GAYTHA A. LANGLOIS

Professor of Environmental Policy

Department of Science & Technology

Bryant University, Smithfield, RI 02917

E-mail: langlois@bryant.edu

 

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., University of Rhode Island, Biological Science, 1971

M.A., University of Rhode Island, Zoology, 1969                

B.A., Eastern Nazarene College, Biology, 1963

NSF Summer Institute in Marine Ecology, Bowdoin College, Summer 1964

 

OVERSEAS EXPERIENCE:

Expert Visit, Bryant College Community Connections Business Program, in Minsk and Gomel, Belarus, August 2005 (Site visit to assess medical facilities and business enterprises managed by Community Connections alumni).

Visiting researcher, Heron Island Marine Research Laboratory, January 2003 (Study of pathogenic protozoan diseases in hard corals).

Expert Visit, Bryant College Community Connections Business Program, in Minsk and Gomel, Belarus, July 2003 and August 2001 (Site visit to assess ongoing business operations conducted by Community Connections alumni).

Presentation at the First International Metasequoia Symposium, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, August 8-13, 2002. Conservation Plan for Preserving Metasequoia in China”

Participated in the XIth International Congress of Protozoology, ICOP XI, Salzburg, Austria, July 2001

Participated in the 5^th International Conference on Global Business & Economic Development: Managing Global Business in the Internet Age, Beijing, China, June 2000.

Invited Lecturer at Shijaizhuang University of Economics, Shijaizhuang, China, June 2000 (lectures on Environmental Policy, and Women Environmental Leaders).

Co-designed and co-taught a Summer School course for faculty in the NIS, "Collaborative Learning at a Distance in the Social Sciences: History, Economics and Environmental Policy;" Partners: Bryant College; Smithfield, RI, European Humanities University, Minsk, Belarus; ITC, National Academy of Sciences, Minsk, Belarus, July 12-30, 1999; Web Site: www.bryant.edu/~ehu

Invited Keynote Speaker: "Women Environmentalists Who Made a Difference in Their World," Women's Leadership Conference, Centre of Women's Education & Consulting, Minsk, Belarus, July 1999

Visiting USIA American Studies Professor, European Humanities University, Minsk,, May-June 1998.

Expert Visit, Information Technologies Center, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus,

                  Minsk, for development of Center for International Collaboration, May-June 1998.

Invited Lecturer, ENVILA Women's College, Minsk, Belarus, May 1998.

Advisory Team Member for Development Partners for Eastern Europe, an NGO focusing on

environmental problems in Romania, 1997-1999.

Protistan Responses to Oil Contamination in Estuarine Ecosystems. Presented at the Xth

                  International Congress of Protozoology, Sydney, Australia, July 1997.

Models for Depicting Ecologic Stress in Marine Microbial Communities. Presented at the IXth International Congress of Protozoology, Berlin, Germany, July 1993.

Ecosystem Dynamics Affecting Stressed Marine Microbial Communities. Presented at the 41^st

Annual Meeting of the Society of Protozoologists, Bristol, England, July 1988.

The Effects of Pollutant Stress on Marine Benthic Ciliates. VIth International Congress of Protozoology,

Warsaw, Poland, July 1981.

 

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RESEARCH SPECIALIZATIONS:

Wetlands Ecology, Oil Pollution Impacts on Estuarine Microbial Communities, Waste Management, Land Use and Conservation Planning, GIS Applications, Sustainable Business Practices, Environmental Policy

 

PUBLICATIONS:

Langlois, Gaytha A. and Baboucarr Gaye. 2007. Geographic Information Systems as a Tool for Understanding the History of Metasequoia. In Yang, H. and L.J. Hickey (eds.). Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Metasequoia and Associated Plants: Metasequoia: Back from the Brink? An Update. 48(2):291-300.

Langlois, Gaytha A. 2003. “Conservation Strategies for Protecting Metasequoia in China.” In LePage, B., C. Williams, and H. Yang (eds.). Metasequoia: Past and Present. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Langlois, Gaytha A. 2003. “Microbial Communities in Block Island’s Freshwater Ponds.” In Proceedings of the Rhode Island Natural History Survey Conference on Block Island.

Langlois, Gaytha A. 2003. Vernal Pools-Nature’s Laboratory. Rhode Island Natualist 10(1):1-3.

