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Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Laboratory
About Us
Director | Faculty | Staff | Graduate Students
Director
Jason Stockwell
Affiliations: Director, Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Laboratory / Associate Professor, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
Contact: Jason.Stockwell@uvm.edu
Web site: http://www.uvm.edu/rsenr/faculty-staff/jason-stockwell
Research interests: Influence of pelagic fishes and macro-invertebrates as energetic conduits and bottlenecks for both upper and lower trophic levels; role of diel vertical migration in predator-prey interactions, community structure, and transfer of energy and matter; impact of environmental change on food web structure and resultant ecosystem properties
Faculty
William "Breck" Bowden
Affiliations: Patrick Professor for Watershed Science and Planning in the Rubenstein School; Director of the Water Resources and Lake Studies Center in the School; member of the Arctic Long-Term Ecological Research Program
Contact: Breck.Bowden@uvm.edu
Web site: www.uvm.edu/~wbowden/
Research Interests: Land-water interactions, arctic ecosystem ecology, stormwater management, integrated catchment management
Suzanne Levine
Affiliations: Associate Professor, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources / Coordinator, Aquatic Ecology and Watershed Science M.S. Concentration
Contact: Suzanne.Levine@uvm.edu
Web site: www.uvm.edu/rsenr/faculty-staff/suzanne-levine
Research Interests: Food web and nutrient limitation studies in Lake Champlain, examination of stable isotope patterns in lakes, remote sensing of cyanobacterial blooms, and paleolimnological investigations of lake's response to changing land use
Andrea Lini
Affiliations: Associate Professor UVM Department of Geology and Director of UVM Environmental Stable Isotope Facility and UVM Linmnogeology Laboratory
Contact: Andrea.Lini@uvm.edu
Web site: www.uvm.edu/~geology/?Page=faculty/faculty.php
Research Interests: Stable isotope geochemistry, with particular emphasis on biogeochemistry, paleolimnology/limnogeology, and paleoclimatology
Ellen Marsden
Affiliations: Associate Professor, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources / Program Chair, Wildlife & Fisheries Biology
Contact: Ellen.Marsden@uvm.edu
Web site: www.uvm.edu/rsenr/emarsden/
Research Interests: Great Lakes fisheries restoration and ecology, with particular emphasis on native species restoration and impacts of exotic species
Donna Parrish
Affiliations: Research Professor, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources / Unit Leader, Vermont Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit
Contact: Donna.Parrish@uvm.edu
Web site: www.coopunits.org//Vermont/People/Donna_Parrish/index.html
Research Interests: Restoration of native fishes, sea lamprey control, acoustical sampling, and bioenergetics
Staff
Josh Benes
Affiliations: Research Technician Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Laboratory
Contact: jbenes@uvm.edu
Web site: www.uvm.edu/rsenr/faculty-staff/joshua-benes
Interests: Arctic stream ecology research, laboratory analysis of stream samples, ecological reasoning, Vermont ecology
Steve Cluett
Affiliations: Captain of the research vessel Melosira
Contact: scluett@uvm.edu
Erin DeVries
Affiliations: UVM Watershed Alliance Outreach & Education Coordinator
Contact: erin.devries@uvm.edu
Web site: www.uvm.edu/rsenr/faculty-staff/erin-devries
Interests: Global water conservation and water advocacy, wetland ecology, watershed stewardship and community based participatory research
Laura Killian
Affiliations:Land Use Planning & Water Quality Educator, Lake Champlain Sea Grant
Contact: Laura.Killian@uvm.edu
Interests: Outreach and training programs that teach connection between land use and water quality; working with municipalities to build knowledge of and implement structural and non-structural stormwater best management practices; climate vulnerability assessments to help towns adapt to and prepare for future flooding events
Elissa Schuett
Affiliations: Senior Research Technician for the Arctic Long-term Ecological Research project and for the Bowden Watershed Research Lab
Contact: Elissa.Schuett@uvm.edu
Interests: Stream ecology research, natural resources and water management, watershed conservation and restoration
Graduate Students
Joe Bartlett
Program: MS in Aquatic Ecology and Watershed Science
Contact: Joseph.Bartlett@uvm.edu
Research Focus: Streams Project
Meredith Clayton
Program: MS in Aquatic Ecology and Watershed Science
Contact: Meredith.Clayton@uvm.edu
Research Focus: Flow Monitoring Project
Eric Davis
Program: MS in Aquatic Ecology and Watershed Science
Contact: Eric.Davis@uvm.edu
Research Focus: Developing a wetland monitoring protocol
Rebecca Gorney
Program: PhD in Natural Resources
Contact: Rebecca.Gorney@uvm.edu
Research Focus: Foodweb impacts of invasive planktivorous fish in Missisquoi Bay, Lake Champlain
Philip Halteman
Program: PhD in Natural Resources
Contact: Philip.Halteman@uvm.edu
Research Focus:
Peter Isles
Program: PhD in Natural Resources
Contact: Peter.Isles@uvm.edu
Research Focus:
Bret Ladago
Program: MS in Aquatic Ecology and Watershed Science
Contact: Bret.Ladago@uvm.edu
Research Focus: Issues surrounding Lake trout and Atlantic salmon as they have become increasingly exposed to high levels of the enzyme thiaminase, found in alewife, a now prominent food source in Champlain; Champlain Canal as a vector for non-indigenous species; lake whitefish genetic study
Julia Larouche (PhD)
Program: PhD in Natural Resources
Contact: Julia.Larouche@uvm.edu
Research Focus: Thermokarst impacts on arctic stream ecosystems
Joel Nipper (PhD)
Program: PhD in Natural Resources
Contact: Joel.Nipper@uvm.edu
Research Focus: Stormwater management: sources of water pollution and evaluation of a stormwater detention pond
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