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Department of Environmental & Forest Biology Annual Report Department of Environmental & Forest Biology Annual Report Summer 2019 Academic Year 2019–2020 Melissa K. Fierke Chair, Department of Environmental and Forest Biology SUNY-ESF 1 Forestry Drive Syracuse, NY 13210 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Overview to Annual Report . 1 1. Teaching a) Summary of main courses taught by faculty members . 7 b) Summary of main courses taught by staff/adjuncts/visiting . 8 c) Course teaching load summary . .10 2. Undergraduate students a) Advising loads . .12 b) Curriculum changes . .12 c) Undergraduate students recruitment efforts . 12 d) Undergraduate students enrolled in each EFB major . 13 e) Student learning outcomes . 13 3. Graduate Students a) Graduate students by major and degree in EFB Fall 2019 . .14 b) Graduate students finished in EFB by degree 2009–May 2020 . 14 c) Graduate students finished in EFB by major AY 2019–20 . 14 d) Number of graduate students by faculty and by degree . .15 e) Courses having TA support and enrollment in each . .16 f) Students Graduating and Thesis/Dissertation Titles . .17 g) Postdoctoral Researchers . 18 4. Research/Scholarship a) Summary of publications . 18 b) Science citation Indices for Dept and faculty . .18 c) Summary of proposal activity by Dept and faculty . 20 d) Summary of grant activity by Dept and faculty . .21 5. Outreach and Service a) Service to the department, college, and university . 22 b) Enumeration of outreach activities . 22 c) Summary of grant panel service . 22 d) Number of journal manuscripts reviewed by faculty. 23 e) Summary of journal editorial board service. 23 f) Service Learning . 23 6. Department Structure & Budget a) Organizational chart . 25 b) Recent activities . 26 c) Budget . 26 7. Departmental Honors & Awards . 29 8. Progress on previous year’s objectives . 29 9. Plans and Objectives for 2020–2021 . 30 10. Certification that all professional employees have had an annual evaluation and a new performance program in place by June 1, 2019 . 32 Appendix A. EFB Faculty: Rank, Education, and Interests . 33 Appendix B. Summary of Individual Faculty’s Most Significant Accomplishments . 37 Appendix C. Faculty Publications (published or in press) . 73 Appendix D. Papers Submitted, In Review, Pending Decision . 85 Appendix E. Papers/Posters Presented at Science Meetings . 88 Appendix F. Faculty Grants . 98 Appendix G. Service to Department, College, and University . 118 Appendix H. New York Natural Heritage Program 2019–20 – not provided Appendix I. Annual Report for the Thousand Islands Biological Station . 126 Appendix J. Annual Report for Cranberry Lake Biological Station . 140 Appendix K: Annual Report for Roosevelt Wild Life Station – not provided Annual Report Overview This report is a brief summary of the Department of Environmental & Forest Biology’s (EFB’s) activities during the 2019–20 academic year. Topics and format of this annual report generally follow instructions from the Provost’s Office to include items requested: 1. Teaching 7. Honors and Awards 2. Undergraduate students 8. Progress on objectives for 2019–2020 3. Graduate Students 9. Plans and objectives for 2020–2021 4. Research 10. Certification that professional employees 5. Outreach have had an annual evaluation and a new 6. Governance Structure and Budget performance program Only a few of the many exciting activities and accomplishments within EFB the past academic year are included in this brief summary. Each faculty member’s summary of their most significant accomplishments this past year is in Appendix A. The largest challenge this past year was the monumental adjustments our faculty/staff made in going online in March 2019 as our students transitioned to online learning. All are commended for pivoting to continue teaching and learning under the most challenging of circumstances. Illick Updates As part of the Marshall Hall project, and the displacement of faculty using those spaces (mostly SRM, but also part of the Chestnut project, which is now happily housed amongst Chemistry labs over in Jahn), renovations got underway in fall 2019 to upgrade spaces on the 4th floor of Illick. As these wrapped up, an even larger effort kicked off in spring 2020 to renovate the far west end of the third floor into a shared Terrestrial Ecology Research Area (TERA). This will be in addition to simultaneously transforming the Illick subbasement into a much more user-friendly shared Terrestrial and Aquatic Research Area (sub-TARA). Also, included will be a new spacious departmental seminar room and a dedicated space for ESF’s Center for Native Peoples. Sub-TERA and TERA will be shared by EFB and SRM faculty, fostering increased, and continued, collaborations between our Departments. This effort is being guided