Langlois, Gaytha A., Judy Barrett-Litoff, and Joseph A. Ilacqua. 2003. Transforming Educational and Business Practices in Belarus: The Bryant College Collaborative Learning at a Distance Program. Journal of Teaching International Business 14(Nos. 1,2)..

Langlois, Gaytha A., Judy Barrett Litoff, and Joseph A. Ilacqua. 2001. Reaching Across Boundaries: The Bryant College-Belarus Connection. Syllabus 15(3): 12-14.

Langlois, Gaytha A. 2001. Microbial Communities in Block Island's Freshwater Ponds. Northeastern Naturalist, Special Issue: Natural History Studies of Block Island. In Press.

Langlois, Gaytha A. and Judy Barrett Litoff. 2000. "A New Paradigm for Transforming Educational, Economic, and Civic Practices in Belarus: A Collaborative Learning at a Distance Program Linking the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, the European Humanities University, Minsk, and Bryant College." Proceedings of the 5^th International Conference on Global Business & Economic Development: Managing Global Business in the Internet Age. June 2000.

Langlois, Gaytha A. and Judy Barrett Litoff. 1999. "Using Technology to Foster Collaborative Learning at a Distance: The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and Bryant College Connection." 1999 International Conference on Technology and Education Proceedings.

Langlois, Gaytha A. and Judy Barrett Litoff. 1999. "Using a Non-Hierarchical Approach to Collaborative Learning Projects: The Bryant College Model." ABSS Perspectives Electronic Journal 2. Fall Issue.

Langlois, Gaytha A., Judy Barrett Litoff, and Joseph Ilacqua. 1998. "Innovative Collaboration: Using the Internet to Foster Technology Transfer for Countries with Economies in Transition," Proceedings of the 1998 Science and Innovation Policy International Conference of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, in Russian and English.

"Cooperative Learning at a Distance: The Newly Independent States and the United States," Northeast Business and Economics Association, 1998 Annual Conference Proceedings, Oct. 28-30-1998, pp. 80-82.

Langlois, G.A. and D.W. Coats. 1997. Symposium Introductory Remarks: Protistan Predation

                  Dynamics. Journal of Eucaryotic Microbiology 44(3):May-June.

Langlois, G.A. and C.A. Rowlands. 1983. Strategies for Linking Technical Information    to Occupational

Health Decisions, Part I and Part II. Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials Report.

3(4):2-7 and 3(5):2-8.

Elmgren, R., G.A. Vargo, J.F. Grassle, J.P. Grassle, D.R. Heinle, G. Langlois and S.L. Vargo. 1980.

Trophic Interactions in Experimental Marine Ecosystems Perturbed by Oil. In Giesy, J.P., Jr.

(ed.). Microcosms in Ecological Research. U.S. Technical Information Center, U.S. Department

of Energy, Symposium Series 52 (CONF-781101).

 

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REPORTS AND PRESENTATIONS:

 

Langlois, Gaytha A., Hong Yang, and Baboucarr Gaye. 2006. "The Application of GIS to Explore the Evolution of Metasequoia, Utilizing Paleogeological, Genetic and Morphological Data.." Presented at the 2^nd International Metasequoia Symposium, Bryant University - Yale University (Aug. 11-13, 2006).

“Preserving Metasequoia in China: Ongoing Efforts to Implement a Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan,” Abstract. 2^nd International Metasequoia Symposium, Bryant University and Yale University (August 11-13, 2006).

Judy Barrett Litoff, Gaytha A. Langlois, Joseph A. Ilacqua. 2005. “Challenges of Entrepreneurs and Managers as They Negotiate Competing Cultural Realities in the Newly Independent States.” Presented at the Soyuz Conference, Bryant University (November2006).

"Marketing Plan: Cost-Effective Opportunities for Expansion of Northeast Materials Exchanges." Submitted to the Northeast Recycling Council, Brattleboro, VT (April 2006).

"Protistan Communities of the Great Barrier Reef." Presented at the East Coast Society of Protozoologists Meeting, Medical College, University of Richmond (June 2-5, 2004).

“Protistian Communities of the Great Barrier Reef.” Presented at the 11^th East Coast Protozoology Conference, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Catonsville, MD (June 6-8, 2003)

"Responses of a Marine Mibrobial Community to Petroleum Hydrocarbon Exposure on Prudence Island in Narragansett Bay." Presented at the 7^th Annual Conference, RI Natural History Survey, Warwick, RI, March 2002.

