Curriculum Vitae

H. Arthur (Art) Woods
Born: March 29, 1969
Division of Biological Sciences
University of Montana
32 Campus Drive, HS104
Missoula, MT 59812 USA

Education

1998
Ph.D. University of Washington, Department of Zoology (Joel G. Kingsolver)

1991-1992
Research associate at Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA (Dennis A. Powers)

1991
B.S. in Biology at Stanford University (Carol L. Boggs)

Professional Experience

2006 -
Assistant Professor, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula

2001-2006
Research scientist and lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences (Section of Integrative Biology) at the University of Texas at Austin.

2000-2001
Postdoctoral research associate, Biological stoichiometry (NSF Integrated Research Challenges in Environmental Biology), advisors: Drs. Jon F. Harrison and James J. Elser.

1998-2000
Postdoctoral Fellow with the Center for Insect Science, Dept. of Biology, Arizona State University, Postdoctoral advisor: Dr. Jon F. Harrison

Research Interests

Insect physiology, physiological acclimation and plasticity, temperature and oxygen biology, gas exchange, ecological and evolutionary physiology of reproductive structures, salamander conservation physiology.

Grants

2005-2008
Co-PI with Dr. Amy Moran (UNC-Chapel Hill) NSF: 'Collaborative Research: Effects of oxygen and temperature on egg mass function of Southern Ocean marine invertebrates.'
My part $US 238,000; total amount $532,000

2005 - 2006
Co-PI with Dr. Mary Poteet (UT-Austin). Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation District (Austin): 'Physiological and behavioral responses of a Eurycea sosorum to variation in levels of dissolved oxygen and conductivity.'
$115,000

2004
Three separate grants to undergraduates in my lab from UT's Undergraduate Research Fellowship program
($1,000, $1,000, and $900)

2003
NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates
$14,000

2002 - 2003
NSF 'QEIB: Gas exchange across insect eggshells' IBN-0213087
$53,000

Teaching

(Univ. Texas) Biology 301M: Ecology, Evolution, and Society (non-majors); Physiological Ecology (majors & graduate students), Bio370: Evolution (majors)

Presentations and Invited Talks at Professional Meetings

  • Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Phoenix (2007)
  • Station Research Talk, McMurdo Station, Antarctica (2006)
  • Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Orlando (2006)
  • Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington, Friday Harbor (2005)
  • Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula (2005)
  • Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin (2004)
  • Gordon Research Conference: Metabolic Basis of Ecology, Bates College, Maine (2004)
  • University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada (2004)
  • Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, New Orleans (2004)
  • Ohio University, Athens, OH (2003)
  • Nevada EPSCoR meeting, Las Vegas (2003)
  • Department of Entomology, University of Arizona, Tucson (2003)
  • Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Toronto (2003)
  • Entomological Society of America, Ft. Lauderdale (2002)
  • Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe (2002)
  • American Physiological Society, San Diego (2002)
  • Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin (2002)
  • Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Anaheim (2002)
  • Manduca sexta Symposium, University of Arizona, Tucson (2001)
  • International Congress of Entomology in Iguassu Falls, Brazil (2000)
  • Physiological Ecology Meeting in Bishop, CA (2000)
  • Center for Insect Science meeting, Tucson (2000)
  • Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Atlanta (2000)
  • Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin (1999)
  • Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Denver (1999)
  • Department of Life Sciences, Indiana State University (1999)
  • Department of Mathematics, Arizona State University (1999).
  • Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona (1998)
  • Entomological Society of America, Nashville (1998)
  • Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (1998).
  • Entomological Society of America (1997).
  • Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Albuquerque (1996).
  • Entomological Society of America (1996).