Curriculum vitae
Robert Irvin Lonard, Ph.D.
Biology Department
University of Texas - Pan American
1201 W. University Dr.
Edinburg, TX 78539
Phone: 956-381-3656
Fax: 956-381-3657
rlonard@utpa.edu
Educational Background

Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas, 1964 (BSE) Biology
Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas, 1966 (MS) Biology

Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 1970 (Ph.D.) Plant Systematics

Professional Training and Employment

Emporia State University (1963-1964), Undergraduate teaching assistant
Emporia State University (1964-1965), Graduate teaching assistant

Emporia State University (1965-1966), Academic Year Institute, National Science Foundation

Texas A&M University (1966-1969), Graduate Teaching Assistant

Texas A&M University (1970), Assistant Curator, Tracy Herbarium

Pan American University (1970-1975), Assistant Professor

Pan American University (1975-1982), Associate Professor

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi (1980-1981), 

Wetland Research Associate; sabbatical leave University of Texas-Pan American (1982-Present), 

Professor Chairman, Department of Biology (1992-1994)

Fellowships

National Science Foundation: Academic Year Institute, Emporia State University (1965-1966)

Professional Honors; Offices Held in Professional Societies

Piper Professor Nominee, Pan American University (1979)
Outstanding Faculty Award, Beta Beta Beta, Pan American University (1980)

International Science and Engineering Fair, Judge (1981)

Vice-President, Environmental Sciences Section, Texas Academy of Science (1979)

President, Environmental Sciences Section, Texas Academy of Science (1980)

Vice-President, Biological Sciences Section, Texas Academy of Science (1983)

President, Biological Sciences Section, Texas Academy of Science (1984)

Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award, Pan American University (1984)

Outstanding Faculty Award, Teaching, University of Texas-Pan American (1990)

Fellow of the Texas Academy of Science (1992)

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, President, University of Texas-Pan American (1995)

Associate Editor for Botany: Texas Journal of Science (1994-Present)

Piper Professor Nominee, University of Texas-Pan American (1995)

University of Texas Chancellor’s Award - Excellence in Teaching (1995)
Donovan Stewart Correll Memorial Award, Native Plant Society of Texas (1997)
College of Science and Engineering Research Excellence Award (2000)

Adjunct Professorship

Southwest Texas State University, Department of Biology (1988)

Grants Funded
Taxonomy of flowering plants and macroscopic marine algae of South Padre Island, Texas. Pan American University Faculty Research Grant. $1,983. (with L.O. Sorensen). 1973.

Terrestrial ecology of South Padre Island, Texas. Pan American University Faculty Research Grant. $2,000. (with F.W. Judd and S.L. Sides). 1973.

Freshman biology curriculum development, Office of Education, Advanced Institutional Development Program. $2,400. (Release time). 1976.

Effects of burning on sacahuistal communities in Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge. Pan American Faculty Research Grant. $1,200. (with F.W. Judd). 1977.


Minority Institutional Support in Science Program: Curriculum development; individualized plant taxonomy and environmental biology. National Science Foundation. $47,000. (with R. Ross). 1977.


Community structure of a Gulf Coast Barrier Island, South Padre Island, Texas. Texas A&M University Sea Grant College Program. $2,830. (with F.W. Judd, T.C. Allison, and P. James). 1978.


A survey of selected coastal mainland vegetation communities of southern Texas. Pan American University Faculty Research Grant. $500. (with R. Ross). 1978.


Analysis of methodologies used for the assessment of wetlands values. U.S. Water Resources Council. $48,000. (research conducted at the Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS). 1980.

Ecology and habitat functions of non-tidal wetlands on South Padre Island, Texas. Pan American University Faculty Research Grant. $1,235. (with R. Edwards and T.C. Allison). 1982.


Woody plants of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas. Caesar Kleberg Foundation. $6,750. (with F.W. Judd). 1983.


A phenodynamic analysis of the vegetation of South Padre Island, Texas. Pan American University Research Grant. $961. 1984.

Community ecology of Laguna Madre and South Padre Island. National Science Foundation. $273,000. (with F.W. Judd, R. Edwards, and T.C. Allison). 1985-1988.


Grasses of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas. Pan American University Faculty Research Grant. $3,617. 1986.

