| Andy Casper | |||||
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Email: afcasper@illinois.edu Title: Director of Illinois River Biological Station
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| Activities | "What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of observing" --W. Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science (1958) |
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| Research |
I am a research biologist with 2 decades of field experience and background in both freshwater ecology and coastal oceanography. As a specialist in river science, my research and collaborations have spanned the continent from the sub-tropical river and estuary systems (southwest Florida and the Gulf of Mexico) to the arctic Mackenzie River Delta and Beaufort Sea (Northwest Territories, Canada). My past research is often interdisciplinary encompassing food web studies, watershed modeling, fish habitat assessment and delta-coastal oceanography. On-going projects include several aspects of large river ecology, modeling the impacts of climate change, and the impacts of landuse and watershed development, assessing dam removals in Maine and Connecticut, and 2D water quality mapping in tidal creeks/coastal rivers of the Gulf Coast. These have been largely grant funded projects have been sponsored by a variety of Federal agencies including the NSF, EPA, NOAA, USACE, both the Canadian Federal (NSERC) and Quebec Provincial Governments, Connecticut TNC, Maine DEP, and the Southwest Florida Water Management District. |
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| Message to Students |
I work in many areas of aquatic sciences including freshwater, fisheries, socio-economics, marine and oceanography. Please email me for information regarding my research group. |
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| Selected publications |
Casper A.F., Dixon B., Steimle E.T. Hall, M.L. and R.N. Conmy. 2012. Scales of Heterogeneity of Water Quality in Rivers: Insights from High Resolution Maps based on Integrated Geospatial, Sensor and ROV Technologies. Applied Geography 32(2):455-464, DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2011.01.023. Berkowitz, J., Casper A.F., and C. Noble. 2011. A multiple watershed field test of hydrogeomorphic functional assessment of head-water streams - Variability in field measurements between independent teams. Ecological Indicators 11 (5): 1472-1475. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.01.004. Casper A.F., B. Dixon, J. Earls, and J.A. Gore. 2011. Linking a spatially explicit watershed model (SWAT) with an in-stream fish habitat model (PHABSIM): A case study of setting minimum flows and levels in a low gradient, sub-tropical river. Rivers Research and Applications 27:269-282. DOI: 10.1002/rra.1355. Thorp, J.H., Flotemersch, J.E. Delong, M.D., Casper, A.F., Thoms, M.C., Ballantyne, F., Williams, B.S., O'Neill, B.J. and S.C. Haase. 2010. Linking Ecosystem Services, Rehabilitation, and River Hydrogeomorphology. Bioscience 60(1):67-74. DOI: 10.1525/bio.2010.60.1.11 Casper A.F., and J.H. Thorp. 2007. Diel and lateral patterns of zooplankton distribution in the St. Lawrence River. Rivers Research and Applic. 23(1):73-85. DOI 10.1002/rra.966 Updated peer-reviewed publication list; (http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=VZfzecEAAAAJ) Blogs, outreach and non-peer reviewed; (http://illinois.academia.edu/AndyCasper) |
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| Education | Ph.D (2005) Oceanography, Universite Laval, Quebec City, QC. Thesis: Ecophysiology and population differentiation of Zebra Mussels in the St. Lawrence River-Estuary. M. Sc (1993) Biological Sciences, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Thesis: The impact of sub-watershed type on trace metals and benthos of Campus Lake. B. Sc. (1990) Natural Sciences, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. | ||||
Illinois Natural History Survey - University of Illinois
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