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Salt Water Habitats Continued from Page 1 Major and a Criminal Justice Minor Spring 2005 Vol 3, Issue 2 coral shrimp hides in an artifi- cial coral. The two friends set up a 20-gal- lon tank in Kalyn's home last year and had so much fun, they wanted to try something bigger. The large tank in the biology lab was just collecting dust, so the girls asked permission to set up the aquarium. “We thought it would be really good for the introductory biology students to see some of the things they were learning about in an actu- al habitat,” said Kalyn. “It's also medically proven that watching fish swim around lowers the blood pressure, and we thought that would be good for everyone!” Kalyn, who has worked at Sarah Tracy and Kalyn Estep tend to their fish friends. Petland in North Augusta for mals into action in the Biology the past three years, will gradu- Salt Water 102 lab this year, setting up two ate next May with a biology salt water aquaria for the enjoy- continued on page 6 ment and education of students Habitats and faculty alike. The 55-gal- (and other creatures) lon tank pictured is home to a yellow tang, a maroon clown- hey were both tomboys fish, a green birdfish, a spotfin IN THIS ISSUE: growing up. Biology lion fish, a snowflake moray eel, Chair’s Message - 2 Tmajors Sarah Tracy and and a Banggai cardinalfish. Faculty Focus - 2 Kalyn Estep grew up in the The smaller 20-gallon tank in Graduates - 3 country, Sarah by a creek and the back corner of the room is a Students of The Year - 4 Kalyn by a lake. “We must mini-reef system with live rock SC Acad. of Science - 5 have driven our parents crazy providing a habitat for a poly- Faculty News - 5 with all the critters we would chaete worm, red coral, and a Alumni Update - 5 bring home,” Kalyn muses. variety of bacteria and other Independant Study - 7 They have put their love of ani- microorganisms. A banded Alumni Focus - 8 From The Chair: ometimes change comes in small steps let us know how you are doing! and sometimes in leaps and bounds. SWhen you look around our department In our last edition, I reported the hiring of Dr. lately it seems that we are currently on either a Michele Harmon to teach physiology. leap or a bound. One manifestation of the Although she does not officially start until the changes taking place in the Department of fall, she is already on campus and has hit the Biology and Geology is the new look of ground running. She recently visited the our newsletter. A facelift was in order “Changes University of Georgia where she and I hope you like what we have done. learned the finer techniques of C. ele- This publication would not be possible are everywhere - gans culture. Although these nema- were it not for the hard work of Carol todes have been most commonly used all you have to do to study development, Michele is hop- Cutsinger, our Administrative Assistant ing to put them to work in the area of who not only finds time to write most of is look! ” environmental toxicology. In addition the articles, but to take all of the photo- to filling the physiology position, I am graphs as well. A special thanks goes to Jeff pleased to report that we are currently search- Mastromonico, the USCA Director of Visual ing for a tenure-track faculty position to teach Communications for his help in the new anatomy, something we have not had since the design. As usual you can access the full color retirement of John Spooner. We are currently version at our website: http://www.usca.edu/bio- conducting on-campus interviews and I am geo/news.asp. We are also working on a new hopeful that we can hire someone for the fall look for the web site and hope to have some- semester. thing up and running soon. Visit us often and continued on page 6 revamped the class to include evolu- him back to UC-Davis to investi- Faculty Focus: Andy Dyer tionary theory. gate the population ecology of inva- Educated at California State sive species such as barbed goat- e calls his office a haven, University, Fresno (B.A., Zoology grass. and during the five years and M.A., Wildlife biology) and the He has been working on two major HDr. Andy Dyer has been University of California, Davis research projects here at USCA, at USCA, he has filled it with (Ph.D., Plant ecology), Dr. Dyer involving a number of our students soothing, interesting items. The served two post- Zen garden, bubbling fountain, docs before join- Hindu prayer flags, plants, and ing our faculty in collection of rocks, fossils, arrow 2000. The first, heads, and tree cores are indica- with the Univ. of tive of the varied interests of our Michigan, took resident Plant Ecologist. Dr. Dyer him and his fam- is one of