Doctor of Philosophy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

August 1994

GPR 3.85

Major: Zoology (areas of concentration: marine invertebrate zoology, oceanography, genetics, biogeography, biosystematics, evolution)

Ph.D. Dissertation: Systematics and biogeography of the coastal water snapping shrimps Alpheus (Crustacea: Alpheidae).

Master of Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

August 1990

GPR 3.70

Major: Zoology (areas of concentration: ichthyology, biogeography, biosystematics, evolution)

Masters Thesis: Systematics of the Prionotus alatus species group (Pisces: Triglidae).

Bachelor of Science, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas

May 1988, graduated Cum Laude

GPR 3.51

Major: Oceanographic Technology - Marine Biology Emphasis

Lamar State College Orange, Orange Texas, August 1994-present.

Professor of Biology, August 2007 - present. 

Science Department Chair, September 2023-present.

Program Director of Science, January 2022 – August 2023.

QEP Director, January 2014 - December 2014.

Coordinator of Science Department September 2008-December 2008.

Associate Professor of Biology, August 2001 to August 2007.

Acquired Tenure status August 2000.

Assistant Professor of Biology, August 1996 to August 2001.

Instructor of Biology, January 1996 - August 1996.

Adjunct Instructor of Biology, August 1994 - December 1995.

Taught courses in Biology for Science Majors, Biology for Non—Science Majors, Anatomy & Physiology, Zoology, Environmental Science, Physical Geology, Historical Geology, Water Environments, Entomology, Nutrition, Forensic Science lab, and Health & Wellness; Served on committees and participated in curriculum development.

Lamar University - Beaumont, Beaumont Texas

Adjunct Instructor, Department of Biology

June - August 1995

Taught Anatomy & Physiology and “Step Into Science” (a non-credit course for nursing majors).

Blinn College, Bryan, Texas

Instructor Part-time, Department of Biology

Summer 1992 and Summer 1993

Taught courses in General Biology and Zoology.

Texas A&M University, Department of Biology, College Station, Texas

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Part-time

August 1988 - August 1994

Taught laboratories for courses in Biology, Ecology, Invertebrate Zoology, Biology of the Invertebrates (a graduate-level course), Anatomy & Physiology.

Rector, B.S. & M.R. McClure. (projected 2026). The Nature of Naming. Unit 10, In The Texas Master Naturalist Statewide Curriculum, 3^rd Edition, M.M. Haggerty & M. P. Meuth, Eds. Texas A&M University Press, College Station.

O’Shaughnessy, K.A. et al., (in submission). Anticipating marine invasions in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands: A horizon scanning approach. Biological Invasions

O’Shaughnessy, K. A., L. Vilizzi, W. Daniel, M.E. McGarrity, H. Bauer, L. Hartman, S. Geiger, P. Sammarco, S. Kolian, M.R. McClure, M. Norberg, A. Fogg, T. J. Lyons, J. Procopio, L. Bantista, W. Bennet, M. Wicksten, J. Dutton, D. Reeves, J. Anderson-Lively, J. Brenner, J. Goy, A. Morgan-Olvera, S. Porter, E. Robinson, A.L.E. Yunnie, and G.H. Copp. 2023. Horizon Scanning for potentially invasive non-native marine species to inform trans-boundary conservation management – Example of the northern Gulf of Mexico. Aquatic Invasions 18(4):415-453.

Merchant, M. & M.R. McClure, 2022. Phenoloxidase and Melanization Innate Immune Activities in Green Darner Dragonfly Nymphs (Anax junius). Advances in Biological Chemistry 2022 (12):130-141.

McClure, M.R. 2021. Novel Introduction for the invasive Red-Rim Melania Melanoides tuberculata (Müller) in southeastern Texas. The Southwestern Naturalist. 64(3-4):232-235. https://doi.org/10.1894/0038-4909-64.3-4.232

Rector, B.S. & M.R. McClure. 2015. The Nature of Naming. Unit 10, pp. 351-363 In The Texas Master Naturalist Statewide Curriculum, 2^nd Edition, M.M. Haggerty & M. P. Meuth, Eds. Texas A&M University Press, College Station (released August 25, 2016).

McClure, M.R. & C.L. Dando 2014.  Undergraduate research with students at a two-year commuter college. Chapter 5, pp. 36-40 in: Tapping the potential of all: Undergraduate research at community colleges. N.H. Hensel & B. D. Cjeda, Eds. The Council on Undergraduate Research, Washington, D.C.

Wicksten, M.K. & M.R. McClure 2007. Snapping Shrimp (Decapoda: Caridea: Alpheidae) from the Dampier Archipelago Expedition, Western Australia. Pp. 61-83 In: Marine Biodiversity of the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia 1998-2002. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement No. 73, Diana S. Jones Ed. (copyright 2007, published Aug. 2008)

McClure, M.R. 2005. Snapping Shrimps, pp. 119-201 In: Camarones, Langostas y Cangrejos de la Costa Este de Mexico, Volumen I (Shrimps, Lobsters, and Crabs of the East Coast of Mexico, Volume I) J. L. Hernandez-Aguilera, J. A. Ruiz-Nuno, R.E. Toral-Almazan, and V. Arenas-Fuentes (Eds.). Estudio y Conservacion de la Naturaleza, A.C. Mexico, D.F.

Wicksten, M.K. & M.R. McClure 2003. A new species of Alpheus (Crustacea: Alpheidae) from the Gulf of Mexico. Crustacean Research 32:26-31.

McClure, M.R. 2002. Revised nomenclature for Alpheus angulatus McClure 1995 (Crustacea: Alpheidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 115(2):368-370.

McClure, M.R. & M.K. Wicksten. 2000. Taxonomic studies of snapping shrimp of the Alpheus Edwardsii group at the Galapagos Islands (Decapoda: Caridea: Alpheidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 113(4):964-973.

McClure, M.R. & I.F. Greenbaum. 1999. Electrophoretic variation in Alpheus heterochaelis Say 1818 and A. angulatus McClure 1995 (Decapoda: Caridea: Alpheidae). The Southwestern Naturalist 44(4):463-470.

McClure, M.R. & M. K. Wicksten. 1997. Morphological variation of species of the Edwardsii group of Alpheus inhabiting the coastal waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico and northwestern Atlantic (Decapoda: Caridea: Alpheidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology 17(3):480-487.

McClure, M.R. 1996. Symmetry of large claws in snapping shrimp in nature (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae). Crustaceana 69(7): 920-921.

McClure, M.R. 1995. Alpheus angulatus, a new species of snapping shrimp from the Gulf of Mexico, with a redescription of Alpheus heterochaelis Say, 1818 (Decapoda: Caridea: Alpheidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 108(1):84-97.

McClure, M.R. & I.F. Greenbaum. 1994. Biochemical variation in Alpheus (Decapoda, Caridea, Alpheidae) from the coast of Texas: evidence for cryptic species. The Southwestern Naturalist 39(1):63-66.

McClure, M.R. & J.D. McEachran. 1992. Hybridization between Prionotus alatus and P. paralatus in the northern Gulf of Mexico (Pisces: Triglidae). Copeia 1992(4):1039-1046.

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