INRS State Scientific Surveys
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Kevin Cummings
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607 E. Peabody Drive Champaign, IL 61820 MC–652 Phone: 217-333-1623 Email: ksc@inhs.illinois.edu Title: Malacologist Office Location: 168 NRB | ||
| Activities | Senior Research Scientist and Curator of Mollusks, Center for Biodiversity |
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| Research |
My research interests are in the areas of conservation, systematics and ecology of freshwater mollusks and fishes and the protection of freshwater habitats; primarily streams. Warren, R. E., K. S. Cummings, and A. Mitchell. 1996. Mussels of Illinois Poster. Special Project between Illinois State Museum, Illinois Natural History Survey, Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Division of Education, and Illinois Department of Transportation. August 1996. Warren, R. E., K. S. Cummings, S. A. Ahlstedt, P. A. Morrison, J. M. Butler, and R. S. Butler. 2000. Freshwater Mussels of the Ohio River: Silent messengers of the rivers health - Poster. Special Project Ohio River Valley Ecosystem Team. |
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| Recognition | Illinois Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Stephen A. Forbes Excellence in Fisheries Award February 2008 Community Service Award "In recognition and appreciation of outstanding contributions and unselfish devotion for the advancement of parks, recreation and leisure in the community and the state of Illinois" presented by the Champaign County Forest Preserve District on behalf of the Illinois Park and Recreation Association and Illinois Association of Park Districts in March 2002. |
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| Professional affiliations |
Illinois Endangered Species Technical Advisory Committee (ESTAC) on Invertebrates Upper Mississippi River Conservation Committee - Ad Hoc Mussel Management Committee Indiana Endangered Mollusk and Crustacean Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) Illinois Wildlife Preservation Fund Advisory Committee Research Associate: Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh |
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| Selected publications |
Huang, J., Y. Cao, and K.S. Cummings. 2011. Assessing sampling adequacy of mussel diversity surveys in wadeable Illinois streams. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 30(4):923-934. Graf, D.L., and K.S. Cummings. 2011. Freshwater mussel (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionoida) richness and endemism in the ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar based on comprehensive museum sampling. Hydrobiologia 678(1):17-36. Graf, D.L., and K.S. Cummings. 2010. Comments on the value of COI for family-level freshwater mussel systematics: a reply to Hoeh, Bogan, Heard & Chapman. Malacologia 52(1):191-197. Tiemann, J.S., and K.S. Cummings. 2010. New record for the freshwater snail Lithasia geniculata (Gastropoda: Pleuroceridae) in the Ohio River, IL, with comments on potential threats to the population. Southeastern Naturalist 9(1):171-176. Cummings, K.S., and D.L. Graf. 2010. Mollusca: Bivalvia. pp. 309-384 in J.H. Thorp and A.P. Covich (eds.). Ecology and classification of North American freshwater invertebrates. Third Edition. Academic Press, Inc. Sneen, M.E., K.S. Cummings, T. Minarik, Jr., and J. Wasik. 2009. The discovery of the nonindigenous, mottled fingernail clam, Eupera cubensis (Prime, 1865) (Bivalvia: Sphaeriidae) in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal (Illinois River Drainage), Cook County, Illinois. Journal of Great Lakes Research 35(4):627-629. Graf, D.L., and K.S. Cummings. 2007. Review of the systematics and global diversity of freshwater mussel species (Bivalvia: Unionoida). Journal of Molluscan Studies 73(4):291-314. Graf, D.L., and K.S. Cummings. 2006. Palaeoheterodont diversity (Trigonoida + Unionoida): What we know and what we wish we knew about freshwater mussel evolution. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148(3):343-394. Lydeard, C., R.H. Cowie, W.F. Ponder, A.E. Bogan, P. Bouchet, S.A. Clark, K.S. Cummings, T.J. Frest, O. Gargominy, D.G. Herbert, R. Hershler, K.E. Perez, B. Roth, M. Seddon, E.E. Strong, and F.G. Thompson. 2004. The global decline of nonmarine mollusks. Bioscience 54(4):321-330. Williams, J.D., M.L. Warren Jr., K.S. Cummings, J.L. Harris, and R.J. Neves. 1993. Conservation status of the freshwater mussels of the United States and Canada. Fisheries 18(9):6-22. Cummings, K.S., and C.A. Mayer. 1992. Field guide to freshwater mussels of the Midwest. Illinois Natural History Survey, Manual 5. 194 pp. |
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| Professional society involvement and activities |
Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society (Executive Board & President 2001) American Malacological Society - Council 1996-1998; Conservation Committee. American Fisheries Society, Endangered Species Committee, Endangered Freshwater Mussels Subcommittee. Upper Mississippi River Conservation Committee MICRA |
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| Education | MA, Zoology, Southern Illinois University, 1983 BS, Zoology, Southern Illinois University, 1980 | ||