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Scott T. Bates, Ph.D.
CIRES Visiting Fellow
University of Colorado at Boulder
Rm. 318 - CIRES Bldg.
Boulder, CO 80309
(303) 492-2099
scott.thomas.bates@gmail.com
www.azfungi.org/stbates/
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Born 14 November 1965 (Bowling Green, OH, USA); married
11 October 1997 (Tonya R. Boschmann); two children (Anise Ferne, born 15
March 2005 & Ian Willow, born 16 April 2007)
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Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D., Plant Biology, Microbiology) - May 2009 (Magna Cum Laude) - School of Life
Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
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Master of Science (M.S., Plant Biology, Mycology) - December 2004 -
School of Life Sciences, Arizona State
University, Tempe, AZ
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Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) - May 1992 - Goshen College, Goshen,
IN
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Herbert M. Saylor Memorial Scholarship presented by the
Sonoma County Mycological Society (May, 2004)
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ASU School of Life Sciences Initiative Program Grant (January, 2004)
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Michael A. Cichan Memorial Award presented by ASU School
of Life Sciences (December, 2003)
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ASU Graduate and Professional Students Association (GPSA)
Research Grant Awards (November, 2003)
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Sigma Xi Grants-In-Aid (April, 2003)
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Investigations of the
Biological Soil Crusts and Associated Fungi at Grand Canyon-Parashant
National Monument,
Grant #
NPS H1200-04-0002. Role:
collaborator; PI: Dr. T.H. Nash III; Period:
2006-2009
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Professional Development
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Teaching:
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Teaching Assistant and Lecturer - PLB 400/401 -
Lichenology, Arizona State University
(spring semester: 2005, 2007 & 2009)
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Teaching Assistant and Lecturer - PLB 402 -
Mycology, Arizona State University
(spring semester: 2004 & 2007)
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Teaching Assistant - PLB 108 - Introduction to Plant
Biology (traditional lab sections), Arizona State
University (spring semester: 2003)
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Teaching Assistant - PLB 108 - Introduction to Plant
Biology (online lab sections), Arizona State
University (spring semester: 2003 & fall semester: 2003, 2005 & 2007)
Training Student
Researchers:
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Sheetal Boosi (Master's
student), ASU School of Life
Sciences, Tempe, AZ molecular biology (fall, 2008)
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Jessica Groch (undergraduate), ASU School of Life
Sciences, Tempe, AZ molecular biology (spring, 2008)
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Anne Barber (undergraduate), ASU School of Life
Sciences, Tempe, AZ slime mold classification and general research
(fall, 2007)
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Angel A.
Garcia (undergraduate), Universidad Metropolitana, San Juan, PR
molecular biology/ecology (summer, 2007)
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Xavier
Arturo Lopez (undergraduate), Universidad Central del Ecuador,
Quito, Ecuador systematic mycology (fall, 2006 - spring, 2008)
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Rebeca A. Guerro (Master's student), University of Texas, El
Paso, TX molecular biology (summer, 2006)
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Samantha Standley (undergraduate), Arizona State
University, Tempe, AZ molecular biology (spring, 2004)
Positions Held:
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Research Assistant NSF funded Prokaryotic
Diversity of Biological Soil Crusts in aridlands of
North America
(eukaryotic extension, Doctoral dissertation project) ASU School of Life
Sciences, Tempe, AZ (fall semester, 2006 & spring semester, 2008)
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Herbarium Staff ASU Lichen Herbarium (voluntary,
June, 2004 - current)
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Lichen Identification Expert Forest Inventory and
Analysis program, USDA Forest Service (May, 2004 - March, 2008)
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Coordinator American Bryological and Lichenological
Society Lichen Exchange (voluntary, December, 2003 - November,
2005)
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Third Grade Teacher - ESL classroom, Osborn School District,
Phoenix, AZ (1997 - 2002)
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Crew Chief High School Volunteer program, Student
Conservation Association (summers, 1994 - 1996)
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Environmental Educator Elementary Environmental
Education program, Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville, NY
(1993-1994).
