Loren K. Ammerman
Loren Kay Ammerman (born March 23, 1965 in Houston , Texas ), also known as Loren Kay Dixon since her wedding with the zoologist Michael Thomas Dixon , is an American zoologist and conservationist . Her main research interests are mammalogy (especially bats ) and herpetology .
Life
Training and teaching
From 1982 to 1983 Ammerman attended North Harris County College and from 1983 to 1985 Austin College. In 1985 she worked at the University of Oklahoma Biological Station . In 1987 she earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Texas A&M University . From 1987 to 1992 she was an assistant professor and teaching assistant at the University of Texas at Austin . From 1992 to 1994 she was a lecturer at Texas Wesleyan University . In 1993, she was with the dissertation Examination of the relationships between Microchiroptera and Megachiroptera based on mitochondrial and nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences at the University of Texas at Austin for Ph.D. PhD. From 2001 to 2012, she was an assistant professor and then an associate professor at Angelo State University . Since 2012 she has been a full professor at Angelo State University, teaching cell biology , molecular biology , bat natural history, general zoology , principles of biology and cancer biology.
Research work
Ammerman conducted a variety of research projects on bats. In 2009 she was one of the first to describe the bat species Eumops wilsoni from Ecuador . She investigated the genetic diversification of lineages of various species, including the Townsend long-eared bat , the California mouse -eared bat , the great velvet bat and the great Mexican flower bat . She did 20 years of research and conservation work in Big Bend National Park in Texas , which included long-term monitoring of a colony of Large Mexican Flowering Bats, as well as feeding and roosting studies and thermal imaging of various Texas bat species. In addition to Texas, she conducted bat research in Arizona , Costa Rica , Ecuador and Borneo .
Ammerman's herpetological work includes the first descriptions of the Halmahera python , the Tanimbar python and the Seram python in 2000.
Ammerman is a member of the Texas Society of Mammalogists (she was president from 2004 to 2005), the American Society of Mammalogists , the Southwestern Association of Naturalists, and the North American Society for Bat Research.
In addition to numerous scientific articles, Ammerman was the author or co-author of the books Laboratory Exercises in Cellular and Molecular Biology (1998, with Paul T. Chippindale), Introductory Biology Lab Manual (2001) and Bats of Texas (2012, 2nd edition with Christine L. . Hice and David J. Schmidly).
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| SURNAME | Ammerman, Loren K. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ammerman, Loren Kay (full name); Dixon, Loren Kay |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American zoologist and conservationist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 23, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Houston , Texas |