Thomas R. Weicht

Ph.D. Biology - Ecology Track, University of Toledo (2002-present)
Dissertation: Systems Modeling of Nematodes and Nitrogen Mineralization
Research Advisor: Dr. Daryl Moorhead

Appointments:

2004-present, Research Technician Senior, Department of Plant &  Soil Science, Univ.  of Vermont, Burlington, VT

2000-2001, Research Technician, Department of Environmental Science, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH

1996-2000, Research Technician, Department of Biology, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH

 

Education:

BS Plant Science, Highest Honors, University of California, Davis

MS Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis

 

Specialized Taxonomy Courses completed

Free-living nematodes, Wageningen Agricultural University, Netherlands, 1998

Bacterivorous nematodes, University of California-Riverside, 2001

Introductory Acarology, Ohio State University, 1997

Soil Oribatida, Ohio State University, 1999

Soil Mesostigmata, Prostigmata and Oribatida, Ohio State University, 2002

 

Scholarly and Professional Honors

Outstanding Plant Pathology Undergraduate, UC Davis, 1987

Peter Shields Undergraduate Scholarship, UC Davis, 1986.

Outstanding Crops and Soils Student, Sierra Community College, 1982

 

Publications

Barbercheck, M.E., Neher, D.A., Anas, O., El-Allaf, S.M., and Weicht, T.R. 2008. Response of soil fauna to disturbance across three resource regions in North Carolina. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment DOI 10.1007/s10661-008-0315-5.

Veluci, R.M., Neher, D.A., and Weicht, T.R. 2006. Fixation and Leaching of Nitrogen by Biological Soil Crust Communities in Mesic Temperate Soils. Microbial Ecology 51: 189–196

Li, F., Neher, D.A., Darby, B.J., and Weicht, T.R. 2005. Observed differences in life history characteristics of nematodes Aphelenchus and Acrobeloides  upon exposure to copper and benzo(a)pyrene. Ecotoxicology 14: 419-429.

Weicht, T.R., and Moorhead, D.L. 2004. The impact of anhydrobiosis on the persistence of Scottnema lindsayae (Nematoda): a modeling analysis of population stability thresholds. Polar Biology 27: 507–512.

Neher, D.A., Weicht, T.R., Moorhead, D.L., and Sinsabaugh, R.L. 2004. Elevated CO₂ alters functional attributes of nematode communities in forest soils. Functional Ecology 18:584-591.

Neher, D.A., Walters, T., Will-Wolf, S., Toppin, J., Traub, J., Weicht, T.R., Veluci, R.M., Tramer, E., Saiya-Cork, K., and Johansen, J.R. 2003. Biological soil crust and vascular plant communities in a sand savanna of northwestern Ohio. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 130:244-252.

Görres, J. H., Savin, M. Neher, D. A., Weicht, T. R., and Amador, J.A. 1999. Grazing in a porous environment 1. Interaction between grazing and soil structure on nutrient mineralization. Plant and Soil 212:75-83.

Neher, D. A., Weicht, T. R., Savin, M., Görres, J. H. and Amador, J. A. 1999. Grazing in a porous environment 2. Nematode community structure. Plant and Soil 212:85-99.  Erratum: replace Table 2 with this version.

Weicht, T.R., and MacDonald, J.D. 1992. Effect of Phytophthora root-rot on Na⁺ uptake and accumulation by safflower. Phytopathology 82:520-526.

Van Bruggen, A.H.C., Neher, D.A., and Weicht, T.R. 1991. Teaching computer-based diagnosis of plant-diseases. Plant Disease 75: 320-322.

 

Presentations

Weicht, T.R., Moorhead, D.L., Görres, J.H., and Neher, D.A. A grid based autonomous agent model of hierarchical soil structure and bacterivorous nematodes, Poster presentation, Soil Science Society of America, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2006.

Weicht, T.R., Moorhead, D.L. and Brown, I. Temperature-sensitivity of Panagrolaimus davidi: A model of population dynamics for a bacterivorous Antarctic nematode. Oral presentation, Ecological Society of America, Portland, Oregon, 2004.

Weicht, T.R. and Moorhead, D.L. Impacts of temperature and moisture regimes on Scottnema lindsayae population dynamics, an Antarctic soil nematode. Oral presentation, Ecological Society of America, Savannah, Georgia, 2003.

Moorhead, D.L., Neher, D.A., Sinsabaugh, R.L., and Weicht, T.R. Soil nematode communities show little response to elevated CO₂. Poster presentation, FACE investigator’s meeting, Chicago, Illinois, 2001.

Neher, D.A., and Weicht, T.R. Effect of elevated CO₂ on soil nematode communities, Poster presentation at the Soil Ecology Society, Callaway Gardens, Georgia, 2001.        

Neher, D.A. and Weicht, T.R. Comparison of nematode communities in soils exposed to ambient or elevated CO₂ concentrations. Poster presentation at the Ecological Society of America, Snowbird, Utah, 2000.

Neher, D.A., and Weicht, T.R. 1999. Comparison of nematode communities in soils of FACE sites at  Duke Forest and Oak Ridge National Laboratory locations. Poster at the New Phytologist Symposium and GCTE Focus 1 Workshop, Townsend, Tennessee, 1999.        

Neher, D.A., Weicht, T.R., Savin, M., Görres, J. and Amador, J.A. 1999. Effect of matric potential on nematode community composition. Oral presentation at the Society of Nematologists, Monterrey, California, 1999.

Neher, D.A., Weicht, T.R., and Görres, J. 1998. Effect of matric potential on nematode community structure and grazing associations. Invited oral contribution. 24th International Nematology Conference, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom, 1998.

 

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