Research Page,
Dr. Barbara Hayford
UNDERGRADUATE
RESEARCH
The Department of Life Sciences at Wayne
State College requires that students learn research skills be doing
their own research project. I have mentored 18 students
through undergraduate research projects. Past projects
included the ecology of Chironomidae from an ancient lake watershed
in Mongolia, to regional biological assessments, and to analyses of
insect infestation in rotting meat for use in forensics.
Current undergraduate research projects in my lab include:
- Kaylee
Faltys. In progress. Variation of macroinvertebrate
communities from wetlands in the Nebraska Sandhills.
Past
undergraduate research projects in my lab include:
- Mausbach, William. 2012. Relationship of large branchiopods to environmental variation in the Nebraska Sandhills. This research has resulted in the following presentation:
- Mausbach, W., B. Hayford, and D. C. Rogers. 2011. New Distributional Records for Fairy Shrimp (Crustacea: Anostraca) and Tadpole Shrimp (Crustacea: Notostraca) in Nebraskawith Notes on Conservation of Large Branchiopods in the Nebraska Sandhills. Annual meeting of the Nebraska Chapter of the Wildlife Society, Hastings, NE. Poster
- Daniel Stockton: 2011. Correlation between mercury concentration an incidence of alzheimer's diseease in Nebraska.
- Brent
Herdlicka. 2011
Changes to hemoglobin in bloodworms (Diptera:
Chironomidae: Chironomini) resulting from exposure to nitrates.
Co-advised with Gustavo Zardeneta.
- McGill, Kristen. 2011. Variation in biomass and abundance of amphipods and chironomids from bays in Lake Hovsgol, Mongolia.
- Jessica Wimmer: Undergraduate Biology Research Project, Community Composition of aquatic insects and invertebrates from streams in Nebraska’s Pine Ridge. WSC Honors Project, Correlation between visual estimates and measured range community dynamics along riparian zones of streams in Mongolia. This research resulted in the following presentations:
- Wimmer, J. M., Gerdes, C, Langdon, J, and Hayford B. L. 2010. Response of Mongolian streams to grazing as measured by a riparian range health protocol. Annual meeting of the North American Benthological Society in a joint annual meeting with theAmerican Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Santa Fe, NM.
- Wimmer,
J.,
L. Rech, and B. Hayford.
2010. Community
Composition of aquatic insects and invertebrates from streams
in Nebraska’s PineRidge. Annual meeting of the Nebraska
Wildlife Society, Norfolk, NE.
- Goc, C., J. Wimmer, L, Resh,
B. Hayford. 2009. Thinking beyond the
bluestem: A glance at how range and grassland
- GIS map of Mongolian stream sites below gold mining activites that weresampled by the MAIS (formerly SRP) participants. Jessica created this map for her class project in GIS at WSC.
- Cassidy Goc Gerdes: Cassidy created a protocol to determine the range conditionalong stream sides for use in research in Nebraska and Mongolia. Cassidy's work has been presented at two meetings and a WSCsenior research symposium. She has produced the following work for this project:
- Goc, C., J. Wimmer, L, Resh,
B. Hayford. 2009. Thinking beyond the
bluestem: A glance at how range and grassland
- GIS
map of Nebraska Pine Ridge sites. Cassidy created this map
for her class project in GIS at WSC.
