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CURRICULUM VITAE
2005
William T. Potter
Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Degrees Earned:
B.S.,
Chemistry,
Ph.D.,
Biochemistry,
University of Notre Dame, 1975
Colorado State University, 1986
Areas of Specialization:
Biochemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Laser Spectroscopy, Breath and Other NonInvasive Diagnostics
Professional Experience:
1996-2004
1990-1996
1988-1990
1986-1988
1978-1980
1976-1978
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Environmental Medicine
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Peace Corps
USDA
University of Tulsa
University of Tulsa
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
Sierra Leone
University of Nebraska
Professional Memberships:
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Chemical Society
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The Oxygen Society
SPIE, The International Society for Optical Engineering
American Meteorological Society
Honors:
National Energy-Environment Law and Policy Institute (NELPI) Fellow
Research Excellence Award, College of Engineering and Natural Sciences, The University
of Tulsa
NASA/University Joint Venture Excellence Award
Outstanding Service and Dedication- Chi Omega Citation
Chair, Tulsa Chapter of the American Chemical Society
ACS Phoenix Award
Publications (Refereed)
W. T. Potter, J. H. Hazzard, S. Kawanishi, and W. S. Caughey, "Direct Measurement of
Carbon Monoxide Bound to Different Subunits of Hemoglobin A in Solution and in Red
Cells by Infrared Spectroscopy," Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. (1983) 116, 719-725.
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W. T. Potter, R. A. Houtchens, and W. S. Caughey, "Crystallization-Induced Changes in
Protein Structure Observed by Infrared Spectroscopy of Carbon Monoxide Liganded Human
Hemoglobin A and Zurich," J. Am. Chem. Soc. (1985) 107, 3350-3353.
W. T. Potter, M. P. Tucker, R. A. Houtchens, and W. S. Caughey, "Oxygen Infrared Spectra
of Oxyhemoglobins and Oxymyoglobins. Evidence of Two Major Liganded O2 Structures,"
Biochemistry, (1987) 26, 4699-4707.
W. T. Potter, J. H. Hazzard, M. P. Tucker, and W. S. Caughey, "Infrared Spectra of
Carbonyl Hemoglobins: Characterization of Dynamic Heme Pocket Conformers,"
Biochemistry (1990) 29, 6283-6395.
W. T. Potter, S. Rong, J. Griffith, S. White and V. F. Garry, "Phosphine Mediated Heinz
Body Formation and Hemoglobin Oxidation in Human Erythrocytes," Toxicological Letters
(1991) 57, 37-45.
D.W. Iacoe, W.T. Potter, D. Teeters, "Simple Generation of C60 (Buckminsterfullerene) in
Undergraduate Research Laboratories," (Cover Article) J. Chem. Ed., (1992) 69, 663.
W. T. Potter, V. F. Garry, J. T. Kelly, R. Tarone and J. Griffith, "Radiometric Assay of Red
Cell and Plasma Cholinesterase in Pesticide Appliers from Minnesota," Toxicology and
Applied Pharmacology (1993) 119, 150-155.
J.G. Cho, W.T. Potter and K.L. Sublette, “Porphyrin-catalyzed Reduction of Nitroaromatics
for the Treatment of Pink Water,” Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology (1994) 45/46,
861-970.
W.T. Potter, J.G. Cho and K.L. Sublette, “Reduction of Nitric Oxide to Nitrous Oxide
Monitored by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy,” Fuel Processing Technology
(1994) 40, 255-360.
W.T. Potter, J.G. Cho, Ramesh Shanmugasundram, A. Chirkis and K.L. Sublette,
“Biomimetic and Microbial Reduction of Nitric Oxide,” Applied Biochemistry and
Biotechnology (1995) 51/52, 771-784.
C. Liu, D. Teeters, W. Potter, B. Tapp and M. Sukkar, "Raman and FTIR Studies of
Complex formation in Aluminum Trichloride-Alkali Thiocyanate Ambient Temperature
Molten Salt Solutions," (1996) Solid State Ionics 86-88, 431-440.
K. Wignarajah, S. Pisharody, M. Flynn, D. Bubenheim, B. Potter and C. Klein, "Nitrogen
Sources of NOx Generated During Incineration of Inedible Plant Biomass," (1996) Life
Support and Biosphere Science 12, 712-717.
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K. Duncan, E. Jennings, S. Hettenbach, W. Potter, K. Sublette, G. Subramaniam, R.
Narasimhan, "Nitrogen Cycling and Nitric Oxide Emissions in Oil-Impacted Prairie Soils,"
(1998) Bioremediation Journal 3, 195-208.
K.E. Duncan, R. Kolhatkar, G. Subramaniam, R. Narasimhan, E. Jennings, S. Hettenbach, A.
Brown, C. McComas, W. Potter and K. Sublette, "Microbial Dynamics in Oil-Impacted
Prairie Soil," Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology (1999) 77-79, 421-434.
K. Namjou, P. J. McCann and W. T. Potter, "Breath Testing with Mid-IR Laser
Spectrometer," Applications of Tunable Diode and Other Infrared Sources for Atmospheric
Studies and Industrial Processing Monitoring (1999) 3758, 74-80.
R. Narasimhan, J. Keller, G. Subramaniam, E. Raasch, B. Croley, K. Duncan and W. T.
Potter, "Ozone Modeling Using Neural Networks," Journal of Applied Meteorology, (2000),
39, 291-296.
C. Roller, K. Namjou, J. Jeffers, W. Potter, P. McCann and J. Grego, “Simultaneous NO and
CO2 measurement in human breath with a single IV-VI mid-infrared laser,” Optics Letters
(2002) 27, 107-109.
A. Fried, B. Wert, J. Walega, D. Richter, B. Potter, “Airborne Measurements of
Formaldehyde Employing a High Performance Tunable Diode Laser Absorption System,”
Diode Laser and Applications in Atmospheric Sensing, SPIE, 4817, 2002.
Alan Fried, James Crawford, Jennifer Olson, Jim Walega, William Potter, Bryan Wert,
Carolyn Jordan, Bruce Anderson, Rick Shetter, Barry Lefer, Donald Blake, Nicola Blake,
Simone Meinardi, Brian Heikes, Daniel O’Sullivan, Julie Snow, Henry Fuelberg, Christopher
M. Kiley, Scott Sandholm, David Tan, Glen Sachse, Hanwant Singh, Ian Faloona,Charles N.
Harward, and Gregory R. Carmichael, “Airborne tunable diode laser measurements of
formaldehyde during TRACE-P: Distributions and box model comparisons,” Journal of
Geophysical Research, 108, [Atmospheres] (2003), 108(D20), GTE19/1-GTE19/23.
doi:10.1029/2003JD003451, 2003.
