Ph.D. Graduate Student

Department of Biology

Old Dominion University

Norfolk, VA 23529

abell008@odu.edu

Education

Ph.D. Ecological Sciences, Old Dominion University (present). Research involves a GIS Survey of the habitat of the federally endangered Delmarva fox squirrel (Sciurus niger cinereus). Robert K. Rose Ph.D., Dissertation Committee Chair.

M.S. Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond (1999) Thesis Title: Landscape and microhabitat affinities of small mammals in a continuum of habitat types on Virginia’s Coastal Plain. John F. Pagels Ph.D., Thesis Director

B.S. Biology, Christopher Newport University, Newport News (1996), Departmental Honors and cum laude. Scholarship from the CNU Alumni Association for academic achievement. 

Journeyman (molder-foundry) Newport News Shipbuilding Apprentice School (1986).

Employment

Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia (2000-present) Department of Biology, General Teaching Assistantship (Introductory Biology for majors).

Mitchell Ecological Research LLC, Richmond, Virginia (2001- present). Research involves an ongoing Bat survey (mist net and ANABAT acoustic bat detection), on A. P. Hill, Virginia. Duties include: study development, acquisition of materials, field and laboratory data collection and analysis, management of field technicians, and generation of reports and published manuscripts.

Conservation Management Institute (Dept. of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, Virginia Tech), Ecological Research at Fort A. P. Hill, Caroline County, Virginia (1996-2000). Projects involving terrestrial small mammal, bat (see Mitchell Ecological Research above), and mid-size mammal ecological research, plant community analysis, and herpetological research. Activities include: project development, field research, data analysis, and generation of reports and published manuscripts.

Center for Environmental Studies (Virginia Commonwealth University) Fall 1999 and Spring 2000. Study involving assessment the effect of dredging in the James River, Virginia, on fish communities. This study was conducted in close association with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. Activities included: use of various fish monitoring protocols (e.g., electrofishing, gill netting) and water quality attributes data collection.

Biohabitats of Virginia: Environmental consulting. For Lee Malonee (see References) (1999-present). Wetland plant community analysis, design of sampling protocol, fieldwork, data analysis, and participation in preparation of technical reports.

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia (1998-1999) Department of Biology, Adjunct lab instructor (Introductory Biology for majors).

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia (1996-1998) Department of Biology, General Teaching Assistantship (Labs included: Introductory Biology for non-majors, Introductory biology for majors, Ecology).

Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia 

     -  (1987-1993) Quality Assurance (auditor of critical piping systems on Los Angeles Class submarines)

     -  (1986-1987) Production Control

     -  (1982-1986) Foundry worker (apprentice), inspector

Research

For J. C. Mitchell Ph.D. Department of Biology, University of Richmond and Mitchell Ecological Research. Research conducted on Fort A. P. Hill, Caroline County, VA. (see above: Conservation Management Institute & Mitchell Ecological Research) (1996-present)

For Greg C. Garman, Ph.D. Director, Center for Environmental Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia (Fall 1999 and Spring 2000) (see above: Center of Environmental Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia)

For H. J. Grau Ph.D. Department of Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Science, Christopher Newport University (1994-1996) Behavioral research on cotton stainer bugs (genus: Dysdercus), involving patterns of sexual selection. Product = Paper presented at the 1996 Virginia Academy of Science Annual meeting Virginia Commonwealth university, Richmond, VA See Papers Presented at Society meetings Section. Manuscript in progress.

For A. H. Savitzky Ph.D. Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University (1994) Fieldwork and data entry (Canebrake Rattlesnakes).

Guest Lectures

Environmental and Natural Resources Division of Fort A. P. Hill (U. S. Army), Bowling Green, Virginia. Tutorial on the use of the ANABAT II echolocation systems for remote monitoring of bats (October 2001).

Poquoson Primary School (Poquoson, Virginia 23662). Introduction to local bat fauna—“Bats are our friends.” (Spring 2001).

Virginia Commonwealth University (Vertebrate Natural History) (Spring 1998, Spring 1999)

Society Memberships

American Society of Mammalogists

Ecological Society of America

International Association of Landscape Ecologists

North Carolina Academy of Science

Virginia Academy of Science

Virginia Natural History Society

Wildlife Society (National & Virginia Chapters)

Sigma Xi

Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals

• Bellows, A. S., and J. C. Mitchell. In review. Ecology and management of furbearers on the upper Coastal Plain of Virginia. Virginia Journal of Science.

• Bellows, A. S., and J. C. Mitchell. 2002. Summer records of the hoary bat, Lasiurus cinereus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae), on the Coastal Plain of Virginia. Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science 118:54-56.

• Mitchell, J. C, A. S. Bellows, C. T. Georgel, and J. S. Ferris. 2001. Natural history of amphibians, reptiles, and small mammals in a degraded environment in southeastern Virginia. Banisteria 17:31-41.   

