Research Biologist
National Health and Environmental Effects Research Lab
Mid-Continent Ecology Division
6201 Congdon Boulevard
Duluth, MN 55804
Office: (218) 529-5420
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Research Interests
- How human-caused changes to the environment influence aquatic ecosystem processes, habitat, and fish population success
- Understand how changes in ecosystem function relates to food web function, particularly the exchange of nutrients, matter, and organisms between ecosystems; to examine relationships between ecosystem function, habitat quality and fish recruitment; and to develop survey tools to quantify the value of aquatic habitats to fish
- Coastal and estuarine fishes and their economic and social importanceaws well as anthropogenic impacts
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Minnesota Duluth, 2012-present
- Research Biologist, U.S. EPA National Health and Environmental Effects Research Lab, Mid-Continent Ecology Division, Duluth, MN, 2009-present
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, U.S. EPA, Duluth, MN 2006-2009
- Ph.D., Marine Science, The College of William and Mary
- B.S. Philosophy, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
- B.S. Resource Ecology and Management, University of Michigan Ann Arbor