Patricia and Philip McCullough Professor of Biology
Department of Biology
Ripon College
300 Seward Street
Ripon, WI 54971
(920) 748-8760

E-mail: WallaceR@ripon.edu

Collaborative Research: Rotifer Systematic Database

Education

• 1970 B.S. University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI (major Zoology; minor Chemistry)
• 1975 Ph.D. Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (Aquatic Ecology; Invertebrate Zoology)
• 1975-1977 Postdoctoral Fellowship (Aquatic Ecology), University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Awards and Honors

• Teaching Awards -- Severy Teaching Professor (1981, 1982, 1993, 1996, 2006); Underkofler award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2001); Ripon College nominee for the CASE Professor Award (1994,2001).

• Professional Memberships -- American Association for the Advancement of Science; American Microscopical Society; American Society of Limnology and Oceanography; Association of College and University Biology Educators; Ecological Society of America; International Carnivorous Plant Society; Societas Internationalis Limnologiae. Honorary Societies-- Phi Kappa Phi (Academic Honor Society); Phi Sigma Society (Biological Academic Honor Society); Sigma Xi (the Scientific Research Society of N.A.)

Grants Awarded

• 1975 Ecology of Sessile Rotifers (W.T. Edmondson and R.L. Wallace, co-principal investigators) N.S.F. BMS 75-03107.
• 1977 Above renewed. DEB 75-03175 A01.
• 1980 Small-College, Faculty Supplement Award to Research Grant DEB 78-02882; R.L. Wallace, Small-College Faculty Member.
• 1981 Above renewed.
• 1982 Clearance Rate of Sessile Rotifers. American Philosophy Society, Research Grant. (Penrose-21000).
• 1984 Acquisition of research microscopes and accessories. NSF-RUI grant for research microscopes and related materials; BSR-8405157.
• 1988 Distribution of the Gregarine Parasite Monocystis in the Earthworm Lumbricus terrestris. Associated Colleges of the Midwest Minority Scholar Grant to J. Hayashi (R.L. Wallace, mentor).
• 1989 Above renewed. Associated Colleges of the Midwest.
• 1989 Aquatic Research. Bing Farms, Inc. R.L. Wallace.
• 1992 Associated Colleges of the Midwest Minority Scholar Grant to A. Felix (R.L. Wallace, mentor).
• 1999 Ripon College, Professional Collaboration Grant: Limnological Investigations on Green Lake (Green Lake, WI).
• 2001 Ripon College, Professional Development Grant: Rotifer Taxonomy.
• 2003 Ripon College, Professional Collaboration: Limnological Investigations on White Lake (Marquette Co., WI).
• 2004 WISC Grant to Drs. E.J. Walsh (PI) and R.L. Wallace (Co-PI). Life on the Edge: Community Structure of Basal Microinvertebrate Consumers in Endangered Springs and Ephemeral Waters of the Chihuahuan Desert (U.S. & Mexico).
• 2004 Ripon College, Professional Collaboration Grant: Limnological Investigations on White Lake.
• 2005 Associated Colleges of the Midwest, FaCE Project: Enhancing scholarship and teaching in one bite.
• 2005 National Science Foundation: Community composition and phylogeography of microinvertebrates of Chihuahuan Desert waters (U.S. and Mexico). (Dr. E.J. Walsh with UTEP as lead institution.)

