CURRICULUM VITAE -- Ronald H. Matson
Current Position
Chair, Department of Biology and Physics, Kennesaw State University (KSU); February 2004 – present
Professor of Biology, KSU; 1999 - present
Associate Professor of Biology, KSU; 1994 - 1999
Assistant Professor of Biology, KSU; 1989 - 1994
Address
Department of Biology & Physics, Kennesaw State University, 1000 Chastain Rd. #1202, Kennesaw, GA 30144-5591, USA
Phone: 770.423.6508
Fax: 770.423.6625
e-mail: rmatson@kennesaw.edu
URL: http://science.kennesaw.edu/~rmatson
Education
Ph.D. 1987 (Biology) -- University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
M.S. 1980 (Biology) -- California State University, Long Beach (CSULB)
B.S. 1976 (Zoology) -- California State University, Long Beach
Postdoctoral Scientist 1987-1989 -- University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Administration
Acting Chair, Dept. of Biological and Physical Sciences, KSU - September 2002- February 2004.
Assistant Chair, Dept. of Biological and Physical Sciences, KSU - 1993-2002.
Acting Assistant to the Vice President for Academic Affairs, KSU - Spring and Summer 2002.
Teaching Experience
Kennesaw State University (1989 - present):
General Biology I (Biology 103)
General Biology II (Biology 104)
Human Anatomy & Physiology Lab I (Biology 2221L)
Biological Principles I (Biology 2200)
Biology of the Dinosaurs (Biology 4490)
Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy (Biology 3350 and Biology 3350L)
Evolution and Biosystematics (Biology 3380)
Land and People of Australia (Biology 4490)
Scientific Principles and Processes I (Science 2205)
Scientific Principles and Processes II (Science 1102)
Vertebrate Zoology (Biology 3315 and Biology 3315L)
Temporary Faculty, Department of Biology, University of Alabama
Seminar: "Electrophoresis for Systematists" (1989).
Teaching Fellow, Department of Biology, UCLA (1981-1987):
Biology of Organisms
Biology of the Vertebrates
Cellular Physiology
Evolution, Ecology and Behavior
Herpetology
Vertebrate Morphology
Teaching Assistant, Department of Biology, CSULB (1978-1980):
General Botany
Human Anatomy and Physiology
Guest Lecturer: UCLA Animation Workshop, "Moving with Style: Anatomy and Motion Analysis for Animators". Topic: Flight.
Dissertation and Thesis
Matson, R. H. 1987. Biochemical Genetics and Systematic Applications of Avian Isozyme Characters. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, UCLA.
Matson, R. H. 1980. Genetic variation in two insular populations of the house finch, Carpodacus mexicanus (Aves: Fringillidae). Unpublished Masters thesis, CSULB.
Research Interests
Vertebrate evolution and biodiversity
Faunal surveys of streams and life history studies of fishes
Biochemical genetics and systematics of birds and fishes
Tissue specific gene expression
Service
Lab Building Executive Committee - 2009-2010
SOTAB Steering Committee Chair - 2003-2010.
Administrator Review Committee - 2008-2009
Chairs' Council (Chair) - 2007-2008; Immediate past chair, 2008-2009
Director of Sustainability Search Committee - 2008
Registration Subcommittee - 2008 - 2009
Teaching Effectiveness Committee - 2008 - 2010
International Policy Ph.D. Degree Program Committee - 2008
Enviornmental Studies Degree Program Committee - 2007-2008
Associate Provost Search Committee - 2007-2008
Health Sciences Building Design Committee - 2007-2009
Registrar's Search Committee - 2007
Chemistry Chair Search Committee (Chair) - 2006-2007
President's Planning & Budget Committee - 2006-2008
Biology Department Search Committees -- 1997-1998; Chair, 1998-1999; Chair 1999- 2000; 2001-2002.
Biology Department Workload Committee -- 1992-1993; 1998-2000.
Biology Department Strategic Planning Committee -- 1994-1998; Chair 1998-2001.
Biology Department Curriculum Coordinating Committee -- Secretary, 1989-1990; Chair, 1990-1997; ex officio 1998-2002.
Biology Department Science Core Committee -- 1991-1993; 1998-2000.
Biology Department Curriculum Assessment Committee -- 1991-1995.
Biology Department Cytogenetics Internship Scholarship Committee -- 1989-1993.
Departmental Representative to Teaching Faculty Retreat -- 1990.
College of Science & Mathematics Chairs Representative on Chairs Executive Council - 2004-2006.
College of Science & Mathematics Tenure & Promotion Committee -- 1999-2001. Chair 2000-2001; 2002-2003, 2003-2006.
School of Allied Health and Sciences, Special Events Committee -- 1990-1991.
