Curiculum vitae for Roy J. Beckemeyer
Last updated: 6 Dec. 2004
Roy J. Beckemeyer
957 Perry
Wichita, KS 67203-3141
(316) 264-0049

http://www.windsofkansas.com/index.html

Publications - Conferences, Meetings, Seminars (Biological Sciences):

• Beckemeyer, R.J., & D.A. Distler, 1979, "Foliage stratification and light interception: Community architecture of two prairie tall grasses" (Abstract), Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 82(2):95
•  Invited Seminar on Odonata, July, 1997, University of Nebraska Cedar Point Biological Station.
• Co-host for 1998 Annual Meeting of the Dragonfly Society of the Americas, Valentine, Nebraska, July, 1998.  Arranged for collecting permits from Nebraska Parks Department, Nebraska Nature Conservancy, and Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge. 
• Invited speaker, Sept. 12, 1998, Kansas Association of Biology Teachers Meeting, Olathe, Kansas (Subject: Odonata).
• Guest lecturer (with Jim Mason of the Great Plains Nature Center) on insects, Friends University, Biology 501, Invertebrate Zoology (Sept. 21, 1998).
• Guest lecturer on insects to Johnson County Community College General Zoology Class (Oct. 27. 1998).
• Entomology Department Seminar, "Dragonflies of the Great Plains", University of Nebraska, Lincoln, January, 1999.
• Invited Speaker, "Odonata of the Great Plains states: patterns of distribution and diversity", Symposium: Prairie Insects: Ecology, biodiversity and conservation, 75th Annual Meeting of the Kansas Entomological Society, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, April 30-May 1, 1999
• Co-host and co-developer (with Ralph E. Charlton of Kansas State University) of Dragonfly Identification Workshop presented at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Kansas Entomological Society, Manhattan, Kansas, April 30, 1999
• The Odonata fauna of the Great Plains states - a status report, 1999 International Congress of Odonatology, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, July, 1999.
• Flight-related morphology of some Nearctic Odonata, International Congress of Odonatology, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, July, 1999.
• Injury and mortality in the Common Nighthawk during fall migration, (Fellows, S., R. Beckemeyer, & B. Gress), Kansas Orntihological Society 1999 Fall Meeting, Fort Hays State University, October, 1999.
• Flight-related morphology of Odonata -  an aerospace engineer's perspective, Entomology Department Seminar, Kansas University, Lawrence, Kansas, October 14, 1999.
• Dragons on the prairie: Dragonflies and damselflies of the Great Plains, Biology Seminar, Southwestern College, Winfield, Kansas, February 17, 2000.
• The Permian Fossil Insect Lagerstatten at Elmo, Kansas, 132nd Annual Meeting of the Kansas Academy of Sciences, Hutchinson Community College Hutchinson, Kansas, April 1, 2000.
• Invited Paper: The Permian Insect Fossils of Elmo, Kansas, Central States Entomological Society Meeting, Entomological Education Session, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas, April 15th, 2000.
• Full size images of the wings of fossil Protodonata (Poster),  Central States Entomological Society Meeting, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas, April 15th, 2000.
• Distribution of the robber flies Microstylum morosum and M. galactodes (Diptera: Asilidae) in the southwestern United States.  (Beckemeyer, R.J. & R.E. Charlton), Central States Entomological Society Meeting, Entomological Education Session, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas, April 15th, 2000.
• Insect Flight: insight into the diversity of flight mechanics as a factor in the diversity of insect taxa, Invited lecture, Invertebrate Natural History Class, Friends University, Wichita, October 16, 2000.
• Insect flight: flexible structures and vorticity control, Graduate Mechanical Engineering Seminar, University of Missouri – Rolla, Feb. 2001.
• Notes on a fossil specimen of Dunbaria fasciipennis Tillyard 1924 (Palaeodictyoptera: Spilapteridae) in the Snow Entomological Collection, Roy J. Beckemeyer & George W, Byers, Central States Entomological Society Meeting, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 21 April, 2001.
• Some Protodonata specimens from the Permian of Kansas and Oklahoma (Insecta: Palaeoptera), Roy J. Beckemeyer, 134th Annual Meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science, Fort Hays State University, April 13th, 2002.
• Dragonflies: Presentations on dragonfly biology and behavior to the naturalists and staff and to the public along with a field trip to observe (with binoculars and in the hand) dragonflies at Oxley Nature Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  July 19-20, 2002.
• The giant Permian dragonflies of Kansas and Oklahoma.  Earth Science Department Seminar.  Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas.  Dec. 12, 2002.
• Insect Flight.  Presentation to Interdisciplinary Studies Class, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas.  Feb. 20, 2003.
• Three-dimensional geometry of the wing of a large Permian dragonfly from Elmo, Kansas (Meganeuridae: Megatypus schucherti Tillard).  135th Annual Meeting of the Kansas Academy of Sciences, 2003, Pittsburg, Kansas.
• Mechanics and behavior of oviposition in Libellula composita (Odonata: Libellulidae).  Kansas Entomological Society Meeting, Spring, 2003, Manhattan, Kansas. (Poster)
• Winged Insects: 300 400 Million Years of Flight.  Wichita State University Biology Department Seminar Series, Feb. 23, 2004.
• Dragonfly and damselfly biogeography, diversity and conservation.  Invited Paper in session on Insect Biodiversity on the Prairies - 2003, 80th Meeting of the Central States (Kansas) Entomological Society, April 17, 2004, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
• Three-dimensional geometry of the wing of Megatypus schucherti Tillyard (Odonatoptera: Meganeuridae).  Third International Congress of Paleoentomology, Pretoria, South Africa, Feb. 7-11, 2005.
• The Lower Permian fossil insect beds of Kansas and Oklahoma, USA. (Beckemeyer, R. J., & J. Hall). Third International Congress of Paleoentomology, Pretoria, South Africa, Feb. 7-11, 2005.
• The entomofauna of the Lower Permian Wellington Formation of Kansas and Oklahoma. (Beckemeyer, R.J., & J. Hall).  2005 Meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science, March 18-19, 2005, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas (6th Annual KAS Paleontology Symposium).

• Depositional facies and diagenesis of the Carlton Member (Kansas) and the Midco Member (Oklhaoma) of the Wellington Formation (Sumner Group, Leonardian).    (Hall, J.D., Wichita State University, Mazzullo, S.J., Wichita State University, Beckemeyer, R.J., John ston Geology Museum, Emporia State University, and May, W.J., Sam Noble Museum of Natural History).  2005 Meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science, March 18-19, 2005, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas (6th Annual KAS Paleontology Symposium).

• Morphology and body composition of migrating Monarch butterflies in Kansas. 2005 Meeting of the Kansas Entomological Society, April 22-23, 2005, University of Kansas,  Lawrence, Kansas.
• A preliminary look at flight in webspinners (Embioptera). 2005 Meeting of the Kansas Entomological Society, April 22-23, 2005, University of Kansas,  Lawrence, Kansas.
• "Look at me" or "Try to find me"? Thoughts on wing color patterns in Permian insect fossils.  2006 Meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science, April 7-8, 2006, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas (7th Annual KAS Paleontology Symposium).