"Responses of a Marine Microbial Community to Petroleum Hydrocarbon Exposure." Presented at the XIth International Congress of Protozoology, Salzburg, Austria, July 2001.

"The Organizational and Philosophical Underpinnings of Bryant College's Collaborative Learning at a Distance Project," Annual Meeting, American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Las Vegas, Nevada, February 2-4, 1999 (co-authored with Judy Barrett Litoff)

"Innovative Collaboration: Using the Internet to Foster Technology Transfer for Countries with Economies in Transition," Science and Innovation Policy International Conference of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus, December 1-4, 1998. (On occasion of the 70^th Anniversary of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, in Russian and English; co-authored with Judy Barrett Litoff and Joseph A. Ilacqua).

“Collaborative Learning at a Distance: The US and NIS.” Moscow98, International Cooperation

in Higher Education and Distance Learning, Moscow, Russia, June 18-21, 1998.

"Protistan Responses to Oil Contamination." Newsletter,Rhode Island Natural History Survey. Fall 1997.

“Multimedia Tools for Teaching.” 1996. Abstract. Presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Society

of Protozoologists, Tucson, AZ. July. Journal of Eucaryotic Microbiology.

“Protistan Predation: Morphologic and Ecologic Implications for Predator and Prey.” 1995. Abstract,

Journal of Eucaryotic Microbiology. Symposium, 48th Annual Meeting, Society of

Protozoologists, Tuscaloosa, AL. July 1995.

“Superfund Cleanups: Who Should Pay?” 1992. Presented at the 18th Annual Conference of the

Eastern Economics Association, Washington, DC, March.

“Superfund--A Municipal Nightmare or Economic Reality?” 1991. Presented at the 17th Annual

Conference, Eastern Economics Association, New York City, March.

“Protistan Responses to Oil Contamination in Marine Ecosystems.” Abstract. 1990. Journal of

Protozoology 38:13A. Presented at the 43rd Ann. Meeting of the Society of Protozoologists,

College Park, MD, June 1990.

“Catastrophe Theory: Applications to Stressed Microbial Communities.” Abstract. 1984. Presented at

the 37th Ann. Meeting of the Soc. of Protozoologists, Athens, GA, August.

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HONORS, AWARDS AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:

Chair, Department of Science and Technology, Bryant University, 2008-Present.

Professor of Environmental Policy, Bryant University, 1983-Present.

Co-Director, Center for Sustainable Business Practices, Bryant University, 2000-Present.

Outside Principal Investigator, Marine Ecosystems Laboratory, University of Rhode Island, Graduate

School of Oceanography, 1978-1998.

Biology Editor, Nupedia Online Encyclopedia. 2000-2001.

Chair, RI Aquafund Advisory Commission, 1996-2002; Member 1990-1996.

Co-Coordinator, Environmental Sciences Major, SciTech Dept., Bryant Univeristy, 2008-Present

Co-Coordinator, Environmental Sciences Minor, SciTech Dept., Bryant University, 1994-Present.

Member, Board of Directors, Rhode Island Green Building Council, 2008-Present.

Commissioner, John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor Commission,

                  2008-Present.

Member, Board of Directors, Audubon Society of Rhode Island, 1991-2006.

Member, Board of Directors, Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Association, 1995-2006.

Bryant University Faculty Federation Distinguished Professor Award, 2005.

Bryant University Service Award, 2005.

Executive Committee, Soc. of Protozoologists, Tuscaloosa, AL, 1982-1995.

Chair, Department of Science, Bryant College, 1988-1991.

Associate Professor of Biology, Bryant College, 1975-1983; Assistant Professor of Biology, 1971-1975; Instructor of Biology, 1970-1971.

Chair (2004-Present; 1986-1988; 1979-1980) and Member (1978-1979), Rank & Appointment Committee.

Chair (1984-1985 and 1972-1973) and Member (1971-1972), Curriculum Committee.

Rhode Island State Planning Council, 1982-1996; South Kingstown Town Council, 1985-1992.               

EPA Merit Award, 1978; Eastern Nazarene College Outstanding Alumnus Award, 1984.

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

Society of Protozoologists           National Audubon Society                                     Nature Conservancy

R.I. Natural History Survey         Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Association           Audubon Society of R.I.