Team
Project Leadership
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Craig Paukert, Lead PI USGS Missouri Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences 302 Anheuser-Busch Natural Resources Building University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 Phone: 573-882-3524 Email: paukertc@missouri.edu |
| Research interests: Fisheries management and ecology; large river ecology. Specific role in project: Craig is the lead investigator on the project, and also is helping coordinate how climate change will affect fish habitat in the Lower Colorado River Basin. Craig is also working with Dr. Allison Pease to determine population-level effects of climate and land use change on fishes. |
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Elda Varela-Acevedo, Project Coordinator National Climate Change & Wildlife Science Center 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. Reston, VA 20192 Phone: 703-648-4035 Email: evarela-acevedo@usgs.gov |
| Research interests: Environmental management, climate change, fish conservation. Specific role in project: Is the climate change project coordinator. Assists in the support of and dissemination of information between research institutes on project related matters. |
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Regional Projects
MIDWEST |
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Gary Whelan, Co-PI MI DNRE Fisheries Division P.O. Box 30446 Lansing, MI 48909 Phone: 517-373-6948 Email: whelang@michigan.gov |
| Research interests: Understanding fish parasite and disease ecology and how to develop rationale fish health policy; Understanding stream ecosystems; Determining hydropower and other anthropogenic effects on aquatic resources; Examining aquatic habitat condition over a range of spatial scales; Understanding how to manage complex fish production systems; Understanding how to allocate resources between state and tribal interests as governed by treaties and consent decrees. Specific role in project: My roles in this broad project are: to ensure coordination between fish habitat assessment efforts by the National Fish Habitat Action Plan Board and Fish Habitat Partnerships and this project; to bring in larger policy issues and other habitat assessment information to ensure project investigators aware of these issues and data; and to ensure clear communication between the project team and the National Fish Habitat Action Plan Board and Fish Habitat Partnerships to include briefing the Board and Fish Habitat Partnerships on project team efforts and keeping the project team aware of related actions and activities of the National Fish Habitat Action Plan Board and Fish Habitat Partnerships. |
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Lizhu Wang, Co-PI Institute for Fisheries Research 212 Museums Annex Building 1109 N. University Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 Phone: 734-663-3554, x11255 Email: wangl@michigan.gov |
| Research interests: Evaluating influences of natural and anthropogenic environmental factors on stream/river water quality, physical habitat, and biological communities; modeling relationships among hydrology, thermal, landscape, land-use, channel morphology, and biota; developing tools and conducting stream/river system classification for fisheries management evaluation and environmental impairment assessment. Specific role in project: Serve as a co-PI for both the national and the Midwest Glacial Lakes Partnership region (streams/rivers) portions of the project. |
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Dana Infante, Co-PI 13 Natural Resources Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824-1222 Phone: 517-432-7232 Email: infanted@msu.edu |
| Research interests: Landscape-scale influences on physical and biological characteristics of aquatic systems, including effects of climate and land use; catchment hydrology; sustainable management; environmental assessment. Specific role in project: My primary responsibilities include 1) coordinating the national-scale vulnerability assessment of river systems to projected changes in climate and land use and 2) advising on the development of stream flow and water temperature models to characterize system changes in response to changes in climate and land use in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Besides supporting these efforts, I will also be facilitating data sharing among different components of this project and will be working to ensure that results of projects are transferrable and scalable through the application of a hierarchical spatial framework. |
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Damon Krueger Department of Fisheries and Wildlife/Institute for Fisheries Research 1109 N University Ave Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1084 Phone: 734-663-3554, x10855 Email: damonkr@umich.edu |
| Research interests: My interests are primarily based in research in fisheries ecology and fisheries management under the context of predicted climate and land use change. Specific role in project: My role in the Midwestern regional-scale assessment is to identify river reaches in the Glacial Lakes Partnership region (Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin) that are most vulnerable to potential impacts of projected climate and land use changes using fish assemblages as indicators. This will entail development of relationship models among fish assemblages, water temperature regime, and flow discharge regime. |
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Ralph Tingley 13 Natural Resources Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan, 48824 Phone: 517-432-8048 Email: tingleyr@msu.edu |
| Research interests: My research interests revolve around the stream and its biota, focusing on identifying ways to protect and rehabilitate species and habitat into the future. Specific role in project: My role on the project will initially be as a technician for the national and Great Lakes assessment. I will then take the information we have generated and apply it to both regional and national questions, focusing on the effects of climate change on stream habitat and the biota within them. |
