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DAVID WARD - MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITYDept. of Land Resources & Environmental Sciences, PO Box 173120, Bozeman, MT 59717-3120 Title and RoleCo-Investigator - Responsible for spearheading continued outreach education projects related to Yellowstone National Park (YNP), making major contributions to planning and production of all products of the proposed effort (resource manual, signage, trail guides, web materials). As a member of the YNP Old Faithful Visitor Education Center Scientific Advisory Board, I will be the team's liaison for planning and developing exhibits in this important new venue. Related Experience SummaryK-100 student education: MT Outdoor Sci. Schl. (1999-2001); local elementary, middle and high school lectures and field trips (1986-7, 1994-5, 1998); Yellowstone Assoc. Inst. courses (participant 1998-9; instructor 2002-3). Educator training: YNP Seasonal Ranger Education Prog. (1983, 1985, 1988, 1990, 1998); NSF Microcosmos K-12 educator fieldtrip to YNP (1994-5); NASA Lunar and Planetary Inst. Astrobiology Teacher's YNP Workshop (2002). Videos: "Yellowstone Revealed", World Found. Environ. Develop. (1999) [portion shown in Old Faithful Visitor's Ctr.]. TV: "This Miracle Planet", NHK (1985); "New Explorer's" Program, A & E (1997-8); "Three National Parks", Discovery Channel (1997-8); UK Discovery Channel documentary (1999); news spots on YNP thermophiles and bioprospecting for Swiss TV (1999), CNN Science News and CNN Intl. (1998); ABC Science News (1998). Radio: NPR segment on the origin of life for Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. (1999). Print media: National Geographic, scientific advisor for article on life history (1985-86); many local and news service newspaper articles. Service to YNP: Old Faithful Visitor Education Center Scientific Advisory Board (2002-present) and workshop (2000); education & outreach workshop (1996); participant in joint MSU—NASA Astrobiology Inst.—YNP Div. of Interpretation education & outreach efforts (2001-present); Costa Rica bioprospecting workshop (1996); World Found. Environ. Develop. scientific advisor for boardwalk pamphlet, white paper and video projects (97-present) Employment HistoryPostdoctoral, UCLA Geology Dept. (1975-6); Asst., Assoc., Full Professor, Montana State Univ. Microbiology Dept., then LRES Dept. (1977-81, -91, -98, -present) EducationB. S. Microbiology, Ohio State Univ. (1971); M.S. and Ph.D, Bacteriology, Univ. Wisconsin—Madison (1973, 1975); sabbaticals: Nat. Jewish Hosp., Denver (1983-4), Univ. Bristol (1984), German Biotech. Ctr. (1990-1), Neth. Inst. Sea Res. (2000), Wesleyan Univ. (2001) Professional SocietiesAmerican Society of Microbiologists (ASM).; American Association Adv. Sci. (AAAS) Awards and HonorsMany research awards (NASA, NSF, EPA, others 1979-present); MSU research and teaching awards (1989, 1995); ASM fellow (1996); AAAS fellow (1997) Selected Relevant PublicationsWard, D.M., R. T. Papke, U. Nübel and M.C.McKitrick. 2002. Natural history of microorganisms inhabiting hot spring microbial mat communities: clues to the origin of microbial diversity and implications for micro- and macro-biology, pp. 25-48 in Biodiversity of Microbial Life: Foundation of Earth's Biosphere (J.T. Staley and A.-L. Reysenbach, eds.), John Wiley & Sons, NY. Ward, D.M. & R.W. Castenholz. 2000. Cyanobacteria in geothermal habitats. p. 37-59 in (M. Potts & B. Whitton, eds.) Ecology of Cyanobacteria. Kluwer, NL Ward, D.M., Bateson, M.M., Ferris, M.J. & S.C. Nold. 1998. A natural view of microbial biodiversity within hot spring cyanobacterial mat communities. Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. 62:1353-1370 Ward, D.M., J. Bauld, R.W. Castenholz, & B.K. Pierson 1992 Modern phototrophic microbial mats: anoxygenic, intermittently oxygenic/anoxygenic, thermal, eucaryotic & terrestrial, p. 309-324 in The Proterozoic Biosphere: a multidisciplinary study (J.W. Schopf & C.Klein, eds) Cambridge Univ Press.
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