South Dakota

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Combined Minutes of the 103rd Annual Meeting of the South Dakota Academy of Science ...............................................................................................1

 

Complete Senior Research Papers

Submitted for Presentation at the 103rd Annual Meeting of the

South Dakota Academy of Science

 

Temporal Impacts of Changing Agricultural Practices, Rural Populations, and Landowner Gender on South Dakota Waterfowl Habitats and Populations. Kenneth F. Higgins, Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad, and Lora B. Perkins ......15

Evaluation of a Decoy-only Public Goose Hunting Opportunity in Central South Dakota: The Role of Harvest Success on Hunter Satisfaction. Larry Gigliotti ..................................................................................23

Evaluation of Internet Surveys for Conducting Statewide Angler Surveys in South Dakota. Kjetil Henderson and Larry Gigliotti .......................................35

Comparison of Two Alfalfa Fertilizers Used for Walleye Fingerling Production in Lined Ponds. Matthew J. Ward .....................................................51

Boreus coloradensis Byers (Mecoptera: Boreidae), A Species and Family New to the Black Hills and South Dakota. Paul J. Johnson .................................61

New Occurrences of Byrrhidae (Coleoptera) and Bryophagy in the Black Hills Ecosystem, South Dakota and Wyoming. Paul J. Johnson ...........................67

A Report of Two Species of Bothriochloa (Poaceae) New to South Dakota. Mark Gabel and Jordan Purintun ........................................................................77

Aphid-Parasitoid (Insecta) Diversity and Trophic Interactions in South Dakota. Abigail P. Martens and Paul J. Johnson ...................................................83

Identifying and Characterizing Salt-Tolerant Alfalfa (Medicago sativa subsp. falcata) Germplasm. Katelin E. Frerichs and Lan Xu .................................93

Impacts of Strategic Grazing and Fire on Soil Seed Bank Heterogeneity in Mixed Grass Prairie. Kassidy Weathers, Lan Xu, and Patricia S. Johnson ...........105

Isolation of Potential Photosynthetic N2-Fixing Microbes from Topsoil of Native Grasslands in South Dakota. Nanfang Wang, Shengni Tian, Liping Gu, Lan Xu, Yeyan Qiu, Trevor Van Den Top, Jose L. Gonzalez-Hernandez, Michael Hildreth, Shaoshan Li, and Ruanbao Zhou .............................117

Investigating Bacterial Communities in a Warm, Alkaline Pool in the Sanford Underground Research Facility Using Culture-based and Culture-independent Methods. Taylor Liu and David J. Bergmann ...................129

Identification of Water-Related Cis-Regulatory Elements in Tomatoes. Gabriel Carlisle, Seasson Vitiello, and Steven L. Matzner ..................................145

Tritium and Carbon-14 in the Madison Limestone Aquifer. Perry H. Rahn ............155

Refinements of the Late Miocene Fort Rock Formation in South-central Oregon, the McKay Formation in Northern Oregon, and the Timing of the Prosomys Intercontinental Dispersal Event. James E. Martin, Jennifer E. Hargrave, and Kristin L. Ball ...........................................................165

New Material of Amynodontidae (Perissodactyla) from Badlands National Park and Its Implications on the Whitneyan-Arikareean Transition. Ed Welsh, Darrin Pagnac, and Clint A. Boyd ....................................................181

The Next One Hundred Years of the SDAS: We Have a Sound History; Will We Have a Sound Future? Nels H. Granholm ...........................................199

Design and Implementation of Observational Laboratory Components for Introductory Astronomy at Augustana University. K. Miller and N. Grau ..........209

Small Mammal Abundance on the Standing Rock and Lake Traverse Indian Reservations in North and South Dakota. Michael P. Gutzmer, Kurt Tooley, Madeline S. Franks, Christopher J. Shank, Seth M. Gutzmer, Wyatt P. Gutzmer, Jeffrey C. Kelly, Alvah Quinn, and Anthony T. Byrne ..............................................................................................223


Abstracts of Senior Research Papers

Submitted for Presentation at the 103rd Annual Meeting of the

South Dakota Academy of Science


Social Values Regarding Ecosystem Services and Land Use in the Western Corn Belt. M. Carnes and M. Jarchow ..............................................................232