Areas of Interest

• Ecology; Limnology; Marine Biology; Invertebrate Zoology; Rotifera

Recent Publications

• (* = student co-authors)
• Felix, A.,* Stevens, M.E., & Wallace, R.L. 1995. Unpalatability of a colonial rotifer, Sinantherina socialis, to small zooplanktivorous fishes. Invertebrate Biology 114(2): 139-144.
• Wallace, R.L., Ricci, C., & Melone, G. 1995. Through Alice's Looking Glass: a cladistic analysis of pseudocoelomate anatomy. Pages 61-67, in Body Cavities: function and phylogeny. (G. Lanzavecchia, R. Valvassori, & M.D. Candia Carnevali, eds.). Selected Symposia and Monographs Unione Zoologica Italiana, 8, Mucchi, Modena.
• Nogrady, T. & Wallace, R.L. 1995. Numerical taxonomy of the genus Notholca. Hydrobiologia 313/314: 99-104.
• Bevington, D.,* White, C.,* & Wallace, R.L. 1995. Predatory behaviors of Cupelopagis vorax (Rotifera, Collothecacea, Atrochidae) on protozoan prey. Hydrobiologia 313/314: 213-217.
• Wallace, R.L., Ricci, C., & Melone, G. 1996. A cladistic analysis of pseudocoelomate (aschelminth) morphology. Invertebrate Biology 115(2): 104-112.
• Melone, G. Ricci, C., and Wallace, R.L. 1998. Phylogenetic relationships of acanthocephala and rotifera: morphological vs. molecular approaches. Pages 57-62, in 1 Colloquio Nazionale di Sistematica Cladistica. (Cristofolini, G. & Minelli, A., eds.). Memorie del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona (20 Serie).
• Melone, G., Ricci, C., Segers, H., and Wallace, R.L. 1998. Phylogenetic relationships of Phylum Rotifera. Hydrobiologia 387/388: 101-107.
• Wallace, R.L., Cipro, J.J*. and Grubbs, R.W.* 1998. Relative investment in offspring by sessile Rotifera. Hydrobiologia 387/388: 311-316.
• Wallace, R.L. 1999. Phylum Rotifera. Pages 118-129, in Encyclopedia of Reproduction, Volume 4. E. Knobil and J.D. Neill (eds.), Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
• Verb, R.G., Vis, M.L., Ott, D.W., and Wallace, R.L. 1999. New records of Vaucheria species (Xanthophceae) with associated Proales werneckii (Rotifera) from North America. Cryptogamie Algologie 20(2): 67-73.
• Wallace, R.L. 2000. On a charismatic microfauna. Review of The Biology of Calanoid Copepods. (Advances in Marine Biology, Vol. 33 (John Mauchline). Academic Press, San Diego, 1998. 710 pp., illus.) BioScience 50(9): 827-829.
• Segers, H. and Wallace, R.L. 2001. Contribution to a revision of Family Conochilidae (Rotifera; Monogononta; Flosculariacea). Zoologica Scripta 30(1): 3748.
• Wallace, R.L., Gilbert, J. and King, C. 2001. In memoriam: W.T. "Tommy" Edmondson (19162000). Hydrobiologia 446/447: xv-xxi.
• Wallace, R. L., Ott, D.W. Stiles, S.L. and Oldham-Ott, C.K. 2001. Bed and Breakfast: the parasitic life of Proales werneckii (Ploimida: Proalidae) within the alga Vaucheria (Xanthophyceae: Vaucheriales). Hydrobiologia 446/447: 129-137.
• Wallace, R.L. & Ricci, C. 2002. Rotifera. Pages 15-44, in S.D. Rundle, A.L. Robertson & J.M. Schmid-Araya (eds.). Freshwater Meiofauna: Biology and Ecology. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden.
• Wallace, R.L. 2002. Rotifers: Exquisite Metazoans. Integrative and Comparative Biology 42: 660-667.
• Fontaneto, D., Melone, G., & Wallace, R.L. 2003. Morphology of Floscularia ringens (Rotifera, Monogononta) from egg to adult. Invertebrate Biology 122: 231-240.
• Walsh, E. & Wallace, R.L. 2003. Life on the edge: an evaluation of the health of Chihuahuan Desert waters. Chihuahuan Desert Discovery 49(2): 25.
• Walsh, E.J., Wallace, R.L., & Shiel, R.J. 2005. Toward a Better Understanding of the Phylogeny of the Asplanchnidae (Rotifera). Hydrobiologia 546(1): 71-80.
• Wallace, R.L., Walsh, E.J., Arroyo, M.L. & Starkweather, P.L. 2005. Life on the Edge: Rotifers From Springs and Ephemeral Waters in the Chihuahuan Desert, Big Bend National Park (Texas, USA). Hydrobiologia 546(1): 147-157.
• Beres, K., Wallace, R.L., & Segers, H. 2005. Rotifers and Hubbell's Unified Neutral Theory of biodiversity and biogeography. Natural Resource Modeling 18(3): 363-376.
• Wallace, R.L., Snell, T.W., Ricci, C. & Nogrady, T. 2006. Rotifera: Volume 1 Biology, Ecology and Systematics (2nd ed.). Guides to the Identification of the Microinvertebrates of the Continental Waters of the World, Vol. 23, (Segers, H., ed.). Kenobi Productions, Ghent, and Backhuys Publishers, Leiden.
• Walsh, E.J., Arroyo, M.L., Schröder, T., & Wallace, R.L. 2006. Species richness and species turnover (complementarity) of Rotifera in selected aquatic systems of Big Bend National Park, Texas. Southwestern Naturalist (in press).
• Walsh, E.J., Salazar, M., Remirez, J., Moldes, O., & Wallace, R.L. 2006. Unpalatability of a colonial rotifer, Sinantherina socialis, to invertebrate predators. Invertebrate Biology.
• Walsh, E.J., Schröder, T., Bonilla, M.L., & Wallace, R.L. 2007. Interannual variation of Rotifera among selected sites in Big Bend National Park (Texas, USA). Hydrobiologia.