A phytosociological investigation of the vegetation of the Rio Grande in southern Texas. University of Texas-Pan American Faculty Research Grant. $1,718. 1993.

Remote sensing of Rio Grande floodplain vegetation. Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. $51,917. (with F.W.Judd). 1996-1997.


Initiative for development of minority institution research - University of Texas- Pan American. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. $499,093. (with E. LeMaster, R.H. Fowler, E. Rieken, M. Thompson, X. Meng, and F.W. Judd). 1996-1998.

Initiative for development of minority institution research - University of Texas-Pan American. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. $499,093. (with E. LeMaster, R.H. Fowler, E. Rieken, M. Thompson, X. Meng, and F.W. Judd). 1996-1998.

Remote sensing of Rio Grande Delta marshes. Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. $74,139. (with F.W. Judd). 1998-1999.

Remote sensing of the vegetation of the lomas in the Rio Grande Delta. University of Texas-Pan American Faculty Research Grant. $1,491. (with F.W. Judd and D.L. Hockaday). 1997-1998.

Center for remote sensing in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. $69,932. (with F.W. Judd (PI); Co-investigators: R.I. Lonard, R.H. Fowler, E. Rieken, X. Meng, and M.Thompson. 1997-1998.

Regional ecological resource assessment of the Rio Grande Riparian Corridor: A multidisciplinary approach to understanding anthropogenic effects on riparian communities in semi-arid environments. $642,496; UTPA share = $123,578. (with F.W. Judd). Lead institution: Bureau of Economic Geology, UT-Austin, J. Raney (PI). 1 September 1999-31 August 2003.

Evaluation of Rio Grande Wildlife Corridor re-vegetation efforts. $73,213. Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Advanced Research Program. F.W. Judd and R.I. Lonard. 1 January 2000-31 December 2002.

A vascular plant inventory of the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Site, Cameron County, Texas. $3,669. U.S. National Park Service. 1 July 2001-30 June 2003.

Impact of devegetation and dune migration on the Texas Barrier Islands. $40,509. K.R. Summy, F.W. Judd, R.I. Lonard, and R. Mazariegos. Coastal Coordination Council - General Land Office. State of Texas. 1 October 2003-31 March 2005.

A survey and baseline investigation of invasive vascular plants at the Southmost Nature Conservancy Preserve, Cameron County, Texas. (with F.W. Judd). Nature Conservancy. $2,295. 1 June 2003-31 May 2004.

Publications

Lonard, R.I. 1967. Taxonomy of the Genus Vulpia. (Gramineae). Amer. J. Bot. 54:657.

Gould, F.W. and R.I. Lonard. 1970. Eragrostis plana in South Carolina. Rhodora 72:188.

Lonard, R.I. and F.R. Waller. 1971. Helianthus simulans S.E. Wats. (Compositae) in Robertson County, new to Texas. Southwestern Naturalist 16:121.

Lonard, R.I. 1974. Calamagrostis inexpansa (Gramineae) new to Kansas. Southwestern Naturalist. 18:483.

Lonard, R.I. and F.W. Gould. 1974. The North American species of Vulpia (Gramineae). Madroño 22:217-230.

Lonard, R.I. 1975. Vulpia K.S. Gmel., pp 95-99, IN F.W. Gould, The grasses of Texas. Texas A&M University Press, College Station.

Judd, F.W., R.I. Lonard, and S.L. Sides. 1977. The vegetation of South Padre Island, Texas, in relation to topography. Southwestern Naturalist 22:31-48.

Lonard, R.I., F.W. Judd, and S.L. Sides. 1978. Annotated checklist of the flowering plants of South Padre Island, Texas. Southwestern Naturalist 23:497-510.

Lonard, R.I. and R. Ross. 1979. A vegetational analysis of a tropical cloud forest in southern Tamaulipas, Mexico. Texas Journal of Science 31:143-150.

Lonard, R.I. and F.W. Judd. 1980. Phytogeography of South Padre Island, Texas. Southwestern Naturalist 25:313-322.

Lonard, R.I. and F.W. Judd. 1981. The terrestrial flora of South Padre Island, Texas. Misc. papers, No. 6. Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin. 74 pp.

Lonard, R.I., E.J. Clairain, R.T. Huffman, J.W. Hardy, L.D. Brown, P.E. Ballard, and J.W. Watts. 1981. Analysis of methodologies used for the assessment of wetlands values. U.S. Water Resources Council, Washington, D.C.

