Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science Volume 80 2001 Published by the South Dakota Academy of Science Academy Founded November 22, 1915 Editor Kenneth F. Higgins Co-Editor Steven R. Chipps Terri Symens, Wildlife & Fisheries, SDSU provided secretarial assistance Tom Holmlund, Graphic Designer TABLE OF CONTENTS Consolidated Minutes of the Eighty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the South Dakota Academy of Science ........................................................................................1 Presidential Address: The Scientific Landscape of South Dakota in the 21st Century. Charles F. Lamb......................................................................................7 Complete Senior Research Papers presented at The 86th Annual Meeting of the South Dakota Academy of Science Range Expansion and First Documented Nesting of Great-Tailed Grackles (Quiscalus mexicanus) in South Dakota. David L. Swanson and Eric T. Liknes........................................................................13 Applying Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) Marker in Screening Fusarium Head Blight Resistant Parents. Lieceng Zhu, J.C. Rudd and Yang Yen.............................................................................................21 Herbage Nitrogen Contents After a Prairie Prescribed Burn in the Black Hills. F.R. Gartner and E.M. White ..................................................................25 Simulated Effects of Angler Harvest on an Unexploited South Dakota Yellow Perch Population. George D. Scholten, Daniel A. Isermann, and David W. Willis .................................................................33 Reactions of HCCl with NOx. Nichole M. Miller, Mark Erickson and John F. Hershberger....................................................................................................39 Performance of Sunshine Bass Morone chrysops (Rafinesque) x M. saxatilis (Walbaum) Intensively Reared at Three Densities. Michael L. Brown, John R. Ackerson and Robert J. Mauk.......................................43 Effects of Un-Inionized Ammonia on Hydropsyche Morosa Hagen Larva Net and Retreat Construction. Alethea Caraway and Nels H. Troelstrup, Jr. .................................................................................................51 Nutrient Loadings and Phytoplankton Dynamics Within a Power Plant Cooling Pond. Amy L. Gronke and Nels H. Troelstrup, Jr.......................................63 Deployment of a Membrane Reflector in Zero-G. John Keefner, Angie Monheim and Lori Glover ...............................................................................73 Antler Development of Captive South Dakota Deer. Lowell E. Schmitz and Jonathan A. Jenks ................................................................................................81 Evaluation of Turf-Type Buffalograss for Low-Input Turf in South Dakota. Leo C. Schleicher and Wayne R. Ness..............................................87 Food Habits of Coyotes Inhabiting the Black Hills and Surrounding Prairies in Western South Dakota. Jacquie R. Gerads, Jonathan A. Jenks and Bryan K. Watters...................................................................95 Environmental Controls on Fish Spawning Habitat in Spearfish Creek, Black Hills, SD. Larry D. Stetler and Heidi L. Sieverding.......................................109 Foraging Ecology of Ring-Necked Pheasants Recorded in the Stable Isotope Signature of Feathers. Jesse D. Munkvold, Craig N. Spencer, Michael E. Chapman, Lincoln P. Likness and Sara E. Cody.......................................................................................................119 Computational Chemistry of the Porphyrin Ring System. Kari Lunder and Arlen Viste..........................................................................................................129 Implementing Jaguar 4.0 in the Undergraduate Laboratory: A Computational Investigation of the Nickel-Iron Hydrogenase. Crystal Cunningham, Arlen Viste, and Gary Earl....................................................135 Introductory Band Structure Calculations in the Undergraduate Quantum Chemistry Environment. Teresa M. McConville and Arlen Viste..........................................................................................................143 Implementing and Exploring WebMO as a Web-Based Undergraduate Quantum Chemistry Environment. Per Haakon Thrane-Nielsen and Arlen Viste..........................................................................................................151 Implementing MacGAMESS and MacMolPlt on a Mac G4. Andrew W. Aspaas and Arlen Viste.........................................................................155 Reassessment of the Affinities of the Extinct Genus Cylindracanthus (Osteichthyes). David C. Parris, Barbara Smith Grandstaff, and Gorden L. Bell,Jr........................................................................................................161 Optimal Macroinvertebrate Metrics for the Assessment of a Northern Prairie Stream. A.M. Larson and N.H. Troelstrup, Jr..............................................173 A Biodiversity Assessment of Compensatory Mitigation Wetlands in Eastern South Dakota. Sara Juni and Charles R. Berry ..........................................185 Use of the USDA Forest Service Geographic Information System for Determining Cover Type Use by White-Tailed Deer. Christopher S. DePerno, Jonathan A. Jenks, Steven L. Griffin and Robert W. Klaver .......................................................................................................201 Effects of Grazing Conservation Reserve Program Lands in North Dakota on Birds, Insects, and Vegetation. Carmen L. Kennedy, Jonathan A. Jenks and Kenneth F. Higgins.............................................................213 Use of Flight Intercept Traps in a Grassland Habitat. Courtenay K. Hoernemann, Paul J. Johnson and Kenneth F. Higgins....................................................................................................227 Distribution and Productivity of Least Terns and Piping Plovers on the Niobrara River. Stacy L. Adolf, Ken Higgins, Casey Kruse and Greg Pavelka......................................................................................................231 Breeding Bird Abundance and Habitat on Two Livestock Grazing Regimes in North Dakota. Natoma A. Buskness, Robert K. Murphy, Kenneth F. Higgins and Jonathan Jenks .................................247 The Great Plains as a Natural Region: The Basics. Richard A. Peterson......................259 The Importance of the Social Aspects of Hunting: A Comparison Between Resident and Non-resident 1999 Black Hills Deer Hunters. Penny A. Backman, Daniel E. Hubbard, Jonathan A. Jenks and Larry M. Gigliotti.................................................................267 Effects of Grazing and Haying on Arthropod Diversity in North Dakota Conservation Reserve Program Grasslands. Courtenay K. Hoernemann, Paul J. Johnson and Kenneth F. Higgins ............................................................................................283 Bioremediation of Hydrocarbon Contaminated Soils. David Vaughan, Diane Rickerl, Patricia Wieland, Susan Gibson and Courtenay Hoernemann....................................................................................309 Wetland Invertebrate Abundances and Correlations with Wetland Water Nutrients. Brandon J. Jahnke, Diane H. Rickerl, Tom Kirschenmann, Daniel E. Hubbard and David Kringen ................................321 Aquatic and Aerial Invertebrates Associated with Selected Glacial Wetlands in Eastern South Dakota. Rebecca L. Rasmussen, Lester D. Flake, and Daniel E. Hubbard .................................................................335 Abstracts of Senior Research Papers presented at The 86th Annual Meeting of the South Dakota Academy of Science Small Theropod Dinosaur Assemblage, Hell Creek Formation (Late Cretaceous), North Dakota. Julia T. Sankey and Dean Pearson ............................................................................................................353 Fimbrial Adhesin and Enterotoxin Genes in Excherichia coli Strains Isolated for Pigs with Diarrhea. Tyler Hanson, David Francis and Diane Baker .......................................................................................................357 Morphological Examination of Prairie Turnip (Psoralea esculenta Pursh) Root. Edward Kraft and R. Neil Reese.........................................................359 Species Richness and Nesting Success of Neotropical Migrants in Natural and Anthropogenic Woodlands. Dale J. Gentry and David L. Swanson .....................................................................................................361 Adjustments of Organ Masses and Muscle Fatty Acid Binding Protein During Winter Acclimatization in Passering Birds. Eric T. Liknes, David L. Swanson and Christopher G. Guglielmo.........................363 Stopover Habitat Distribution of Autumn Landbird Migrants in Southwestern Idaho. Jay D. Carlisle, David L. Swanson and Karen L. Olmstead.............................................................................................365 Examination of Appearance of Symptoms of Corn Smut (Ustilago maydis) on Field Corn (Zea mays) from Seedling to Maturity in Southeastern South Dakota . J. Fods and D. Hazelwood ...........................................................................................................367 Antarctic Snow and Ice: A Natural Archive of Atmospheric Chemical Composition.