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Kevin S. Baldwin

Associate Professor of Biology

B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1986; Ph.D., University of Florida, 1999.

Email: kbaldwin@monm.edu     Phone: 309-457-2148

Courses

• Biology 101 Life on Earth
  • Syllabus
• Biology 204 Human Anatomy & Physiology
  • Syllabus
• Biology 308 Vertebrate Embryology
• Biology 320 Parasitology
  • Album of Parasitic Arthropods
• Biology 325 Advanced Physiology
• Honors 210 Corn
  • Syllabus.pdf

Research Interests

• I am an ecophysiologist who is primarily interested in how parasites affect the physiology, behavior, and whole organism performance of their hosts, particularly reptiles, amphibians, fish, & insects.

Senior Research projects done in my lab :

• Efficacy of metronidazole (Flagyl) on gregarine parasites (Blabericola migrator) of Madagascar giant hissing cockroaches Gromphadorhina portentosa
• Effects of Prozac on reaction times and likelihood of predation in fat-head minnows Pimephales promelas
• Effects of Prozac on reaction times and likelihood of predation in Xenopus laevis tadpoles
• Effects of Toxoplasma gondii on the behavior of white-footed mice
• Effects of flukes (Ornithodiplostomulum) on fathead minnow brain morphology and behavior
• Prevalence of mites on grasshoppers
• Running performance of anolis lizards (Anolis carolinensis)

Publications

• K.S. Baldwin. 2011. Communion and Dung Beetles. The Evolutionary Review. 2(1): 94-97.
• K.S. Baldwin. 2010. 1859: Darwin, Mill, & Drake. The Evolutionary Review. 1(1):36-38.
• K.S. Baldwin. 1989. Laboratory Manual for Vertebrate Zoology at UC Santa Barbara
• K.S. Baldwin and R. Sanford 1987. Ambystoma tigrinum californiense (California tiger salamander) Predation. Herpetological Review 18(2):33.

Web Publications

• K.S. Baldwin. 2012. Footprints and Debt. 6 August. Three Quarks Daily.
• K.S. Baldwin. 2012. Liberty Nickel. 9 July. Three Quarks Daily.
• K.S. Baldwin. 2012. Rethinking Lawns 14 May. Three Quarks Daily.
• K.S. Baldwin. 2012. Failure to Yield 16 April. Three Quarks Daily.
• K.S. Baldwin. 2012. A Modess Proposal 19 March. Three Quarks Daily.
• K.S. Baldwin. 2012. Stargazing 20 February. Three Quarks Daily.
• K.S. Baldwin. 2012. Roach Clips 23 January. Three Quarks Daily.
• K.S. Baldwin. 2011. A Boomer's Progress: Reflections On The Films Of Pixar 26 December.Three Quarks Daily.
• K.S. Baldwin. 2011. Pain, Humility, and Thanksgiving 28 November. Three Quarks Daily.
• K.S. Baldwin. 2011. Cemeteries and Prairies 31 October. Three Quarks Daily.
• K.S. Baldwin. 2011. 1859 Reconsidered 26 September. Three Quarks Daily.
• K.S. Baldwin. 2011. Secular Humanism 2.0 29 August. Three Quarks Daily.
• K.S. Baldwin. 2011. Symbiosis, Homology, and Planetary Osteoporosis. 1 August. Three Quarks Daily. (http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2011/07/symbiosis-deep-homology-and-planetary-osteoporosis.html#more)
• K.S. Baldwin. 2011. Three Island Stories. 4 July. Three Quarks Daily. (http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2011/07/an-island-trilogy.html#more)
• K.S. Baldwin. 2011. A Pole Without a Santa Claus. 6 June. Three Quarks Daily. (http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2011/06/a-pole-without-a-santa-claus.html#more)
• K.S. Baldwin. 2011. Perfect Forms: Typological vs. Population Thinking in Media and Industrial Agriculture. 11 April. Three Quarks Daily. (http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2011/04/perfect-forms.html)
• K.S. Baldwin. 2011. 2020 Vision. 14 February. Three Quarks Daily. (http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2011/02/2020-vision.html)
• K.S. Baldwin. 2011. My Botfly, Myself. 17 January. Three Quarks Daily. (http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2011/01/my-botfly-myself.html)
• K.S. Baldwin. 2010. Chitlins, Citrus, and the Solstice. 20 December. Three Quarks Daily. (www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2010/12/chitlins-citrus-and-solstice.html#more)
• K.S. Baldwin. 2010. Floods and Plagues: New Lesssons from the Old Testament. 22 November. Three Quarks Daily. (http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2010/11/floods-and-plagues-new-ideas-about-the-old-testament.html)

Manuscripts in Preparation

• Fog and the distributional limits of the side-blotched lizard (Uta stansburiana) in central California
• The effects of mites on the morphology, physiology and performance of the Florida scrub lizard, Sceloporus woodi
• Chigger infestations, evaporative water loss and the possible adaptive significance of nuchal pockets
• Spatial and temporal aspects of chigger and mite abundance with special reference to landscape burning and disturbance
• Effects of adult mites on lizard metabolic recovery from exercise
• Landscape ecology, the evolution of virulence, & emerging diseases