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Wilderness Trip Leader Teen Adventures program, Frost
Valley YMCA, Claryville, NY
(1993)
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English
Language Instructor Centro de Estudios Inter-Americanos, Cuenca,
Ecuador (1992 - 1993)
Meetings:
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Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America (MSA),
State College, PA (August, 2008)
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Sixth
Annual Meeting of the International Association for Lichenology (IAL),
Asilomar, CA (July, 2008)
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Annual meeting of the Arizona Botanist, Desert Botanical
Gardens, Phoenix, AZ (February, 2008)
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Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau,
Northern Arizona
University, Flagstaff, AZ (November, 2005)
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Deep Hypha Group Meeting, University of Arizona,
Tucson, AZ (March, 2005)
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Annual meeting of the Arizona Botanist, Desert Botanical
Gardens, Phoenix, AZ (February, 2005)
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Annual meeting of the Mycological Society of America (MSA), University
of North Carolina, Asheville, NC (July, 2004)
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Annual meeting of the Arizona Imaging & Microanalysis
Society (AIMS),
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (April, 2004)
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Annual meeting of the Mycological Society of America (MSA),
Asilomar, CA
(July, 2003)
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Arizona Nevada Academy of Science meeting (ANAS), Northern Arizona
University, Flagstaff, AZ (March, 2003)
Workshops:
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First International Workshop on Tropical Lichenology, in
conjunction with TICOLICHEN, Costa Rican Lichen Biodiversity Inventory,
Las Cruces Biological Station (O.T.S. Organization for Tropical
Studies), Costa Rica (October, 2004)
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Spring Fungi of the Sierra Nevada course
through San Francisco State University's Summer Field Campus program
(June, 1999 - 2002)
Field:
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Extensive field work in Arizona collecting
lichen and macrofungi (2004 - current)
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Macrofungi of
Galapagos Island, Santa
Cruz, Ecuador (October, 2006)
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Biota survey of Lone Mountain,
Parashant-Grand Canyon National Monument, AZ
(May, 2005)
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Survey of lichens for the Parashant-Grand Canyon
National Monument, AZ (May, 2003)
Services:
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Consulted Mycologist,
for mushroom poisoning cases, veterinary clinics throughout the greater
metropolitan Phoenix area (2007 - current)
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Production Editor/Website Manager, Canotia - a publication of the ASU Vascular Plant Herbarium, Tempe, AZ; http://collections.asu.edu/herbarium/canotia.html (2006 -
current)
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Project Coordinator/Website Manager, Arizona Mycota
Project; http://www.azfungi.org/amp/ (2006 - current)
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Website Manager, A Checklist of Arizona Macrofungi and Slime Molds; http://www.azfungi.org/checklist/ (2006 - current)
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Editorial Service, ad hoc reviewer for
USGS (internal), BMC Evolutionary Biology, Canotia, Journal of Arid Environments, Microbial Ecology, Mycologia, and Mycotaxon (2005 - current)
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Consulted Biologist, ASU School of Life Sciences
'Ask a Biologist' webiste; http://askabiologist.asu.edu (2006 - 2009)
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Trainer, Lichen workshops for foresters, Forest
Inventory and Analysis program, USDA Forest Service (2004 - 2007)
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Grant Reviewer, ASU Graduate and Professional
Students Association (GPSA) Research Grant Awards (February, 2004)
Oral
Presentations:
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Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of America (MSA),
State College, PA; entitled
Fungi associated
with biological soil crusts in the Western United States using
culture-independent methods -
S.T. Bates, T.H.
Nash III and F. Garcia-Pichel (August, 2008)
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Sixth
Annual Meeting of the International Association for Lichenology (IAL),
Asilomar, CA; entitled
Investigation of
fungal populations and diversity associated with biological soil crusts
(BSCs) in the Western U.S. using culture-independent methods -
S.T. Bates, T.H.
Nash III and F. Garcia-Pichel (July, 2008)
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Fifth Annual Arizona Botanist Meeting, Phoenix, AZ; entitled Fungal
Diversity in
Arizona
- What can we expect? What we know?
(February, 2008)
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First Annual meeting - ASU researchers Biological Crust
Day, Tempe, AZ; entitled Fungi Associated with Biological Soil
Crusts: Assessing Diversity by Culture-Independent Methods
(December, 2007)
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Eighth Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado
Plateau, Flagstaff, AZ;
entitled Biological Soil Crusts and the Pursuit of Novel Fungal
Diversity (November, 2005)
Poster
Presentations:
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Arizona State University
School of Life Sciences Fifteenth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium,
Tempe, AZ; entitled Lichen biodiversity in northeastern Arizona -
A.C.
Barber, K.G. Sweat, S.T.
Bates and T.H. Nash III (March, 2008)
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Annual meeting of the Mycological Society of America (MSA), Asheville, NC;
entitled Arizona
members of the Geastraceae and Lycoperdaceae (Basidiomycota, Fungi):
monograpy, phylogeny and spore ultrastructure -
S.T. Bates, R.W. Roberson and D.E. Desjardin (July, 2004)
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Annual meeting of the Arizona Imaging & Microanalysis
Society (AIMS),
Tempe, AZ; entitled Basidiospore ultrastructure in gastroid fungi:
Assessing phylogenetically informative characters and creating
utilitarian taxonomy -
S.T. Bates, R.W. Roberson, M.F. Wojciechowski and D.E. Desjardin
(April, 2004)
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Annual meeting of the Mycological Society of America (MSA),
Asilomar, CA;
entitled Arizona
Puffballs and Earthstars (Lycoperdaceae and Geastraceae, Basidiomycota,
Fungi)
- S.T.