K. Duncan, E. Jennings, P. Buck, H. Wells, R. Kolhatkar, K. Sublette, W. T. Potter, T. Todd,
“Multi-Species Exotoxicity Assessment of Petroleum-Contaminated Soil,” Soil and Sediment
Contamination, 12 (2): 181-206 (2003).
Ryerson, T.B., Trainer, M., Nicks, D.K., Neuman, A.J., Holloway, J.S., .Brock, C.A.,
Jakoubek, R.O., Parrish, D.D., Seuper, D.T., Frost, G.J., Kuster, W.C., Goldan, P.D., Dissly,
R.W., Hubler, G., Angevine, W.M., Fehsenfeld, F.C., Donnelly, S.G., Schauffler, S., Atlas,
E.L., Weinheimer, A.J., Flocke, F., Wert, B.P., Potter, W.T., Fried, A., Wiedinmyer, C.,
Senff, C.J., Banta, R.M., Darby, L.S., Alvarez, R.J. “Effect of petrochemical industrial
emissions of reactive alkenes and NOx on tropospheric ozone formation in Houston, Texas,”
Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 108, NO. D8, 4249, ACH8/1-ACH8/24.
2003.
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Wert, B.P., Trainer, M., Fried, A., Ryerson, T.B., Henry, B., Potter, W., Angevine, W.M.,
Atlas, E., Donnelly, S.G., Fehsenfeld, F., Frost, G.J., Goldan, P.D., Hansel, A., Holloway,
J.S., Hubler, G., Kuster, W.C., Nicks, D.K. Jr., Neuman, J.A., Parrish, D.D., Schauffler, S.,
Stutz, J., Sueper, D.T., Wiedinmyer, C., Wisthaler, A., “Signatures of alkene oxidation in
airborne formaldehyde measurements during TexAQS2000,” Journal of Geophysical
Research-Atmospheres, 108(D3), 4104, doi:10.1029/2002JD002502.
A. Fried, J. Walega, D. Richter, B. Wert and B. Potter, “Highly Sensitive Airborne
Measurements of Formaldehyde Employing A Tunable Infrared Diode Laser Spectrometer,”
CLEO, Lasers and Electro Optics/ Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference,
Baltimore, Maryland, June 2003.
G. R. Carmichael, Y. Tang, G. Kurata, I. Uno, D. G. Streets, N. Thongboonchoo, J.-H.
Woo1, S. Guttikunda, A. White, T. Wang, D. R. Blake, E. Atlas, A. Fried, B. Potter, M. A.
Avery, G. W. Sachse, S. T. Sandholm, Y. Kondo, R. W. Talbot, A. Bandy, D. Thorton, A.D.
Clarke, “Evaluating Regional Emission Estimates Using the TRACE-P Observations” JGR,
Journal of Geophysical Research, [Atmospheres] (2003), 108(D21), GTE 31/1-GTE 31/17.
James D. Jeffers, Chad B. Roller, Khosrow Namjou, William Potter, Patrick J. McCann,
“Tunable laser spectroscopy measurement of exhaled nitric oxide: effect of flow rate, ”
LACEA accepted Feb 2004, in press.
Submitted 2004: Biomedical Eng. “Recent Progress in the Development of an Exhaled Nitric
Oxide Breath Test for Children”, K. Namjou, JD Jeffers, B. Wiemeyer, CB Roller, PJ
McCann and W. Potter.
Professional Presentations (Predominantly with Undergraduate)
W. S. Caughey, H. Shimada, J. H. Hazzard, R. A. Houtchens, and W. T. Potter., "Dynamic
Protein Structures of Oxygen Reaction Sites in Hemoglobins, Myoglobins, and Cytochrome
c Oxidase," Fed. Proc. (1983) 42, 2000.
W. T. Potter, M. P. Tucker, R. A. Houtchens, and W. S. Caughey, "Effects of Protein
Structure on Dioxygen Stretch Bands in Infrared Spectra of Oxyhemoglobins and
Oxymyoglobins," Fed. Proc. (1985) 44, 8007.
W. T. Potter, P. J. Brandt, J. A. Norman, K. Ng, E. S. Benson, A. Rosenberg, "Red Cell
Cytoskeletal Protein/Lipid Monolayer Interactions Observed by Modified Wilhelmy Surface
Tension Measurement Technique," Biophys. J. (1987) 51, 512a.
W. T. Potter, J. A. Norman, P. J. Brandt, T. T. Mai, R. Huang, E. S. Benson, A. Rosenberg,
"Interfacial, Solubility and Protein Binding Properties of Red Cell Spectrin," J. Cell Biol.
(1987) 105, 203.
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T. T. Mai, W. T. Potter, P. J. Brandt, J. A. Norman, E. S. Benson, A. Rosenberg, "Spectrin
Binding to Band 4.1: The Influence of 2,3-Diphosphoglycerate on the Red Cell
Cytoskeleton," Blood (1988) 72, 35.
W. T. Potter, T. T. Mai, E. S. Benson, and A. Rosenberg, "Interfacial Properties of Red Cell
Spectrin with Phospholipid/Cholesterol Monolayers," J. Cell Biol. (1988) 107, 2644.
W. T. Potter, S. Kramerczuk, A. Rosenberg, and E. S. Benson, "Spectrin/Band 4.1
Regulation of Actin Filament Length Distribution," Hematol. (1989) 33, 129.
D. Quintero and W. T. Potter, "Preliminary GC-MS Analysis of Exhaled Volatiles from
Newborns," ACS Meeting-in-Miniature, Stillwater, Oklahoma (1992)
W. T. Potter, D. Quintero and G. Giacoia, "Analysis of Airborne Volatiles Derived from
Newborns," 38th Annual ACS Oklahoma Pentasectional Meeting, Bartlesville (1992).
W.T. Potter, Mandeep Chada, PatricK Culley and Jemifer Parker, “Infrared Spectroscopy of
HbCO: Experiments Suitable for Undergraduate Biochemistry Laboratories,” The 205th
National ACS Meeting, Division of Chemical Education, Denver (1993).
J.G. Cho, W.T. Potter and K.L. Sublette, “Porphyrin-catalyzed Reduction of Nitroaromatics
for the Treatment of Pink Water,” Fifteenth Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and
Chemicals, Colorado Springs (1993).
D.C. Teeters, W.T. Potter and T.M. Harris and R.A. Tomasi, “Infrared Spectrophotometry
Experiments for Undergraduates,” The 206th National ACS Meeting, Division of Chemical
Education, Chicago (1993).
