Education:
Ph.D. School of Natural Resources and Environment-Mathematical Biology. Fourier shape analysis and shape
group determination by principal component analysis and fuzzy measure theory of Asterionella Hassall
(Heterokontophyta, Bacillariophyceae) from the Great Lakes, 170 pp. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
MI, August, 2000, E. F. Stoermer, advisor.
http://search.proquest.com.proxy.lib.umich.edu/docview/304609521/abstract?accountid=14667
M.A. Biology/Environmental Ethics. Science and perception related to the environment as an ethical concern, 285
pp. Drake University, Des Moines, IA, December, 1986, M. Myszewski, advisor.
http://escholarshare.drake.edu/handle/2092/609
B.S. Environmental Science, biology minor, University of Michigan-Dearborn, MI, May, 1979, O. Gelderloos,
advisor.
B.A. Philosophy, University of Michigan-Dearborn, MI, May, 1979, D. Dutton, advisor.
Research Experience:
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Assistant Research Scientist, Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. 5/06 to
present.
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Research Associate, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. 1/01 to 6/06.
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Graduate Student Research Assistant, Center for Great Lakes and Aquatic Sciences (CGLAS), University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. 1/97 to 4/98 and 1/99 to 4/00.
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Research Associate II, CGLAS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. 9/95 to 8/99.
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Private Consultant, 5/95. Analytical marine chemistry for Geology Department, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, MI.
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Research Associate II, Geology Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. 1/94 to 3/94.
Paleoceanography.
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Research Associate II & I, CGLAS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. 3/91 to 12/93.
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Laboratory Supervisor, Biology Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. 8/90 to 1/91.
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Research Associate I/Lab Manager, Geology Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. 10/88 to
7/90. Marine Geochemistry, Paleoceanography, Paleoclimatology, and Sedimentology.
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Research Assistant II & I, Great Lakes Research Division (GLRD), Ann Arbor, MI. 9/78 to 8/81.
Teaching Experience:
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Graduate Student Independent Study, Earth and Environmental Sciences/Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology Departments, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Winter Term, 2013.
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Undergraduate Student Independent Study, Biology Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI,
Spring-Summer Term, 1999.
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Graduate Assistant, Biology Department, Drake University, Des Moines, IA. 9/81 to 5/83.
Editorial Experience:
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Associate Editor, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology publications, Ann Arbor, MI. 1/01 to
present.
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Associate Editor, Malacological Review, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
1/01 to present.
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Science Editor, Bell & Howell Information and Learning, Ann Arbor, MI. 6/98 to 8/99.
Additional Experience:
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Museum study skins of small mammals, 1976.
Environmental attitudinal survey research and analysis, 1981-86.
Wild bird rehabilitation, 1990-1998.
Frog and toad survey, Ann Arbor, MI, 1996 to present.
Website development:
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Webmaster, (1995 to present) Great Lakes Diatoms:
http://www.umich.edu/~phytolab/GreatLakesDiatomHomePage/top.html.
Espinosa, R., Dewey, T., Hammond, G., Parr, C.S., Jones, T., Pappas, J., and Myers, P. (2002-present):
BioKIDS Critter Catalog: http://www.biokids.umich.edu/.
Graduate Student Committees:
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Devapriya Chattopadhyay, Ph.D, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, finished in 2009.
Takahito Ikejuri, Ph.D, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, finished in 2011.
Emile Moacdieh, Ph.D candidate, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2012.
Valerie Syverson, Ph.D candidate, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2012.
Alex Moore, M.S. candidate, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2012.
Cindy Bick, Ph.D pre-candidate,University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2012 (co-chair)
Paula Teichholtz, Ph.D , candidate, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2013.
