ESC members 2010-2011
Member Name
Joseph Bump
Title
Assistant Professor
SFRES
Kim Borofske
(new member
this year)
Andrew Burton
Research Assistant
Professor, SFRES
Trish Burton
Financial Manager for
the ESC, SFRES
Research Scientist I
SFRES
Patricia Butler
Professor and Director
of ESC
SFRES
Molly Cavaleri
Assistant Professor
SFRES
Rod Chimner
Associate Professor
SFRES
Paul Doskey
Professor
SFRES, Civil & Enivron.
Engineering
Assistant Research
Scientist
SFRES
Assistant Professor
SFRES
Jennifer
Eikenberry
Michael
Falkowski
Jill Fisher
David Flaspohler
John Forsman
Robert Froese
Research Associate
SFRES
Professor
SFRES
Assistant Research
Scientist, SFRES
Associate Professor
SFRES
Oliver Gailing
Associate Professor
SFRES
Kathleen
Halvorsen
Professor
SFRES & Social
Sciences
Ericka HerschGreen (new
member this
year)
Casey Huckins
Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Predators & ecological hotspots
Aquatic-terrestrial links
Stable isotopes in wildlife ecology
Wind energy-wildlife issues
Landscape and spatial ecology
Quantitative ecology & ecological modeling
Disturbed land mosaics
Forest responses to global change factors
Belowground processes
Carbon and nutrient cycling
Physiological ecology of tree roots
Banner and Incentive Accounts
Open disclosure of ESC accounting on Blackboard
Climate change adaptation strategies for forests
Climate change vulnerability assessment
Climate change outreach and training
Forest canopy structure and function
Forest response to global change
Carbon and water cycling through forests
Tree ecophysiology
Applied wetland ecology
Peatland and wetland restoration
Temperate and Tropical Peatlands
Ecosystem carbon cycling
Atmospheric Sciences
Environmental Engineering
Environmental Biogeochemistry & Sustainability
Stable isotopes
Forest ecology
Mass spectrometry
Remote sensing of vegetation structure & composition
LiDAR remote sensing
Forest mensuration and biometrics
Landscape ecology
Program Manager for the ESC
Conservation biology
Avian ecology and reproduction
Cascading effects of deer overbrowse
Island ecology
Wood composites decomposition studies
Sampling, inventory and monitoring program design
Biomass harvesting and forest productivity
Intensive silviculture esp. Populus plantation mgt.
Empirical, process and hybrid forest modelling
Ecological genetics and genomics
Population & conservation genetics of forest trees
Genetic mapping and QTL analyses
Forensic genetics
Woody bioenergy
Climate change
Natural resource policy
Water resource policy
Plant Population and Community Ecology
Ecological genetics
Eco-evolutionary dynamics
Impacts of land use on communities
Biological Sciences
Mike Hyslop
Maria Janowiak
Senior Academic
Consultant/Lecturer
SFRES
Forest Service Scientist
USFS
Martin
Jurgensen
Professor
SFRES
Evan Kane
Research Assistant
Professor
USFS
Peter Laks
Professor
SFRES
Glenn Larkin
Senior Research
Scientist I
SFRES
Adjunct Professor
USFS
Erik Lilleskov
Ann Maclean
Professor
SFRES
Amy Marcarelli
Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences
Alex Mayer
Professor
Civil & Environ. Eng.
Associate Professor
SFRES
Audrey Mayer
Linda Nagel
Associate Professor
SFRES
Rolf Peterson
Research Professor—
Robbins Chair, SFRES
Judith Perlinger
Professor
Civil & Environ. Eng.