Huffman, R.T. and R.I. Lonard. 1983. Successional patterns of floating vegetation mats in a Southwestern Arkansas cypress swamp. Castanea 48:73-78.

Farrald, C. and R.I. Lonard. 1984. Comparative vegetational analysis of a dry basin and a shallow pond within the bed of Cattail Lake, Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, Texas. Texas Journal of Science 36:149-161.

Lonard, R.I., E.J. Clairain, R.T. Huffman, J.W. Hardy, L.D. Brown, P.E. Ballard, and J.W. Watts. 1984. Wetlands functions and values study plan. Appendix A: Analysis of methodologies for assessing wetland values. Technical report 1-82-2. U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, CE, Vicksburg, MS. 87 p.

Judd, F.W. and R.I. Lonard. 1985. Effects of perturbations on South Padre Island. pp. 1855-1869. IN S.T. Magoon, H. Converse, O. Miner, O. Clark, and L.T. Tobin (eds.). Coastal Zone ‘85. Amer. Soc. Civil Engineers.

Lonard, R.I. and F.W. Judd. 1985. Effects of a severe freeze on native woody plants in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas. Southwestern Naturalist 30: 397-403.

Lonard, R.I. and E.J. Clairain, Jr. 1986. Identification of methodologies for the assessment of wetland functions and values. IN Kusler, J.A. and P. Riexinger (eds). Proc. of the National Wetland Assessment Symposium. pp. 66-72.

Heep, M. and R.I. Lonard. 1986. Esenbeckia berlandieri (Rutaceae) rediscovered in southern Texas. Southwestern Naturalist 31: 259-260.

Judd, F.W. and R.I. Lonard. 1987. Disturbance and community development. pp. 1731-1745. In Proc. Fifth Intern. Symposium on Coastal and Ocean Management. Coastal Zone ‘87. Amer. Soc. Coastal Engineering. Seattle, WA.

Lonard, R.I. 1988. Phytogeography of the grasses of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas. IN Davis, A. and G. Stanford (eds). The prairie: Roots of our culture; foundation of our economy. Proc. of the Tenth North Amer. Prairie Conf. Native Prairie Assoc. of Texas, Dallas. Paper No 01.07. 3 pp.

Judd, F.W., R.I. Lonard, J.H. Everitt, and R. Villarreal. 1989. Effects of vehicular traffic in the secondary dunes and vegetated flats of South Padre Island, Texas. IN Proc. Sixth Symposium on Coastal and Ocean Management. /ASCE, July 11-14, 1989/ Charleston, SC. pp. 4634-4645.

Lonard, R.I. and F.W. Judd. 1990. Phenology of native angiosperms of South Padre Island, Texas. IN T.B. Bragg and J. Stubbendieck (eds). Proc. of the Eleventh North American Prairie Conf. pp. 217-222.

Carls, E.G., R.I. Lonard, and D.B. Fenn. 1990. Impact of oil and gas operations on the vegetation of Padre Island National Seashore, Texas, USA. Ocean and Shoreline Manage. 14: 85-104.

Carls, E.G., R.I. Lonard, and D.B. Fenn. 1991. Notes on the vegetation and flora of North Padre Island, Texas. Southwestern Naturalist 36: 121-125.

Lonard, R.I. and F.W. Judd. 1991. Comparison of the effects of the severe freezes of 1983 and 1989 on native woody plants in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas. Southwestern Naturalist 36: 213-217.

Lonard, R.I., J.H. Everitt, and F.W. Judd. 1991. Woody plants of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas. Texas Memorial Museum. Misc. Publ. #7. Univ. of Texas at Austin. 179 p. (with illustrations by N.A. Browne). Second printing in 1992.

Lonard, R.I., F.W. Judd, J.H.Everitt, D.E. Escobar, and R. Davis. 1991. Roadside associated disturbance on coastal dunes. Proc. of 7th Symposium on Coastal & Ocean Management. ASCE/Long Beach, CA/July 8-12, 1991. pp 2823-2836.

Judd, F.W., R.I. Lonard, J.H. Everitt, D.E. Escobar, and R. Davis. 1991. Resilience of seascoast bluestem barrier island communities. Proc. of 7th Symposium on Coastal & Ocean Management. ASCE/Long Beach, CA/July 8-12, 1991. pp 3513-3524.

