Evergreen Faculty: Heather Heying (Curriculum Vitae)

Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D. in Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 2001. Arnold Kluge, advisor. Dissertation title: The Evolutionary Ecology and Sexual Selection of a Madagascan Poison Frog (Mantella laevigata).
B.A. in Anthropology, with Honors. University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC). 1992. Robert Trivers and Adrienne Zihlman, advisors.

Summers K, McKeon CS, Heying H, Hall J, and W. Patrick. 2007. Social and environmental influences on egg size evolution in frogs. Journal of Zoology 271(2): 225-232. View full-text pdf file.
Summers, K, McKeon, CS and H. Heying. 2006. The evolution of parental care and egg size: a comparative analysis in frogs. Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences 273(1587): 687-692. View full-text pdf file.
Heying H. 2004. Reproductive limitation by oviposition site in a treehole breeding Madagascan poison frog (Mantella laevigata). In Ecology and evolution of phytotelm-breeding anurans, R. M. Lehtinen, ed. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 193: 23-30. View full-text pdf file.
Heying H. 2001. Social and Reproductive Behaviour in the Madagascan Poison Frog, Mantella laevigata, with Comparisons to the Dendrobatids. Animal Behaviour 61(3): 567-577. View full-text pdf file.
Heying H. 2001. Mantella laevigata (Climbing Mantella). Aborted predation. Herpetological Review 32:34. View full-text pdf file.
Heying H. In prep. Correlates of well use by Mantella laevigata: Competitors, predators, architecture, and water quality.

Distinguished Dissertation Award, Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan, 2001. (Highest honor given to dissertations produced under the auspices of the University of Michigan.)
John Paul Scott Founder's Award for best research presented in a poster at the Animal Behaviour Society meetings, Morehouse College, Atlanta, 2000.
First Place Winner of The Atlantic Monthly's 1999 Student Writing Competition for Non-Fiction.
Invited Graduate Student Fellow in the Rackham Graduate School's First Summer Interdisciplinary Institute, 1998.
Honorable Mention in NSF Graduate Research Fellowship competition, 1993 & 1994.
College Honors from University of California at Santa Cruz, 1992.
Chancellor's Recognition of Excellence Award, UC Santa Barbara, 1988.

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Institute for Tropical Ecology and Conservation (Bocas del Toro, Panama):
- Tropical Animal Behavior field course (Summer 2001)
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI):

Graduate Student Instructor in: Phylogenetic Systematics (Bio 491); Chordate Anatomy and Evolution (Bio 252; lab coordinator); Evolution and Human Behavior (Bio 494); Vertebrate Anatomy (Bio 351); Practical Botany (Bio 102); Biology for Non-Scientists (Bio 100); Introductory Biology (Bio 154)

Foundation Grant for Faculty, Evergreen, 2008.
Sponsored Research Fellowship for summer salary, Evergreen, 2003.
Rackham Graduate School One-Term Dissertation Fellowship, 2000.
Sokol International Research Fellowship, 1998.
Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid-of-Research, 1998.
Museum of Zoology Hinsdale Award, University of Michigan, 1996 & 1998.
Biology Department Block Grant, University of Michigan, 5 awards, 1995-1999.
Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles / NSF Travel Grant, 1997.
Animal Behaviour Society Research Grants Program, 1997.
Global Change Fellowship, Dept. of Biology, University of Michigan, 1995.
Rackham Graduate School Discretionary Funds, University of Michigan, 4 awards, 1994-1998.

Heying, H. 2004. Evolutionary ecology of Mantella, the poison frogs of Madagascar: Effects of competitors and predators on reproductive behavior. Invited talk (first annual graduate student-invited speaker) at Western Washington University, Department of Biology, March 3, 2004.
Heying, H. 2003. Correlates of well use by Mantella laevigata: Competitors, predators, architecture, and water quality. Presented talk at the Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Manaus , Brazil.
Heying, H. 2000. Sexual selection and social behavior in Madagascan poison frogs. In: Evolution 2000, (ed. M. J. Wade), Indiana University Conferences, Bloomington, Indiana.
Heying, H. 1997. Behaviour and sexual selection in Mantella, with comparisons to dendrobatids. Abstract (from presented talk) in: Third World Congress of Herpetology. Z. Roçek and S. Hart, eds. Prague, Czech Republic.
Heying, H, 1996. A phylogenetic analysis of the dart-poison frogs (Dendrobatidae, Anura), with special attention to behavioral evidence. Presented talk at the University of Michigan Systematics Symposium, December 1996.

Antipode: Seasons with the Extraordinary Wildlife and Culture of Madagascar. Book of literary non-fiction published by St. Martin's Press (July, 2002).

Steering committee member for "Curriculum for the Bioregion" Initiative, in collaboration with the Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education. 2005 - 2006
Resource faculty for "Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum," an NSF-supported project .
Co-organized symposium (with Rick Lehtinen) on phytotelm-dwelling anurans at the Joint Ichs and Herps meetings in Kansas City (2002).
Wrote content on biodiversity for the educational web project, Animal Diversity Web (2001).
Research Assistant for Herpetology Division, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. Curated collections, including identification and cataloguing of several taxa of tropical and North American herps (1996, 1997).

Animal Behaviour Society
Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles
IUCN: World Conservation Union, Madagascar and Mascarene Reptile and Amphibian Specialist Group. Invited member.