Professor, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
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Curriculum Vitae of Craig E. Martin Professor, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Chancellor’s Club Teaching Professor at the University of Kansas
Communication Information Address: Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045-2106 Telephone: 785-864-3645 Fax: 785-864-5860 E-mail: [email protected]
Education Ph.D. in Botany (minor in microclimatology), Duke University, Durham, NC, 1980 B.A. (High Honors) in Botany, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 1976 (preceded by two years at Mesa College, San Diego, CA)
Employment History
Chair, Dept. of Ecology & Evol. Biol., University of Kansas, 2003-2007 Acting Chair, Dept. of Ecology & Evol. Biol., University of Kansas, 2002-2003 Professor, Dept. of Ecology & Evol. Biol., University of Kansas, 1991-present Associate Professor, Dept. of Botany, University of Kansas, 1985-1991 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Botany, University of Kansas, 1980-1985 Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Botany, Duke University, 1976-1980 Research Assistant, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, 1976
Teaching Experience (past 5 years) Principles of Biology [for non-majors] (every Fall, 2009-2013) Ecological Plant Physiology (Spring 2008) Physiology of Organisms (plant half; every Spring, 2009-2014) Physiological Plant Ecology "Journal Club" (every semester) Physiological Plant Ecology "Special Topics" (occasional)
Teaching Honors
H.O.P.E. Award Recipient two times, 2001 AND 2007 (one such award among the KU faculty yearly selected by Senior class of 2001; acronym stands for “Honor to Outstanding, Progressive Educator”) Chancellor’s Club Teaching Professor, 2001 (only 14 such awards to KU faculty since 1981) H. Bernerd Fink Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1997 (one such award among the KU faculty yearly) Kemper Teaching Fellow, 1996 (one of 16 professors annually at the University of Kansas cited for outstanding teaching; awarded in first year of such awards) Center for Teaching Excellence Award for Teaching Excellence, 2004 (one award per department per year at KU; selected by undergraduates) Outstanding Advisor, Math & Science, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences,1999 (one such award per division of the College among the KU faculty yearly) Mortar Board Outstanding Educator, 1984, 1992 (Mortar Board, a Senior honor society, selects 4 or 5 Outstanding Educators from the KU faculty each year) H.O.P.E. Award Finalist, 1991, 1997, 2001, 2007 (see above information; 5-6 Finalists are selected each year) H.O.P.E. Award Semi-Finalist, 1990, 1991, 1997, 2001, 2007 (10 Semi-Finalists are selected each year) H.O.P.E. Award Quarter-Finalist, 1983, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1997, 2001, 2007 (approximately 50 Quarter-Finalists are selected each year) "Favorite Professor" Award, 1993, 1997 (selected by Senior Biology majors each year, starting in 1993) “Professor or Advisor Who Contributed Most to my Education at KU”, 1996, 1997 "Finest Teacher From Whom I Took Courses", 1984, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1992, 2001 (selected by graduating Seniors and listed in the Oread, a staff newspaper; discontinued from 1993 to 2001) Invited to teach (with 7 others) statewide Regents Honors Academy ("Science and Technology in the 21st Century") at KU, Summer, 1990
Post-Doctoral Students and Visiting Scholars Supervised (last 5 years) Dr. Rebecca Hsu (Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Taipei, Taiwan): worked in my lab spring 2005 on comparative respiratory and photosynthetic capacity of the three photosynthetic pathways.
Dr. Yogis Naidoo (Department of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa): worked in my lab fall 2005 on chloroplast clumping in CAM succulents under drought stress.
Dr. Gene-Sheng Tung (Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Taipei, Taiwan): late- spring-early summer 2009, working on effects of gall formation on the physiology of hackberry leaves.
2 Graduate Students Supervised (last 5 years)
Yichen Li, M.A. 2012-2013 (co-advisor with Prof. Teng-Chiu Lin) Univ. Kansas AND National Taiwan Normal University: Ecophysiological significance of leaf anthocyanins in the South African succulent Anacampseros rufescens. Piero Protti, Ph.D., 2005-2007: Ecophysiology and water relations of epiphytic bromeliads. (Piero quit to get an M.A. and now teaches at Rockhurst College in Kansas City, MO.) Kellis Bayless, Ph.D., 2001-2007: Seasonal CO2 flux in a northeastern Kansas grassland dominated by Bromus inermis Leyss. (Kellis is currently an adjunct professor at several local liberal arts colleges) Service on Graduate Student Committees (excluding my students) Current: 2 Past: 70
Undergraduate Students Supervised (independent research projects) Current: 9 Past: 105 Resultant Publications: 35
Research Grants Received (last 5 years) Outside the University of Kansas (11) National Science Foundation, 2014-1016: Occurrence of CAM photosynthesis in a Southeast Asian C4 Succulent Grass, Spinifex littoreus. Award of $300,000. Sole awardee. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 6,7- 2014: Hydrenchyma-to- chlorenchyma water movement during desiccation in the succulents. Award of $7000. Sole awardee. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 6,7- 2011: Water movement during desiccation in the atmospheric epiphytic bromeliad, Tillandsia usneoides. Award of $6500. Sole awardee. Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, 6-2010: An investigation of the physiological significance of water vapor absorption by leaf epidermal trichomes in epiphytic bromeliads. Award of $5800. Sole awardee.
