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Professional Biography
Dr. Mike Kingston came to Elon University
in 1991 after completing his Ph.D. degree at Duke University. He also holds a B.S. degree in Marine Science
with a concentration in Biology from Long Island University, Southampton
College campus and an M.S. degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the
University of California, Irvine. In
addition to his position as an Associate Professor of Biology,
he serves as the Curator of the Elon University Roger Barbour
Collection
of wildlife images. He served as the Biology Department Chair from
2002-2006. He teaches a variety of
courses for the Biology Department and the Environmental Studies
Program on the following topics: population biology, aquatic
biology, field biology, ecology,
biostatistics, environmental issues of Southeast Asia, and ecological research.
He has taught winter term field courses in Jamaica for 2 years and
Belize for 5 years. He has also taught Marine Ecology and Marine Invertebrate
Zoology as an adjunct summer faculty member at the Duke University
Marine Laboratory. Over the last 20 years, his research
interests have centered on the evolutionary ecology of benthic marine and
freshwater microalgae with a focus on the genus Euglena. He has conducted field research in California, Oregon, and Alaska as well as North Carolina. Undergraduate students have served as
co-investigators and coauthors on some of these projects. He has also mentored undergraduate research
projects in areas outside his professional research area including studies of
feeding behavior in fiddler crabs, visual perception of freshwater fishes,
community metabolism of small ponds, vertical migration of pond phytoplankton, hurricane
effects on a North Carolina forest, historical human survivorship trends, fish
herbivory on tropical seagrasses, coral reef diseases, freshwater invertebrate
development, and grouper recruitment in
the Caribbean. His on-going professional
associations include the Phycological Society of America and the North Carolina
Academy of Science (NCAS). He
is
currently serving as a member of the NCAS Board of Directors and the
Editorial
Board for the NCAS Journal. In past years he has served the
Academy as its Vice President, Annual Meeting Coordinator, and a
member of the grants-in-aid of undergraduate research committee. His
professional service includes serving as a peer reviewer for the
Journal of Phycology, the Journal of Diatom Research, the European
Journal of Phycology, and the Journal of Marine Biology and Ecology.
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