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)

"An integrative traits-based approach to predicting variation in vulnerability of tropical and temperate stream biodiversity to climate change." National Science Foundataion (Award Number 1046408), 2011-2015 [link to EVOTRAC home page]

"IGERT:I-WATER: Integrated Water Atmosphere and Ecosystems Education and Research" National Science Foundation IGERT (Jorge Ramirez, PI), 2010-2015. [link to I-WATER homepage]

"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.