Publications - Refereed (93) (last five years)
Barve, N., C.E. Martin, N. A. Brunsell, A. T. Peterson. 2014. The role of physiological optima in shaping the geographic distribution of Spanish moss. Glob. Ecol. Biog. (published)
3 Chen, Y.-C, Martin C. E., Lin T.-C. 2014. Ecophysiology of leaf guttation: effects of guttation prevention on photosynthesis and transpiration in leaves of Alchemilla mollis. Photosynthetica (published). Chiang, J.-M., Lin, T.-C., Luo, Y.-C., Chang, C.-T., Martin, C.E. 2013. Relationships among rainfall, leaf hydrenchyma, and Crassulacean acid metabolism in Pyrrosia lanceolata (L.) Fraw. (Polypodiaceae) in central Taiwan. Flora 30: (published) Martin, C.E., Brandmeyer, E.A, Ross, R.D. 2013. Ecophysiological function of leaf ‘windows’ in Lithops species – ‘Living Stones’ that grow underground. Plant Biol. (published) Martin C.E., G. Rux, and W.B. Herppich. 2012. Responses of epidermal cell turgor pressure and photosynthetic activity of leaves of the atmospheric epiphyte Tillandsia usneoides (Bromeliaceae) after exposure to high humidity.(published) Willert, D.J., Martin, C.E., Herppich, W.B. 2012. Mitochondrial respiration in ME-CAM, PEPCK-CAM, and C3 succulents: comparative operation of the cytochrome, alternative, and rotenone-resistant pathways. J. Exp. Bot. (published) Herrera, A., Martin, C.E., Medina, E. 2010. Induction by drought of crassulacean acid metabolism in the terrestrial bromeliad, Puya floccosa. Photosynthetica 48: 383- 388. Martin, C.E. 2010. The occurrence of plants with Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM) photosynthesis in tropical and subtropical rain forests with very high rainfall. Taiwan J. Forest Sci. 25: 3-16. Martin, C.E., E. J. Mas, L. Lu, B.L. Ong. 2010. The photosynthetic pathway of the roots of twelve epiphytic orchids with CAM leaves. Photosynthetica 48: 42-50. Martin, C.E, R. (C.-C.) Hsu, T.-C. Lin. 2010. Comparative photosynthetic capacity of abaxial and adaxial leaf sides as related to exposure in two epiphytic ferns in a subtropical rainforest in northeastern Taiwan. Amer. Fern J. Martin, C. E., R. Hsu, and T.-C. Lin. 2010. Sun/shade adaptations of the photosynthetic apparatus of Hoya carnosa, an epiphytic CAM vine, in a subtropical rain forest in northeastern Taiwan. Acta Physiol. Plant. (published). Martin, C.E., R. Hsu, and T-C. Lin. 2009. The relationship between CAM and leaf succulence in two epiphytic vines, Hoya carnosa and Dischidia formosana (Asclepiadaceae), in a subtropical rainforest in northeastern Taiwan. Photosynthetica 47: 445-450. Egbert, K.J., C. E. Martin, and T.C. Vogelmann. 2008. The influence of epidermal windows on the light environment within the leaves of six succulents. J. Exp. Bot. 59:1863-1873.
Invited Presentations (total of 64)(last 5 years Conferences (8)
International Conference on Crassulacean Acid Metabolism and C4 Photosynthesis, Cambridge, England, July 2007
4 Universities, Institutes, Organizations (last 5 years) 5 per year at universities and institutes in Taiwan 2 per year at universities and institutes in Germany
Service - National, International (last 5 years) Reviewer of manuscripts for the following journals (several per year): Plant Physiology, Ecology, International Journal of Plant Sciences, American Journal of Botany, Canadian Journal of Botany, Annals of Botany, Botanica Acta, Selbyana, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, The Bryologist, Southwestern Naturalist, Proceedings (Plant Sciences) of the Indian Academy of Science, Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, New Phytologist, Plant and Soil, Plant, Cell & Environment, Interciencia, Canadian Journal of Plant Science, Environmental Pollution Reviewer of proposals for the following funding agencies (approx. two per year): National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Research Council of Canada, National Geographic Society, Organization for Tropical Studies, National Environmental Research Council (United Kingdom), National Environmental Research Council (South Africa) Presentations at aiwan high schools and junior high schools – about 2-3 per year
Service - Community (last 5 years) Research consultant for numerous area junior high and high schools (approx. 2 consultations per semester) Speaker (plant adaptations, ecophysiological research, travels in Africa, etc.) at numerous area elementary, junior high, and high schools (approx. one per semester)
Service - University of Kansas (last 5 years)
Chair, Biology Honors Committee, 2012-2014 Member, Biology Honors Committee, 2009-2012 Member, EEB Sabbatical Leave Committee, 2011-2013 Chair, Dept. of Ecology & Evol. Biology, 2003-2007
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