BORN: July 24, 1949, Iowa City, Iowa

RESEARCH AREAS:
Freshwater macrophyte ecology; forest wildflower restoration.

EDUCATION:
B.A.     May 1971. Oberlin College, Major: Biology
M.S.     December 1973, University of Wisconsin, Madison     Major: Botany  
Ph.D.    May 1977, University of Wisconsin, Madison
                        Major: Botany - Minor: Zoology

HONORS:

• Dean's List, Oberlin College
• High honors in Biology, Oberlin College, 1971
• Sigma Xi Associate, 1971; full membership, 1977
• Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, SUNY, 1991
• University Award for Excellence in Teaching, SUNY, 1991

POSITIONS HELD:

• 1984- Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Binghamton University
• 1977-1984 Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences,  SUNY-Binghamton
• 1977 Research Associate, Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 1971-75; Research Assistant, Department of Botany and
• 1976-77 Institute for Environmental Studies, University ofWisconsin
• 1975-76 Teaching Assistant, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 1973, 1974 Research Assistant, Skadar Lake, Yugoslavia (summers) (Smithsonian Institution)

SELECTED DEPARTMENTAL AND UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES:

• Faculty searches (8; chair of 4), Greenhouse (24 yrs; chair, 8 yrs), Advisory to chair (10 yrs), Space/Equipment (24 yrs), Seminar, Undergraduate (4 yrs), Graduate (6 yrs), Budget, Freshman advising, Grievance
• University Environment (7 yrs; chair, 5 yrs), University Personnel (2 yrs; chair of subcommittee forprofessional schools, phys ed, and the library), Radiation Safety (12 yrs), Innovational  Projects Board, Truman Scholarship, Screening (Pre-health advisor, Associate Dean of Harpur College), Provost's Teaching Task Force
  

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES:

• Organized contributed paper sessions on macrophyte ecology at the annual meetings of the Ecological Society of America (1985, 1988, 1993, 1996, 2001).
• Invited participant to conferences: The efficacy and impact of intensive plant harvesting in lake management (Madison, Wisconsin, 1979). Submersed macrophyte workshop (Lake George, New York, 1984). Complex interactions in lake communities (University of Notre Dame, 1987). Evaluation of invasions and declines of submersed aquatic macrophytes (Daytona Beach, FL, 1993).
• Manuscript referee for the American Journal of Botany, American Midland Naturalist, American Naturalist, Aquatic Botany, Archiv für Hydrobiologie, Bryologist, Canadian Journal of Botany, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Ecological Applications, Ecological Bulletins, Ecology, Ecoscience, Environmental and Experimental Botany, Holarctic Ecology, Hydrobiologia, Journal of Aquatic Plant Management, Journal of Freshwater Ecology, Journal of the North American Benthological Society, Lake and Reservoir Management, Limnology and Oceanography, Plant Ecology, Vegetatio, Wetlands, various symposia (The Dynamics of Lotic Ecosystems, Freshwater Wetlands and Wildlife, Hudson River Ecology, Vernal Pool Plants, Food Web Management).
• Reviewer of grant proposals to the National Science Foundation, the Hudson River Foundation, Sea Grant, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Whitehall Foundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
• Consultant to the Army Corps of Engineers (1981), the Adirondack Park Agency (1988-1989).
• Editorial Boards: Wetlands (1990-1993), Aquatic Botany (1991-present)
  

INVITED SEMINARS:

Biological Institute (Titograd, Yugoslavia), Canada Centre for Inland Waters (Burlington, Ontario), Cornell University, Emory University, Fordham University, Institute of Ecosystem Studies (Millbrook, NY), Juniata College, McGill University, Michigan State University, Oberlin College, Ohio State University, Binghamton University (SUNY), SUNY-Buffalo, University of Notre Dame, Waterways Experiment Station (Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, Mississippi)

CONTRACTS:

• Water quality evaluation: Whitney Point and East Sidney Reservoirs. Summer 1988. (US Army Corps of Engineers - Waterways Experiment Station) $2,563.
• Water quality evaluation: East Sidney Lake, New York. Summer l989. (US ACE-WEC) $3,657
  

GRANTS:

• The comparative ecology of submersed macrophytes. 1978-1979 (SUNY University Awards Committee) $3,764.50.
• Junior Faculty Research Support. 1978 (SUNY-Binghamton) $351.
• An integrative evaluation of the role of water relations in the vertical zonation of Sphagnum species. 1978-1982 (National Science Foundation: Population Biology and Physiological Ecology) $110,354.
• The comparative ecology of submersed macrophytes. 1979-1981 (SUNY University Awards Committee) $3,800.
• Junior Faculty Research Support. l980 (SUNY-Binghamton) $792.
• The basis of acid rain-induced compositional change in submersed macrophyte communities. 1981-1984 (Environmental Protection Agency:Water Pollution, Control-Research Development, and Demonstration) $146,173.
• Submersed macrophytes: three levels of response to lake acidification. 1985-1989 (National Science Foundation: Population Biology and Physiological Ecology) $201,000.
• Hudson River graduate fellowship for Richard S. Feldman. 1989-1991. (Hudson River Foundation) $17,000.
• Reproductive Ecology of Aquatic Plants: Where have all the seeds gone? 1990-1991 (SUNY Research Foundation) $2962.
• Cutler Pond: A baseline study. 1995. (Broome County Environmental Management Council) $2,500.
• DIC analysis: sharpening an NSF proposal. Collaboration with Dr. T.V. Madsen (Århus University, Denmark. 1994. Binghamton University minigrant. $1000.)
• Does naturally high [CO2] alter submersed microphyte communities? 1999-2003. (National Science Foundation: Ecology) $200,000. REU Supplement $5000.
• Nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment attenuation capacities of wetland plants within the Nancicoke Creek corridor. 2001-2002. (New York State Water Resources Institute, Cornell University) $11,933.