Dr. Thomas DeWitt
University of North Texas
Multidisciplinary Innovation
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Education

PhD, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1996.
Major: Biological Sciences

Professional Positions

Academic - Post-Secondary
Clinical Associate Professor, University of North Texas. (January 16, 2023 – Present).

Professional Memberships

Member, Society for the Study of Evolution. (January 20, 2023 – December 31, 2024).

Development Activities Attended

Seminar,"10 professional development seminars," Chronicle of Higher Education, McGraw Hill, UNT Student Services, DMI, United States of America. (January 2023 – December 2023).

Seminar,"3 peer research seminars," DMI, United States of America. (January 2023 – December 2023).

Conference Attendance,"Society for the Study of Evolution / American Society of Naturalists," Albuquerque, NM, United States of America. (June 21, 2023 – June 25, 2023).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

University of North Texas
BIOL 1132, Environmental Science, 8 courses.

Non-Credit Instruction

Management/Executive Development, UNT, 62. (January 16, 2023 – December 15, 2023).

Workshop, New College, UNT Frisco; Frisco ISD, 200. (April 1, 2023 – June 6, 2023).

Guest Lecture, New College, UNT Frisco, 8. (April 17, 2023).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

Journal Article
Blanchard, R. C., DeWitt, T. J., Young, S., Perkin, J. S. (2024). Predictability and conceptual repeatability of the predator-associated burst speed ecophenotype in western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis). Journal of Fish Biology. 2024(1), 14. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15665
Bernal, J. S., Helms, A. M., Fontes-Puebla, A. A., DeWitt, T. J., Kolomeits, M. V., Grunseich, J. M. (2023). Root volatile profles and herbivore preference are mediated by maize domestication, geographic spread, and modern breeding. Planta. 257, 18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-022-04057-0
DeWitt, T. J. (2022). A simplified perspective on the index of spatial autocorrelation. Landscape Ecology.
DeWitt, T. J., Troendle, N. J., Mateos, M., Mauricio, R. (2021). Population genetics and independently replicated evolution of predator-associated burst speed ecophenotypy in mosquitofish. 128, 45–55.
Mays, J. R., DeWitt, T. J., Dharampal, P., Andrus, C. T., Findlay, R. H. (2021). Frequent habitat migration, phenotypic plasticity, and residual ecophenotypy reveal. 20, 639–656.
DeWitt, T., Fuentes, J. I., Thomas, I. R., Bishop, M. P. (2021). Rectifying I: three point and continuous fit of the spatial autocorrelation metric, Moran’s I, to ideal form. Landscape Ecology.
DeWitt, T. J. (2016). Expanding the phenotypic plasticity paradigm to broader views of trait space and ecological function. 62, 463-473.
Ruehl, C. B., Shervette, V., DeWitt, T. J. (2011). Replicated shape variation between simple and complex habitats in two estuarine fishes. 103, 147–158.
Tobler, M., DeWitt, T. J., Schlupp, I., García de León, F. J., Herrmann, R., Feulner, P. G., Tiedemann, R., Plath, M. (2008). Toxic hydrogen sulfide and dark caves: Phenotypic and genetic divergence across two abiotic environmental gradients in Poecilia mexicana. 62, 2643–2659.
Johnson, J. B., DeWitt, T. J., Burt, D. B. (2008). Form, function, and fitness: pathways to survival. 62, 1243-1251.

Presentations Given

Oral Presentation

DeWitt, T. (Author & Presenter), Chance versus determinism in the process of evolution—Which wins? (Determinism), DMI Frisco Seminar Series, Frisco, TX, United States of America. (2023 – 2023).

DeWitt, T. (Author & Presenter), Phenotypes induced in mosquitofish by functionally-distinct predators – bluegill sunfish and dragonfly, Society for the Study of Evolution / American Society of Naturalists, Albequerque, NM, United States of America. (2023 – 2023).

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Grant - Research
DeWitt, T. J., "Geospatial analysis of multivariate population genetic data," Sponsored by UNT New College, Local, $2500 Funded. (April 11, 2023 – June 25, 2024).
DeWitt, T. J., "Environmental surveying tools and curricula," Sponsored by UNT New College, Local, $1198 Funded. (April 11, 2023 – December 15, 2023).
DeWitt, T. J., "Phenotypic plasticity and off-plane phenotypy induced in mosquitofish by functionally distinct predators," Sponsored by UNT New College, Local, $2467 Funded. (January 19, 2023 – June 25, 2023).

Awards and Honors

DC Faculty Fellow, Office of Research and Innovation. (October 12, 2023 – May 15, 2024).

Service

University Service

Committee Member, DMI Bachelor of Applied Science Development Committee. (December 5, 2023 – Present).

Committee Member, CACS Faculty Hiring Guidebook Committee (ad hoc). (September 8, 2023 – Present).

Committee Member, UNT FRIP Renovation Committee. (February 8, 2023 – Present).

Other, UNT Wetland Preserve Planning Group. (January 18, 2023 – Present).

Committee Member, UNT Solar Eclipse Planning Committee. (November 15, 2023 – April 8, 2024).

Other, NTN!. (January 2023 – December 2023).

Other, PDA. (January 2023 – December 2023).

Program Organizer, BIOL 1132 (PDA students). (January 16, 2023 – November 13, 2023).

Other, APDA; Student Services. (October 3, 2023).

Professional Service

Adjudicator, Society for the Study of Evolution. (July 27, 2023).

Public Service

Committee Member, Frisco Natural Resources Master Planning Committee, Frisco TX, TX. (November 1, 2023 – Present).

Consulting

Academic, Magda Grohman, United States of America. (December 8, 2023 – December 9, 2023).

Academic, Sarvjeet Singh, United States of America. (January 24, 2023 – January 25, 2023).