W.T. Potter, J.G. Cho and K.L. Sublette, “Reduction of Nitric Oxide to Nitrous Oxide
Monitored by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy,” AIChE International Symposium
on Fuels and Fuel Processing, Italy (1993).
W.T. Potter, C. Bauerly and P. Pappademos, “Neonatal Lung Damage Monitored by Exhaled
Volatiles,” 82nd Technical Meeting, Oklahoma Academy of Sciences, Ada (1993).
W.T. Potter, P.Cho and K. Sublette, “Reduction of Nitric Oxide by Cobalt-centered
Porphyrin Monitored by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy,” The Oxygen Society,
Charleston (1993).
R. Shanmugasundaram, A. Chirkis, C-M Lee, J-G. Cho, W.T. Potter and K.L. Sublette,
“Biomimetic and Microbial Reduction of Nitric Oxide,” Sixteenth Symposium on
Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals, Oak Ridge (1994).
J. Parker, M Chada and W.T. Potter, “Infrared Analysis of Nitrosyl Hemoglobin,” ACS 1994
Meeting in Miniature Undergraduate Research Symposium, Tulsa (1994).
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S.M. Ronda, J. Parker, U. Le and W.T. Potter, “Reactions of Nitric Oxide with Sulfhydryls,”
ACS 1994 Meeting in Miniature Undergraduate Research Symposium, Tulsa (1994).
S.M. Ronda, J. Parker, U. Le and W.T. Potter, “Reactions of Nitric Oxide with Sulfhydryls,”
38th Annual ACS Pentasectional Meeting, September, Tulsa (1994).
P.A. Culley, J. Parker, M. Chada and W.T. Potter, “The Conformations of HbCO in the
Presence of Nickel as Determined by Deconvolution of the CO Stretch Bands,” ACS 1994
Meeting in Miniature Undergraduate Research Symposium, Tulsa (1994).
C.C. Bauerly, P.C. Pappademos, M. Chada and W.T. Potter, “Breath Analysis as a Measure
of Oxidative Stress,” ACS 1994 Meeting in Miniature Undergraduate Research Symposium,
Tulsa (1994).
E. Winsjansen, W.T. Potter and D. Teeters, “Surface Chemistry Study of Nonimpact Inks,”
ACS Meeting in Miniature Undergraduate Research Symposium, Tulsa (1994).
D. C. Teeters, E. Winsjansen, W. Redman and W.T. Potter, “Surface Analysis of Inks and
Toners using Dynamic Wilhelmy Plate” Progress in Paper Recycling, AIChE Spring
National Meeting, Atlanta (1994).
W.T. Potter, S. Ronda and K. Sublette, “Reduction of Nitric Oxide to Nitrous Oxide by
Thiols,” AIChE Summer National Meeting, Denver (1994).
S. Ronda, U. Le and W.T. Potter, “Reactions of Nitric Oxide with Sulfhydryls,” 39th Annual
American Chemistry Society Pentasectional Meeting, Tulsa (1994).
H.A. Byrne, H.N. Huebner, U. Le and W.T. Potter, "Reactions of Nitric Oxide with Tyrosine
in Oxygenated Aqueous Solutions," 209th National ACS Meeting, Anaheim (1995).
E. Winsjansen, W.T. Potter and D. Teeters, "Surface chemistry study of surfactant-modified
nonimpact inks," 209th National ACS Meeting, Anaheim (1995).
W.T. Potter, G. Giacoia, U. Le and H. Huebner, "Nitric Oxide Treatment of Newborn Infants
with Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension," 40th Pentasectional Meeting of the ACS, Norman
(1995).
C. Liu, D. Teeters, W. Potter, M. Sukkar and B. Tapp, "Raman and FTIR studies of AlkaliThiocyanate-Aluminum Trichloride Ambient Temperature Molten Salt Solutions," 10th
International Conference on Solid State Ionics, Singapore (1995).
J. Billerbeck, L. Duffy, W. Potter and G. Giacoia, "Nitric Oxide Treatment of Newborns with
Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension," Joint Meeting of American Society for Microbiology
South Central Branch and Mid-South Biochemists, Little Rock (1995).
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R.G. Ingraham, R. Narasimhan, G. Subramaniam and W.T. Potter, "Nitric Oxide Production
from Soil Bacteria," 210th National ACS Meeting (1996)
G. Subramaniam, R. Narasimhan, W.T. Potter and K. Sublette, "Monitoring Production of
Nitric Oxide from Rural Sources by Tunable Diode Laser Spectroscopy," 3rd International
Petroleum Environmental Conference, Albuquerque (1996)
K. Duncan, S. Hettenbach, E. Jemmngs, G. Subramaniam, R. Narasimhan, W.T. Potter and
K. Sublette, "Nitrogen Cycling in Oil Impacted Soils," 3rd International Petroleum
Environmental Conference, Albuquerque (1996)
K. Duncan, G. Subramaniam, R. Narasimhan, E. Jennings, S., Hettenbach, K. Durham, R.
Ingraham, V. Le, O. Nguyen, K. Sublette, W. Potter, "Microbial Dynamics in Oil-Impacted
Prairie Soil," Science in the Tallgrass Symposium 53rd Southwest Regional American
Chemical Society Meeting, Tulsa, October (1997).
G. Subramaniam, R. Narasimhan, R. Ingraham, V. Le, K. Sublette, K. Duncan and W. Potter,
"Nitric Oxide Emissions in Oil-Impacted Soils," Science in the Tallgrass Symposium 53rd
Southwest Regional American Chemical Society Meeting, Tulsa, October (1997).
K. Burnett, K. Sublette, R. Kolhatkar, K. Duncan, J. Keller, E. Levetin, W. Potter, "LongTerm Effects of Crude Oil Contamination and Bioremediation in a Prairie Ecosystem,"
Science in the Tallgrass Symposium 53rd Southwest Regional American Chemical Society
Meeting, Tulsa, October (1997).
W. Potter (Session Organizer and Chair) Water Quality and the Poultry Industry in N.E.
Oklahoma, 53rd Southwest Regional American Chemical Society Meeting, Tulsa, October
(1997).
D. Teeters, W.A. Redman, W.T. Potter, "Surface Characterization of Surfactanct-Modified
Non-Impact Inks," 215th ACS National Meeting, Dallas, March 29 (1998).
B. Croley, E. Raasch and W. T. Potter, "Tulsa, Area Ozone," 215th National ACS Meeting,
Dallas, (1998).