Aiken, S.G. and R.I. Lonard. 1993. Vulpia pp. 1302-1303. IN Hickman, J.C. (ed). The Jepson manual: Higher plants of California. Univ. of California Press, Berkeley. 1400 pp. 

Lonard, R.I. and F.W. Judd. 1993. Phytogeography of the woody flora of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas. Texas Journal of Science 45:134-147.

Lonard, R.I. and F.W. Judd. 1993. Recovery of vegetation of barrier island washover zones. Coastal Zone ‘93. Proc. 8th Symposium on Coastal and Ocean Management. July 19-23, 1993. New Orleans. LA. pp 2332-2342.

Wipff, J.K., and R.I. Lonard, S.D. Jones, and S.L. Hatch. 1993. The genus Urochloa (Poaceae:Paniceae) in Texas, including, one previously unreported species for the state. Sida 15:405-413.

Lonard, R.I. 1993. Guide to grasses of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas. University of Texas-Pan American Press, Edinburg. 240 p (with illustrations by N.A. Browne and A.L. Egle).

Judd, F.W, R.I. Lonard, D.L. Hockaday, J.D. Everitt, and R. Davis. 1994. Remote sensing of nearshore vegetation, South Padre Island, Texas. Second Thematic Conf. on Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments, New Orleans, LA pp I-581-589.

Lonard, R.I. 1994. The systematics of the genus Vulpia (Gramineae). IN Douglas et al. (eds). The vascular plants of British Columbia. Part 4-Monocotyledons. Royal British Columbia Museum. p. 145.

Lonard, R.I. 1994. The systematics of the genus Vulpia (Gramineae). IN Douglas et al. (eds.). The vascular plants of British Columbia. Part 4-Monocotyledons. Royal British Columbia Museum. p. 145.

Lonard, R.I. and F.W. Judd. 1997. The biological flora of coastal dunes and wetlands. 3. Sesuvium portulacastrum (L.) L. Journal of Coastal Research 13:96-104.

Judd, F.W., R.I. Lonard, J.H. Everitt, D.E. Escobar, and M.R. Davis. 1997. Using multispectral videography to distinguish the pattern of zonation and plant species composition in brackish water marshes of the Rio Grande Delta. Fourth International Conference on Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments, Orlando, Florida, 17-19 March, 1997. II-621-II-629.

Judd, F.W., R.I. Lonard, J.H. Everitt, D.E. Escobar, and M.R. Davis. 1997. Using multispectral videography to compare the pattern of zonation between brackish water marshes and salt water marshes of the Rio Grande Delta. Proceedings of the16th Biennial Workshop of Aerial Color Photography, Videography, and Resource Assessment. Weslaco, Texas, April 29-May 1, 1997. pp. 394-405.

Lonard, R.I., F.W. Judd, J.H. Everitt, D.E. Escobar, and M.R. Davis. 1997. Using multispectral videography in distinguishing species composition and vegetation pattern in riparian forests of the lower Rio Grande. Proceedings of the 16th Biennial Workshop of Aerial Color Photography, Videography, and Resource Assessment. Weslaco, Texas, April 29-May 1, 1997. pp. 406-418.

Lonard, R.I., F.W. Judd, J.H. Everitt, D.E. Escobar, M.R. Davis, M.M. Crawford, and M.D. Desai. 1998. Evaluation of color-infrared photography for distinguishing annual changes in riparian forest vegetation in the lower Rio Grande in Texas. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Geospatial Information in Agriculture and Forestry. Lake Buena Vista, Fla., 1-3 June 1998. I-421-432.

Zhang, L., M.D. Desai, R. Lonard, and F. Judd. 1998. Multi-resolution vegetation classification along the lower Rio Grande. 1998. IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation. Tucson Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Tucson, Arizona, April 5-7, 1998. pp. 75-80.

Judd, F.W., R.I. Lonard, J.H.Everitt, D.E. Escobar, and M.R. Davis. 1998. Wind-tidal flats and dune vegetation of South Padre Island, Texas. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments, San Diego, California, 5-7 October 1998. II-177-II-184.

