Walter Dodds, 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.
He is coordinator of aquatic and hydrological research at Konza Prairie, and a co-principle investigator on the Long Term Ecological Research Grant, which is funded by the National Science Foundation. Its goal is to describe how fire, grazing and climatic variables are essential factors in a functioning prairie ecosystem.
Dodds was promoted to the rank of professor of biology at Kansas State University in 2002. He received a bachelor of science 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.