Graduate student mentoring:
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Mark Edlund (Ph.D-School of Natural Resources and Environment), 1997
Valerie Malaney (MS-School of Natural Resources and Environment), 1998
Kris Rhode (MS- School of Natural Resources and Environment), 1999
Erik Ekdahl (Ph.D-Geology), 2003
Dan Chang (Ph.D-Ecology and Evolutionary Biology), 2012
Undergraduate student teaching and mentoring:
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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Marinette Gonzalez (BS-Biology/pre-med), 1997-1999
Kelly Ungelbach (BA-Near Eastern Studies and Microbiology major), 1998-1999
Heather Carleton (BS-Biology), 1998-1999
Rita Kwok (BS-Mathematics), 1998-1999
Neelesh Varde (BSE-Chemical Engineering), 1999-2000
Adam Koch (BSE-Computer Science), 1999-2000
Gabriel Tamaska (BS-School of Natural Resources and Environment), 1999-2000
Yanqin Cui (BS-Spring 2013-Statistics and Mathematics), 2010-2011
Work-study students
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Marinette Gonzalez, 1997-2000
Kelly Ungelbach, 1997-2000
Independent study
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Marinette Gonzalez, 1998
Service:
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Seminars given at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
o Aquatic Sciences, School of Natural Resources-Spring 2005
o Paleontology-February, 2007; February, 2011; April, 2012 to present
o Mollusk Division, Museum of Zoology-December, 2011
o Friends of Paleontology meeting-April, 2012; April, 2013
o Ecology and Evolutionary Biology-April 2013
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Case Student Award Committee-2007, 2008, 2012
Manuscript Reviewer:
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16th Interantional Diatom Symposium proceedings
18th International Diatom Symposium proceedings
Ecology Letters
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Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Federation of European Biochemical Societies Letters
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
Hydrobiologia
Information Sciences
International Journal of Computer Mathematics
Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Journal of Paleolimnology
Limnology and Oceanography
Malacological Review
Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Nova Hedwigia Beiheft
UMMZ publications, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Book chapter reviewer:
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Rodrigues L.A., Dauris-i-Estradella D., Mateu-Figueras G., and Thió-Henestrosa S., 2011, Flying in
compositional morphospaces: previous and new approaches, in Pawlowsky-Glahn, V. and Buccianti, A.
(eds.), Compositional Data Analysis, Wiley-Blackwell, United Kingdom.
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Sterrenburg F.A.S., Tiffany M., Gordon, R., and Nagy S., 2007, Diatoms: living in a constructal
environment, in Seckbach J. (ed.), Algae and Cyanobacteria in Extreme Environments, Series: Cellular
Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology, Vol. 11, Springer, Berlin, pp. 141-172.
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Guillard R.R.L. and Sieracki M.S., 2005, Counting cells in cultures with the light microscope, in Anderson,
R.A. (ed.), Algal Culturing Techniques, Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 239-252.
Presented and Published Abstracts:
Miller, D.J. and J.L. Pappas. 3D characterization of molluscan shell microsculpture using surface metrology. 2011.
Geological Society of America, Minneapolis, MN, Vol. 43, No. 5, p. 545.
https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2011AM/webprogram/Paper196747.html
Miller D. J. and J. L. Pappas, Quantifying and analyzing surface features in fossils using 3D data. 2010. Geological
Society of America, Denver, CO, Vol. 42, No. 5, p. 140.
https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2010AM/finalprogram/abstract_180879.htm
Pappas J. L., Phytoplankton assemblages, environmental influences and their seasonal changes measured using
weighted averages and fuzzy set theory. 2005. International Association for Great Lakes Research, Ann Arbor,
MI.
Pappas J. L., Fourier shape analysis and fuzzy measure shape group differentiation of Great Lakes Asterionella
Hassall (Heterokontophyta, Bacillariophyceae). 2000. 16th International Diatom Symposium, Athens, Greece.
Publications:
Pappas J. L., J. P. Kociolek, and E. F. Stoermer. (Submitted). Morphometric methods in diatom research. Nova
Hedwigia Beiheft .
Pappas J. L. and D. J. Miller. (Submitted). A generalized approach to the modeling and analysis of 3D surface
morphology in organisms. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Pappas J. L. 2011. Graph matching a skeletonized theoretical morphospace to cladogram for gomphonemoidcymbelloid diatoms (Bacillariophyta). Journal of Biological Systems 19: 47-70. doi:
10.1142/S0218339011003816
Pappas J. L. 2010. Phytoplankton assemblages, environmental influences and trophic status using canonical
correspondence analysis, fuzzy relations, and linguistic translation. Ecological Informatics 5: 79-88.
doi:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2009.08.005; http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/83676/JLPEcoInf2010.pdf?sequence=1
Kingston J. C. and J. L. Pappas. 2009. Quantitative shape analysis as a diagnostic and prescriptive tool in
determining Fragilariforma (Bacillariophyta) taxon status. Nova Hedwigia Beiheft 135: 103-119.
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/83684/JCK-JLP2009.pdf?sequence=1
Burch J. B. and J. L. Pappas. 2008-2009. Isaac Lea’s North American Pleuroderidae. Malacological Review
41/42: 25-245.
Pappas J. L. 2008. More on theoretical morphospace and its relation to freshwater gomphonemoid-cymbelloid
diatom (Bacillariophyta) lineages. Journal of Biological Systems 16: 119-137. doi:
10.1142/S0218339008002460
Stoermer, E. F. and J. L. Pappas. 2006. A new approach to problems in taxonomy and ecology. Nova Hedwigia
Beiheft 130: 285-292. http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/93636/2006EFSJLP.pdf?sequence=1
Pappas, J. L. 2006. Biological taxonomic problem solving using fuzzy decision-making analytical tools. Fuzzy Sets
and Systems 157: 1987-1703. doi: 10.1016/j.fss.2006.01.002;
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/83677/JLP-FSS.pdf?sequence=1
Pappas, J. L. 2005. Theoretical morphospace and its relation to gomphonemoid-cymbelloid diatom lineages.