Lonard, R.I., F.W. Judd, J.H. Everitt, D.E. Escobar, R. Davis, M.Crawford, and M.Desai. 1998. Monitoring native riparian forest vegetation. Earth Observation Magazine. 32-34. (popular article).

Lonard, R.I. and F.W. Judd. 1999. The biological flora of coastal dunes and wetlands. Ipomoea imperati (Vahl) Griseb. Journal of Coastal Research 15:645-652.

Everitt, J.H., M.A. Alaniz, D.E. Escobar, R.I. Lonard, F.W. Judd, and M.R. Davis. 1999. Reflectance characteristics and film image relations among important plant species on South Padre Island, Texas. Journal of Coastal Research 15:789-795.

Everitt, J.H., C. Yang, C.F. Webster, D.E. Escobar, R.S. Fletcher, R.I. Lonard, and M.R. Davis. 1999. Using remote sensing, GPS, and GIS technologies for detecting and mapping two aquatic weeds in Texas waterways. Proceedings of the Fourth International Airborne Remote Sensing Conference and Exhibition/21st Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing. 21-24 June 1999. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. II-449-II-461.

Lonard, R.I., F.W. Judd, J.H. Everitt, D.E. Escobar, M.A. Alaniz, I. Cavazos III, and M.R. Davis. 1999. Vegetative change on South Padre Island, Texas, over twenty years and evaluation of multispectral videography in determining vegetative cover and species identity. Southwestern Naturalist 44:261-271.

Everitt, J.H., D.L. Drawe, and R.I. Lonard. 1999. Field guide to the broad-leaved herbaceous plants of South Texas: Used by livestock and wildlife. Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, TX. 277 pp.

Lonard, R.I. and F.W. Judd. 1999. Vascular plants of the Rio Grande Delta marshes. Proceedings of the Native Plant Society of Texas. Harlingen, Texas. Pp. 22-29.

Lonard, R.I., F.W. Judd, J.H. Everitt, D.E. Escobar, M.R. Davis, and M.M. Crawford. 1999. Evaluation of multispectral videography for distinguishing marshes in the coastal prairies of southern Texas. Pp. 226-234. In: J.T. Springer (ed.). Proceedings of the 16th North American Prairie Conference. University of Nebraska-Kearney. 263 pp.

Everitt, J.H., D.E. Escobar, C. Yang, R.I. Lonard, F.W. Judd, M.A. Alaniz, I. Cavazos, M.R. Davis, and D.L. Hockaday. 1999. Distinguishing ecological parameters in a coastal area using a video system with visible/near-infrared/mid-infrared sensitivity. Journal of Coastal Research 15:1145-1150.

Lonard, R.I., F.W. Judd, J.H. Everitt, D.E. Escobar, M.R. Davis, M.M Crawford, and M.D. Desai. 1999. Evaluation of color-infrared photography for distinguishing riparian forest vegetation of the Lower Rio Grande in Texas. Pp. 178-186 - plus 3 color plates. In: P.T. Tueller (ed.). Proceedings of the 17th Biennial Workshop on Color Photography and Videography in Resource Assessment. American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 280 pp. + color plates.

Everitt, J.H., C. Yang, D.E. Escobar, R.I. Lonard, and M.R. Davis. 1999. Remote sensing of a riparian zone in South Texas. Pp. 187-194 + 1 color plate. In: P.T. Tueller (ed.). Proceedings of the 17th Biennial Workshop on Color Photography and Videography in Resource Assessment. American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 280 pp. + color plates.

Lonard, R.I., F.W. Judd, J.H. Everitt, D.E. Escobar, M.R. Davis, M.M. Crawford, and M.D. Desai. 2000. Evaluation of color-infrared photography for distinguishing annual changes in riparian forest vegetation of the Lower Rio Grande in Texas. Journal of Forest Ecology and Management 128:75-81.

Everitt, J.H., C. Yang, D.E. Escobar, C.F. Webster, R.I. Lonard, and M.R. Davis. 1999. Using remote sensing and spatial information technologies to detect and map two aquatic macrophytes. Journal of Aquatic Plant Management. 37: 71-80. (paper was published in August 2000).

Everitt, J.H., D.E. Escobar, C. F. Webster, and R.I. Lonard. 2000. Light reflectance characteristics and film image relations among three aquatic plant species. Texas Journal of Science 52: 153-158.

