TABLE OF CONTENTS

Consolidated Minutes of the 104^Th Annual Meeting of the South Dakota Academy of Science ............................................................. 1

Full Papers Submitted for Presentation at the

104th Annual Meeting of the

South Dakota Academy of Science

Fish Behavior When Encountering a Modified Fyke Net at Two Black Hills Reservoirs. Derek Hartland Greg Simpson............................... 13

Geochronology and Paleontology of the Paisley Fish Locality, Summer Lake Basin, Northern Lake County, Oregon. James E. Martin, Gerald R. Smith, Jennifer E. Hargraveand Andrew S. Whisnant ........................................................................................................... 21

Survival-Time for Post-Winter Third-Stage Juvenile Trichostrongyles of Cattle in the USA, Northern Great Plains. Keith Mertz, William B. Epperson and Michael B. Hildreth ...................................................................................................................................................................... 41

Age, Succession Planning & Wildlife Values of Landowners From Three Upper Midwest States.

Larry M. Gigliotti and Lily A. Sweikert ............................................................................................................................................................. 53

The Diversity of Aphid Parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae) in Soybean Fields of Eastern South Dakota. Abigail P. Martens, Paul J. Johnson, Arvid Boe,and Adam A. Varenhorst ........................................................................................................................................ 77

Eucosma giganteana (Riley) and Silphium perfoliatum L., Morphological Variation in an Insect-Plant Association in Eastern South Dakota. Paul J. Johnson, Arvid Boe, and Abigail P. Martens ............................................................................................................................ 91

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

and Abigail P. Martens ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 105

A Review of Ticks (Acari: Ixodida), Surveillance and Common Tick-Borne Diseases of South Dakota, USA. Lauren P. Maestas ............. 119

GIS Analysis of Fatal Traffic Accidents in Eight South Dakota Counties on the Pine Ridge Reservation

and the Black Hills. James F. Taulman ............................................................................................................................................................ 137

Fellows of the South Dakota

Academy of Science Essays

A Historical Synopsis of What’s Been Happening in the North American “Duck Factory”! Kenneth F. Higgins¹ (Retired), David C. Parris, and Lora B. Perkins ............................................................................................................................................................................... 165

Abstracts of Research Papers and Posters

Submitted for Presentation at the 104th Annual Meeting

of the South Dakota Academy of Science

Pasture to Forest: Secondary Succession in Southwestern Michigan, USA.

Robert Tatina ..................................................................................................... 173

Species Differences Drive Bat Activity in Urban Versus Forested Plots.

A. Sechrist and C. L. Chambers ......................................................................... 174

Greenhouse Gas Emissions of a Saline Soil and Non-Saline Soil Under

Vegetation. Douglas Fiedler, David Clay, Stephanie Bruggeman,

Cheryl Reese, Samuel Thies, Andrew Engel, and Sharon Clay ........................... 175

Mining Metagenomes for Bioplastics and Other Useful Bioproducts.

Tanvi Govil, Wageesha Sharma, David R. Salem, and Rajesh K. Sani ................ 176

The Dakota Skipper (Hesperia dacotae Skinner) on the Prairie Coteau.

Kendal A. Davis and Paul J. Johnson ................................................................. 177

Data Visualization of SuperCDMS Experiment. R. B. Podviianiuk

on Behalf of SuperCDMS Collaboration ........................................................... 178

FCPS Search With CDMSLite Run2a. Sudip Poudel on Behalf of

SuperCDMS Collaboration ............................................................................... 179

Sanford Underground Research Facility. Markus Horn ............................................. 180

Seasonal Variation in Trichostrongyle Egg Shedding in a Bison Herd

From Eastern South Dakota. J. B. Mckenzie, A. T. Heien,

P. S. Heliso, and M. B. Hildreth ........................................................................ 181

MINER: Utilizing Low Threshold Cryogenic Detectors and Movable Reactor

Core to Look for Neutrinos That Defy the Standard Model.

Joseph Mammo on Behalf of the Miner Collaboration ...................................... 182

Improved Wideband Performance Linear Antenna. Thomas P. Montoya

and Andrew W. Downs ...................................................................................... 183

Spatial Expression of Genes During Hydrotropism in Maize Roots.

Yafang Wang, Muyu Gu, Mike Hildreth, and Yajun Wu ................................... 184

Studying Physiological and Molecular Regulation of Stomatal Density and

its Relationships to Water Use Efficiency in Alfalfa.

Surbhi Gupta, Krishna Ghimire, Arvid Boe, and Yajun Wu ............................... 185

Water Quality Analysis of Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala and Exploring 

Threat of a Fish Kill Should This Deep Tropical Lake Experience

Turnover. C. L. Iversrud, C. N. Spencer, and G. O. Constanza ......................... 186

Age, Growth and Mortality of Pyganodon grandis in Relation to Lake

Trophic State. K. M. Wollman and N. H. Troelstrup, Jr. ................................... 187

Evaluating Anti-Malarial Activity With N-Methylfluoxetine and

Diphenylpropylamines. Dillon Vanetti and John Dixson ................................... 188

Investigation of Nanostructured Metal-Organic Supercontainers as a New 

Therapeutic Approach to Treating Drug Addiction. Parvathi Jampani,

Marie A. Severson, Lisa M. Mcfadden, and Z. Rick Wang ................................ 189

Investigating the Kinetics of Montmorillonite Clay-Catalyzed Conversion of Anthracene to 9,10-Anthraquinone in the Context of Origins of

Life Studies. Hope Juntunen, Lucas Leinen, Briann Pitts, 

Kaytlyn Schaefer, Scott Mckay, Samantha O’Hanlon, 

Bethany Theiling, Laura Barge, Patrick Videau, and Michael Gaylor ................. 190

Profiling Volatile Constituents of Homemade Preserved Foods Prepared

In Early 1950S South Dakota (USA) Using Solid-Phase 

Microextraction (SPME) With Gas Chromatography–Mass

Spectrometry (GC-MS) Determination. Lucas J. Leinen, 

Vaille A. Swenson, Hope L. Juntunen, Scott E. Mckay, 

Samantha M. O’Hanlon, Patrick Videau, and Michael O. Gaylor ..................... 192

Profiling Volatile Emissions From Sewage Sludge Residues Land-Applied to Forested and Agricultural Lands of the U.S. Pacific Northwest.

Kaytlyn N. Schaefer, Lucas J. Leinen, Vaille A. Swenson, 

Bailey A. Moody, Hope L. Juntunen, Scott E. Mckay, 

Silvia Beurmann, Samantha M. O’Hanlon, Richard C. Honour, 

Robert C. Hale, Patrick Videau, and Michael O. Gaylor ................................... 193

Research Papers and Posters

Submitted for Presentation at the

104th Annual Meeting of the

South Dakota Academy of Science

Published by Title Only

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.

Synthesis, Preparation, and Thermoelectric Properties of Synthetic Mineral Sulfides.

Jace Waybright¹, Gabin Guelou², Naohito Tsujii², Takao Mori              ². ¹Department of Physics, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, USA. ²National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan.

Validation of the Transcriptomic Response of Candida glabrata to Treatment with  Thymoquinone. K. D. Wood, N. Malik, and C. M. Anderson. Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD.