The Wetland Ecosystems Research Group
consists of faculty and staff members at the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst and collaborating institutions. Members have been engaged since
the late 1960's in research, teaching and public service on freshwater and
marine wetlands. Many Group members have collaborated on research and training
teams addressing complex issues in wetland ecology, management and policy.
Members of the Research Group are available as individuals, or as teams, to undertake new sponsored projects. Examples of projects, on-going and completed, led by members of the group are:
The Environmental Institute (TEI)
in the Vice Chancellery for Research, University of Massachusetts acts
to facilitate communication among Group members, with collaborators worldwide,
and with potential sponsors of future projects. On request, from Group members
or sponsors, TEI can administer projects that involve multiple academic
units, institutions or sponsors.
(Affiliation is with the University of Massachusetts, Amherst unless otherwise noted)
Peter Alpert, Biology, www.bio.umass.edu/biology/index.html,
413-545-4357, palpert@bio.umass.edu
Plant ecology, conservation science.
John D. Edman, Entomology, www.umass.edu/ent/, 413-545-2557, jedman@ent.umass.edu, Aquatic arthropods.
D. Craig Edwards, Biology, www.bio.umass.edu/biology/index.html, 413-545-4400, 0459, ?????, Population and community ecology of marine coastal invertebrates, ecology of molluscs.
John T. Finn, Forestry and Wildlife, www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~forwild/ ,413-545-1819, finn@forwild.umass.edu, ecosystem modelling, remote sensing, geographic information systems.
David Foster, Harvard Forest, Harvard University, LTERnet.edu/~rlent/hfrhome.htm, 508-724-3302, drfoster@fas.harvard.edu, ecology, paleoecology, wetland development in temperate and boreal peatlands.
Paul Jeffrey Godfrey, Biology, www.bio.umass.edu/biology/index.html, 413-545-6606, plant ecology of barrier islands and coastal wetland systems, effects of sea level change on mangroves in the Bahamas.
Paul Joseph Godfrey, Water Resources Research Center, www.umass.edu/tei/wrrc, 413-545-2842, godfrey@tei.umass.edu, limnology.
Curtice Griffin, Forestry and Wildlife, www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~forwild/ ,413-545-2640, cgriffin@forwild.umass.edu, wetland wildlife ecology and management, habitat assessment, geographic information systems, conservation planning.
Joseph S. Larson, Environmental Institute, www.umass.edu/tei/, 413-545-2842, larson@tei.umass.edu, freshwater wetland functional assessment, policy, international wetland issues.
Richard B. Newton, Environmental Institute: Office of Geographic Information and Analysis, www.umass.edu/tei/ogia/, 413-545-2516, rnewton@tei.umass.edu, freshwater wetlands public education.
Rutherford H. Platt, Geosciences, www.geo.umass.edu/ , 413-545-2499, rplatt@geo.umass.edu, coastal wetlands and wetland policy.
Thomas H. Stevens, Resource Economics, www.umass.edu/resec/ , 413-545-5714, tstevens@resecon.umass.edu, economic analysis, contingent valuation.
Janice S. Stone, Forestry and Wildlife, www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~forwild/, 413-545-3516, jsstone@forwild.umass.edu, wetland, seagrass and vernal pool inventories.
Peter Veneman, Plant and Soil Sciences, www.umass.edu/plsoils/ , 413-545-5215, veneman@pssci.umass.edu, wetland delineation, mapping, soils and biochemical processes.
Five College Marine Program - geology.smith.edu/marine/marine.html
National Water Institutes - www.uwin.siu.edu/
For general information about the Group, or for assistance in identifying
and organizing a sponsored research or training team, contact The
Environmental Institute. Where a question can be addressed by an individual
group member, direct contact with that person is recommended.