Current and Ongoing Research Projects

Research on Aquatic-Terrestrial Linkages

• Riparian reserve alternatives in managed forest landscapes
• Yellowstone National Park - Apex predator effects on stream ecosystems
• Effects of contemporary forest management on stream fish
• Riparian canopy gap experiment
• Creating old-growth forest structure along headwater streams in New England
• How differences in age, stage and structure of riparian forests affect stream ecosystem processes and stream biota
• Forest Management in Sweden and its influence on stream ecosystem processes and stream biota

Acid Deposition Impacts and Recovery in Northeastern US

• Fish distributions in acidified and recovery headwaters
• Acid deposition recovery in Adirondack Lakes

Climate Change

• Drought impacts on spatial dynamics of stream nutrients
• Drought impacts on trout and  salamanders in headwater ecosystems
• Can thermal stratification in lakes insulate coldwater fish from effects of a hot summer?

Historical Ecology

• Using 19th century landscape paintings to quantify the structure and community of historic forests in the Northeastern US

Completed Research Projects

• Quantifying distribution limits for native and invasive trout in the Great Basin Ecoregion
• Assessing management scenarios for juvenile Chinook salmon in headwater streams
• Stream habitat and biotic community responses to “natural channel design” stream restorations in the Catskill Mountains of New York
• Influence of Woody Debris on Stream Nitrogen Retention
• Woody debris dynamics in northeastern stream systems
• Ecology of Northeastern Headwaters Stream Ecosystems
• Fish populations in streams of the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH
• Brook trout in Adirondack lakes
• Evaluating woody debris in mature and old growth forest streams