Lonard, R.I. 2001. Natural plant communities of the South Texas Plains: Challenges of the 21st century. In: Dawn of the 21st century: The Texas Biomes and all their habitats. Native Plant Society of Texas, 2001 Symposium Proceedings. October 4-7, 2001. Austin, Texas. Pp. 42-50.

Judd, F.W., R.I. Lonard, and G. L. Waggerman. 2002. Evaluation of facilitated succession at Las Palomas Wildlife Management Area in South Texas. Texas Journal of Science 54: 163-176.

Lonard, R.I. and F.W. Judd. 2002. Riparian vegetation of the Lower Rio Grande. Southwestern Naturalist 47:420-432.

Everitt, J.H., C. Yang, D.E. Escobar, R.I. Lonard, and M.R. Davis. 2002. Reflectance characteristics and remote sensing of a riparian zone in South Texas. Southwestern Naturalist 47:433-439.

Judd, F.W. and R.I. Lonard. 2002. Species richness and diversity of brackish and salt marshes in the Rio Grande Delta. Journal of Coastal Research 18: 751-759.

Everitt, J.H., D.L. Drawe, and R.I. Lonard. 2002. Trees, shrubs, and cacti of South Texas (revised edition). Texas Tech Press University Press, Lubbock, TX. 249 pp.

Lonard, R.I. 2003. A taxonomic treatment of the genus Vaseyochloa (Poaceae) pp. 106-108. In: Flora of North America-North of Mexico, Volume 25-Magnoliophyta: Commelinaceae (in part): Poaceae, part 2. M.E. Barkworth, K.M. Capels, S. Long, and M.B. Piep (eds). Oxford University Press, New York. 783 pp.

Membership in Professional Societies

American Society of Plant Taxonomists
Southwestern Association of Naturalists

Texas Academy of Science

Botanical Research Institute of Texas (Sida)

Phi Kappa Phi (Honor Society)

Presentations at Professional Meetings

Southwestern Association of Naturalists. Vegetational analysis of the northernmost tropical cloud forest in Mexico. (1974)

Southwestern Association of Naturalists. The vegetation of South Padre Island, Texas, in relation to topography (with F.W. Judd and S.L. Sides). (1975)

CAST Conference. The unique flora of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas. (1975)

Southwestern Association of Naturalists. The flora of South Padre Island, Texas (with F.W. Judd and S.L. Sides). (1978)

Texas Academy of Science. The phytogeography of South Padre Island, Texas (with F.W. Judd). (1980)

Symposium: Biotic resources of the Tamaulipan Biotic Province. Phytogeography of the woody flora of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas. (1982)

Texas Academy of Science. A comparative vegetational analysis of a shallow water and dry lake bed site in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas. (1983)

Southwestern Association of Naturalists. Effects of a severe freeze on the native woody plants of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas (with F.W. Judd). (1984) 
Texas Academy of Science. Classification and protection of natural plant communities in the South Texas Plains. (1985)

National Wetland Assessment Symposium. Identification of methodologies for the assessment of wetland functions and values (with E.J. Clairain). (1985)

Tenth North American Prairie Conference. Phytogeography of the grasses of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas. (1986)

Southwestern Association of Naturalists. Species composition and variation of non-tidal wetlands vegetation on South Padre Island, Texas (with R. Edwards and T. Allison) (1987)

Coastal Zone ‘87. Disturbance and community development (with F.W. Judd) (1987)

Texas Wildflower Symposium. Native plants of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas. (1988)

Coastal Zone ‘89. Effects of vehicular traffic in the secondary dunes and vegetated flats of South Padre Island, Texas (with F.W. Judd, J. Everitt, and R. Villarreal). (1989)

Southwestern Association of Naturalists. A comparison of the effects of the severe freezes of 1983 and 1989 on the native vegetation of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas (with F.W. Judd) (1990)

Coastal Zone ‘91. Roadside associated disturbance on coastal dunes (with F.W. Judd, J. Everitt, D.E. Escobar, and R. Davis). (1991)

Southwestern Association of Naturalists. Riparian vegetation of the Lower Rio Grande (with F.W. Judd) (1996)

16th Biennial Workshop of Aerial Color Photography, Videography, and Resource Assessment. Using multispectral videography in distinguishing species composition and vegetation pattern in riparian forests of the lower Rio Grande Delta. (with F.W. Judd, J.H.Everitt, D.E. Escobar, and M.R. Davis). (1997)