Matt Powers
(new this year)
Research Associate
SFRES
Tom Pypker
Assistant Professor
SFRES
Sigrid Resh
Adjunct Assistant
Professor
SFRES
Restoration of native communities
Aquatic ecology
Functional morphology and life history of fish
Geographic information systems
Global positioning systems
Great Lakes Quaternary (glacial) geomorphology
Climate change adaptation and carbon management
Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science
Climate change synthesis and outreach
Forest soil productivity, management and sustainability
Global climate change impact on soil biology
Organic matter decomposition & ecosystem nutrient cycling
Soil carbon
Plant/soil relationships
Decomposition
Dissolved organic carbon
Fungal and insect resistance of wood-based composites
Decomposition
Field-testing of wood products for biodegradation
resistance
Wood protection and composites
Forest natural products
Fungal ecology
Soil ecology
Global environmental change impacts on forest
ecosystems
Invasive species impacts
Remote sensing
Digital image processing
Geographic information systems
Spatial modeling
Aquatic ecology
Ecosystem and Community Ecology of Streams and
Rivers Biogeochemistry
Groundwater flow and transport
Subsurface remediation
Environmental policy and environmental science
Sociology of natural resources
Natural resource and environmental policy
Sustainability science
Forest vegetation dynamics
Silviculture of the Great Lakes region
Invasive plant species in forested ecosystems
Adaptive silviculture in the face of climate change
Mammalian ecology
Predator-prey relationships
Ecology and behavior of gray wolves
Air and water quality
Technologies for treatment of environmental media
Measurement and modeling of contaminant concentrations
Contaminant fluxes and impacts in the Great Lakes region
Adaptive Ecosystem Management
Forest Stand Dynamics
Tree Ecophysiology
Forest hydrology
Micrometeorology
Carbon cycling
Stable isotopes
Forest carbon dynamics
Soil carbon sequestration
Forest restoration
Dana Richter
Research Scientist II
SFRES
Kristin Schmitt
(new this year)
Research Scientist I
SFRES
Karena Schmidt
(new this year)
Carbon, Water and Soils
Research Lab Manager
SFRES
Adjunct Assistant
Professor
SFRES
Amy Schrank
(new this year)
Andrew Storer
Professor
SFRES
Christopher
Swanston
Adjunct Assistant
Professor
SFRES
Catherine
Tarasoff
Assistant Professor
SFRES
Noel Urban
Professor
Civil & Environ. Eng.
Ken Vrana
Director of the Isle
Royale Institute
SFRES
Associate Professor
SFRES
John Vucetich
Leah Vucetich
Christopher
Webster
Hairong Wei
Research Assistant
Professor,SFRES
Associate Professor
SFRES
Assistant Professor
SFRES
Isotope applications in forests
Forest mycology, pathology, fungal ecology
Tree and forest disease diagnosis and assessment
Wood decay & mold/stain testing
Mycorrhizae, plants and mushrooms
Ecosystem response to climate change
Web-based outreach on climate change adaptation and
mitigation
Science synthesis and communication
Carbon isotope analysis
High quality graphite production for radiocarbon analysis
Aquatic ecology
Aquatic-terrestrial links
Conservation and management of aquatic systems
Long-term monitoring
Forest insect ecology
Insect/fungus/plant interactions in forest ecosystems
Impacts of exotic species on forest ecosystems
Interactions among fire, insects and disease in forests
Soil organic carbon stabilization and cycling
Radiocarbon analysis and interpretation
Forest response and adaptation to climate change
Landscape scale conservation
Invasion ecology
Road ecology
Applied restoration and weed control
Stress tolerance and competition
Wetland biogeochemistry
Environmental impact and fate of pollutants
Influence of organisms on the chemical environment
The role of chemical environment in controlling populations
Support and coordination of research, outreach and
management of the Institute on Isle Royale National Park
Demographic and genetic elements of population biology
Ecology of wolves and moose
Environmental ethics
Isle Royale wolf genetics
Field research methods
Gap dynamics and disturbance ecology
Invasion biology of exotic species
Restoration silviculture
Wildlife habitat relationships
I.D. of genes regulating traits via systems biology
Gene expression data analysis
Gene network construction and decomposition
Developing software for mining lg-scale biological data