B. Croley, E. Raasch and W. T. Potter, "Development of Neural Network Models for Tulsa
Area Ozone Evaluation," 216th National ACS Meeting, Anaheim, (1999)
W. T. Potter, "Breath Testing with Mid-IR Laser Spectrometer," Applications of Tunable
Diode and Other Infrared Sources for Atmospheric Studies and Industrial Processing
Monitoring (1999) SPIE 44th International Symposium on Optical Science, Denver (1999).
B. Croley and W. T. Potter, "The Influence of NOx on Tulsa Area Ozone," 44th Annual
Pentasectional ACS Meeting, Tulsa, (1999).
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A. Burn, E. Raasch, S. Burn, R. Davis and W.T. Potter, "High Resolution Spectroscopy
Using Tunable Diode Lasers for Non-Invasive Breath Analyses," 44th Annual Pentasectional
ACS Meeting, Tulsa, (1999).
B. Croley and W.T. Potter, "Multiple Year Analyses of the Influence of NOx on Tulsa Area
Tropospheric Ozone," 216th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, (2000).
E. Raasch, A. Burn, R. Davis and W. T. Potter, "High Resolution Spectroscopy Using
Tunable Diode Lasers for Noninvasive Breath Diagnostics," 216th ACS National Meeting,
San Francisco, (2000).
W. Potter, A. Burn, K. Namjou and P. McCann, “Breath Analysis using High Resolution
Vibrational Spectroscopy,” The 27th Annual Conference of the Federation of Analytical
Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS), Nashville, Tennessee (2000).
Burn, E. Raasch, R. Davis and W. T. Potter, "Implementation of Mid-IR Tunable Diode
Laser Spectrometers in Metabolic Monitoring," 216th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco,
(2000).
McConnell, Donna L.; Potter, William; McKittrick, Demeka; Schonfield, Deanna. Impact of
bioaerosals and outdoor pollutants on pulmonary function. Abstracts of Papers - American
Chemical Society (2001), 221st CHED-601.
Burn, Amrit K.; Potter, William T.; Symcox, Keith; Redden, Crystal. Implementation of
tunable diode laser spectroscopy for non-invasive breath diagnostics. Abstracts of Papers American Chemical Society (2001), 221st CHED-602.
A. Fried, B. Wert, J. Walega, D. Richter, B. Potter, “Airborne Measurements of
Formaldehyde Employing a High Performance Tunable Diode Laser Absorption System,”
Diode Laser and Applications in Atmospheric Sensing, SPIE 7-11 July 2002, Seattle,
Washington (2002).
Beekman, Martha; Potter, William T.. Sleuthing local environmental problems. Abstracts
of Papers, 223rd ACS National Meeting, Orlando, FL, United States, April 7-11, 2002
(2002), CHED-478.
Fried, A., Crawford, J., Olson, J., Walega, J., Wert, B., and Potter, B., “Airborne Tunable
Diode Laser Measurements of Formaldehyde During TRACE-P: Distributions and
Measurement-Box Model Comparisons,” American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San
Francisco, December (2002).
Colbert, Nikiea; Haggins, Nikki; Potter, William T.; Fried, Alan; Wert, Brian; Walega,
James. Formaldehyde detection in Asian outflow with tunable diode laser spectroscopy.
Abstracts of Papers, 223rd ACS National Meeting, Orlando, FL, United States, April 7-11,
2002 (2002), CHED-457.
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J. Hinshaw, W. Potter, R. Howard, J. Hall, “Comparison of Model Structures of the C-KIT
Tyrosine Kinase,” 59th Southwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society,
Oklahoma City, OK, October, 2003.
C. Dunn, M. Rowell, A. McVey, W. Potter, W. Cornell, T. Harris, K. Brown, and D.
Kowalski, “OACST-OARS Internship Program Delphi Catalyst,” Research Day For
Regional Universities, UCO, Edmond, OK, November, 2003.
J. Hall and W. T. Potter, “Characterization of c-KIT Mutations in Gastrointestinal Stromal
Tumor,” The American Indian Science & Engineering Society (AISES), Albuquerque, NM,
November, 2003.
Stephenson, Brooke; Potter, William T.; Hall, John. “Development of a biocompatible
polymer scaffold for tissue engineering.” 227th ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA,
United States, March 28-April 1, 2004 (2004), CHED-165.
W. Potter. “How Well Can Arginine Levels Control Astrocyte-Neuron-Vascular Coupling in
Non-Inflammatory Conditions?” 2004 Gordon Conference on BRAIN ENERGY
METABOLISM & BLOOD FLOW, August 8, 2004.
Invited:
W. T. Potter and W. S. Caughey, "Dynamic Heme-Pocket Conformers," Rocky Mountain
Regional Biochemistry Conference, 1984, Pingree Park, Colorado.
W. T. Potter, "Grain Fumigants and Hemoglobin Oxidation," Center for Environmental
Research Technology, Second Annual Symposium, 1991, The University of Tulsa.
W. T. Potter, EPA-Sponsored "Symposium on Breath Monitoring," 84th Annual Meeting,
North Dakota Academy of Science, "Analysis of Exhaled Volatiles from Premature Infants,"
(1992).
W. T. Potter, ACS Tulsa Chapter, "Free Radical Injury in Neonates," (1992).
W. T. Potter, University of Tulsa Department of Biological Science Colloquium, "Analysis
of Exhaled Volatiles from Newborns" (1992).
W.T. Potter, G. Giacoia, U. Le and H. Huebner, "Nitric Oxide Treatment of Newborn Infants
with Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension," 40th Pentasectional Meeting of the ACS, Norman
(1995).
W. T Potter, "Air Emissions from Landfarming for Remediation of Petroleum Contaminated
Soil," 3rd International Petroleum Environmental Conference, Albuquerque (1996)
Mayor Susan Savage and W. T. Potter, "Focusing on Tulsa's Water and Air Quality,"
American Chemical Society, Tulsa Chapter, Feb 25, 1998.
W. T. Potter, "Metabolic Paradigms," B. Potter. Law and Medicine Society and Student
Health Advisory Board Seminar Series, March 4, 1998.
W. T. Potter, "Neural Network Analysis of Tulsa Area Ozone," American Meteorological
Society, Central Oklahoma Chapter, University of Oklahoma, Norman, March 5, 1998
W. T. Potter, "Use of Neural Networks for Predicting Tulsa Area Ozone," B. Potter,
Engineers' Society of Tulsa (EST), Tulsa, May 1998.
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W. T. Potter, "Neural Analysis of Tulsa Ozone," B. Potter, US EPA Region 6 Conference,
June 1998.
W.T. Potter, "Tulsa Area Ozone," American Meteorological Society, Tulsa Chapter, Tulsa,
October 6, 1998.
