TABLE OF CONTENTS 

Consolidated Minutes of the 106th Annual Meeting of the South Dakota

Academy of Science 2021 ................................................................................................................... 1

Full Papers Submitted for Presentation at the 106th Annual Meeting of the

South Dakota Academy of Science

Stress Response of Rainbow Trout Subjected to Elevated and Near Lethal Temperatures. Nathan Huysman, Wyatt Krebs, Eric Krebs, Jill M. Voorhees, and Michael E. Barnes ................................. 27

Documenting Macrophytes and Their Habitat Preferences in Southeastern

South Dakota. Jessica Kading and Lan Xu ......................................................................................... 37

Non-Destructive Estimation of Aboveground Plant Biomass in South Dakota Tallgrass Prairie. Meghann Jarchow, Abigail C. Davis and Jeff S. Wesner .................................................................. 53

A Summation of Egg Size Metrics Representing 34 Wild North American Duck Species from Eggs Collected During 1859-2010. Julie R. Dejong, Kenneth F. Higgins, Kristel K. Bakkerand Kent C. Jensen .................................................................................................................................................. 67

Spur and Short Cane Pruning Influence Bud Viability, Yield, and Fruit Quality. Turhan Yilmaz and Anne Fennell ....................................................................................................................................... 81

The Stratigraphy of the Miocene Big Cut Locality, Gilliam County, Northern Oregon. James E. Martin ................................................................................................................................................. 93

A New Species of an Enigmatic Carnivore Palaeogale (Feliformia: Palaeogalidae) from Badlands National Park, South Dakota. Ed Welsh........................................................................................... 107 

Abstracts of Research Papers and Posters Submitted for Presentation at the 106th Annual Meeting of the South Dakota Academy of Science

An Overview of the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF). Jaret Heise and

Mark Hanhardt ................................................................................................................................. 123

Late Cretaceous Elasmobranchii from the Carlile Shale (Turonian) of

Firesteel Creek, Davison County, South Dakota. Tim R. Mullican ................................................. 124

Reconstruction of a Small Prairie in Eastern South Dakota. Mark Gabel ....................................... 125

Prairie Remnant Bumble Bee Diversity on the Prairie Coteau

(Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus spp.). Abigail P. Martens

and Paul J. Johnson........................................................................................................................... 126

Impact of Mature, Female Eastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana L.) Trees on Soil

Seed Bank in the Mixed-Grass Prairie of the Northern

Great Plains. Austin Domeier, Lan Xu, and Alexander Smart ........................................................ 127

Avian Community Response to Eastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana)

Encroachment in Eastern South Dakota. Jay D. Holm,

Austin Domeier, Alexander Smart, and Lan Xu ............................................................................. 128

Evaluation of Crown Morphological Traits of 14 Alfalfa Populations for Persistence

in Rangelands. Abdulallah M. Alomair, Arvid Boe and Lan Xu ................................................. 129

Biofilm Study of Oral Bacteria. Laurie Rogers, Alyssa Kiesow and Jon Mitchell ........................ 130

Quantification and DNA Sequency of Staph Species Found on Different Materials

Used in Medical Emergency Supplies. Olivia Rud and Alyssa Kiesow ......................................... 131

Chernoff Faces and Systemic Models in the Hydrology. Boris A. Shmagin .................................. 132

Near-Infrared Semiconducting Polymer Dots for Sensing Temperature.

Shuyi He and Xu Wu....................................................................................................................... 134

Biomining of Rare Earth Elements and Transition Metals from Regolith.

Grace O’Connor, Obulisamy Parthiba Karthikeyan, Nitin Singh,

Venkateswaran Kasthuri and Gadhamshetty Venkataramana.......................................................... 135

Degradation of Dichloromethane by Methylobacterium ajmalii.

Andrew Johnson, Obulisamy Parthiba Karthikey, Nitin Singh,

Venkateswaran Kasthuri and Gadhamshetty Venkataramana.......................................................... 137

A Wideband Hybrid Antenna. Thomas P. Montoya ........................................................................ 138

Posters and Oral Presentations Published by Title Onlyat the 106th Annual Meeting of the South Dakota Academy of Science

Mid-Summer Arrival by Blue Grosbeaks at the Northern Extent of their Breeding Range: Evidence for Dual Breeding? David L. Swanson and Reza Golijani Amirkhiz

Molecular Mechanisms of Immunosuppressant-Induced Inhibition of Binge Alcohol Drinking. Emily Dorn, Katie McKee, Mackenzie Peterson and Patrick J. Ronan

Manuscript Reviewers

Steven Chipps, SDSU

Dale Droge, DSU

Michael Barnes, SDGF&P

Tim Mullican, DWU

Daryl Megen, Mergen Ecological Delineation

Rhoda Burrows, SDSU

J. Foster Sawyer, SDSM&T

David Bergmann, BHSU