| Web Profile |
Affiliation |
E-mail |
Research Interests |
| Jim Ammerman |
New York Sea Grant, and State University of New York - Stony Brook |
James.Ammerman@stonybrook.edu |
- Healthy coastal ecosystems
- Sustainable coastal development
- Safe and sustainable food supply
- Hazard resilience in coastal communities
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| Jim Diana |
Michigan Sea Grant, and School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan |
jimd@umich.edu |
- Research, education and outreach efforts on Great Lakes issues
- Aquaculture’s potential contribution to the global food supply through the understanding of ecologically sensitive aquaculture practices
- Conservation of natural ecosystems through focusing on ecology of native and endangered species
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| Jeff Gunderson |
Minnesota Sea Grant, and University of Minnesota - Duluth |
jgunder1@umn.edu |
- Development, evaluation, and administration of research, outreach, and education activities
- Fisheries & aquaculture outreach
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| Lucinda Johnson |
University of Minnesota, Natural Resources Research Institute |
ljohnson@d.umn.edu |
- Topics: bioindicators, amphibians and watersheds
- Projects: effects of multiple stressors on aquatic communities, testing indicators of coastal ecosystem integrity using fish and macroinvertebrates
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| Val Klump |
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Great Lakes Water Institute |
vklump@uwm.edu |
- Biogeochemical cycling in aquatic environments
- Boundary layer processes
- Radiochemistry
- Hydrothermal and hydrogeological activity in lakes
- Observing systems and underwater robotics
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| Doran Mason |
Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab, NOAA |
Doran.Mason@noaa.gov |
- Community and food web ecology
- Invasive species and food web disruption
- Habitat and habitat-mediated interactions
- Predator-prey interactions
- Recruitment dynamics
- Patch dynamics and spatial processes
- Hydroacoustics
- Numerical modeling
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| Brian Miller |
Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant, and Purdue University |
millerbk@illinois.edu |
- Coordinates and participates in state, regional, and national collaborative projects focusing on Great Lakes and Sea Grant priority research, outreach, and education issues
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| Jeff Reutter |
Ohio Sea Grant, and Ohio State University |
reutter.1@osu.edu |
- Development and synthesis of research priorities
- Facilitation of multi-investigator and interdisciplinary proposals and projects to address priorities
- Synthesis, interpretation, and presentation of results for scientists, managers, decision makers, and the public
- Development and implementation of strategies to link managers and research scientists
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| Steve Ruberg |
Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab, NOAA |
Steve.Ruberg@noaa.gov |
- Developing advanced environmental measurement technology using innovations in the fields of electronics, mechanics, and software engineering
- Providing high quality instrumentation packages for oceanographic, biological, chemical, and water resources data collection
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| Ed Rutherford |
Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab, NOAA |
Ed.Rutherford@noaa.gov |
- Fish Population Dynamics
- Larval Fish Ecology
- Bioenergetics Modeling
- Fisheries Management
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| David Schwab |
Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab, NOAA |
David.Schwab@noaa.gov |
- Theoretical, numerical, and observational investigations of circulation, thermal structure, seiches, storm surges, wind waves, and air-sea interaction.
- Numerical modeling of three-dimensional lake-scale circulation, thermal structure, and sediment dynamics.
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| Alan D. Steinman |
Grand Valley State University, Annis Water Resources Institute |
steinmaa@gvsu.edu |
- Land use impacts on aquatic resources
- Nutrient cycling
- Food web interactions
- Long-term ecological trends
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| Jan Stevenson |
Michigan State University |
rjstev@msu.edu |
- Ecological system response to environmental change
- Ecological Assessment
- Effects of human factors on algae
- Artificial stream and mesocosm cause-effect studies
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| Craig Stow |
Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab, NOAA |
Craig.Stow@noaa.gov |
- Role of aquatic ecosystems in biogeochemical cycling
- Pollutant behavior in aquatic ecosystems
- Ecological modeling and forecasting
- Uncertainty analysis
- Bayesian inference
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| Hank Vanderploeg |
Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab, NOAA |
Henry.Vanderploeg@noaa.gov |
- Food web interactions, particularly feeding mechanisms and life cycle strategies of invasive plankton and benthos
- Spatial distribution and interactions of all food web components
- Hypoxia impacts on food web spatial structure and function
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| Chin Wu |
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
chinwu@engr.wisc.edu |
- Air-sea interactions and surface wave dynamics
- Coastal-riverine processes and sediment transport
- Environmental fluid mechanics and limnology
- Environmental monitoring and aerial photogrammetry
- Experimental and computational fluid dynamics
- Groundwater and surface water interactions
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