Textbooks and Related Educational Publications

• Wallace, R.L. 1995. Student Study Guide to accompany David Ross' Introduction to Oceanography. HarperCollins College Publ. Inc., New York, 195 pages. ISBN 0-673-46939-5.
• Wallace, R.L. 1996. Instructor's Manual and Test Bank to accompany James Nybakken's textbook Marine Biology, an ecological approach. 4th edition. HarperCollins College Publ., NY. ISBN 0-673-97009-4.
• Wallace, R.L. 2000. Priapulida. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Macmillan Publishers Ltd. [electronic publication #1592; consult -- http://www.els.net].
• Wallace, R.L. 2000. Rotifera. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Macmillan Publishers Ltd. [electronic publication #1588; consult -- http://www.els.net].
• Wallace, R.L. and Snell, T.W. 2001. Rotifera. Chapter 8. Pages 195-254, in Ecology and Classifications of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, 2nd edition (J. Thorp and A. Covich, eds.). Academic Press. New York.
• Wallace, R.L. and Taylor, W.K. 2002. Invertebrate Zoology, 6th ed. Prentice Hall, NJ. ISBN 0-13-042937-6
• Wallace, R.L. & Brooks, W.S. 1003. A dinosaur trackways exercise. Bioscene. 29(3): 3-7.
• Wallace, R.L. 2005. Instructor's Manual and Test Bank for Marine Biology, an ecological approach. 6th edition by James Nybakken and Mark. D. Bertness. Person Education, Inc. Benjamin Cummings. San Francisco, CA. 185 pages. ISBN 0-8053-4585-X.
• Wallace, R.L. 2005. Teaching population growth using a culture of the vinegar eel, Turbatrix aceti (Nematoda). Bioscene, Journal of College Biology Teaching. 31(1): 21-25.

Edited Volumes

• May, L., Wallace, R., and Herzig, A. (eds.). 1987. Rotifer Symposium IV. Dr. W. Junk Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-6193-645-4.
• Wurdak, E., Wallace, R.L., & Segers, H. (eds.). 1998. Rotifer Symposium VIII. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 0-7923-5571-7.

Commentaries, Editorials, & Related Popular Works

• Wallace, R.L. 1994. On the debate over the destruction of variola - the smallpox virus: "U.S., Russia can work together to destroy last smallpox virus" The Oregonian, 12 May 1994; The Houston Post, 16 May 1994; "No Mercy for Variola, a Mass Murderer" St Louis Post-Dispatch, 28 May 1994; "Big decisions about smallpox" Providence Journal-Bulletin, 4 June 1994; "Mass Murderer that Deserves to be Zapped -- Smallpox Virus" Valley News, 7 June 1994; "It's time to put a mass killer - smallpox - to death" Ripon Commonwealth Press, 23 June 1994, The Milwaukee Journal, 26 June 1994.

Current Courses Taught

• Biology 110 - Topics in Biology
• Biology 121 - Introductory Biology
• Biology 215 - Invertebrate Zoology
• Biology 247 - General Ecology
• Biology 300 - Departmental Studies
• Biology 314 - Microbiology
• Biology 338 - Aquatic Ecology
• Biology 450 - Intensive Field Studies
• Biology 501,502 - Independent Study

Special Courses

• Parasitology
• Marine Field Ecology
• STDs and Other Plagues (non-majors)
• Great Fermentations
• Environmental Toxicology