Allen Dean
Title: Research Assistant
Education: B.S., Entomology, Texas A&M University, 1976
Special skills: Spider taxonomy, computers and various software, multimedia, desktop publishing, Windows help file, curate spider collection, field sampling, Entomology home page
Description of responsibilities: Develop CD-Rom (containing text, pictures, and interactive quizzes) using Multimedia Toolbook software for Entomology 402, spider identification, maintain pecan insect lab.
Project: Pecan Pest Management
Career highlights / Selected publications:
Agnew, C. W., D. A. Dean and J. W. Smith, Jr. 1985. Spiders collected from peanuts and non agricultural habitats in the Texas west cross-timbers. Southwest. Nat. 30: 1-12.
Dean, D. A. and W. L. Sterling. 1990. Seasonal patterns of spiders captured in suction traps in eastern Texas. Southwest. Entomol. 15: 399-412.
Harris, M. K. & D. A. Dean. 1997. Pecan Pest Management. CD-ROM.
Sterling, W. L., D. A. Dean, A. W. Hartstack, S. Shahed and R. Burudgunte. 1993. The Texas Cotton-Insect Model--TEXCIM for Windows. Texas Agric. Exp. Stn. Misc. Publ. 1646, Revised, 290 pp.
Breene, R. G., D. A. Dean, M. Nyffeler and G. B. Edwards. 1993. Biology, predation ecology, and significance of spiders in Texas cotton ecosystems with a key to the species. Texas Agric. Exp. Stn. Bull. 1711, 115 pp.
Contact Information Department of Entomology Texas A&M University 412 Heep Center, TAMU 2475 College Station, TX 77843-2475 Phone: 979.845.3412 E-mail: a-dean-ento@tamu.edu |