C. Riley Nelson project records, 1982-2003

Series — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS 8028 Series 2

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Contains rough drafts of an article about robber flies written during 1979, photographs and research at a field study at Devil's River, Texas in November 1997, notes and lectures given during Summer Scholars at Provo, Utah from July 14-18, 2003, and research notes made during a trip to Grand Escalante Staircase, Utah during the Summer of 2003.

Dates

Creation: 1982-2003

Creator

Nelson, C. Riley (Charles Riley), 1956- (creator, Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Open for public research.

Conditions Governing Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from the C. Riley Nelson paper must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.

Biographical History

From the Collection:

C. Riley Nelson (1956-) is a biology professor in Texas and Utah.

Charles Riley Nelson graduated from high school from Box Elder High School in Brigham City, Utah in 1974. He attended Utah State University, graduating in 1980 with his Bachelor's of Science in Biology and obtained his Master's of Science in Biology in 1984. He obtained his PhD in Zoology in 1986 from Brigham Young University and was granted his Tilton Postdoctoral Fellow in Entomology from the California Academy of Sciences in 1989. He was a lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin from 1989-2000. His teaching focused on biology, and in particularly aquatic entomology. He began teaching as an assosciate professor at Brigham Young University in 1999 in the Department of Life Sciences.