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.