I have had the privilege of working with some outstanding graduate students in my program at the University of Minnesota. The entries below include the thesis titles of each of these people and links to their current Web sites or E-mail addresses, if known.
This photo of Dick and Elliot was taken in the summer of 1994, about a year before Dick's passing.
Master's Thesis. 1982. Effects of intensive dipnet fishing on the abundance, growth, survival, and sex ratio of smelt (Osmerus mordax ) in South Bay, Lake Huron. Dick's Masters' research provided the foundation for DISBCAL, a program for measuring and storing the growth increment history of fish from their scales. Ph. D. Dissertation. 1987. Simulation of the walleye population and fishery of Lake of the Woods, Minnesota.
Ph. D. Dissertation. 1991. Effects of exploitation on populations of Daphnia pulex.Jim is an avid outdoorsman and generously donated a photo of one of his Colorado trophies. (This provided an opportunity for some unscrupulous re-touching with Adobe Photoshop). When he's not hunting, Jim is a Colonel and professor of biology at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.
KentJS.DFB.USAFA@usafa.af.mil
Ph. D. Dissertation. 1992. Dynamics and biochronology of freshwater drum (Aplodinotus grunniens ) in the Red Lakes, Minnesota.
E-mail: don.pereira@dnr.state.mn.us http://www.fw.umn.edu/FW-WWW/Faculty/Pereira.html
Master's Thesis. 1989. Angler expectations as a factor in the perception of quality of the fishing experience.
E-mail: pspencer@limanda.gso.uri.edu
M.S. thesis 1995: A Growth History of Red Lake Walleye (Stizostedion vitreum ) Developed through Scale Analysis.
E-mail: mikecy@vt.edu
http://www.fw.vt.edu/student/vtafs/Cyterski/mikecy
Lyn has just completed a master's degree in fisheries by applying the principles of biochronology to the development of an archaeometric method. She is currently preparing a publication for the primary literature.
E-mail: lynbe@finsandfur.fw.umn.edu
Derek completed his doctoral dissertation on Lake Superior lake trout in the summer of 1996 . During Winter quarter, 1996, Derek was the Webmaster for my vertebrate populations assessment course, FW5601, and the Teaching Assistant for the analytical laboratory in that course. His introduction to teaching at the U of M must have been an enjoyable experience as he has just assumed a position teaching statistics at Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin. In addition to his research and publications, Derek became a competent Webmaster while at the U of M. Derek's home pages provide some excellent examples of functional Web page design.
E-mail: dogle@wheeler.northland.edu http://www.fw.umn.edu/biochr/assoc/dho/
Al is currently working on a Ph. D. dissertation on the walleye fingerling production potential of rearing ponds in the metropolitan Twin Cities area. He is using a combination of techniques involving trophic pathways delineated by stable isotope ratios, and seasonal (daily) growth increments on young- of-the-year walleye otoliths.
E-mail: atm@fw.umn.eduPat is just finishing his master's thesis on the biochronology of Siberian fishes. In the course of his research he did a summer stint at Novosibirsk, Siberia in 1996. His field studies and collections of scales and otoliths in Russia complement our studies of hemispheric environmental conditions for freshwater fish. Pat is currently working on trout stream management in southeastern Minnesota at the Minnesota DNR's Lake City office.
E-mail: pjr@fw.umn.edu
Stephanie's master's thesis deals with the growth of shallow-water ciscoes in Lake Superior and stock identification through an application of biochronology to scale images. Stephanie's co-advisor is Dr. D. Pereira, Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources and Adjunct Professor in the Dept. of Fisheries and Wildlife.
Last year, Chris completed development of a college outreach initiative to provide a World Wide Web site about Natural Resource Management by Native Americans. The site went public in the winter of 1997 after reviews and comments had been solicited from parties to the conflict over the Treaty of 1837. The web site has been the backbone of two offerings of the Natural Resources and Environmental Studies Colloquium (NRES 3001, Section 3) since it was completed. Chris is now employed by the Minnesota Extension Service and is pursuing a Doctoral program in the Dept. of Fisheries and Wildlife on an aspect of co-management and community-based resource management related to indigenous peoples.
E-mail: penne003@maroon.tc.umn.edu
Joe came to us in late spring, 1996, from a position in Saipan, following a Peace Corps. assignment in Tailand. He has been studying the environmental histories of yellow perch (Perca flavescens) from scale increments on contemporary and archival samples. Joe is the most recent graduate of the Fisheries Master's program at the University of Minnesota, and is currently employed by the Minnesota DNR at Duluth, MN. Joe's Asian experience is a feature of his personal interests web page.
E-mail: jjo@fw.umn.edu
Geof came to us in mid-summer, 1997, from his undergraduate experience at the Dept. of Systematics and Ecology at University of Kansas. Geof will be studying the microstructure of otoliths of young-of-the-year ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernuus) from Lake Superior. Geof is continuing to work on his interest in otolith analysis of bluegills from Kansas, following up some studies he began with Cynthia Annett at KUs Long Term Ecological Research Site.
E-mail: GCS@fw.umn.edu
E-mail: mll@fw.umn.edu
E-mail: abk@fw.umn.edu
Go to George's professional interests home page.
Date created: January 24, 1996 Last modified: August 4, 1998 Copyright © 1995, George R. Spangler Maintained by: G. Spangler GRS@finsandfur.fw.umn.edu