Search Committee - Dean of Undergraduate Studies -- 2000-2001.
University Master Plan Working Committee - 2004-2005.
University Master Plan Academic Affairs Task Force - 2004-2005.
University College Advisory Council - 2004-2006.
University Academic Standing Committee -- 2000 - 2002.
University Grievance Policy Subcommittee -- Chair, 1996-2000.
University Academic Advising Council -- 1998 - 2007.
University Budget Committee - Chairs Rep -- 2003-2004.
University Interdisciplinary Studies Major Committee -- 2001-2003.
University Tenure & Promotion Oversight Committee -- 2000 - 2001.
University Program Review Council -- 2002.
University Faculty Council -- 2001-2002; Chair 2002-2003.
University Senate -- 1994-1995; 2001-2001; Member of Executive Committee 1995-1996, 2001-2002.
University Undergraduate Policy Subcommittee -- 1991-1995; Chair, 1992-1996.
University Faculty Evaluation Committee -- 1991-1993.
University Environmental Concerns Committee -- 1992-1993 (acting chair Spring 1993); Education Subcommittee, Chair -- 1992-1993.
University Judiciary -- 1992-1995.
University Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee -- 1995-1996.
Advisory Committee on Dispute Resolution - 2008 - 2009.
University Undergraduate Curriculum and Policy Committee -- 1993-1995. Chair, 1994-1995.
University Library Committee -- 1990-1992.
Leadership Kennesaw State -- 1990-1991.
Banner Focus Group, Board of Regents -- 1999.
Cherokee Co. Teachers Workshop -- 1998.
Chair, Storer Award Committee. 70th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Charleston, SC. 1990.
Editor, Isozyme Bulletin 1994-1996.
Reviewer of journal articles for:
The Auk
Biochemical Genetics
Biochemical Systematics and Ecology
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology
The Condor
Copeia
Stain Technology
Systematic Zoology
Reviewer for: Birds. In: Bibliography of Electrophoretic Studies of Biochemical Variation in Natural Vertebrate Populations. Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. 1990.
Reviewer for: National Science Foundation, Population Biology Program.
Honors and Awards
Golden Key International Honour Society - Honorary Member (2003)
College of Science & Mathematics Distinguished Advising Award 2001.
KSU Outstanding Academic Advisor Award, 1998-1999; 1999-2000.
NACADA Outstanding Advisor Award, 2000.
Distinguished Service Award, KSU College of Science and Mathematics, 1999.
Honors Faculty Status, KSU. 1998.
Certificate of Appreciation for Academic Advising. 1998, 1999.
Service Award in the College of Science and Mathematics (Nomination), 1998.
KSU Faculty Service Award (Nomination), 1995-1996; 1999-2000 (finalist); 2000-2001 (finalist).
KSU Distinguished Teaching Award (Nomination), 1989-1990, 1991-1992, 1995-1996, 1998-1999.
Schechtman Award (for Distinguished Teaching Assistant), Dept. of Biology, UCLA. 1986.
Johnson Award (for Distinguished Research; Honorable Mention), School of Natural Sciences,CSULB. 1980.
Grants
NSF “Scholarship Program in Science and Mathematics at Kennesaw State University” ($551,780); 2007 (Co-PI)
NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant ($7800), 1985.
UCLA Department of Biology:
UCLA Travel Grant, 1986.
Organismic Animal Biology Fund Grant, 1981, 1982, 1985.
UCLA Travel and Research Grant, 1982, 1983.
Research Grant for a Computerized Bibliographic Search, 1981.
Frank M. Chapman Memorial Grant, American Museum of Natural History. 1977.
Societies
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
Invited Presentations
Kennesaw State University, GA; 1999. Title: "From Plate Tectonics to Koala Bears: A Natural History of Australia".
Berry College, Rome, GA; 1990. Title: "Ldh-X, Is it an avian character?"
Georgia Southern College, Statesboro, GA: 1989. Title: "Ldh- X, Is it an avian character?"
Invited Symposium Presentations
Matson, R. H. 1985. Tissue-specific gene expression in Sphenodon punctatus. Gene Expression in Reptilian Systematics. American Association for the Advancement of Science, Los Angeles, CA.
Matson, R. H. 1985. Application of isozyme characters in avian systematics. Third International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology. Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, England.
Contributed Papers and Abstracts
Economopoulos, M., W. Griffin and R. Matson. 2008. Enhancing Teacher Education Communities: A Collaborative Model that Really Works. 25th Academic Chairpersons Conference. Orlando, FL.
Smith, B., R. Matson, S. McCullagh and G. Smith. 2000. Lands and Peoples of Australia: A Lesson in Collaborative Teaching. 7th Annual Georgia Conference on College & University Teaching. Kennesaw, GA.
