My research focuses on student learning and undergraduate research experiences in invertebrate diversity, evolution, ecology, behaviour and systematics.

Awards

Teaching Awards

University of Calgary Experiential Learning Teaching Award (2021)

Faculty of Science Teaching Excellence Early Career Award (2020)

Student Union Teaching Excellence Award (2020/2021); Nominations (2017, 2018, 2019)

University of Calgary Sustainability Team Teaching Award (2021)

Scholarship Awards

Faculty of Science Scholarship Excellence Early Career Award (2021)

University of Calgary Sustainability Research Team Award (2021)

Scholarship

Peer Reviewed Publications

Altiner D, Payne JL, Lehrmann DJ, Özkan-Altiner S, Kelly BM, Summers MM, & Yu M. 2021. Triassic foraminifera from the Great Bank of Guizhou, Nanpanjiang Basin, south China: taxonomic account, biostratigraphy, and implications for recovery from end-Permian mass extinction. Journal of Paleontology. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2021.10

Branchaw JL, Pape-Lindstrom PA, Tanner KD, Bissonnette SA, Cary TL, Couch BA, Crowe AJ, Knight JK, Semsar K, Smith JI, Smith MK, Summers MM, Wienhold CJ, Wright CD, & Brownell SE. 2020. Resources for teaching assessing the Vision and Change biology core concepts. CBE-Life Sciences. 19(2). https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.19-11-0243

McKay DM, Summers M, Buret AG, Emmett T, & Gilleard JS. 2019. Rethinking graduate education in parasitology: a case study. Trends in Parasitology. 35(9): 665-668. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2019.05.001

Smith MK, Holmes NG, Walsh CW, & Summers MM. 2019. Using EcoEvo-MAPS to assess student thinking across the Four Dimensional Ecology Education (4DEE) framework. Ecosphere. 10(9). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2873

Smith MK, Brownell SE, Crowe AJ, Holmes NG, Knight JK, Semsar K, Summers MM, Walsh CW, Wright CD, & Couch BA. 2019. Tools for change: Measuring student conceptual understanding across undergraduate biology programs using Bio-MAPS assessments. JMBE. 20(2). https://doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.v20i2.1787

Couch BA, Wright CD, Freeman S, Knight JK, Semsar K, Smith MK, Summers MM, Zheng Y, Crowe AJ, & Brownell SE. 2019. GenBio-MAPS: A programmatic assessment to measure students understanding of Vision and Change core concepts across general biology programs. CBE-Life Sciences. 18: 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.18-07-0117

Semsar K, Brownell S, Couch B, Crowe A, Freeman S, Smith M, Summers M, Wright C, & Knight J. 2019. Phys-MAPS: A programmatic physiology assessment for introductory and advanced undergraduates. Advances in Physiology Education. 43: 15-27. https://doi.org/10.1152/advan.00128.2018

Summers MM, Couch B, Knight J, Brownell S, Crowe A, Semsar K, Wright C, & Smith MK. 2018. EcoEvo-MAPS: a tool to assess student learning in ecology and evolution through the undergraduate major. CBE-Life Sciences Education. 17: 1-12. LSE Issue Highlighted Article. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.17-02-0037

Smith MK, Toth ES, Borges K, Dastoor F, Johnston J, Jones EH, Nelson PR, Page J, Pelletreau K, Prentiss N, Roe JL, Staples J, Summers M, Trenckmann E, & Vinson E. 2018. Using place-based economically relevant organisms to improve student understanding of the roles of carbon dioxide, sunlight, and nutrients in photosynthetic organisms. CourseSource. https://www.coursesource.org/courses/using-place-based-economically-relevant-organisms-to-improve-student-understanding-of-the

Trenckmann E*, Smith MK, Pelletreau KN, & Summers MM. 2017. An active-learning lesson that targets student understanding of population growth in ecology. CourseSource. https://www.coursesource.org/courses/an-active-learning-lesson-that-targets-student-understanding-of-population-growth-in-ecology

Summers MM, Messing CG, & Rouse GW. 2017. The genera and species of Comatulidae (Comatulida: Crinoidea): taxonomic revisions and a molecular and morphological guide. Zootaxa. 4268: 151-190. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4268.2.1

Rouse GW, Lanterbecq D, Summers MM, & Eeckhaut I. 2016. Four new species of Mesomyzostoma (Myzostomida, Annelida). Journal of Natural History. 50: 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2015.1056266

Summers MM, Pleijel F, & Rouse GW. 2015. Whale falls, multiple colonisations of the deep, and the phylogeny of Hesionidae (Annelida). Invertebrate Systematics. 29: 105-123. https://doi.org/10.1071/IS14055

Summers MM & Rouse GW. 2014. Phylogeny of Myzostomida (Annelida) and their relationships with echinoderm hosts. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 14: 170. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-014-0170-7

Summers MM, Messing CG, & Rouse GW. 2014. Phylogeny of Comatulidae (Echinodermata: Crinoidea: Comatulida). Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution. 80: 319-339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2014.06.030

Summers MM, Al-Hakim I, & Rouse GW. 2014. Turbo-taxonomy: 21 new species of Myzostomida (Annelida). Zootaxa. 3873: 301-344. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3873.4.1

Summers MM, Katz S, Allen EE, & Rouse GW. 2013. Association of rhizobia with a marine polychaete. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 5: 492-498. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.12043

Payne JL, Summers M, Rego BL, Altiner D, Wei J, Yu M, & Lehrmann DJ. 2011. Early and Middle Triassic trends in diversity, evenness, and size of foraminifers on a carbonate platform in south China: implications for tempo and mode of biotic recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction. Paleobiology. 37: 409-425. https://doi.org/10.1666/08082.1

Pre-prints

Arvanitidis CD, Warwick RM, Somerfield PJ …Zeidler W. 2018. Research Infrastructures offer capacity to address scientific questions never attempted before: Are all taxa equal? PeerJ Preprints - Highlighted in 4th World Conference on Marine Biodiversity. https://peerj.com/preprints/26819/

Open Education Resources

Neame T*, Ritchie S, Summers MM. Bumble bees of Calgary: A key and illustrated guide. http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/38932.

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