Electrochemical Reduction of Aromatic Nitro Compounds: Strategies for LC-EC Analysis of Sanger Tagged Analytes. Miththira Balasingam, Paulina Guerrero, Dong Wang, John Becker, Haoran Sun, and Miles Koppang ......233

The Effects of BPA on Xenopus laevis. M. J. Ristau and A. M. Kiesow ......................234

Simulation of Neutrino Detection and Background Rejection for a Heavy Liquid Scintillator in a Space Environment. R. McTaggart ................................235

Quantitative Analysis of Quantum Dots by X-ray Fluorescence. Hope E. Maunders, Alissa J. Runia, Alexander L. Tietz, and Duane E. Weisshaar...........236

The Current Status of the Black Hills State University Herbarium. Grace Kostel, Tara Ramsey, Justin Ramsey and Mark Gabel ........................................237

Identifying Environmental Risk Factors and Predicting the Risk and of Human West Nile Virus in South Dakota. A. Hess, J. K. Davis, and M. C. Wimberly......................................................................................238

Engineering Escherichia coli W to Produce Fragrant Linalool Using Beet Juice as the Sole Carbon Source. Matthew McKillop, Nanfang Wang, Liping Gu, William Gibbons, Ewumbua Monono, Dennis Wiesenborn, and Ruanbao Zhou .......................................................................239

A Habitat Condition Index for Streams in the Northern Glaciated Plains Ecoregion of Eastern South Dakota. Jesse Wilkens and Anine Rosse .................240

Stoichiometric Homeostasis in Two Native and Two Invasive South Dakota Grasses. Joshua T. Harvey and A. Joshua Leffler ....................................241

Assessing Kinetics of Anthracene Conversion to Anthraquinone Under Clay Mineral and Temperature Regimes Relevant to the Primordial Earth. H. L. Juntunen, B. K. Pitts, V. A. Swenson, P. Videau, and M. O. Gaylor (14-44) .............................................................................................242

Using Hyperchem and Gromacs Modeling Software to Investigate the Behavior of a Plausible Prebiotic Reduced Phospholipid Derived from Meteoritic Schreibersite. L. J. Leinen, V.A. Swenson,

A. Vanderwilt, K. Rageth, N. W. Fitch, K. L. Cole, P. Miro, B. Vlaisavljevich, P. Videau, and M. O. Gaylor ......................................................243


Assessing the Utility of Commercial Pressure Cookers as Autoclaves. V. A. Swenson, M. O. Gaylor, B. Ushijima, N. M. Videau, and P. Videau........244

Conversion of Phenolic Monomers from the Alkali Lignin Using Subcritical Water and Catalyst. Balawanthrao Jadhav, Ranen Roy, and Douglas E. Raynie .......................................................................................245

A PCR Sequencing Technique to Identify Species and Genotypes of Haemonchus from Mixed Trichostrongyle Egg DNA Recovered from Livestock Fecal Samples. P. Khanal, J. B. McKenzie, P. S. Heliso, and M. B. Hildreth ...................................................................................................246

Effects of Anti-epileptic Drugs on Danio rerio Development. P. Homayounpour and A. M. Kiesow ................................................................247

The Swarms of Summer: Grasshopper Abundance and Diversity in South Dakota. Erica Anderson, Adam Varenhorst, Philip Rozeboom, Patrick Wagner, Amanda Bachmann and Billy Fuller .........................................248

About Scientific Education and the Human Culture. B. A. Shmagin ........................249

Grassland Bird Use of High and Low Diversity Native Plantings. Jackie K. Krakow, Kristel Bakker, Kyle Kelsey, and Kent C. Jensen ..............................250

Magnetic Linear Dichroism” in Angle-resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy of (Ga.Mn)As. Hari Chapagain and Rafal Oszwałdowski .............251

Promoting Vegetation Heterogeneity with Alternative Grazing Strategies to Improve Ecosystem Services. Luke Zilverberg, Jameson Brennan, Kassidy Weathers, Patricia Johnson, and Lan Xu ...............................................252

Drought and Grazing Resistance of Perennial Grasses Mediated Through Belowground Bud Bank. Surendra Bam, Jacqueline P. Ott, Jack L. Butler, and Lan Xu ............................................................................................253

Identification of Cell Surface Sugars in N2-fixing Cyanobacterium Cyanothece ATCC 51142 Using Fluorescein Labeled Lectins. James Young, Michael Hildreth and Ruanbao Zhou ....................................................254

