Research Focus
In 2005 I took a sabbatical semester in the University of Utah laboratory of Jim Ehleringer, learning how to analyze the stable isotope composition of bird feathers. I analyzed feathers (Grasshopper Sparrow and Dickcissel) from our local MAPS banding project, and I think that the information and insights gained will be very useful in the developing research area concerned with using feather isotopic compositions as indicators of bird migratory behavior.
Selected Research Publications
B.A. Montelone, D.A. Rintoul, and L.G. Williams, 2008 Assessment of the effectiveness of the studio format in introductory undergraduate biology, CBE-Life Sciences Education 7(2):234–242 (full text, PDF).
Rintoul, D.A. 2005. Beak Deformity in a Brown-headed Cowbird, with Notes on Causes of Beak Deformities in Birds, (full text, PDF). Kansas Ornithological Society Bulletin, 53(6):29-32.
Rintoul, D.A., L.M.. Krueger, C. Woodard, and J.E. Throne. 2005. Carrion Beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae) of the Konza Prairie Biological Station. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 78(2): 124-133.
Rintoul, D.A. and E. Dale Kennedy. 2002. Aberrant Plumages in a Carolina Wren and two House Wrens from Kansas. Kansas Ornithol. Soc. Bulletin, 53(2):21-23.
Busby, W.H., D. Mulhern, G. Kramos, and D. Rintoul, 1998. First Breeding Record of the Piping Plover in Kansas. Prairie Naturalist 29(4):257-262.
Cavitt, J.F., A.T. Pearse, and D.A. Rintoul. 1998. Hybridization of Mountain Bluebird and Eastern Bluebird in Northeastern Kansas. Kansas Ornithological Society Bulletin, 49(2): 21-25.
Florant, G.L., L. Hester, S. Ameenuddin, and D.A. Rintoul. 1993. The effect of low essential fatty acid diet on hibernation in marmots (Marmota flaviventris). Am. J. Physiol. 264:R747-R753.
Complete List of Research Publications -(PDF)
Recent Conference Presentations
Rintoul, D.A., “Citizen Science: The Unique Contribution of Amateur Birdwatchers to Ornithological Research,”, presented at the Fourteenth North American Interdisciplinary Conference on Environment and Community, Saratoga Springs NY, February 2004.
Rintoul, D.A., Podlesak, D., Bowen, G. and Ehlringer, J. "Seasonal Iinfluences on Feather Stable-isotope Signatures of Grassland Birds", presented at the IV North American Ornithological Congress, Veracruz, Mexico, October 2006.
Other Scholarly Contributions
Invited participant in wiki-based review of neo-creationist textbook, Explore Evolution (S. C. Meyer, et al, 2007). The entire review is available from the National Center for Science Education (NCSE). The British Centre for Science Education also prepared a short pamphlet (PDF) which summarizes this review.
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