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Dan Wieferich 13 Natural Resources Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan, 48824 Phone: 517-432-8048 Email: wieferi9@msu.edu |
| Research interests: In general, I am interested in the application of spatial tools and spatial analysis in the field of natural resources management. I am particularly interested in the fields of invasive species management and landscape ecology. Specific role in project: GIS manager for the National and Midwest climate change vulnerability assessments of streams. |
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Yin-Phan Tsang Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University Manly Miles Building Ste.115 1405 South Harrison Road East Lansing, Michigan, 48824 Phone: 517-432-5067 Email: tsangyp@msu.edu |
| Research interests: Hydrological processes within a watershed and nutrient flows in-stream and within valleys; Aquatic ecosystems and their interactions with adjacent terrestrial environments; Environmental analyses with physical and biological data; Ecological economics on ecosystems and energy efficiency. I am interested in adapting various ecological-modeling approaches to advance our knowledge of aquatic ecosystems and to assist conservation and management needs. Specific role in project: I am adopting the landscape approach to assess conditions of stream fish habitats under the influence of climate and anthropogenic changes. This assessment will provide an integral view of future fish habitats at a national scale, which can enhance our understanding of freshwater ecosystems, and shall improve the decision-making of water resources management. |
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LOWER COLORADO |
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Joanna Whittier, Co-PI Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences 302 Anheuser-Busch Natural Resources Building 1105 E. Rollins St. University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 Phone: 573-884-7553 Email: whittierj@missouri.edu |
| Research interests: Landscape ecology, species conservation, GIS applications. Specific role in project: I will be focusing on the potential changes to aquatic habitat condition for the Lower Colorado River Basin resulting from projected alterations in climate and land use. |
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Julian Olden, Co-PI School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences University of Washington Box 355020 Seattle WA 98195 Phone: 206-616-3112 Email: olden@uw.edu |
| Research interests: Ecohydrology, dams and river regulation, invasive species, multivariate statistics, conservation biogeography. Specific role in project: Focus on meeting project objectives for the Lower Colorado River Basin by helping develop and implement research examining the threat of climate change to critical freshwater habitat and their constituent fish species. |
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Craig Paukert, Lead PI USGS Missouri Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences 302 Anheuser-Busch Natural Resources Building University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 Phone: 573-882-3524 Email: paukertc@missouri.edu |
| Research interests: Fisheries management and ecology; large river ecology. Specific role in project: Craig is the lead investigator on the project, and also is helping coordinate how climate change will affect fish habitat in the Lower Colorado River Basin. Craig is also working with Dr. Allison Pease to determine population-level effects of climate and land use change on fishes. |
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Allison Pease, Post-doc Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences USGS Missouri Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit 302 Anheuser-Busch Natural Resources Building University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 Phone: 573-882-2160 Email: peasea@missouri.edu |
| Research interests: Community and population ecology of stream fishes, aquatic food webs, fishes as ecological indicators, functional measures of diversity. Specific role in project: Examining population-level effects of climate change on fishes. |
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Ty Wagner, Co-PI Pennsylvania Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit Pennsylvania State University 402 Forest Resources Bldg University Park, PA 16802 Phone: 814-865-4511 Email: txw19@psu.edu |
| Research interests: Fish population dynamics and management; fish habitat; land-water interactions hierarchical modeling. Specific role in project: Assess the current status of brook trout habitat and predict future suitability of brook trout habitat under uncertain future climate and land use change. |
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J. Tyrell Deweber PA Coop Fish and Wildlife Research Unit 419 Forest Resources Bldg University Park, PA 16802 Phone: 901-387-7102 Email: jtdeweber@gmail.com |
| Research interests: I am interested in understanding the processes by which streams interact with their watersheds, explaining how human activities throughout the landscape alter these processes to impact streams, and identifying management strategies that can help mitigate these impacts. Specific role in project: I am a PhD student investigating the potential impacts that projected climate and land use changes will have on brook trout throughout their native range in the Eastern U.S. with the guidance of Drs. Tyler Wagner and Paola Ferreri. I am personally delighted to be a part of this regional project, as I am an avid brook trout angler and see the brook trout as a species that is not only sensitive to climate and land use changes but is culturally important throughout the region. |