Southwestern Association of Naturalists. Remote sensing of the vegetation of South Padre Island, Texas. (with F.W. Judd, J.H. Everitt, D.E. Escobar, and M.R. Davis). (1998)

First International Conference on Geospatial Information in Agriculture and Forestry. Evaluation of color-infrared photography for distinguishing annual changes in riparian forest vegetation of the lower Rio Grande in Texas. (with F.W. Judd, J.H. Everitt, D.E. Escobar, M.R. Davis, M.M. Crawford, and M.D. Desai. (1998).

Sixteenth North American Prairie Conference. Evaluation of multispectral videography for distinguishing marshes in the coastal prairie of southern Texas. (with F.W. Judd, J.H. Everitt, D.E. Escobar, M.R. Davis, and M.M. Crawford. (1998).

Seventeenth Biennial Workshop on Color Photography and Videography in Resource Assessment. Evaluation of color-infrared photography for distinguishing riparian forest vegetation of the Lower Rio Grande in Texas. (with F.W. Judd, J.H. Everitt, D.E. Escobar, M.R. Davis, M.M. Crawford, and M.D. Desai. (1999).

Annual meeting of the Native Plant Society of Texas. Vascular plants of Rio Grande Delta marshes. (with F.W. Judd). 1999. Harlingen, TX.

Seventeenth North American Prairie Conference. Remote sensing of resaca wetlands at the Palo Alto National Battlefield Historic Site, Cameron County, Texas. (with F.W. Judd, J.H. Everitt, A. Mahr, and M.M. Crawford. 2000.

Eighteenth Biennial Workshop on Color Photography and Videography in Resource Assessment. Riparian vegetation at the mouth of the Rio Grande. (with F.W. Judd, J.H. Everitt, D.E. Escobar, M.M. Crawford, and M.Desai. 2001. University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Eighteenth Biennial Workshop on Color Photography and Videography in Resource Assessment. Remote sensing of plant communities in South Texas. (with J.H. Everitt, D.E. Escobar, F.W. Judd, and M.R. Davis). 2001. University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Annual meeting of the Native Plant Society of Texas. Natural plant communities of the South Texas Plains-Challenges of the 21st century. 2001. Austin, TX.

106th Annual Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science. R.I. Lonard, F.W. Judd, and E. H. Smith. Recovery of vegetation following fire in a barrier island grassland, Padre Island National Seashore, Texas. 2003. Nacogdoches, TX.

Courses Taught at the University of Texas - Pan American

Biology 1401 (General Biology)
Biology 1402 (General Biology)

Biology 1487 (Honors)

Biology 1488 (Honors)

Biology 4410 (Marine Botany)

Biology 3408 (Plant Morphology)

Biology 4314 (Plant Taxonomy)

Biology 5410 (Marine Plant Science)

Biology 5314 (Advanced Plant Systematics)

Major University Committee Service

Honors Council
Faculty Senate

President’s Task Force: Improvement of education in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.

University Self-Study: Principal committee (1984)

University Library Committee: Chair

Graduate Council

University Self-Study/ NCAA Self-Study: Subcommittee Chair; 1995
University Athletic Council
University Admissions Committee

Service on Boards and Committees (Professional Expertise)

Native Plant Project: President and Board of Directors
City of Edinburg: Chair; Landscaping Committee

McAllen Chamber of Commerce: Nature Tourism Committee

Friends of the University Library: Vice-President, President

Masters Thesis Students (Chair)

Cisneros, B. Coastal vegetational communities of two Texas Barrier Islands, Boca Chica and Brazos.

Bletsch, L. Photosynthetic pathways of plants native to South Padre Island, Texas.

Egle, A. The phenology and reproductive biology of Hibiscus cardiophyllus L. (Malvaceae) in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas.

Wright, P. A comparison of secondary successional woody vegetation in two revegetated fields in South Texas and an assessment of hatitat use by the olive sparrow, Arremonops rufivirgatus. (Co-chairman with T. Brush)

Castillo, C. Effects of artificial flooding on the vegetation and avifauna of riparian woodlands at Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, Hidalgo, County, Texas. (Co-chairman with T. Brush

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