W. Potter, A. Burn, K. Namjou and P. McCann, “Breath Analysis using High Resolution
Vibrational Spectroscopy,” The 27th Annual Conference of the Federation of Analytical
Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS), Nashville, Tennessee (2000) for Industrial
Applications of Infrared Spectroscopy.
A. Fried, J. Walega, B. Wert, J. Crawford, W. Potter, I. Faloona, D. Richter, “Highly
Sensitive Airborne Measurements of CH2O during NASA’s 2001 TRACE-P Campaign:
Measurement Box-Model Comparisons and the Effects of Clouds on These Comparisons,”
4th International Conference of Tunable Diode Laser Spectroscopy, Zermatt, Switzerland,
2003.
A. Fried, J. Walega, D. Richter, B. Wert and B. Potter, “Highly Sensitive Airborne
Measurements of Formaldehyde Employing A Tunable Infrared Diode Laser Spectrometer,”
CLEO, Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics/ Quantum Electronics and Laser Science
Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, June 2003.
W. Potter “Formaldehyde Measurements on the Fly!” Wichita State University
Departmental Seminar Program, November, 2003.
Books
W. T. Potter, V. F. Garry, J. T. Kelly, R. Tarone, J. Griffith and R. L. Nelson, "Radiometric
assay of red cell and plasma cholinesterase in pesticide appliers from Minnesota,"
Agricultural Health and Safety: Workplace, Environment, Sustainability, Lewis
Publishers, Chelsea, Michigan, (1992)
Technical Reports
"Survey of Rural Health: Effects of Herbicides, Pesticides and Fumigants." Progress Report
for Minnesota Department of Agriculture, State of Minnesota. V. F. Garry, J. T. Kelly, W.
T. Potter, Minnesota State Publication 2034, 1990.
"Pesticide Appliers in Minnesota," Final Report, 1992, to Minnesota State Legislature, W. T.
Potter section, Part II (B) pp. 1-20.
“Search,” Procedures Manual for Underground Tank Testing (1993) Prepared for NESCO.
"Analysis of Trace Volatiles within Controlled Environmental Life Support Systems
(CELLS)," NASA JOVE Report (1994 &1995).
"Modification of Inks and Toners for Enhanced Deinking and Separation," (1995) Prepared
for the Oklahoma Alliance for Public Policy Research, Inc.
Proceedings Publications
W.S. Caughey, H. Shimada, J.H. Hazzard, R.A. Houtchens and W.T. Potter, "Dynamic
Protein Structures of Oxygen Reaction Sites in Hemoglobins, Myoglobins, and Cytochrome
c Oxidase," Fed. Proc., (1983) 42, 2000.
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W.T. Potter, M.P. Tucker, R.A. Houtchens, and W.S. Caughey, "Effects of Protein Structure
on Dioxygen Stretch Bands in Infrared Spectra of Oxyhemoglobins and Oxymyoglobins,"
Fed. Proc. (1985) 44, 8007.
W. T. Potter, D. Quintero, P. Morris and G. P. Giacoia, "Analysis of Exhaled Volatiles from
Premature Infants with Respiratory Distress," Proceedings, North Dakota Academy of
Science, 46, 15.
W. T. Potter, V. F. Garry, J. T. Kelly, R. Tarone, J. Griffith, and R. L. Nelson, "Radiometric
assay of cholinesterase in pesticide appliers from Minnesota," Third International
Symposium: Issues in Health, Safety, and Agriculture (1992) in Proceedings of Royal
University Hospital, Saskatchewan, Canada.
N. DiGennaro, A. Laeger, N. Newman, S. Shaull, and W. T. Potter, "Evaluation of Airborne
Sampling," Research Proceedings of Tulsa Summer Academies, University of Tulsa, 1992.
W.T. Potter, C. Bauerly and P. Pappademos, “Neonatal Lung Damage” 1994, Proceedings of
The Oklahoma Academy of Sciences
W.T. Potter, J.G. Cho, Ramesh Shanmugasundram, A. Chirkis and K.L. Sublette,
“Biomimetic and Microbial Reduction of Nitric Oxide,” Proceedings of the Sixteenth
Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals, 114, 1994.
K. Duncan, E. Jennings, K. Burnette, S. Hettenbach, G. Subramaniam, R. Narasimhan, A.
Kolhatkar, K. Durham, R. Ingraham, V. Le, O. Nguyen, M. Shoulders, W. Potter, K.
Sublette, “Nitrogen Cycling in Oil-Impacted Soils. I. Microbial Effects” Proceedings of the
Third International Petroleum Environmental Conference, September, 1996. Albuquerque,
NM.
W. Potter, G. Subraminiam, R. Narasimhan, A. Kolhatkar, K. Duncan, R. Ingraham, V. Le,
O. Nguyen, E. Jennings, K. Burnette, S. Hettenbach, M. Shoulders, K. Duncan, K. Sublette,
“Nitrogen Cycling in Oil-Impacted Soils. II. Nitric Oxide Emissions” Proceedings of the
Third International Petroleum Environmental Conference, September, 1996. Albuquerque,
NM.
K.E. Duncan, R. Kolhatkar, G. Subramaniam, R. Narasimhan, E. Jennings, S. Hettenbach, A.
Brown, C. McComas, W. Potter, K. Sublette, "Microbial Dynamics in Oil-Impacted Prairie
Soil," Proceedings of the Twentieth Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals,
118. 1998.
K. Namjou, P. J. McCann and W. T. Potter, "Breath Testing with Mid-IR Laser
Spectrometer," Proceedings of SPIE, Applications of Tunable Diode and Other Infrared
Sources for Atmospheric Studies and Industrial Processing Monitoring (1999) 3758, 74-80.
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A. Fried, J. Walega, D. Richter, B. Wert and B. Potter, “Highly Sensitive Airborne
Measurements of Formaldehyde Employing A Tunable Infrared Diode Laser Spectrometer,”
CLEO, Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics/ Quantum Electronics and Laser Science
Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, June 2003.
J.D. Jeffers, C.B. Roller, K. Namjou, W. Potter, P.J. McCann, “Tunable laser spectroscopy
measurement of exhaled nitric oxide: effect of flow rate,” Laser Applications to Chemical
and Environmental Analysis, OSA, 2003.
Research Proposals and Funding History
1987-1989 NIH Individual National Research Service Award, $57,850, funded.
1989 NIH Reconstruction of Red Cell Cytoskeletal Elements in Vitro, $240,000, not
funded.
