Daryl Smith,
Director of Tallgrass Prairie Center
Professor of Biology and Science Education Education
 Education: BA - University of Iowa 1960
MNS - University of South Dakota 1964
PhD - University of Iowa 1967
Employment: Employment: Wapello Community Schools 1960-63;University of Northern Iowa 1967-present; Iowa Lakeside Laboratory Field Station 1991-present; Head of Department of Biology 1981-88; Director of UNI Roadside Management Program 1988-97; Director of Native Roadside Vegetation Center 1998-2005; Director of Tallgrass Prairie Center 2006-present.
Honors: Conservation Award - Cedar Prairie Sierra Club, 1982; Environmental Educator - Iowa Sierra Club; 1994 Affirm - Roadside Achievement Award; 1998 Iowa Nature Conservancy - Service Award 1998; Conservation Education Award - Iowa Wildlife Federation 1998; Distinguished Service Award - Iowa Academy of Science 1999; Service to UNI Biological Preserves 2003; Ross Nielsen Service Award - UNI; 2006 Excellence in Roadside Management: University Category; National Roadside Vegetation Management Association 2006; Regents Faculty Award for Excellence UNI 2007; IRVM Twenty Year Service Award 2008
Smith, a native of southeast Iowa, has been involved in science teaching for more than forty years. Following is a summary of his activities and achievements during his forty-one-year tenure at UNI.
- Taught more than thirty different courses in science and
science education
- Served as head of the Biology Department for seven years
- Directed UNI-Tallgrass Prairie Center programs for
eleven years
- Continues to teach Prairie Ecology at the Iowa Lakeside
Laboratory, field station for the Regents institutions, during the summer
- Maintained an active program in prairie preservation,
management, and restoration since he planted an 8-acre tallgrass prairie on campus in 1973
- Directed the 12th and 22nd North American Prairie
Conference and numerous Iowa prairie conferences
- Served as a consultant for vegetation analysis and prairie
reconstruction/restoration for Iowa DOT, Iowa DNR, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife
- Created and implemented the Iowa Ecotype Project in 1990
- Active member of the Iowa Academy of Science and served as
President in 1994-95
- Executive director and co-producer of the one-hour
documentary film America’s Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie
- Co-recipient with David O’Shields,
director and co-producer, of the Pare Lorentz Award from the International
Documentary Association
Recent publications:
- 2010 Smith, D, K. Henderson, G. Houseal, & D. Williams. Tallgrass Prairie Center Guide to Prairie Restoration in the Upper Midwest. University of Iowa Press
- 2010 Houseal, Greg and Daryl Smith. Upland Sedge (Carex spp.) Propagation for Seed Increase. Proceedings of the 21st North American Prairie Conference-The Prairie Meets the River. Editors: B. Borsari, N. Mundahl, L. Reuter, E. Peters, P. Cochran. Winona State University
- 2010 Williams, Dave and Daryl Smith. The Effects of Annual Rye on Native Plant Establishment When Seeded as a Nurse Crop in a Prairie Reconstruction. Proceedings of the 21st North American Prairie Conference-The Prairie Meets the River. Editors: B. Borsari, N. Mundahl, L. Reuter, E. Peters, P. Cochran. Winona State University
- 2008 O’Shields, D. R. and D. D. Smith. Prescribed Fire in Grasslands (20 min,training film)
- 2008 Smith, D. D. Book review of Roadside Weed Management by B. Harper Lore, M. Johnson and M. Skinner. Ecological Restoration Vol. 26 No. 2 pp. 83-84.
- 2007 Williams, D.W., L.L. Jackson and D.D. Smith. Effects of frequent mowing on survival and persistence of forbs seeded into a species-poor grassland. Restoration Ecology Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 24-33
- 2006 Williams, D.W., G.A. Houseal and D.D. Smith. Growth and reproduction of local ecotype and cultivated varieties of Panicum virgatum and Coreopsis palmata grown in common gardens. Proceedings of 19th North American Prairie Conference. ed by D. Egan and J.A. Harrington. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- 2004 Native Roadside Vegetation: The Iowa Model. Proceedings
High Altitude Revegetation Workshop No. 16.
Ft. Collins, CO
- 2001 Kitchen, Duane J., Daryl D. Smith, James J. Jurgenson and Steve L. O’Kane. Genetic variation among remnant Iowa
populations of rough blazing star (Liatris aspera). Proceedings of 17th North
American Prairie Conference. Bernstein and L. J. Ostrander (eds.). North Iowa Area
Community College, Mason City, Iowa.
- 2001 America’s Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie. Proceedings of the 17th North American Prairie
Conference. Ed. by N. P. Berstein and L. J.
Ostrander. North Iowa Area Community College, Mason City, Iowa
- 2000 Houseal, Greg, and Daryl Smith. Source Identified Seed: The Iowa
Roadside Experience. Ecological Restoration Vol. 18 No 2 pp. 173-183 (with
Greg Houseal)
- 1998 Iowa Prairie: Original Extend and Loss, Preservation and Recovery
Attempts. Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science Vol. 105 No. 3: pp. 94-108
- 1998 Prairie Management. Iowa Prairie Blazing Star Volume 3 Issue 1
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