Visualization and Collection of Latent Fingerprints from Human Skin. Quinn Koenen and Tamara K. Pease ..................................................................255

Printed Conductive and Resistive Wire Antennas. Thomas P. Montoya and Thomas M. Wallace .....................................................................................256

N2-Fixing Cyanobacteria Harnessed for Biosolar Production of Nitrofertilizer. Shengni Tian, Huilan Zhu, Liping Gu, and Ruanbao Zhou .......257

Inheritance of Seed Coat Color in Red Clover Using Half-sib Families. Sharon Folk and Arvid Boe ................................................................................258

Seed Set and Seed-Insect Interactions in Natural and Cultivated Populations of Purple Prairie Clover. Arvid Boe, Paul J. Johnson, and Abigail P. Martens ..............................................................................................259

Research Papers and Posters

Submitted for Presentation at the 103rd Annual Meeting of the

South Dakota Academy of Science and Published by Title Only

Structure and Magnetism of NiFeMnGaxSn1-x (x = 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1) Heusler Alloys. Jace Waybright1, Lee Halbritter1, Hanyang Qian1,2, Bishnu Dahal1, Pavel Lukashev3, Yung Huh1, and Parashu Kharel1. 1Department of Physics, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota 57007; 2 School of Materials Science and Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou, China; 3Department of Physics, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50614

Preparation, Characterization and Magnetocaloric Effect of La1-xSrxMnO3 Nanoparticles. Bishnu Dahal1, Megan M. Allyn2, Ronald J. Tackett3, Yung Huh1, and Parashu Kharel1. 1Department of Physics, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota 57007; 2Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kettering University, Flint, MI 48504; 3Department of Physics, Kettering University, Flint, MI 48504

Synthesis and Characterization of Mn2-xSn0.5Ga0.5 (x = 0, 0.3, 0.5, 0.8) Alloys. Hanyang Qian1,2, Kyle Schroeder1, Yung Huh1, and Parashu Kharel1. 1Department of Physics, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota 57007; 2 School of Materials Science and Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou, China.

Magnetic Anisotropy of NiCo2O4 Studied Using the Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect. Jace Waybright1, Parashu Kharel1, Corbyn Mellinger2, Xiaozhe Zhang2,3, and Xiaoshan Xu2.

1Department of Physics, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, USA; 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA; 3School of Science, MOE Key Laboratory for Nonequilibrium Synthesis and Modulation of Condensed Matter, Xi’an Jiaotong University Xi’an 710049, China.

Experimental Investigation of a Prospective Magnetocaloric Material Ni2MnIn. Carter Huber, Kyle Schroeder, Bishnu Dahal, Yung Huh, and Parashu Kharel. Department of Physics, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007.

Evolutionary Conservation of Disease Resistance Components Across Multiple Grass Species. Ethan J. Andersen and Madhav P. Nepal. Department of Biology and Microbiology, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007.

Evolution of Map Kinase Gene Families in Sunflower. Sarah Schweitzer1, Alyssa Vachino1, Surendra Neupane1, Ruanbao Zhou1, Anne Fennell2, and Madhav Nepal1. 1Department of Biology & Microbiology, 2Department of Agronomy, Horticulture & Plant Science South Dakota State University, Brookings SD, 57007.

Diversity of Disease Resistant Genes in Sunflower Genome. Surendra Neupane and Madhav P. Nepal. Department of Biology and Microbiology, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007.

Threats to Missouri River Biodiversity. David Swanson. Department of Biology & Missouri River Institute, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 57069.

The Changing Status of Winter Passerines in South Dakota: Are Recent Records Associated with Warmer Winters? David Swanson. Department of Biology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 57069.

Pollutants in South Dakota Tile Effluent and Potential Harm to Aquatic Biodiversity. Matthew S. Schwarz. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, South Dakota Ecological Services Field Office, Pierre, SD 57501.

Nutrients, Pesticides and Selenium in Agricultural Tile Discharges into Public Wetlands, Madison Wetland Management District, South Dakota. Matthew S. Schwarz1, Bryan Schultz1, Drew R. Davis2, and Jacob L. Kerby2. 1U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, South Dakota Ecological Services Field Office, Pierre, SD 57501. 2Department of Biology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 57069.

