Stephen E.
Goodyear Jr.
Little Texas Lane #2237
Austin,
TX 78745
abqnuu@r.postjobfree.com
Education:
- Austin, TX
– present (Ph.D. in progress –Advisor: )
- Raleigh, NC
8/2001 - 5/2004
BS in Science - Zoology
GPA: 3.888
University of North Carolina at
Wilmington- Wilmington,
North Carolina, NC 8/2000
- 5/2001
GPA: 4.000
Experience:
Field
Researcher, –
supervisors Tim
Green
and Jeremy
Feinberg
- Upton, NY 06/2004-08/2004
- Performed
radiotelemetry study of Eastern Hognose snake activity in Central
Pine Barrens of Long Island, NY
Assistant
Researcher, -NCSU supervisor Marianne
Feaver - Raleigh, NC
08/2003-05/2004
- Studied female manipulation of spermatophores in grasshoppers
-
Collected and bred grasshoppers in captivity
-
Observed histology samples and evaluated data
Assistant
Researcher, -NCSU supervisor- Harold
Heatwole
- Raleigh, NC
03/2002 – 05/2004
- Measured rate of digestion in snakes and its relation to venom usage
-
Scheduled and carried out experiments
- Daily
care and maintenance of animal test subjects (kingsnakes)
Field
Researcher, - NCSU supervisor-
-
Raleigh, NC 05/2003
- 09/2003
- Carried out experiments and collected data for a variety of projects
involving air quality and ammonia emissions
- Worked
cooperatively with researchers from
and
Biology
Tutor, Academic Support
Program for
Student Athletes - Raleigh, NC
01/2003 - 05/2004
- Assisted NC State student athletes in their understanding of material
covered
in
Biology, Zoology,
Botany,
Animal Science, and Chemistry courses
Teaching
Experience:
TA - Entomology - Fall 2009- UT Austin
TA - Ecology, Evolution, and Society - Spring 2009 - UT Austin
TA - Structure and Function of Organisms: Lab - Spring 2008 - UT Austin
TA - Vertebrate
Natural History - Fall 2007 - UT Austin
TA -
-
Spring 2007 - UT Austin
TA – – Fall
2005, Fall 2006 – UT Austin
TA – Evolutionary Ecology – Spring 2006 – UT Austin
TA – Structure and Function of Organisms – Fall 2004, Summer 2005 – UT
Austin
TA – Diversity and Ecology – Spring 2005 – UT Austin
Tutor for student athletes in Biology and Chemistry – Spring & Fall
2003 – NC State Univ.
Publications:
Goodyear, S. E. and Feinberg, J. A. 2006 Heterodon
platirhinos. Envenomation and Prey Survival. Herpetological
Review. 37:352-353.
Goodyear, S. E. and Pianka, E. R. 2008. Sympatric Ecology of Five
Species of Fossorial Snakes (Elapidae) in Western Australia. Journal of
Herpetology. 42:279-285. []
Goodyear, S. E. and Pianka, E. R. In Review. Spatial-temporal
heterogeneity facilitates species coexistence in two agamid lizards in
the Great Victoria Desert, Western Australia.
Presented
Research:
Feinberg, J.A. and Goodyear, S.E. "Home range and activity
patterns of eastern hognose snakes, Heterodon platirhinos, in the
Central Pine Barrens of Long Island, New York." American Society of
Ichthyologists and Herpetologists joint meeting, Tampa, FL, July 2005
Goodyear, S.E. and Feinberg, J.A. “Home range and activity
patterns of the eastern hognose snake, Heterodon platirhinos, in Upton
Ecological Reserve at Brookhaven National Lab.” Ecology, Evolution
& Behavior and Plant Biology Graduate Student Research Symposium,
Austin, TX, October 2004.
Goodyear, S.E. “R – Rated Ecology: How do snakes fit into a land
of lizards?” Plant Biology & Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
Graduate Student Research Symposium, Austin, TX, October 2005.
Goodyear, S.E. “R – Rated Ecology: How do snakes fit into a land
of lizards?” Texas Herpetological Society Symposium, Austin, TX,
November 2005.
Goodyear, S.E. “Beyond correlations: finding mechanisms to
explain population fluctuations” Plant Biology & Ecology, Evolution
and Behavior Graduate Student Research Symposium, Austin, TX, November
2006.
Goodyear, S. E. "What good are lizards?" Ecology, Evolution
& Behavior and Plant Biology Graduate Student Research Symposium,
Austin, TX, April 2008.
Goodyear, S. E. and Pianka, E. R. 2008. "Spatial-Temporal Habitat
Heterogeneity Facilitates Species Coexistence of Two Agamid Lizards in
the Great Victoria Desert, Western Australia." American Society of
Ichthyologists and Herpetologists joint meeting, Montreal, Quebec, July
2008.
Goodyear, S. E. "Using microfossils to examine major evolutionary
patterns and trends." Ecology, Evolution
& Behavior and Plant Biology Graduate Student Research Symposium,
Austin, TX, May 2009.
Goodyear, S. E. and Wade, B. S. "Utilizing IODP Core Data
in the Life Sciences." Integrated Ocean Drilling Program INVEST
meeting, Bremen, Germany, September 2009.
Other Training:
Paleobiology Database sponsored intensive summer
course at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in
Santa Barbara, CA – Summer 2006