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Minutes of the Eighty-Second Annual Meeting of the South Dakota Academy of Science  

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Presidential Address: Can we live with our paradigms?  

Sharon A.Clay  

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Complete Senior Research Papers presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the South Dakota Academy of Science.

Fishes of the Mainstem Cheyenne River in South Dakota.  

Douglas R. Hampton and Charles R. Berry,.Jr.  

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impacts of the John Morrell Meat Packing Plant on Macroinvertebrates in the Big Sioux River in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.  

Craig N. Spencer, Gwen Warkenthien, Steven F. Lehtinen, Elizabeth A. Ring, and Cullen R. Robbins  

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Winter Survival and Overwintering Behavior in South Dakota Oniscidea (Crustacea, isopoda).  

Jonathan C. Wright  

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Fluctuations in Daily Activity of Muskrates in Eastern South Dakota.  

 Joel F. Lyons, Craig D. Kost, and Jonathan A. Jenks  

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Occurrence of Small, Nongame Mammals in South Dakota's Eastern Border Counties, 1994-1995.  

Kenneth F. Higgins, Rex R. Johnson, Mark R. Dorhout, and William A. Meeks  

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Use of a Mail Survey to Present Mammal Distributions in South Dakota.  

Carmen A. Blumberg, Jonathan A. Jenks, and Kenneth F. Higgins  

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A Survey of Natural Resource Professionals Participating in Waterfowl Hunting in South Dakota.  

Jeffrey S. Gleason and Jonathan A. Jenks  

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The Importance of Conservation Reserve Program Fields to Breeding Grassland Birds at Buffalo Ridge, Minnesota.  

Krecia L. Leddy, David E. Naugle, and Kenneth F. Higgins  

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Effects of Wind Turbines on Nesting Raptors at Buffalo Ridge in Southwestern Minnesota.  

Robert E. Usgaard, David E. Naugle, Robert G. Osborn, and Kenneth F. Higgins  

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The Origin of Waterfalls in the Black Hills, South Dakota.  

Charles Michael Ray and Perry H. Rahn  

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Stable Carbon Isotopes in Celtis (Ulmacaea) from the Beaver Creek Shelter, Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota and Paleoclimatic Interpretations.  

Mark L. Gabel, Marlina Cowan, and Larry L. Tieszen  

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Comparison of Implements for Improving Sodic Rangeland Soils.  

John Bechtold, F. R. Gartner, E. M. White  

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Atrazine and Alachlor Adsorption Characteristics to Benchmark Soil Series in eastern South Dakota.  

Z. Liu, S.A. Clay, J. Gaffney, and D. Malo  

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Analysis of Spatial Distribution of Canada Thistle (Cirsium arvense) in NoTill Soybean (Glycine max).  

B.L. Broulik, J. Lems,  S.A. Clay, D.E. Clay, and M.M. Ellsbury  

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Lean Spurge-A review.  

 Sharon A. Clav and Chad M. Scholes  

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 Stress Effects and Evolution of Direct Development in Echinoid Echinoderms.  

Leland G. Johnson and Teresa L. Fitzgerald-Brown  

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Comparing Estimates of Some Bivariate Survival Functions Under Random Censorship.  

Bonaventure A. Anthonio  

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Determination of Ozone Optical Depths from Shadowband Radiometer Data.  

Stephen D. Hawks and Stephen Schiller  

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Strengthening and Deformation Mechanisms in the First Generation of AL-LI Alloys 2091 and 8090.  

Dajun Chen and Glen A. Stone  

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Illuminance is a Point Source is an Oscillating Function of Distance in a Hyperspherical Universe.  

Richard P. Menzel  

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Sources of Natural Resource Information, Non-Consumptive Use of Wildlife and Changes in South Dakota Residents' Attitudes Toward Hunting Between 1973 and 1989.  

Nancy J. Dietz, Kenneth F. Higgins, and Robert D. Mendelsohn  

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Student Opinions About Hunting in South Dakota.  

Robert D. Mendelsohn, Nancy J. Dietz, and Kenneth F. Higgins  

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Trace Metals in Water and Sediments of Wetlands in the Rainwater Basin Area of Nebraska.  