1990 NIEHS Mechanism of Phosphine Toxicity, $60,000, not funded.
1990 AFIP Phosphine Mediated Hemeprotein Oxidation, $60,000, not funded.
1991 OCAST Analysis of Olfactory Compounds Derived from Infants, $41,804, not
funded.
1991 Faculty Development Summer Fellowship, "Hemoglobin Reactions in Organic
Solvents," $2,750, funded
1991 Faculty Research Grant, "Infrared Spectroscopy of Heme Proteins," $750, funded.
1991 Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory, "Hemoglobin Reactions in Organic Solvents,"
$30,000, not funded.
1991 March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, Clinical (Human) Research Grant,
"Analysis of Airborne Volatiles Derived from Newborns: Non-Invasive Health Monitoring
of Oxidative Stress," $45,337, not funded
1991
NSF Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement Award, $15,000, funded.
"Enhancement of Undergraduate Laboratories via a Fourier Transform Infrared
Spectrophotometer," funded.
1991 Preliminary Proposal for Oklahoma Realtors Association for Remediation of
Petroleum Contaminated Soil, not funded.
1992 "Measurement of Exhaled Volatiles in Newborns: Non-Invasive Monitoring of
Oxidative Stress," Research Corporation, not funded
1992 "Analysis of Exhaled Volatiles from Premature Infants," Oklahoma Center for
Advancement of Science and Technology, not funded
1992 "Probes for Free Radical Injury in Neonates," National Institutes of Health Academic
Research Enhancement Award, not funded.
1992 TU Faculty Development Summer Fellowship, $3,700, funded
1992 TU Faculty Research Grant, $750, funded
1992 Tulsa Summer Academy for Mathematics and Science, Oklahoma Regents for Higher
Education, $3,700, funded
1992 "Evaluation of Leak Protection with Novel Fluorocarbon Tracers," Precision Testing
Corporation Grant, $5,596.58, funded.
1993-1995 National Aeronautics and Space Administration Joint Research with The
University of Tulsa (JOVE), with M. Abraham and S. Pomeranz “Analysis of Volatiles
within CELSS” $220,000. funded.
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1993 USEPA Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory “Adaptation of State of
the Art Sensor Technology to Cone Penetrometry: Fiber Optic Based Fluorescent
Spectrophotometer” $138,920. not funded.
1993 Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology, Health Research
Program, "Heme Protein Reactions with NO and Oxygen Radicals," $60,000, not funded.
1993-1994 EPA Center for Resource Conservation and Environmental Research,
“Modification of Inks and Toners for Enhanced Deinking and Separation,” with Dale
Teeters, $37,496. funded.
1993 DOE EPSCoR, “Surfactant Enhanced Subsurface Remediation” not funded.
1993 EPA EPSCoR, “Waste Minimization and Remediation in Oil Exploration and
Production” not funded.
1993 Eisenhower/ Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, “Environmental
Laboratory Activities for Enhancing Middle School Science Programs,” $19,824. not funded.
1993 Tulsa Summer Academy for Mathematics and Science, Oklahoma Regents for Higher
Education, $4,000, funded
1993 US EPA, “Environmental Laboratory Activities for Enhancing Middle School Science
Programs,” $23,910. not funded.
1993-1994 NASA-Ames University Consortium “Supercritical Water Oxidation Applied to
CELSS,” submitted with Martin Abraham, $40,000. not funded.
1993 Southwestern College Small Business Development and International Trade Center,
“Evaluation of Recycled Diaper Materials” $18,262. not funded.
1994 Oklahoma Alzheimer’s Society, “Evaluation of Cerebral Spinal Fluid for Oxidative
Stress and Non-enzymatic Glycosylation Markers in Alzheimer’s Disease” funded for CSF
Samples.
1994 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, “1994 High School
Teacher Fellowship Program,” $5,000, not funded.
1994 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Municipal Solid Waste Innovation Technology
Evaluation (MITE) Emerging Recycling Technology (ERT), “Modification of Non-Impact
Inks for Enhanced Deinking,” with D. Teeters, $85,000, not funded.
1994 TAPPI Foundation, “Fundamentals of Mixed Surfactant/ Enzyme Systems for
Deinking of Non-Impact Inks,” with D. Teeters, $39,000, funded.
1994 Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, “1995 Tulsa Summer Academy,” with
Ken Kuenhold, Brian Monson, Bill Coberly and Estelle Levetin, $96,000, funded
1995 National Science Foundation Cost-Reducing Health Care Technologies, “Improved
Tunable diode Lasers for Helicobacter Pylori Infection Breath Testing,” with Patrick
McCann (OU), $573,481, not funded.
1995 Tulsa Chapter of the American Red Cross, Laminar Flow Hood, estimated value
$30,000, funded.
1995 National Institute of Health, "Structural Studies of Protein Kinase Subunit," with R.
Steinberg (OU), not funded.
1995 to 1998 National Science Foundation Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive
Research (EPSCoR), Environmental Section “Center for Environmental Applications of the
Oklahoma Mesonetwork,” submitted October 1994 with Ken Crawford (OU), Jack Bantle
(OSU) and Kathleen Duncan and Estelle Levetin (TU), $2,582,225 total budget, $480,980
TU subcontract, funded.
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1996 National Aeronautics and Space Administration Joint Research with The University of
Tulsa (JOVE) Phase II, “Analysis of Volatiles within CELSS” $20,000. funded.
1996 OKAMP-SMETE Research Internship Program (summer stipend for Oanh Nguyen),
funded.
1996 Tulsa March of Dimes "Breath Monitoring for Oxidative Stress," $1,000, funded.
1996 National Science Foundation, Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement Program,
"Enhancing Undergraduate Teaching and Research laboratories with a Rapid Scanning
Spectrophotometric System," with D. Teeters and R. Howard, $39,412, funded.
1996 EPA Regional Applied Research Effort (RARE), "NOx vs VOC Limitation for Ozone
Formation in EPA Region 6," $55,000, not funded.
1997-1998 Oklahoma Regents for Higher Education "Tulsa Summer Academy for Science
and Mathematics" K. Kuenhold, W. Coberly, W. Potter, B. Monson, G. Collier, $76,000,
funded.
1997 OKAMP-SMETE Research Internship Program (summer stipend for Marycia
Shoulders), funded.
1997-1998 DOE/BDM Petroleum Technologies, "The Renewal of Soil Ecosystems
Following Remediation of Crude Oil and Produced Water Spills in the Tallgrass Prairie
Preserve," K. Sublette, T. Harris, W. Potter, K. Duncan, E. Levetin, $47,300, funded.
1998-2000 EPA EMPACT "Tulsa Air and Water Quality Information System," with Mayor
Savage, OKDEQ, USGS, Allergy Clinic of Tulsa and INCOG, $1,315,226, not funded.
