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Thom DeWitt

Title: Clinical Associate Professor

Department: Multidisciplinary Innovation

College: College of Applied and Collaborative Studies

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Link

Education

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

Current Scheduled Teaching

BIOL 1132.580Environmental ScienceSpring SDC 2026
BIOL 1132.581Environmental ScienceSpring SDC 2026
BIOL 1132.590Environmental ScienceSpring SDC 2026
BIOL 1132.591Environmental ScienceSpring SDC 2026
GEOG 1710.581Earth ScienceFall SDC 2025
GEOG 1710.585Earth ScienceFall SDC 2025 Syllabus
GEOG 1710.591Earth ScienceFall SDC 2025
GEOG 1710.595Earth ScienceFall SDC 2025
Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Previous Scheduled Teaching

BIOL 1132.580Environmental ScienceSpring SDC 2025 Syllabus SPOT
BIOL 1132.581Environmental ScienceSpring SDC 2025 Syllabus SPOT
BIOL 1132.590Environmental ScienceSpring SDC 2025 Syllabus SPOT
BIOL 1132.591Environmental ScienceSpring SDC 2025 Syllabus SPOT
GEOG 1710.581Earth ScienceFall SDC 2024 Syllabus SPOT
GEOG 1710.591Earth ScienceFall SDC 2024 Syllabus SPOT
BIOL 1132.520Environmental ScienceFall 2024 Syllabus SPOT
BIOL 1132.521Environmental ScienceFall 2024 Syllabus SPOT
BIOL 1132.581Environmental ScienceSpring SDC 2024 Syllabus SPOT
BIOL 1132.585Environmental ScienceSpring SDC 2024 Syllabus SPOT
BIOL 1132.591Environmental ScienceSpring SDC 2024 Syllabus SPOT
BIOL 1132.595Environmental ScienceSpring SDC 2024 Syllabus SPOT
BIOL 1132.520Environmental ScienceFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
BIOL 1132.521Environmental ScienceFall 2023 SPOT
BIOL 1132.581Environmental ScienceSpring SDC 2023 Syllabus SPOT
BIOL 1132.585Environmental ScienceSpring SDC 2023 Syllabus SPOT
Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

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.

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. (2023 - 2024).
  • DeWitt, T.J., "Environmental surveying tools and curricula," sponsored by UNT New College, Local, $1198 Funded. (2023 - 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. (2023 - 2023).
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Overall
Summative Rating		 Challenge and
Engagement Index		 Response Rate

out of 5
out of 7		 %
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students responded
  • Overall Summative Rating (median):
    This rating represents the combined responses of students to the four global summative items and is presented to provide an overall index of the class’s quality. Overall summative statements include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 5 = Excellent, 3 = Good, and 1= Very poor):
    • The course as a whole was
    • The course content was
    • The instructor’s contribution to the course was
    • The instructor’s effectiveness in teaching the subject matter was
  • Challenge and Engagement Index:
    This rating combines student responses to several SPOT items relating to how academically challenging students found the course to be and how engaged they were. Challenge and Engagement Index items include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 7 = Much higher, 4 = Average, and 1 = Much lower):
    • Do you expect your grade in this course to be
    • The intellectual challenge presented was
    • The amount of effort you put into this course was
    • The amount of effort to succeed in this course was
    • Your involvement in course (doing assignments, attending classes, etc.) was
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