Impacts of Invasive Trees on Nesting Success of Breeding Birds in Missouri River Riparian Forests. Amanda Hegg, Geoffrey Gray-Lobe, Sebastian Ruiz, Jason Emmick, Mark Dixon, and David Swanson. University of South Dakota, Department of Biology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 57069.

Ensemble Modeling to Predict Virginia’s Warbler (Oreothlypis virginiae) Breeding Distribution at the Northeastern Periphery of Its Range. R. Goljani1, M. D. Dixon1, J. S. Palmer2, and D. L. Swanson1. 1Department of Biology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 57069; 2College of Art & Science, Dakota State University, Science Center, Madison SD 57042.

Distribution and Ecological Impact of Russian Olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia) in South Dakota. Peter M. Price and Lora B. Perkins. Department of Natural Resource Management, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007.

Plant Community Phenological Change Along Two Spatial Gradients in Western Alaska. A. Joshua Leffler1, Kathy Kelsey2, and Kaj Lynoe1. 1Deptartment of Natural Resource Management, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007; 2University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK 99508.

Low-Mass Dark Matter Search with CDMSlite. R. Agnese, A.J. Anderson, T. Aralis, T. Aramaki, I.J. Arnquist, W. Baker, D. Balakishiyeva, D. Barker, R. Basu Thakur, D.A. Bauer T. Binder, M.A. Bowles, P.L. Brink, R. Bunker, B. Cabrera, D.O. Caldwell, R. Calkins, C. Cartaro, D.G. Cerdeno, Y. Chang, H. Chagani, Y. Chen, J. Cooley, B. Cornell, P. Cushman, M. Daal, P.C.F. Di Stefano, T. Doughty, L. Esteban, E. Fascione, E. Figueroa-Feliciano, M. Fritts, G. Gerbier, M. Ghaith, G.L. Godfrey, S.R. Golwala, J. Hall, H.R. Harris, Z. Hong, E.W. Hoppe, L. Hsu, M.E. Huber, V. Iyer, D. Jardin, A. Jastram, C. Jena, M.H. Kelsey, A. Kennedy, A. Kubik, N.A. Kurinsky, A. Leder, B. Loer, E. Lopez Asamar, P. Lukens, D. MacDonell, R. Mahapatra, V. Mandic, N. Mast, E.H. Miller, N. Mirabolfathi, R.A. Moffatt, B. Mohanty, J.D. Morales Mendoza, J. Nelson, J.L. Orrell, S.M. Oser, K. Page, W.A. Page, R. Partridge, M. Pepin, M. Penalver Martinez, A. Phipps, S. Poudel, M. Pyle, H. Qiu, W. Rau, P. Redl, A. Reisetter, T. Reynolds, A. Roberts, A.E. Robinson, H.E. Rogers, T. Saab, B. Sadoulet, J. Sander, K. Schneck, R.W. Schnee, S. Scorza, K. Senapati, B. Serfass, D. Speller, M. Stein, J. Street, H.A. Tanaka, D. Toback, R. Underwood, A.N. Villano, B. von Krosigk, B. Welliver, J.S. Wilson, M.J. Wilson, D.H. Wright, S. Yellin, J.J. Yen, B.A. Young, X. Zhang, and X. Zhao (SuperCDMS Collaboration)

Projected Sensitivity of the SuperCDMS SNOLAB Experiment. Thomas Binder and Joel Sander on behalf of SuperCDMS Collaboration. University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 57069.

South Dakota Working in STEM for Equity (SD-WISE): A System, Institutional, and Individual Level Approach to Policy Change. Cynthia Anderson1, Joyce Eduful2, Alyssa Kiesow3, Robin Miskimins4, Ashley Podhradsky5, Meredith Redlin2, Andrea Surovek6, and Elizabeth Tolman5. 1Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD; 2South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD; 3Northern State University, Aberdeen, SD; 4University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD; 5Dakota State University, Madison, SD; 6South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD

Reviewers of Manuscripts for Volume 97

 

David Bergmann

Kevin J. Buhl

Andy Farke

Michael Farney

Mark Gabel

Vickie Geiser

Larry Gigliotti

Donna Hazelwood

Kenneth Higgins

Meghann Jarchow

Gary Larson

Tim Mullican,

Madhav Nepal

David Parris

Brian Patrick

Neil Reese

Chun Wu

 



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