1998 to 2001 National Science Foundation Systemic Improvement Grant of NSF EPSCoR,
EPS-972065, K. Crawford (OU), J. Bantle (OSU) and K. Duncan, E. Levetin and W. Potter
(TU), $70,000 equipment funds for W. Potter, funded.
1998 to 2001 National Science Foundation Systemic Improvement EPSCoR "Tulsa Air
Quality" Mini Proposal for Salaries, EPS-972065. W. Potter, $98,460 for W. Potter, funded.
1998 "Compressed Video Facility," National Science Foundation Cooperative Agreement.
W. Potter, $33,000, funded.
1998 OKAMP-SMETE Research Internship Program (summer salary for Tonishia Owens),
funded.
1998 "Tulsa Summer Academy Supplementation Grant" Summer 1998, Oklahoma State
Regents. P.I.- W. Potter. $9,038, funded.
1998 Phillips Petroleum Company, "Midac Open-Path Long-Path FT Infrared
Spectrometer," estimated value $50,000, funded.
1998 to 1999 Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, Summer Academies for
Mathematics, Sciences, and Multidisciplinary Studies, "Tulsa Summer Academy for Science
and Math, Opportunities for the 21st Century," W. Coberly (TU) and C. J. Marrs (TCC),
$78,000, funded.
1998-1999 Tulsa City County Health Department, "Ozone Modeling," $8,000, funded.
1999 to 2001 NSF EPSCoR "Infrastructure for the Center for Sensors and Sensors
Technology," P.I. J. Wicksted, OSU. Potter "Mid-Infrared Tunable Diode Laser
Spectroscopy for Real-time Non-invasive Monitoring," $55,765, not funded.
1999 to 2002 Environmental Protection Agency EMPACT, "Tulsa Air and Water Quality
Information System," with Mayor Savage, INCOG, OKDEQ, USGS and Allergy Clinic of
Tulsa, $1,315,226, funded.
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1999 NSF Outreach, used for Seminar ASTHMA, ALLERGENS AND AIR POLLUTION,
NSF EPSCoR, Feb 1999. Co-P.I.'s Levetin/ Potter. $15,000, funded.
2000-2001 National Center for Atmospheric Research, (NASA TRACE-P Tunable Diode
Laser Development,” $25,475, funded.
2002-2005 NSF CCLI-Adaption and Implementation “Enhancing Interdisciplinary
Interactions in the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences” PI S. Pomeranz, Co-PI’s
Potter, McCoy, LoPresti and Kessler, $199,637, not funded.
2002 Oklahoma NASA EPSCoR Travel Grant, “Gas Filter Correlation Radiometer for Trace
Gases,” $1,500, not funded.
2002 OCAST Oklahoma Applied Research Support (OARS) R&D Faculty and Student
Internships Program, “Automotive Catalyst Materials Development Internship,” with
W. Cornell as Co-I, $46,207, funded.
2003 OSU/EPA, “Passive Treatment of Metal-Rich Waters through Enhance Wetland
Technologies,” $55,812 (Potter $3,174 cost share), 2003.
2003 Faculty Research Grant Program, “Development of Acetyl-L-Carnitine Analytical
Techniques,” $600, funded.
2002 OCAST FSIP Supplemental “Automotive Catalyst Materials Development Internship,”
$20,000, with W. Cornell as Co-I, funded.
2003 Oklahoma NASA EPSCoR Travel Grant 2003, “Advanced Developments in
Spectroscopy,” $730, funded.
2004 NASA EPSCoR Research Initiation Grant, “VCSEL-Based Spectroscopy,” $21,000,
funded.
2004-2006 NSF CCLI “Enhancing Interdisciplinary Interactions In the College of
Engineering and Natural Sciences,” $99,242, funded .
2004 EPA P3 A Student Design Competition, “Tar Creek Remediation,” $10,000, funded.
2004 Delphi Catalyst Internship, $5,808, funded.
2004 IPEC, Environmental Applications for Narrow-Band Infrared Imaging, under review
Student Research Grants: (TU)
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
Mary Youngman
Diana Quintero
Chad Bauerly and Paul Pappademos
Gene Dickens
Suzanne Ronda
Jennifer Parker
Patrick Culley and Mandeep Chada
Uyen Le
Heather Huebner
Harry Byrne
R. Ingraham
Vu Le
Karen Durham
R. Ingraham
Vu Le
Eric Raasch
Brandon Croley
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1999
2001
2002
2003
2004
Ryan Davis
Eric Raasch
Brandon Croley
Martha Beekman
Dina Georgy
Nikki Haggins
Nikiea Colbert
Matha Beekman
Paul Cryder
Brooke Stephenson
Megan Moore
Kenneth Williamson
Other Specific Undergraduate Funding:
"Research Award" E. Raasch and B. Croley. Research Day at the Capitol. Oklahoma
State Regents for Higher Education and the University of Tulsa. 1998. $2000.
Goldwater Fellowship with Brooke Stephenson
Masters and Doctoral Committees at The University of Tulsa
Under the Direction of W. Potter:
R. Narasimhan, MS Candidate, Chemical Engineering (1998)
G. Subramaniam, Ph.D. Candidate, Chemical Engineering (1999)
J. Keller, MS Candidate, Chemical Engineering (on hold)
M. Fossey, MS Candidate, Chemistry (2005)
As Committee Member:
Jeung Guk Cho, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. Candidate (1993)
R. Lee Mosley, Biological Sciences, Ph.D. Candidate (1993)
Saleem Hasan, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. Candidate (1994)
Mawieh Hamad, Biological Sciences, Ph.D. Candidate (1995)
Connie Hebert, Biological Sciences, MS Candidate (1995)
Hesham M. Gurban, Geochemistry, Ph.D. Candidate (1996)
Abhijeet B. Borole, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. Candidate (1996)
Jin Wang, Biology, Ph.D. Candidate (1996)
Punjai T. Selvaraj, Chemical Engineering, MS Candidate (1996)
Robert Pendergrass, Chemical Engineering, MS Candidate (1996)
Anbu Subramaniyan, Chemical Engineering, MS Candidate (1996)
Emin U. Bagriacik, Biology, MS Candidate (1996)
Reuben Dharmaraj, Biology, MS Candidate (1997)
Charles McCommas, Chemical Engineering MS Candidate (1999)
Richard Yates, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. Candidate (2000)
Merdula Ganga, Biology PhD (2004)
Masters Student at OU and OSU-Tulsa
Brian Fehrn, MS Candidate, Meteorology (K. Droegemeir, OU, Advisor)
Larry S. Mullins, Environmental Science, MS Candidate (Robert Knox, OU, Advisor)
Honors and Senior Thesis Projects:
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Gene Dickenson 1994.