• Bellows, A. S., J. C. Mitchell, J. F. Pagels, and H. Mansfield. 2001. Mammals of A. P. Hill and Vicinity. Virginia Journal of Science 52(3):163-226.

• Bellows, A. S., J. F. Pagels, and J. C. Mitchell. 2001. Macrohabitat and microhabitat affinities of small mammals in a fragmented landscape on the upper Coastal Plain of Virginia.  American Midland Naturalist 146(2):345-360.

• Bellows, A. S., J. F. Pagels, and J. C. Mitchell. 2001. Plant community composition and small mammal communities in old fields on Virginia’s Coastal Plain. Journal of the Elisha Scientific Society 177(2):101-112.

• Bellows, A. S. and J. C. Mitchell. 2000. Small mammal communities in riparian and upland habitats on the upper Coastal Plain of Virginia. Virginia Journal of Science 51(3):171-186.

• Mitchell, J. C., A. S. Bellows, and C. T. Georgel. 2000. Notes on Amphibian assemblages in riparian and upland habitats on Fort A. P. Hill, Virginia. Banisteria 16:22-25.

• Bellows, A. S., J. C. Mitchell, and J. F. Pagels. 1999. Small mammal assemblages on Fort A. P. Hill: habitat associations and patterns of capture success. Banisteria 14:3-15.

• Bellows, A. S., J. F. Pagels, and J. C. Mitchell. 1999. First record of the least weasel, Mustela nivalis (Carnivora: Mustelidae), from the Coastal Plain of Virginia. Northeastern Naturalist 6:38-40.

• Bellows, A. S., J. F. Pagels, and J. C. Mitchell. 1999. (Abstract for presentation at 1999 meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA) Five small mammal generalists of Virginia’s Coastal Plain: is microhabitat important to their local distributions? Virginia Journal of Science 50:165.

• Bellows, A. S., and H. J. Grau. 1996. (Abstract of presentation at 1996 meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science. Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA). The effects of sex ratios on prolonged copulation in cotton stainer insects (Dysdercus andreae).  Virginia Journal of Science 47:93.

Presentations at Society Meetings

• Bellows, A. S., J. F. Pagels, and J. C. Mitchell. 1999. Five small mammal generalists of Virginia’s Coastal Plain: is microhabitat important to their local distributions? Presentation at 1999 meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA.

• Bellows, A. S., J. F. Pagels, and J. C. Mitchell. 1999. Landscape and microhabitat affinities of small mammals in a continuum of habitat types on Virginia’s Coastal Plain. Presentation at the 1999 Colloquium on the Conservation of Mammals in the Southeastern United States. Wytheville, VA. 24-26 February.

• Bellows, A. S., J. F. Pagels, and J. C. Mitchell. 1998. Small mammal assemblages on a continuum of 11 terrestrial habitat types on Virginia’s Coastal Plain. Presentation at the 78^th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists. Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. 6-10 June.

• Bellows, A. S., and H. J. Grau. 1996. The effects of sex ratios on prolonged copulation in cotton stainer insects (Dysdercus andreae). Presentation at 1996 meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science. Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.            

Editorial (guest editor)

Banisteria (Journal of the Virginia Natural History Society)

Southeastern Naturalist (Humboldt Field Research Institute & Smithsonian Institute, National Museum of Natural History)

Technical Reports

• Bellows, A. S., and J. C. Mitchell. 1998. Diversity and management of small mammal assemblages on Fort A. P. Hill, Virginia. Interim Report to Fort A. P. Hill, Bowling Green, Virginia. 41pp.

• Bellows, A. S., and J. C. Mitchell. 1999. Management of mid-sized mammal species on Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia. Report to Fort A. P. Hill, Bowling Green, Virginia. 62pp.

• Mitchell, J. C, and A. S. Bellows. 2000. Terrestrial vertebrate assemblages in riparian and upland habitats on Fort A. P. Hill, Virginia. Report to Fort A. P. Hill, Bowling Green, Virginia.  47pp.

• Bellows, A. S., J. C. Mitchell, J. F. Pagels, and H. M. Mansfield. 2000. The mammals of A. P. Hill, Virginia. Report to Environmental and Natural Resources Division, Fort A. P. Hill, Bowling, Green, Virginia. 210pp.

• Bellows, A. S. and J. C. Mitchell (authors). 2001. Inventory of Bats, Fort A. P. Hill, Virginia.Report to Environmental and Natural resources Division, Fort A. P. Hill, Virginia, and Baltimore District, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, through Mitchell Ecological Research, LLC, Richmond, Virginia, and AH Environmental Consultants, Inc. Newport News, Virginia. 34 pp.

• Mitchell , J. C., A. S. Bellows, and C. T. Georgel. In preparation. Vertebrates and invertebrates in beaver-maintained wetlands on Fort A. P. Hill, Virginia. Final report to Environmental and Natural Resources Division, Fort A. P. Hill, Bowling Green, Virginia.