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Paola Ferreri School of Forest Resources 408 Forest Resource Building Penn State University University Park, PA 16802 Phone: 814-863-2095 Email: cpf3@psu.edu |
| Research interests: Fish - habitat interactions, fisheries management and policy. Specific role in project: I am part of the team with Dr. Tyler Wagner and Mr. Tyrell Deweber who will be investigating effects climate and land use changes on eastern brook trout populations. |
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Lucinda Johnson, Co-PI University of Minnesota Duluth Natural Resources Research Institute 5013 Miller Trunk Highway Duluth, MN 55811 Phone: 218-720-4251 Email: ljohnson@umn.edu |
| Research interests: Landscape and aquatic ecology. Specific role in project: Predict influence of climate and land use change on cold water fish habitat in the glacial lakes region of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. |
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William Herb St. Anthony Falls Lab 2 Third Ave SE Minneapolis, MN 55414 Phone: 612-624-5147 Email: herb0003@umn.edu |
| Research interests: Lake and stream water quality, surface hydrology. Specific role in project: My main role in the project is to simulate nutrient loadings to the glacial lakes for present and future land use and climate regimes. This information will then be used to predict changes to coldwater lake habitat for the glacial lakes region of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. |
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Additional Collaborators
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Bryan Pijanoski 195 Marsteller Street, 305 FORS Department of Forestry and Natural Resources Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana 47906 Phone: 765-496-2215 Email: bpijanow@purdue.edu |
| Research interests: Land change modeling using GIS and artificial neural networks; coupled land-climate-hydrology modeling at large spatial scales. Specific role in project: Development of land use forecasts to 2040 at the national and regional scales. |
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Jeff Kershner USGS-Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center 2327 University Way; Suite 2 Bozeman, MT 59715 Phone: 406-994-5304 Email: jkershner@usgs.gov |
| Research interests: For most of my career, I’ve worked on a variety of issues that are related to the effects of land management practices on aquatic and riparian resources. My past research includes work on native salmonids in Idaho, Utah and Wyoming, explores various aspects of aquatic and riparian resource monitoring, and looks at fire effects on streams and riparian areas. Currently, I’m the Director of the USGS Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center and an affiliate faculty at Montana State University where I oversee a research group of biologists and ecologists that address natural resource issues including global climate change, fire ecology, fish and wildlife ecology, plant ecology, and the conservation of endangered species. In my past position, I was an aquatic ecologist for the USDA Forest Service and a research professor at Utah State University. Specific role in project: Examining how fish habitat in specific region of the western US will be impacted as a result of landscapes changes brought on by climate change and land-use, as well as examine how selected fish distributions may change with altered climate. |
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Steve Hostetler USGS, Department of Geosciences Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331 Phone: 541-737-8928 Email: swhostet@usgs.gov |
| Research interests: Past and future climate change and interaction with surface systems. Specific role in project: Producing regional climate simulations (dynamical downscaling) at 50 and 15-km over North America. |
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Don Periera Minnesota DNR, Div. of Fish & Wildlife 500 Lafayette Road, Box 20 St. Paul, MN 55155-4020 Phone: 651-259-5231 Email: don.pereira@state.mn.us |
| Research interests: Fish population and community dynamics; fish ecology and aquatic habitat relationships; climate change adaptation for fisheries management. Specific role in project: Downscaled climate data will help improve the research that we are doing here in MN to better understand future changes in key aquatic habitats for various fish species. Primarily with this project, we are interested in better understanding how climate change may exacerbate or interact with current habitat stressors, and particularly in dimictic lakes that provide adequate hypolimnetic oxygen for supporting important coldwater species, notably cisco and lake trout, and also lake whitefish and burbot. Secondarily, and for future projects, we also would like to forecast where expanding warm water species may result in declines of cool water species (e.g. expansion of black bass, and related declines in walleye and northern pike), and the mechanisms behind these potential community shifts (e.g. will the shifts be driven largely by temperature itself, increase sediment and nutrient loading, or a combination of these two primary stressors). |
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Peter Jacobson Fisheries Research Supervisor - Habitat Group Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Itasca State Park – Old Headquarters 27841 Forest Lane Park Rapids, MN 56470 Phone: 218-699-7294 Email: Peter.Jacobson@state.mn.us |
| Research interests: Effects of climate and land use on coldwater fish in lakes. Specific role in project: Provide a state agency perspective for research into the effects of climate change on cisco (and other coldwater fish) in the Great Lakes states. |
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