Rafe Payne

Professor of Biology
Biola University

Courses taught at Au Sable:
Marine Mammals

email:rafe.payne@biola.edu

I specialize in the systematics and zoogeography of monogenean parasites infecting the gills of marine fishes.  I am particularly interested in those infecting deep-sea fishes and sharks of the Sea of Cortez. I have authored, or co-authored five scientific papers describing eleven new species of monogeneans, and currently serves as a manuscript reviewer for the Journal of Comparative Parasitology. 

I developed and directs the Biola Baja Program offered each Interterm: An extended field trip to Baja California, Mexico to study plants, marine mammals, birds, and intertidal marine organisms at the Vermilion Sea Field Station.

I served as chairman of the Department of Biological Sciences for more than 20 years.  I teach General Ecology, Human Ecology, Marine Biology, Parasitology, the Natural History of Marine Mammals, and Ornithology, several sections of First Year Seminar, and advise the freshman Biology, Human Biology, and Biochemistry majors. I am fascinated with the differences in how people perceive nature.  I am particularly interested in exploring the relationships between science, art and nature.  I am passionate about Creation Care.

Major Teaching Interests:
Natural History of Baja California, Marine Biology, Marine Mammals, Parasitology, Ecology, Ornithology, Invertebrate Biology.

Primary Research Interests:
Systematics, zoogeography, and ecology of Monogenea of marine fishes,population dynamics and photoidentification of fin whales in the Sea of Cortez, natural history of Baja California, Mexico. 

Positions:

Field Zoologist and Assistant to Curator of Zoology, University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln, NE; 1965.

Biologist’s Aide, Nebraska State Game, Forestation and Parks Commission,Lincoln, NE:1966.

Predoctoral Trainee, USPHS-NIH Fellowship in Parasitology and Immunology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA;1967-1970.

Instructor of Biology, Biola College, La Mirada, CA;   1970-1974.

Assistant Professor of Biology, Biola College;  1974-1980.

Associate Professor of Biology, Biola University;   1980-1994.

Associate Dean (acting), School of Arts and Sciences, Biola University; 1992 spring semester.
 
Professor of Biology, Biola University; 1994

Publications:

Sharpe, R. S. and R. R. Payne.  1966.  Nesting birds of Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge.  Nebraska Bird Review  34: 31-34.

Payne, R. R.1981. La Bella Berta - a Happy Fin-ish!  Whalewatcher;Journal of the American Cetacean Society  15: 14-15.

Payne, R. R.  1986.  Lampanyctophilus wisneri gen. et sp. n. (Monogenea: Diclidophoridae), a gill parasite of Lampanyctus ritteri  (Myctophidae) from the eastern Pacific and an emended description of Myctoph-iphilus sprostonae  (Martin, 1973) comb. n.  Proceedings of theHelminthological Society of Washington  53: 157-161.

Payne, R. R.  1987.  Two new Monogenea (Macrovalvetrematidae) from eastern Pacific Ocean fishes.  Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington  54: 169-174.

Payne, R. R.  1987.  Some diclidophorid Monogenea (Trematoda), including two new species, from marine fishes of the eastern Pacific Ocean off California, U.S.A. and Baja California, Mexico.  Transactions of the American Microscopical Society  106: 256-264.

Payne, R. R.  1990.  Four new Monogenea (Axinidae and Heteraxinidae)from eastern Pacific fishes.  Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington  57: 93-103.

Bullard, S. A., R. R. Payne, and J. S. Braswell.  2004.  New genus with two new species of capsalid monogeneans from dasyatids in the Gulf of California. J. Parasitology 90 (6): 1412-1427.

Papers Presented at Scientific Meetings:  (Abstracts published)

1967 “Incidence of helminths from Blue-winged teal in Nebraska.”  77th Annual Meeting of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, Lincoln, NE

1968 “A survey of Monogenea from fishes of the eastern Pacific and the Gulf of California.”  43rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Parasitologists,University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

1981 “Finback whales of Bahia de Los Angeles, Baja California.”  Southern California Academy of Sciences Annual Meetings, CSULA,  Los Angeles,CA

1982 “Finback whales of Bahia de Los Angeles, Baja California revisited.”Southern California Academy of Sciences Annual Meetings, CSUDH,Dominguez Hills, CA

1986 “Diclidophorid Monogenea from marine fishes of the eastern Pacific taken off central and southern California and Baja California, Mexico.”  96th Annual Meetings of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE

1990 “The management of marine natural resources in Bahia de Los Angeles,Baja California, Mexico.”  20th Annual Earth Day Stewardship Ecology Symposium, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA  (no abstract)

1993 “The vertical distribution and zoogeography of some monogeneans infecting Eastern Pacific fishes.”  Second International Symposium on Monogenea,Université Montpellier II, Montpellier, France

1998 “Monogeneans from the skin and gills of elasmobranchs from the Gulf of California.”  73rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Parasitologists,Kona, Hawaii

Photographs Published:

“California Quail” in,  Johnsgard, P. A.  1973.  Grouse and Quails of North America. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.  553 pages.  

“California Quail” in,  Johnsgard, P. A.  1975.  North American Game Birdsof Upland and Shoreline.  University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.  183 pages.

“Juvenile Brandt’s Cormorant” in, Johnsgard, P. A.  1993.  Cormorants, Darters,and Pelicans of the World.  Smithsonian Institution, Washington.  445 pages.

Professional Society Memberships:
American Birding Association
American Cetacean Society
American Microscopical Society
American Society of Parasitologists
Helminthological Society of Washington
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
Southern California Academy of Sciences

Professional Meetings Attended:
1966 Nebraska Academy of Sciences, Lincoln, NE
1967 American Society of Parasitologists, Tucson, AZ
1968 American Society of Parasitologists, Madison, WI
1968 Symbiosis Symposium, Fullerton, CA
1969 Western Society of Naturalists, Los Angeles, CA
1971 Coastal Zone Management Symposium, Fullerton, CA
1974 American Society of Parasitologists, Los Angeles, CA
1974 American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Los Angeles, CA
1977 National Association of Biology Teachers, Anaheim, CA
1977 Southern California Academy of Sciences, Pomona, CA
1978 Southern California Academy of Sciences, Fullerton, CA
1979 Southern California Academy of Sciences, Northridge, CA
1979 3rd Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Seattle, WA
1980 Southern California Academy of Sciences, Long Beach, CA
1980 International Whaling Commission, Brighton, England, U.K.
1980 Marine Mammal Conference, Fullerton, CA
1981 Southern California Academy of Sciences, Los Angeles, CA
1981 4th Biennial Conference on Biology of Marine Mammals, San Francisco, CA
1982 Southern California Academy of Sciences, Dominguez Hills, CA
1983 Southern California Academy of Sciences, Fullerton, CA
1984 Southern California Academy of Sciences, Los Angeles, CA
1985 3rd International Immunoparasitology Symposium, Lincoln, NE
1986 Southwest Association of Parasitologists, Lake Texoma, OK
1986 Nebraska Academy of Sciences, Lincoln, NE
1987 4th International Immunoparasitology Symposium, Lincoln, NE
1987 American Society of Parasitologists, Lincoln, NE
1987 Wildlife Disease Association, Lincoln, NE
1988 Southern California Academy of Scientists, Santa Barbara, CA
1989 Southern California Academy of Sciences, Long Beach, CA
1990 Earth Day Stewardship Ecology Symposium, Azusa, CA
1992 Southern California Academy of Sciences, Los Angeles, CA
1992 American Cetacean Society Biennial Conference on Marine Mammals,Monterey, CA
1993 Southern California Academy of Sciences, Long Beach, CA
1993 Second International Symposium on Monogenea, Montpellier, France
1994  Southern California Academy of Sciences, Irvine CA
1994 American Society of Parasitologists, Ft. Collins, CO
1998 American Society of Parasitologists, Kona, HI
2005 Society for Marine Mammalogy, San Diego, CA 
2006 American Cetacean Society Biennial Conference on Marine Mammals,Ventura, CA

Additional Activities and Positions:

Chairman - Department of Biological Sciences, Biola University: 1972-1980,1984-1985, 1994-2005
Director – Biola Baja Program, Biola University: 1978-2007
Board Member –
Academic Advisory Board Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies
American Cetacean Society, National Board of Directors:1978-1981
Earth Ethics Group:  1980-1982
Southern California Academy of Sciences, Board of Directors: 1981-1982
Whittier Christian High School Board of Directors: 2001-2003, 
(Vice Chairman)
Vice President, President Elect, President. Immediate Past President, Research Committee Chairman - American Cetacean Society, Los Angeles Chapter:1977-1982