CLARK W. BEASLEY

Department of Biology
McMurry University
Abilene, Texas  79697
915-793-3867

Education:
     B.S., 1964, Kansas State College of Pittsburg
     Ph.D., 1968, University of Oklahoma

Honorary Organizations:
     Beta Beta Beta, Phi Sigma, Sigma Xi, Omicron Delta Kappa

Professional Organizations:
     Texas Academy of Science, Southwestern Association of Naturalists, American Microscopical                    Society, National Association of Biology Teachers

Professional Experience:
     1961-64       Undergraduate lab assistant, Kans. State College
     Summers, 1962,1963    Kansas Forestry, Fish & Game Commission
     1964-66       National Science Foundation Cooperative Graduate Fellowship, Univ. of Oklahoma     1966-68       Graduate Assistant, Dept. of Zoology, University of Oklahoma
     1968-69       Instructor, Dept. of Biol., Missouri Southern College
     Summer 1969   Instructor, Dept. of Biol., Kansas State College
     1969-72       Assist. Prof., Dept. of Biol., McMurry College
     1972-77       Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Biol., McMurry College
     1973-2002   Chair, Dept. of Biol., McMurry University
     1977-99       Prof., Dept. of Biology, McMurry University
     1999-            Distinguished Prof., Dept. of Biology, McMurry University

Professional Activities:
     Consultant to Fairleigh Dickinson Laboratories, Inc., Abilene, Texas, parasitology study for                   City of Abilene, January, 1988
     Field work in the Peoples Republic of China, 1990, 1992, 1996 and 2005.

Community Recognition:
     Recipient of Boy Scouts of America District Award of Merit, Southern District, Chisholm Trail                    Council, Dec., 1980.

Publications:

Beasley, Clark W., and Branley A. Branson.  1966.  Reduction in number of mucous cells in the olfactory organs of Notropis lutrensis and Notropis camurus following treatment with nicotine alkaloid.Trans. Kent. Acad. Sci. 27:51-54.

Branson, Branley A., and Clark W. Beasley.  1967.  Coiling abnormality in Physa anatina.  Nautilus 80:132, 144.

Beasley, Clark W.  1967.  Tardigrades from Kansas.  Trans. Kans. Acad. Sci. 70:464-470.

Beasley, Clark W., and Branley A. Branson.  1971.  A partial biological survey of the Spring River drainage in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri. Part III. The Crayfishes.  Trans. Kans. Acad. Sci. 74:228-233.

Beasley, Clark W.  1972.  Some Tardigrades from Mexico.  Southwest. Natur. 17:21-29.

Beasley, Clark W.  1978.  Gastropods of Taylor County, Texas.  Sterkiana 69-70:1-2.

Beasley, Clark W.  1978.  The Tardigrada of Oklahoma.  Amer. Midland. Natur.  99:128-141.

Beasley, Clark W.  1981.  Some Tardigrada from Puerto Rico.  Texas Jour. Sci. 33(1):9-12.

Beasley, Clark W., and Giovanni Pilato.  1987.  Two new species of Doryphoribius (Eutardigrada, Hypsibiidae) from North America.  Animalia, Catania 14:99-105.

Pilato, Giovanni, and Clark W. Beasley.  1987.  Haplohexapodibius seductor n. gen. n. sp. (Eutardigrada, Calohypsibiidae) with remarks on the systematic position of the new genus.  Animalia, Catania 14:65-71.

Beasley, Clark W.  1988.  Altitudinal distribution of Tardigrada of New Mexico with the description of a new species.  Amer. Midland. Natur. 120(2):436-440.

Beasley, Clark W.  1990.  Tardigrada from Gunnison County, Colorado, with the description of a new species, Diphascon craigi.  Southwest. Natur. 35(3):302-304.

Beasley, Clark W.  1995.  The Phylum Tardigrada (English translation).  McMurry University, Abilene, Texas.  986 pp. 

Beasley, Clark W., and Arthur Cleveland.  1996.  Tardigrada from southern Yunnan Province, People’s Republic of China.  Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 116:239-243.

Czeczuga, B., B.D. Ryan, R.W. Spjut, J.-A.W. Flock, W.A. Weber, C.W. Beasley, R.E. Shoeman, R.D. Worthington, and V. L. Boucher.  1997.  Carotenoids in lichens from the United States of America and Mexico.  Feddes Repertorium 108:401-417.

Kathman, R. Deedee, and Clark W. Beasley.  1997.  Synonymy of Platicrista cheleusis (Tardigrada: Eutardigrada: Hypsibiidae).  Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 110(4):558-559.

Beasley, Clark W.  1999.  A new species of Echiniscus (Tardigrada, Echiniscidae) from northern Yunnan Province, China.  Zoologischer Anzeiger 238:135-138.

Krantz, Stefanie, Thomas G. Benoit, and Clark W. Beasley.  1999.  Phytopathogenic bacteria associated with Tardigrada.  Zoologischer Anzeiger 238:259-260.

Benoit, Thomas G., Jennifer Locke, James R. Marks, and Clark W. Beasley.  2000.  Laboratory transmission of Xanthomonas campestris pv. raphani by a tardigrade (PARACHELA=MACROBIOTIDAE).  Florida Entomologist 83(2):197-199.

Beasley, Clark W.  2001.  Photokinesis of Macrobiotus hufelandi (Tardigrada, Eutardigrada).  Zoologischer Anzeiger 240:233-236.

Kaczmarek, Lukasz, and Clark W. Beasley. 2002.  Water bears (Tardigrada) of China.  Fauna of China 4:65-76.

Kaczmarek, Lukasz, Lukasz Michalczyk, and Clark W. Beasley.  2004.  Milnesium katarzynae sp. nov., a new species of eutardigrade (Milnesiidae) from China.  Zootaxa 743:1-5.

Pilato, Giovanni, and Clark Beasley.  2005.  Haplomacrobiotus utahensis, new species of Calohypsibidae (Eutardigrada) from North America.  Zootaxa 879:1-7.

Beasley, Clark W., Lukasz Kaczmarek, and Lukasz Michalczyk.  2006.  Additions to the Tardigrada fauna of China.  Biological Letters, Poland, 43(1):3-10.

Kaczmarek, L., C. W. Beasley, and L. Michalczyk. In press. The first record of the genus Haplohexapodibius Pilato & Beasley, 1987 in Africa with notes on synonymy of Hexapodibius beasleyi Maucci, 1988 with Haplohexapodibius seductor Pilato & Beasley, 1987. African Zoology.




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