by Rex Giardine with our Physical Plant and funded through the Marshall Hall rehabilitation project. Several faculty in the department engaged in a year long process with a design firm (JMZ Architects and Planners) and SUNY construction fund representatives Facilities Master Plan Update, which included a Program Study for Illick. This study will guide renovations in Illick Hall over the next 5–10 years. Please let us know if you have ideas and thoughts. Celebrating Our Faculty Dr. Karin Limburg was named SUNY Distinguished Professor, (https://www.esf.edu/communications/view2.asp?newsID=8657), the highest faculty rank in the SUNY system, based on her being an exemplary scholar and faculty member. She joined the college in 1999 and has been one of the most productive and recognized researchers at ESF, examples include being recognized by the SUNY Research Foundation in 2003 for her scholarship and research and received a prestigious NSF CAREER award of $600,000 that same year, receiving a Fulbright Scholarship in 2006, being named ESF’s Exemplary Researcher in 2010, and in 2018 she received a SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. Dr. Limburg has been an author on >120 papers published (45 as first author) and has garnered >45 grants (totaling > $15M), trained 24 graduate students (as well as mentoring 6 PhDs currently), and has supported post-docs and multiple visiting scientists. Dr. Limburg teaches important courses for our department including Fisheries Science and Management, Fisheries Science Practicum, The Hudson River Watershed, and Watershed Ecology/Focus on Hudson. She often develops short term courses and seminar to keep abreast of the most recent quantitative methods and techniques and in doing so brings her research into these courses as well as tremendous rigor, quantitative skills, logic, and passion. Dr. Limburg has been truly exceptional in service in her field. She is leader in the national and international scientific community, where she has: 1) served as reviewer for > 20 different journals, 2) has served as Associate or Co-Editor for five journals, 3) served as referee or panelist for seven grant agencies, 4) served as member on many professional committees or review panels, 5) belongs to nine professional societies, and 6) was instrumental in founding the US Society of Ecological Economics, for which she served several years as Board Member and President and is founding co- editor of the associated journal, Ecological Economics Reviews. Dr. Limburg has also been active in service at the college and departmental level, serving on important searches, e.g., for Provost in 2017, and departmental/college committees, e.g., she was the Chair of our Graduate Program Advisory Committee for 6 years, served on both the Departmental and College Promotion and Review Committees, and is currently serving on our Academic Governance Awards Committee. Dr. Limburg’s most outstanding professional attributes are that she is exceptionally collaborative and that she applies her exceptional intellect and innovative methods to solving some the most important problems in fisheries, e.g., the decline of fish in oceans and streams as well as dead zones associated with apoxia in the Gulf of Mexico. Her work has spanned the world, from ancient, virtually unstudied fish of the Amazon; to iconic commercial cod stocks in the Baltic Sea; endangered species in the Grand Canyon; and some of her most well-known work on American shad in the Hudson River. She has developed a robust research program focused on anadromous fishes of the eastern US and fish otolith microchemistry. Dr. Kimberly Schulz received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Teaching at the May Academic Governance meeting. Dr. Schulz was hired in January of 2000 and her scientific and teaching expertise is in aquatic ecosystems with a focus on phytoplankton and water chemistry. Dr. Schulz’s primary courses are Limnology and Marine Ecology and she is a lead for our Marine Ecology minor, the second most acquired minor at ESF. Past awards include Dr. Schulz being chosen as a Sabbatical Fellow with the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in 2007–08, ESF’s Exemplary Researcher in 2012, the Best Faculty Advisor Award from our Undergraduate Student Association for her exceptional advising in 2014–15, and becoming a Fellow of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography in 2018. Dr. Lee Newman was also honored with the Stephen D. Ebbs Distinguished Service Award by the International Phytotechnology Society in conjunction with the International Journal of Phytoremediation (https://www.esf.edu/communications/view2.asp?newsID=8565) 2 Dr. Robin Kimmerer, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, was nominated to the American Academy of
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