Mayden, R. L., R. M. Woods, S. R. Layman and R. H. Matson. 1992. Systematics and Biogeography of the Notropis rubellus species complex. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
Matson, R. H., R. L. Mayden and B. R. Kuhajda. 1989. Allozyme differentiation in populations of the Rainbow Shiner, Notropis chrosomus 50th Annual Meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists. Charlotte, NC.
Matson, R. H., R. L. Mayden, and B. R. Kuhajda. 1989. Electrophoretic comparisons of populations of Notropis chrosomus from the Mobile Bay Basin. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
Kuhajda, B. R., R. L. Mayden and R. H. Matson. 1989. Meristic comparisons between populations of Notropis chrosomus from the Mobile Bay Basin. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
Mayden, R. L., R. H. Matson and D. M. Hillis. 1989. Speciation in the cyprinid genus Dionda. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
Matson, R. H., and R. L. Mayden. 1988. Genetic variation in Southeastern populations of Notropis leuciodus. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Mayden, R. L. and R. H. Matson. 1988. Evolutionary relationships of eastern North American cyprinids. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Mayden, R. L., and R. H. Matson. 1988. Preliminary analysis of systematic placement Notropis rubellus (Cyprinidae). 49th Annual Meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists. Biloxi, MS.
Matson, R. H. 1986. Isozyme characters of Sphenodon punctatus and their use in phylogenetic analyses of reptiles. 66th Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Univ. of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Matson, R. H. 1985. "Ldh-X": is it an avian character? 103rd Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
Publications
Wood, R.M., R. L. Mayden, R. H. Matson, B.R. Kuhajda and S. R. Layman. 2002. Systematics and biogeography of the Notropis rubellus species group (Teleostei:Cyprinidae). Bull. Alabama Mus. Nat. Hist. 22: 37-80.
Matson, R. H. 1999. Limitations to the use of tissue-specific gene expression characters in the phylogenetic analyses of non-avian reptiles. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 27:213-222.
Coelho, M. M., M. J. Alves, M. J. Collares-Periera, and R. H. Matson. 1997. Allozyme analysis and the controversial generic status of Iberian species Chondrostoma lemmingii and C. lusitanicum (Pices: Cyprinidae). Folia Zool. 46 (Suppl.1): 15-26.
Mayden, R. L. and R. H. Matson. 1992. Systematics and biogeography of the Tennessee shiner Notropis leuciodus (Cope) (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Copeia 1992: 954-968.
Mayden, R. L., R. H. Matson, and D. R. Hillis. 1992. Speciation in the North American genus Dionda. pp. 710-746. In: Mayden, R. L. (Ed.). Systematics, Historical Ecology and North American Freshwater Fishes. Stanford University Press.
Matson, R. H. 1991. Fructose-bisphosphatase in birds. Isozyme Bulletin 24:28.
Matson, R. H. 1989. Avian peptidase isozymes: tissue distributions, substrate affinities and assignment of homology. Biochem. Genet. 27:137-151.
Matson, R. H. 1989. Distribution of the testis-specific Ldh-X among avian taxa with comments on the evolution of the Ldh gene family. Syst. Zool. 38: 106-115.
Mayden, R. L., R. H. Matson, B. R. Kuhajda, J. M. Pierson, M. F. Mettee, and K. S. Frazer. 1989. The chestnut lamprey, Ichthyomyzon castaneus Girard, in the Mobile Basin. Proceedings of the Southeastern Fishes Council. 20:10-13.
Matson, R. H., R. L., Mayden and B. R. Kuhajda. 1989. Allozyme differentiation in the rainbow shiner, Notropis chrosomus. Isozyme Bulletin. 22: 73.
Matson, R. H. 1988. Agnathan triosephosphate isomerase. Isozyme Bulletin 21: 189
Matson, R. H. 1987. Mannose-6-phosphate isomerase in birds. Isozyme Bulletin 20: 25.
Matson, R. H. 1986. "Ldh-X": is it an "avian character?" Isozyme Bulletin 19: 17
Murphy, R. W. and R. H. Matson. 1986. Evolution of isozyme characters in the tuatara, Sphenodon punctatus. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 13: 573-581.
Matson, R. H., C. B. Crabtree, and T. R. Haglund. 1986. Ichthyofaunal composition and recolonization in a central California tidepool. Calif. Fish and Game 72: 227-231.
Matson, R. H. 1984. Applications of electrophoretic data in avian systematics. Auk 101: 717-729.
Technical Reports
Matson, R. H. 1993. An assessment of the ichthyofaunal composition of streams draining into Lake Allatoona. Submitted as part of the Clean Lakes Grant under the auspices of the Burruss Institute at KSU.
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