WMS Teacher on Team that Has Research Published

Heather Peek Reynolds, an eighth-grade science teacher in Warren Middle School, received notifications that research in which she was involved as an undergraduate in the University of Arkansas at Monticello has been published in The Southwestern Naturalist, an online magazine.  The research was investigated by and approved for publication by BioOne a nonprofit, online aggregation of core research in the biological, ecological, and environmental science.  BioOne is a sustainable online platform for over 170 journals and books published by nonprofit societies, associations, museums, institutions, and presses.

The research by Ms. Reynolds as a team member with Matthew Connier, Douglcas Cagle, Christopher Ellington, and John L. Hunt is titled "Reproductive Cycle of Baird's Pocket Gopher (Geomys Breviceps) in Northern Louisiana, and may be accessed in The Southwestern Naturalist, 59 (1); 115-117, 2014.

The abstract for the research reads as follows:  "We examined the reproductive status of Baird's pocket Gophers in Union Parish, Louisiana, for 18 months in 2010 and 2011.  We found the pocket gophers were potentially reproductively active throughout the year, although the number of reproductively active gophers peaked during late spring through autumn.  Our results are similar to those of studies of Baird's pocket gophers in other states and of other pocket gophers in the genus Geomys."

Ms. Reynolds received a bachelor's degree from UAM in May, 2014, with a major in Biology and is in her first year of teaching in Warren Middle School.  She is currently enrolled in the Master's of Art in Teaching program at UAM and will receive her Master's Degree in May, 2015.  She lives in Rye, Arkansas.