Faculty Profile

Thom DeWitt

Title
Clinical Associate Professor
Department
Multidisciplinary Innovation
College
College of Applied and Collaborative Studies

    

    

      


                          

            
Curriculum Vitae

            

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Education

            



  

  


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





          

        
                

          
Current Scheduled Teaching*


          
BIOL 1132.581, Environmental Science, Spring 2024 Syllabus
BIOL 1132.585, Environmental Science, Spring 2024 Syllabus
BIOL 1132.591, Environmental Science, Spring 2024 Syllabus
BIOL 1132.595, Environmental Science, Spring 2024 Syllabus


          
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  Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of
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Previous Scheduled Teaching*


            
                    

                    BIOL 1132.520, Environmental Science, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    BIOL 1132.521, Environmental Science, Fall 2023  SPOT
                    

                    BIOL 1132.581, Environmental Science, Spring SDC 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    BIOL 1132.585, Environmental Science, Spring SDC 2023 Syllabus SPOT

          


          
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  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 Publications



  

  
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. 



	
		
		
	  

	

	

  
    
	

	

	  

		

		   
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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).



	
		
		
	  

	

	

	
	

  
  
  

  	

		

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