Journal of Biological Systems 13: 385-398. doi: 10.1142/S0218339005001586
Pappas, J. L. 2005. Geometry and topology of diatom shape and surface morphogenesis: potential applications in
nanotechnology. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 5: 120-130. doi: 10.1166/jnn.2005.009;
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/83680/2005JLP-JNN.pdf?sequence=1
Pappas, J. L. and E. F. Stoermer. 2003. Morphometric comparison of the neotype of Asterionella formosa Hassall
(Heterokontophyta, Bacillariophyceae) with Asterionella edlundii sp. nov. from Lake Hovsgol, Mongolia.
Diatom 19: 55-65.
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/83683/2003JLPAstedlundii.pdf?sequence=1
Pappas, J. L. and E. F. Stoermer. 2003. Legendre shape descriptors and shape group determination of specimens in
the Cymbella cistula species complex. Phycologia 42: 90-97.
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/83685/2003JLPCymbella.pdf?sequence=1
Pappas, J. L. and E. F. Stoermer. 2001. Taxonomic history of Asterionella Hassall (Heterokontophyta,
Bacillariophyceae). Diatom 17: 47-58. http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/94108/JLP-EFSAsterHistory2001-.pdf?sequence=1
Pappas, J. L. and E. F. Stoermer. 2001. Fourier shape analysis and fuzzy measure shape group differentiation of
Great Lakes Asterionella Hassall (Heterokontophyta, Bacillariophyceae). 2000. Proceedings of the 16th
International Diatom Symposium, Athens, Greece, ed. by A. Economou-Amilli, pp. 485-501. Amvrosios Press,
Athens, Greece. http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/94109/JLP-EFS16IDS2001.pdf?sequence=1
Pappas, J. L., G. W. Fowler, and E. F. Stoermer. 2001. Calculating shape descriptors from Fourier analysis: shape
analysis of Asterionella (Heterokontophyta, Bacillariophyceae). Phycologia 40: 440-456.
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/83681/2001JLPFourier.pdf?sequence=1
Rhode, K. M., J. L. Pappas and E. F. Stoermer. 2001. Quantitative analysis of shape variation in type and modern
populations in Meridion Ag. (Bacillariophyta). Journal of Phycology 37: 175-183. doi: 10.1046/j.15298817.2001.037001175.x; http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/65187/j.15298817.2001.037001175.x.pdf?sequence=1
Pappas, J. L. and E. F. Stoermer. 1997. Multivariate measure of niche overlap using canonical correspondence
analysis. Ecoscience 4: 240-245.
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/83689/1997JLPnicheoverlap.pdf?sequence=1
Pappas, J. L. and E. F. Stoermer. 1996. Quantitative method for determining a representative algal sample count.
Journal of Phycology 32: 693-696. doi: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.1996.tb02167.x;
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/66065/j.0022-3646.1996.00693.x.pdf?sequence=1
Pappas, J. L. and E. F. Stoermer. 1995. Multidimensional analysis of diatom morphologic and morphometric
phenotypic variation and relation to niche. Ecoscience 2: 357-367.
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/83688/1995JLPphenotype.pdf?sequence=1
Pappas, J. L. and E. F. Stoermer. 1995. Effects of inorganic nitrogen on Lake Huron phytoplankton: An
experimental study. Journal of Great Lakes Research 21: 178-191. doi:10.1016/S0380-1330(95)71030-9;
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/83678/1995aJLPnitrate.pdf?sequence=1
Jude, D. J. and J. Pappas. 1992. Fish utilization of Great Lakes coastal wetlands. Journal of Great Lakes Research
18: 651-672. doi:10.1016/S0380-1330(92)71328-8;
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/83690/Jude-Pappas1992.pdf?sequence=1
Chang, W., R. Rossmann, J. Pappas, and W. L. Yocum. 1981. Benton Harbor Power Plant Limnological Studies:
Entrainment of Phytoplankton at the Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant, 1978, Part XXVIII. Great Lakes Research
Division Special Report No. 44, Ann Arbor, MI. 106 pp.
Miscellaneous publications:
Pappas J. 1996. Some notes on the behavior of Chinese Painted Quail (Excalfactoria chinensis), Avicultural
Magazine, 102(3): 103-105.
Pappas J. L. 2009. Nesting activity, vocalizations, and egg laying in Chinese painted quails (Coturnix chinensis),
Avicultural Magazine, 115(4): 161-168.