Research Interests

• Conservation and restoration of riverine ecosystems.

• Multi-scaled, hierarchical ecological organization in riverine ecosystems.

• Influence of hydrology and hydraulics on species interactions and riverine communities.

• Establishing environmental flows to support freshwater biodiversity and sustainability.

• Responses of riverine ecosystems to environmental alteration, including climate change.

Recent Grants (as PI)

"Predicting relative risk of invasion by saltcedar and mud snails in river networks under different scenarios of climate change and dam operations in the western United States." USEPA STAR grant (#R833833), 2008-2011.

"Proposed workshops linking river ecology with hydrologic modeling." National Science Foundation, 2004-2006.

"Linking watershed characteristics with flowregime and geomorphic context to diagnose water quality impairment at multiple spatiotemporal scales." USEPA STAR Grant (#R831367), 2003-2007.

"Compilation and analysis of macroinvertebrate species traits for the National Water Quality Assessment Program." US Geological Survey, 2004-2005.

"Herbivory in streams -- context-dependent species interactions and functional redundancy." National Science Foundation, 2000-2004.