PUBLICATIONS
McKinley, V.L.,
T.W. Federle, and J.R. Vestal. 1982. Effects of petroleum hydrocarbons on plant
litter microbiota in an arctic lake. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 43:129-135.
McKinley, V.L., and
J.R. Vestal. 1982. Effects of acid on plant litter decomposition in an arctic
lake. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 43:1188-1195.
Federle, T.W., V.L.
McKinley, and J.R. Vestal. 1982. Effects of nutrient enrichment on the
colonization and decomposition of plant litter detritus by the microbiota of an
arctic lake. Can. J. Microbiol. 28:1119-1205.
Federle, T.W., V.L.
McKinley, and J.R. Vestal. 1982. Physical determinants of microbial
colonization and decomposition of plant litter in an arctic lake. Microb.
Ecol. 8:127-138.
Vestal, J.R., V.L.
McKinley, G.D. Brunner, and C.L. Barnhart. 1982. The effects of abiotic
parameters on the microbial ecology of the composting process. Proceedings of
the National Conference on Composting of Municipal and Industrial Sludges.
Hazardous Materials Control Research Institute, Silver Springs, MD, pp. 73-76.
McKinley, V.L.,
T.W. Federle, and J.R. Vestal. 1983. Improvement and environmental application
of double-vial radiorespirometry for the study of microbial mineralization. Appl.
Environ. Microbiol. 45:225-259.
McKinley, V.L., and
J.R. Vestal. 1984. Biokinetic analysis of adaptation and succession: microbial
activity in composting municipal sewage sludge. Appl. Environ. Microbiol.
47:933-941.
McKinley, V.L., and
J.R. Vestal. 1985. Effects of different temperature regimes on microbial
activity and biomass in composting municipal sewage sludge. Can. J.
Microbiol. 31:919-925.
McKinley, V.L., and
J.R. Vestal. 1985. Physical and chemical correlates of microbial activity and
biomass in composting municipal sewage sludge. Appl. Environ. Microbiol.
50:1395-1403.
Peterson, B.J.,
J.E. Hobbie, A.E. Hershey, M.A. Lock, T.E. Ford, J.R. Vestal, V.L. McKinley,
M.A.J. Huller, M.C. Miller, R.M. Ventullo, and G.S. Volk. 1985. Transformation
of a tundra river from heterotrophy to autotrophy by addition of phosphorous. Science
299:1383-1386.
McKinley, V.L., and
J.R. Vestal. 1985. Microbial activity in composting I. Biocycle 26
(6):39-43.
McKinley, V.L., and
J.R. Vestal. 1985. Microbial activity in composting II. Biocycle 26
(7):47-50.
Cusack, F., V.L.
McKinley, H.M. Lappin-Scott, D.M. Clementz, and J.W. Costerton. 1987. Diagnosis
and removal of microbial/fines plugging in water injection wells. SPE 16907.
Society of Petroleum Engineers, Richardson, Texas.
McKinley, V.L.,
J.W. Costerton, and D.C. White. 1988. Microbial biomass, activity, and
community structure of water and particulates retrieved by backflow from a
waterflood injection well. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 54:1383-1393.
McKinley, V.L., and
J.R. Vestal. 1992. Mineralization of glucose and lignocellulose by four arctic
freshwater sediments in response to nutrient enrichment. Appl. Environ.
Microbiol. 58:1554-1563.
Peterson, B.J., L.
Deegan, J. Helfrich, J.E. Hobbie, M. Hullar, B. Moller, T.E. Ford, A. Hershey,
A. Hiltner, G. Kipphut, M.A. Lock, D.M. Fiebig, V. McKinley, M.C. Miller, J.R.
Vestal, R. Ventullo, and G. Volk. 1993. Biological responses of a tundra river
to fertilization. Ecology 74:653-672.
Microbial biomass
and activity in soils from virgin prairies compared with prairie restoration,
forest and agricultural sites in Illinois. V.L. McKinley. Proceedings of the
17th North American Prairie Conference, Mason City, Iowa, July
2000 (peer-reviewed).
Teaching about the
Environment using an Ecosystem Approach: Cutting Across Academic Disciplines.
V.L. McKinley and K.A. Tzoumis. 2002. J. Public Affairs Educ. July,
2002.
Effects of
tallgrass prairie restoration on soil quality indicators. Vicky McKinley.
The 18th North American Prairie Conference, Kirksville,
Missouri, June 2002 (in press).
ABSTRACTS
The effect of
hydrocarbons on litter decomposition and lignocellulose mineralization in a
deep arctic lake. V.L. McKinley and J.R. Vestal. Abstr. Ann. Mtg. Am. Soc.
Microbiol., 1981.
The effects of acid
on litter decomposition in an arctic lake. V.L. McKinley and J.R. Vestal.