the principal teachers for ily to Israel on an ABIO 102, Biological Sciences II, NSF-funded and teaches ABIO 370, Ecology project investigat- and Evolution, ABIO 570, ing the competi- Principles of Ecology, and has tive interactions been the instructor for ABIO of species from 355, Integrated Research two desert annual Techniques. In 2002, ABIO 370 communities. became a core requirement for all The second took Biology majors ,and Dr. Dyer 2 Evolutions Congratulations Graduates Wedding Bells Pam Wall. Jackie, who is May currently working at Katherine Anderson MCG, has been accepted Kimberly Browder into the Cardiac and Raven Ginn Vascular Technology Pamela Johnson Program at the University Carol Journey—cum Hospital. Jason is laude employed with a family business in Jackson. Natalie Keya McCasline has completed her first year Leonard “Ray” in a Ph.D. program at McNeely—cum laude iology/Geology alums Jackie UNC Chapel Hill, Vanessa, Jaina Patel—magna Davis and Jason Hall were employed at MCG, is preparing for cum laude Bmarried May 7, 2005 at a her own wedding in June, and Pam Barbara Ann Smith beautiful ceremony at Lake Murray. is beginning her 3rd year of doctor- K’Joy Simms Attending the bride were classmates al studies at MCG. Bianca West Natalie Surzenko, Vanessa Guy, and Carl Williams August Lee Atkinson doing Senior Research Projects. to start spreading so rapidly. Barbed Kimberly Bushee With funding from the National goatgrass, related to wheat, is a Shanette Meeks Wild Turkey Federation, he has hybrid of two other species of goat- been studying the biology and ecol- grass and is teaching us new things Christopher Perez ogy of Chufa, a domesticated about the genetics of invasive Tanya Vance nutsedge which is fodder for wild species. turkeys. The NWTF was interested in learning whether Chufa would This summer Dr. Dyer is study- hybridize with wild nutsedges (the ing tuber reproduction in answer has turned out to be very nutsedges, funded by a USC unlikely), but Dr. Dyer's studies Research and Productive went much further, investigating Scholarship grant. different growing conditions, com- petition, and germination. Dr. Dyer has also been very active in the community. An avid swim- He has also continued his work mer (he currently holds five Georgia with barbed goatgrass, a weed that Masters state records), he is the has been spreading wildly in founder and coach of the Aiken Northern California since the High School swim team. He also 1990s. First recognized in this serves on the Board of Directors of ents country in 1914 and carried here the Fermata Club and Smart atel with her par Jaina P eception from the Mediterranean by cows, it Growth Aiken. ’s graduation r is not understood what has caused it at dept Evolutions 3 Students Of the Year tion at the National Institutes of Health. We are very proud of Katie and look forward to her contin- atie Anderson, Biology Student of the Year, ued success. transferred to USCA as a sophomore major- Dwight Jones, Student of the Year in Geology, will King in pre-pharmacy. She later changed her major to psycholo- gy and her interests to medical school - specifically psychiatry. However, after taking two introductory biology courses, Katie became more interest- ed in the biological aspects of psychi- atric illnesses and addiction. She once again changed her major, this time to biology where she soon immersed herself in the activities of the depart- ment. In addition to her regular coursework she began working in the research laboratory of Dr. William Jackson on the use of ribozymes as therapeutic Dwight Jones, Dr. Jackson, Katie Anderson agents against the Human Immunodeficiency be a familiar face to regular readers of our newsletter, Virus. This work “I can’t explain how great the as this is the second year in a row Dwight culminated in the has earned this honor. During the past year, presentation of her geology program is at USCA ..the Dwight completed an Independent Study data at the South faculty provided me with real life Project related to his internship at the Carolina Academy Savannah River Site last summer, also pre- of Sciences meeting opportunities to use what I had senting his work at the SC Academy of held this past March learned in real life applications.” Sciences meeting. He was a leader in Karin a t Winthrop Willoughby’s Geomorphology class in the University. She -Dwight Jones Spring. Dwight is transferring to the recently submitted Columbia campus in the Fall and hopes to her work as a manuscript for publication. Katie also complete a double major in geology and anthropol- participated in departmental operations by working ogy (archaeology).
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