Mandeep Chada 1994
Zoe Ann Brown 1995
Chad Bauerly "Protein Fusion and Purification System" in association with R. Schecter,
M.D., Warren Medical Foundation, 1995.
Uyen Le "A Study of Nitric Oxide Treatment for Newborns with Persistent Pulmonary
Hypertension" 1995
Eva Winsjansen (with Dale Teeters) 1995
Heather Huebner 1995
Jennifer Billerbeck "The Treatment of Newborns with Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension
using Inhalational Nitric Oxide Therapy" 1996.
Dagney Valazquez "Concentration of NO in treated vs. untreated cigarettes and its
correlation to the amount of nitrogen added to the tobacco" 1996.
Derek Norman "Concentration of NO in treated vs. untreated cigarettes and its correlation to
the amount of nitrogen added to the tobacco" Unfinished.
Brennan Harding "RhD, RhC and Whole Genome Amplification PCR" with the Chapman
Institute of Medical Genetics, 1996.
Wyatt Vreeland "Cigarette Derived Nitric Oxide; Macroscopic and Microscopic Effects"
1997.
Amrit Burn “Breath Diagnostics” winner undergraduate competition, 2000.
Brooke Stephenson “Neural Regeneration Patterning with Calcite Microcrystals” 2003.
Continuing Education/Short Course Activity
Site Coordinator, American Chemical Society Interactive Satellite Television Seminar,
"Developing and Using Protein Models," 1991
Summer Biochemistry Satellite Course Coordinator, 1993.
Air Pollution Meteorology Short Course, American Meteorological Society, Phoenix, 1998.
Oklahoma Mesonetwork "EarthStorm" Educational Instruction for Use of the OK Mesonet
and other associated Meteorological Databases, June, 1998.
Technical Consulting
1992 Environmental Protection Agency, "Evaluation of Radon and Volatile Organics in
Selected Kansas City Schools," in collaboration with S. Cohen and Associates, Virginia
1992 Consultant, "School Evaluation with Respect to HVAC System, Radon Control and
Indoor Air Quality"
1992-present, Reviewer, Center for Indoor Air Research
1993-1995 American Institute for Research (MCAT) Test Question Writer
1994 Review Board Evaluator, Center for Environmental Research and Conservation
1994 Reviewer for Principles of Biochemistry by Zubay, Parson and Vance
1994-present Reviewer for Journal of Chemical Education
1994-present Reviewer for Fuel Processing Technology
1994 Expert Witness, NESCO vs Tracer, Inc. Arizona
1998 Reviewer for Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science
1998-1999 Real-time Ozone Model Development for the City of Tulsa in collaboration with
the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality
1999 Reviewer for J. Air and Waste Water Management
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1998-present Air Quality Advisory Board, City of Tulsa, INCOG and Tulsa Chamber of
Commerce
2000-present Reviewer for Environmental Science and Technology
2001- Reviewer for Vibrational Spectroscopy, Analytica Chimica Acta
2002- Judge, Student Research Colloquium, University of Tulsa, March, 2002.
2002- Reviewer for Biotechnology Progress
2002-2003 Reviewer for OSU Environmental Institute’s Water Research Grants Program
Civic Activities
 Reviewer and Board Member for INCOG’s Tulsa’s Early Action Compact (EAC) plan.
 American Lung Association Young Child Fun Fair, Screening for Asthma using the
Breathmeter for Nitric Oxide detection. Reed Headstart School, April, 2003.
 Helped in coordination of 24 hour ozone prediction model used for Ozone Alert! program
run by the OK DEQ and INCOG for the city of Tulsa.
 Member of INCOG / City of Tulsa Air Quality Scientific Advisory Board, (1998 to present).
 Developed with DEQ real-time reporting for Tulsa area priority pollutants. [See http://etulsa.net/airhome.html ]
 INCOG Water Quality Scientific Board for drinking water lakes Eucha/ Spavinaw (1997 to
2002).
 Educational Outreach Program for teachers and the general public organized with Levetin.
"Asthma, Allergies and Air Pollution," Feb 20, 1999.
 W. Potter (Session Organizer and Chair) Water Quality and the Poultry Industry in N.E.
Oklahoma, 53rd Southwest Regional American Chemical Society Meeting, Tulsa, October
(1997).
 "The Tallgrass Prairie- Oil Wells, Sandstones, Tall Grass and Buffalo" Field trip of the Tulsa
Desk and Derrick Club, October, 1998.
 General Chairman of the American Chemical Society 39th Pentasectional Meeting, 1994
 Judge for Regional Science and Engineering Fair 1991-1995
 Judge for BDM-Oklahoma Regional Science Bowl, 1996-1998
 Seminar speaker for Arthritis Support Group, St. John's Hospital, 1991
 Panelist for “Project Carbon Monoxide” KJRH Channel 2. 1993
 Member: Nature Conservancy, Oklahoma Chapter
 Member: Tulsa Audubon Society
The University of Tulsa Service Activities
Developed Biochemistry Major (ACS Approved)
Pre-Professional Advisor and Board Member
Reviewer for Faculty and Student Research Grants, 1995-1998
Member Project Colleague
Panelist for Pre-Med Day
Engineering and Applied Science Day Participant
Summer research director
Member, Faculty Senate
Biology Faculty Search Committee Member, 1993-1994
Assorted Activities such as:
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Admissions Evaluator 1992-1994
Jenks East Elementary School Demonstration 1992
Greeley School Science Tutor 1992
Chaired Organic Chemistry Search Committee 1993
Guest Lecturer, Fall Review, Tulsa Summer Academy,
Organized Chemistry Seminar, "Tulsa's Ozone Problem" by Dr. K. Wagner, 1997
Mentor for Ashley Mayo, University School, Project on Cloning.
Participant on NSF CHE-Special Projects: Undergraduate Programs, “Code Talkers II: An
REU Site for Defense Technology Development Involving Native Americans,” submitted
September, 2003.
Mentor for Multiple Student Research Projects
Related Web Sites
(Air Pollution)
http://e-tulsa.net/
(NASA GTE TRACE-P)
http://www-air.larc.nasa.gov/missions/tracep/dataaccess.htm
(Tunable Diode Laser Spectroscopy)
http://www.atd.ucar.edu/apol/members.htm (Alan Fried, Dirk Richter and NCAR)
http://www.atd.ucar.edu/apol/GroundAirInst.htm (Instrumentation)