Abstr. Ann. Mtg. Am. Soc. Microbiol., 1982.
Effects of
temperature and depth on the microbial biomass and activity in composting
sludge. G. Brunner, V. McKinley, and J.R. Vestal. Abstr. Ann. Mtg. Am. Soc.
Microbiol., 1982.
Microbial activity
in composting sewage sludge as a function of temperature. V.L. McKinley and
J.R. Vestal. Abstr. Ann. Mtg. Am. Soc. Microbiol., 1983.
Effects of
temperature and aeration on the microbial ecology of composting municipal
sewage sludge. V.L. McKinley and J.R. Vestal. Third International Symposium on
Microbial Ecology (ISME-3), 1983.
Biokinetic analyses
of microbial adaptations to temperature in composting municipal sewage sludge.
V.L. McKinley and J.R. Vestal. Abstr. Ann. Mtg. Am. Soc. Microbiol., 1984.
Microbial responses
to experimental nutrient loading and fishing pressure in an arctic lake. V.L.
McKinley, M.C. Miller, and J.R. Vestal. Abstr. Ann. Mtg. Am. Soc. Microbiol.,
1985.
Biomass, activity,
and community structure of injection water retrieved from an oil field. V.L.
McKinley. Abstr. Ann. Mtg. Am. Soc. Microbiol., 1986.
Use of a model core
system for the determination of the biomass and heterotrophic potential of
bacteria which penetrate and plug petroleum reservoirs. F.A. MacLeod, V.L.
McKinley, and J.W. Costerton. Abstr. Ann. Mtg. Am. Soc. Microbiol., 1986.
Penetration of a
model glass-bead core by starved bacterial microcells, and subsequent growth
upon substrate addition. V.L. McKinley, F.A. MacLeod, and J.W. Costerton.
Abstr. Ann. Mtg. Am. Soc. Microbiol., 1987.
Microbial biomass
and community structure of injection water retrieved from a California oil
field. V.L. McKinley and J.W. Costerton. Abstr. Can. Soc. Microbiologists,
1987.
Lignocellulose
mineralization by various arctic microbial communities in response to nitrogen
and phosphorous additions. V.L. McKinley. Abstr. Ann. Mtg. Am. Soc. Microbiol.,
1988.
The effects of
starvation on naphthalene degrading Pseudomonas putida. D.M. Stevenson
and V.L. McKinley. Abstr. Ann. Mtg. Am. Soc. Microbiol., 1989
The effects of
starvation on naphthalene degrading Pseudomonas species. D.M. Stevenson
and V.L. McKinley. Second International Pseudomonas Symposium:
Biotransformations, Pathogenesis, and Evolving Biotechnology, July, 1989.
Nutrient
concentration and sole carbon source effects on viable counts of
naphthalene-utilizing Pseudomonas putida after long-term starvation. D.
Zeidner, D. Hamilton and V. McKinley. Abstr. Ann. Mtg. Am. Soc. Microbiol.,
1992.
A course
introducing "Science as a Way of Knowing" to beginning biology
majors. V.L. McKinley and L.E. Schiller. Regional Meeting of the Society for
College Science Teaching, November, 1993.
Microbial community
structure of virgin and reclaimed prairie soils in northern Illinois. D.
Zeidner and V. McKinley. Abstr, Ann. Mtg. Am. Soc. Microbiol., 1995.
Prairie soil
microbial community structure in virgin and reclaimed sites. V.L. McKinley and
D.L. Zeidner. Eighth International Symposium on Microbial Ecology (ISME-8),
Halifax, NS, 1998.
Progression of
microbial communities in tallgrass prairie restorations compared with virgin
prairie and agricultural sites. V.L. McKinley, A.D. Peacock and D.L. Zeidner.
Abstr, Ann. Mtg. Am. Soc. Microbiol., 1999.
Microbial community
structure in soils from prairie restorations compared with virgin prairie,
agricultural fields and forests in Illinois. V.L. McKinley. The 17th
North American Prairie Conference, Mason City, Iowa, July 2000.
Effects of
agriculture and prairie restoration on soil microbial community PLFA, PHB and
sterols in a North American tallgrass prairie ecosystem. Vicky L. McKinley, Aaron
Peacock and David C. White. Ninth International Symposium on Microbial Ecology
(ISME-9), Amsterdam, Netherlands, August 2001.
Effects of
tallgrass prairie restoration on soil quality. Vicky McKinley. The 18th
North American Prairie Conference, Kirksville, Missouri, June 2002.
INVITED SPEAKER
"Science as a
Way of Knowing: a Course Exploring the Scientific Method from the Inside
Out", V. McKinley, Annual Meeting of the Council of Science Editors, May,
2000, San Antonio, Texas.