Christine C. Gordon, Lester D. Flake, and Kenneth F. Higgins  

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Abstracts of Senior Research Papers presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the South Dakota Academy of Science.

Determining the Prevalance of Whirling Disease in Idaho Rivers.  

Bryan Ledgerwood, Dale Droge, and Steve Elle  

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A Characterization of Water Chemistry and Plankton from Four Prairie Lakes. Theodore B. McMillan and Lois Haertel  

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Role of Wetlands in Agricultural Systems.  

D.H. Rickerl and L.L. Janssen  

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Paleontological Resource Survey of State-Administered Lands in South Dakota.  

Bruce A. Schumacher, James E. Martin, and Curt Johnson  

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Sedimentology of the Coarse-Grained Deposits from the Quaternary Fossil Lake Area in South-Central Oregon.  

Janet L. Bertog, James E. Martin, and Allen J. Kihm  

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Fossil Invertebrates of the Niobrara Formation in South Dakota.  

James E. Martin, Bruce A. Schumacher, David C. Parris, and Barbara Smith Grandstaff  

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Additional Quaternary Vertebrates from the Chamber of Lost Souls, Wind Cave National Park, Southwestern South Dakota.  

James E. Martin and Ruth Anderson  

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Preliminary Studies on Distribution of Pbyllacbora on Poaceae.  

A.C. Gabel, L.H. Tiffany, and M.L. Gabel  

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Studies on a South Dakota Population of Soybean Cyst Nematode, Heterodera glycines.  

James L. Jones and  James D. Smolik  

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Preliminary Examination of the Effect of Direction of Slope of Field on Growth and Yields of Corn Plants in Northwestern Iowa.  

Troy McKenney and Donna Hazelwood  

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 Black Dot Flea Beetle Genetic Diversity as Measured at Two Loci-MDH and PGM.  

Mark A. Brinkman, Sharon A. Clay, and Nels H. Granholm  

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Alielopathy in Echinacea Angustifolia D.C. Roots.  

Peter A. Jauert and R. Neil Reese  

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Alielopathic Potential of Ecbinacea angustifolia D.C.'s Root Extracts.  

Kimberly Piechowski and R. Neil Reese  

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Thyroxine Effects on vertebrate Development.  

Leland G. Johnson, Jessica E. Kullbom, Stephanie L. Priesz, Shana N. Strand, and Katherine M. Faber  

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Agouti Gene Regulation of Thiol (CYS amd GSH) Concentrations in Livers of Mice.  

J.T. Brunz, R. N. Reese, and N. H. Granholm  

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Des-Acetyl-Alpha Melanocyte Stimulating Hormone and Melanogenesis in B16 Melanoma Cells.  

P.Ramasastry and N.H. Granholm  

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Serum Estradiol Levels in the Lethal Yellow Mouse.  

Maureen Diggins, Dustin Dierks, Julia Spiry, and Nels Granholm  

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Molecular Characterization of the Bovine Homolog of the Agouti Gene.  

M.D. Johansen, R.R.R. Rowland, and N.H. Granholm  

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Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus Infects Camelid Cell Lines.  

A.A. Ali, A.A. Salama, T.A. Aboellail, and C.C. Chase  

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Use of Digotonin to Differentially Strip the Tegumental Membrane Surrounding the Strobila and Bladder Regions of Taenia Taeniaformis Strobilocerci.  

EJ. Olson, DJ. Robison, S.R. Duimstra and M.B. Hildreth  

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Mathematical Analysis of a Model for the Growth of a Single Species Cell: Ribosome Dependence Model.  

A.S. Elkhader  

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Mathematical Models for the Visualization of juggling.  

Richard D. Sinnnons and Douglas J. Peters  

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Modification of Carbon Electrode Surfaces.  

Royce C. Engstrom, Brian D. Lamp and Betsy B. Ratcliff  

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Creating and Imaging Microstructures on Surfaces.  

Miles Koppang, Robert Carson, Paul Verbanac and Wenchun Chao  

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South Dakota Academy of Science 1997 junior Academy Winning Papers.

Stuck with Duck Yuck?  

Justin L. Herreman  

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