Education

Professional Employment

1986-Present
Executive Director, E. N. Huyck Preserve 
& Biological Research Station
P.O. 189, Rensselaerville, NY  12147

1991-Present
Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
SUNY-Albany
Albany, NY  12222

1. National Science Foundation - Improvement of research facilities of the E. N. Huyck Preserve and Biological Research Station.  1988-1990, $20,000.
2. U.S. Forest Service - Support of symposium "Amphibian declines and habitat acidification"  at Pennsylvania State University.  August 1991. $11,000.
3. Land Preservation and Enhancement Grant - Purchase land. 1995. $20,000.
4. USDA-NRICGP-Soil Biology - "Effects of predation and abiotic factors on detritus food webs in forests."   July 1995 - Dec. 1997, $200,000.
5. National Science Foundation - "Construction of an addition to the Eldridge Laboratory."  August 1995 - August. 1997.  $126,000.
6. National Science Foundation/OBFS - "Development of the International Organization of Biological Field Stations."  Oct 1996 - Oct 1997.  $18,000.
7. National Science Foundation - "Refurbishment of Bullfrog Camp Complex." Oct 1999.  $95,200.

1. Reviewer of manuscripts for Science, Animal Behavior, Auk, Fisheries Research, Wildlife Society Bulletin, Journal of Herpetology, Conservation Biology, Transaction of the Royal Society of London.
2. Organizer and Chair of the conference "Global Climate Change and Life on Earth: Evidence, Predictions, and Policy."  NYS Museum, Albany, NY, April 24-25, 1989.
3. Reviewer of Proposals for National Science Foundation, USDA, and US Forest Service. 
4. Coordinator of symposium "Amphibian declines and habitat acidification" held as part of the joint meeting of the Herpetologists League and the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles.  The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA  August 8, 1991.
5. Head of the NEUS Working Group of the Declining Amphibian Task of the IUCN.1991-present.
6. Chair of the Committee of the OBFS to establish the International Organization of Biological Field Stations, 1992-present. 
7. Member of the National Science Foundation Panel Facilities Improvement and Equipment for Field Station and Marine Labs. 1993, 1994, 1996.
8. Member of the USEPA STAR panel 1996. 1997.
9. Vice Chair of the Catskill Institute for the Environment. 1998.

1. Wyman, R. L. (editor) 1991.   Global Climate Change and Life on Earth. Chapman and Hall, NY.
2. Frisbie, M. P. and R. L. Wyman  1992.  The effect of soil chemistry on sodium balance in the red-backed salamander: A comparison of two forests types.  Journal of Herpetology 26: 434-442.
3. Wyman, R. L. and J. Jancola.  1992.  Degree and scale of terrestrial acidification and amphibian  community structure.  Journal of Herpetology 26:393-401.
4. Elliott, W. M., N. B. Elliott, and R. L. Wyman.  1993.  Relative effects of litter and forest type on rate of decomposition.  American Midland Naturalist 129:87-95.
6. Blair, J. M., R. W. Parmelee and R. L. Wyman.  1994.  A comparison of the forest floor invertebrate communities of four forests types in northeastern U.S.  Pedobiologia 38: 146-160.
7. Wyman, R. L.  1994.  Review of The Amphibians and Reptiles of Maine, by M. L. Hunter, Jr., J. Albright, and J. Arbuckle (eds.) Maine Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 838.  In Herpetological Review 25: 39.
8. Frisbie, M. P. and R. L. Wyman.  1995. A field simulation of the effect of acidic rain on ion balance in a woodland salamander.  Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology  28: 327-333.
9. Wyman, R. L.  1995.  Review of Biogeography: An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach.  Fifth Addition., by C. B. Cox and P. D. Moore.  Blackwell Scientific Publications, Boston.  In The    Quarterly Review of Biology 70: 237-238.
10. Wyman, R. L.  1995.  Amphibians: Conservation and Habitat.  In R. Paehlke (ed).  Conservation and Environmentalism: An Encyclopedia.  Garland Publishing, Inc.  New York.
11. Wyman, R. L.  1996.  Review of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function. Ecological Studies Vol. 99. by E.-D. Schulze and H.A. Mooney (eds), Springer-Verlag, NY. In Journal of Vegetation Science 7:297-302.
12. Wyman, R. L.  1998.  Experimental assessment of salamanders as predators of detrital food webs: effects on invertebrates, decomposition and nutrient cycling.  Biodiversity and Conservation.  7:641-650.
13.  Wyman, R. L., E. Posey,  K.S. MacWatters, J. Frank, and J. Palange. 1999.  A new device for  extracting living invertebrates from large samples of leaf litter. J. Appl. Soil Ecol. 17:73-79.
14. Wyman, R. L., E. Posey, K. S. MacWatters, J. Geritz and L. L. Wyman. In review.  A new device to quantify litter fragmentation.