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Mrs. Rose Mier teaches General Biology and Environmental Science at Fredricktown.
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Mrs. Mier graduated with a Masters in Natural Science degree from Southeast Missouri State University. Her thesis, "A Floristic and Abiotic Comparison of Two Disturbed Glades in St. Joe Park, MIssouri," compared the recovery of two glades in Missouri, one naturally occurring that had been disturbed with human activities and the other the result of mining operations. It was found that the naturally occurring glade was recovering with characteristics found on healthy glade ecosystems; the human-formed glade lacked many of the characteristics found on typically healthy glade ecosystems.
Mrs. Mier's undergraduate work was at the School of the Ozarks where she majored in biology and chemistry. She worked four years as a research microbiologist at the University of Missouri in Columbia. This work involved determining the parameters that produced the greatest quantity of methane from methanogens found in hog manure. The methane was used as an alternative energy source for the university's farm.
In 2009, Mrs. Mier worked in Costa Rica with an Earthwatch team where she collected caterpillars in the wild, raised them to adults, and identified species. The purpose of the work is to identify which species are hosts to which parasitoids in an effort to use the parasitoids as a biological control of caterpillars that eat bananna leaves.
Mrs. Mier has certifications in elementary education, high school biology and chemistry, and library media specialist. She is a Level 2 Water Quality Monitoring volunteer with the Missouri Stream Teams association and has lead many 4H stream teams. Her hobbies include hiking, reading, learning about the natural world, birding, and identification of wildflowers.
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