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?
Linking Geology, Hydrology, and Stream Productivity
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