Bates, R.W. Roberson and D.E. Desjardin
(July, 2003)
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Arizona Nevada Academy of Science meeting (ANAS), Flagstaff, AZ; entitled
Arizona Puffballs and Earthstars -
S.T. Bates, R.W. Roberson
and D.E. Desjardin
(March, 2003)
Public Talks and Invited Lectures:
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Fungal Communities Associated with Biological Soil Crusts in the Western United States: A Culture-independent Approach
- Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences Seminar Series, ASU West Campus, Phoenix, AZ (invited - April, 2009)
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Arizona
Fungi: What Do They Look Like and Why Do They Matter?
- Arizona Native Plant Society, Phoenix, AZ (invited
- April, 2006)
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Dark Secrets: Fungi Associated with
Biological Soil Crusts - ASU School of Life Sciences graduate
student "Brown Bag" lecture series, Tempe, AZ (invited - March,
2006)
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Southwestern puffballs and earthstars:
monography, phylogeny and spore ultrastructure in the Lycoperdaceae and
Geastraceae - Sonoma County Mycological Society, Santa Rosa, CA (invited
- September, 2004)
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Arizona
members of the Geastraceae and Lycoperdaceae (Basidiomycota, Fungi)
- USDA Systematic Botany and
Mycology Laboritory, Beltsville, MD (February, 2004)
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Puffballs and Earthstars:
Arizona, Gasteromycetes
and History
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San Diego Mycological Society, San Diego, CA
(invited - January, 2004)
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Baselines, Biodiversity and Conservation:
Arizona
Puffballs and Earthstars
ASU - Conservation Club, Tempe, AZ (invited - October, 2003)
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The Mushrooms of
Northern Arizona
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The Flagstaff Arboretum, Flagstaff, AZ (invited - August, 2003)
Workshop
Presentations:
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Lichens Communities as Biomonitors, Applications for Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA)
- USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis program forester
training session, Durango, CO (May, 2009)
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Lichens, Biomonitors, and Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA)
- USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis program forester training session, Ft. Collins, CO (May, 2007)
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Publications (peer-reviewed): |
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Bates, S.T., F. Farruggia, E. Gilbert, R. Gutierrez, D. Jenke, E. Makings, E. Manton, D. Newton, and L.R. Landrum. 2009.
Vascular Plants of Arizona: Solanaceae. Part II: Key to the genera and Solanum L. Canotia 5(1): 1-16.
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Soule, T., I.J. Anderson, S.L. Johnson, S.T. Bates and F. Garcia-Pichel. 2009.
Archaeal populations in biological soil crusts from arid lands in North America. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 41(10): 2069-2074.
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Bates, S.T., R.W. Roberson and D.E. Desjardin. 2009. Arizona gasteroid I: Lycoperdaceae (Agaricales,
Basidiomycota). Fungal Diversity 37: 153-207.
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Bates, S.T. and F. Garcia-Pichel.
2009.
A culture-independent study of free-living fungi in biological soil
crusts of the Colorado Plateau: their diversity and relative
contribution to microbial biomass.
Evironmental Microbiology: 11(1): 56-67.
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Bates, S.T. and A. Barber. 2008. A preliminary
checklist of Arizona slime molds. Canotia 4(1): 8-19.
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Hosaka, K., S.T. Bates, R.E. Beever, M.A.
Castellano, W. Colgan, III, L.S. Dominguez, E.R. Nouhra, J. Geml, A.J.
Giachini, S.R. Kenney, N.B. Simpson, J.W. Spatafora and J.M. Trappe.
2006. Molecular phylogenetics of the gomphoid-phalloid fungi with the
establishment of the new subclass Phallomycetidae and two new orders.
Mycologia 98(6): 949-959.
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Bates, S.T., G.S.N. Reddy and F. Garcia-Pichel. 2006.
Exophiala crusticola anam. nov. (affinity Herpotrichiellaceae),
a novel black yeast from biological soil crusts in the western United States.
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
56: 2697-2702.
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Bates, S.T. 2006. A preliminary checklist of Arizona macrofungi.
Canotia 2(2): 47-78.
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Sweat, K.G., W.A. Iselin, S.T.
Bates and T.H. Nash III. 2004. The lichens of Parashant
National Monument, Arizona: A
preliminary study. Journal of the
Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science
37(2): 85-90.
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Publications (non-peer-reviewed): |
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Bungartz, F., F.I. Nugra-Salazar, X. Arturo-Lopez, F.
Ziemmeck and S.T. Bates. 2008. Plantas no vasculares en Galapagos
(liquenes, briofitos y hongos): Nuevos registros, amenazas y potencial
como bioindicadores una primera evaluacion. Pp. 147-152. In:
Informe Galapagos 2007-2008. Puerto Ayora, Galapagos, Ecuador.
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Bates, S.T. 2006. The ABLS lichen exchange: history and procedure. Evansia 23(2): 43-44.
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Professional Affiliations: |
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American Bryological and Lichenological Society
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American Society for Microbiology
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North American Mycological Association
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Mycological Society of America
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Sigma Xi
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