 2004. Szczytko, and Nelson on page 8 in their 1998 Ken was a leader in several scientific socie - book American Stoneflies: A Photographic ties including the North American Benthologi- Guide to the Plecoptera. Ken’s exuberence and cal Society (now Society for Freshwater Sci- passion for the scientific study of drumming ence) and the International Society for Ple- and nymphal associations of stoneflies were copterologists. He served the former group as celebrated in “Yep, Another Nymphmaniac” president in 1978–1979 and was later honored an article written by Robert Boyle and pub- by that group in 1997 with the Award of Excel- lished in Sports Illustrated in 1980. Ken is also lence in Benthic Science. He served the latter mentioned prominently in Leiser and Boyle’s group for many years as a member of the orga- book Stoneflies for the Angler published in nizing committee and as managing editor of 1982. The nymph project became a major part Perla, the organization’s newsletter, and was 120 WESTERN NORTH AMERICAN NATURALIST [Volume 73 honored in 2001 with the Lifetime Achievement Scoly tidae). Annals of the Entomological Society Award in recognition of his outstanding contri- of America 58(6):924–927. butions to plecopterology. Ken was an active 1966. STEWART, K.W., AND H.E. SCHLICHTING JR. Dispersal of algae and protozoa by selected aquatic insects. member of the American Entomological Soci- Journal of Ecology 54:551–562. ety for more than 30 years and the Entomologi- 1966. PARSONS, M.W., H.E. SCHLICHTING JR., AND K.W. cal Society of America for more than 40 years. STEWART. In-flight transport of algae and protozoa In 1973, he and Richard Baumann were instru- by selected Odonata. Transactions of the American mental in organizing a formal Aquatic Insects Microscopy Society 85(4):520–527. Subsection of the ESA.
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