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Walter Dodds

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WALTER DODDS
University distinguished professor of biology

 

Walter Dodds, university distinguished professor of biology at Kansas State University, has studied the effects of nitrogen contamination in stream waters and the effects stream drying and flooding have on the habitat and the species that live there. In 2008, his study of nitrogen runoff in small streams was published in Nature. He also is author of "Humanity's Footprint: Momentum, Impact and Our Global Environment."

He is coordinator of aquatic and hydrological research at the Konza Prairie Biological Station, and a co-principal investigator on the Long Term Ecological Research Grant, which is funded by the National Science Foundation. The goal is to describe how fire, grazing and climatic variables are essential factors in a functioning prairie ecosystem.

Dodds joined K-State in 1990 and was promoted to full professor in 2002. He was named a university distinguished professor in 2009. Dodds received a bachelor's degree in biology and chemistry from the University of Denver in 1980 and a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Oregon in 1986.

Dodds can be reached at 785-532-6998 or by e-mail at wkdodds@k-state.edu.