Research - Category II: Aquatic Ecosystems
Projects are listed by year of funding (projects renewed for a second year are listed under the first year of funding only).

Browse by year:   2008200720062005200420032002200120001999 

Funded 2008-2009
Effects of habitat fragmentation on dispersal, variability and persistence of ephemeral wetland crustaceans (pdf)
Andres Aguilar, School of Natural Sciences, UC Merced

Using Competition to Design Riparian Communities Resistant to Invasion by Giant Reed (Arundo donax) (pdf)
Jodie S. Holt, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside

The Contribution of Urban Tailwater to West Nile Virus Outbreaks along the Wildland Urban Interface (pdf)
Thomas Scott, Department of Earth Sciences, UC Riverside
William Walton, Department of Entomology, UC Riverside
James Sickman, Department of Environmental Sciences, UC Riverside
Funded 2007-2008
Climate Variability of the Sierra Nevada over the last Millennium: Reconstructions from Annually Laminated Sediments in Swamp Lake, Yosemite National Park, California (pdf)
Daniel R. Cayan, Climate Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Christopher D. Charles, Geosciences Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Funded 2006-2007
Determining Factors for Eurasian Watermilfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum L.) Spread in and around Lake Tahoe, CA-NV (pdf)
Bruce Kendall, Donald Bren School of Env. Science & Mgt., UC Santa Barbara
-->Annual Report 2006-2007 (pdf)

Control of Mercury Methylation in Wetlands through Iron Addition (pdf)
David L. Sedlak, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley
-->Annual Report 2006-2007 (pdf)

Distribution, Movement, & Outmigration of Juvenile Coho Salmon in the Shasta River: Relationships with Environmental Factors and Irrigation Water Management (pdf)
Lisa C. Thompson, Wildlife, Fish, & Conservation Biology, UC Davis
Daniel Jay Drake, UC Cooperative Extension, Siskiyou County
-->Annual Report 2006-2007 (pdf)

Funded 2005-2006
Metal Cycling and Bioavailability During Phytoplankton Blooms in South San Francisco Bay (pdf)
A. Russell Flegal, Department of Environmental Toxicology, UC Santa Cruz
-->Annual Report 2005-2006 (pdf)
-->Annual Report 2006-2007 (pdf)

Investigating the Role of Nitrogen Fixation and Denitrification in Ameliorating Deteriorating Water Quality in a Highly Eutrophic Southern California Estuary (pdf)
Peggy Fong, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Los Angeles
-->Annual Report 2005-2006 (pdf)
-->Annual Report 2006-2007 (pdf)

Quantifying Sediment Resuspension Linkages to Nutrient Enrighment in the Existing and Future Salton Sea (pdf)
S. Geoffrey Schladow, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Davis
-->Annual Report 2005-2006 (pdf)
-->Annual Report 2006-2007 (pdf)

Funded 2004-2005
Understanding the Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Wetland Evapotranspiration, Primary Production, and Nutrient Cycling (pdf)
Michael Goulden, Department of Earth System Science, UC Irvine
-->Annual Report 2004-2005 (pdf)
-->Annual Report 2005-2006 (pdf)
-->Annual Report 2006-2007 (pdf)

Non-Native Fish in Mountain Lakes: Effects on a Declining Amphibian and Ecosystem Subsidy (pdf)
Sharon P. Lawler, Department of Entomology, UC Davis
-->Annual Report 2004-2005 (pdf)
-->Annual Report 2005-2006 (pdf)

Nutrient Deposition and Alteration of Food Web Structure in High Sierran Lakes: Response by Microbial Communities (pdf)
John M. Melack, Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, UC Santa Barbara
-->Annual Report 2004-2005 (pdf)
-->Annual Report 2005-2006 (pdf)
-->Annual Report 2006-2007 (pdf)

Funded 2003-2004
Hydrological Regimes, Pond Morphology, and Predation: Using Complex Interactions to Control an Aquatic Invasive Species (pdf)
Cheryl Briggs, Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley
-->Annual Report 2004-2005 (pdf)
-->Annual Report 2005-2006 (pdf)

Using Marine Derived Nitrogen in Tree Rings to Assess Nutrient Flux and Salmon Escapement (pdf)
Michael Johnson, John Muir Institute of the Environment, UC Davis
-->Annual Report 2004-2005 (pdf)
-->Annual Report 2005-2006 (pdf)

Funded 2002-2003
Influence of Nutrient Loading on the Invasion of an Alien Plant Species, Giant Reed (Arundo donax) in Southern California Riparian Ecosystems
Richard F. Ambrose, Dept. of Environmental Health Science, UC Los Angeles
-->Annual Report 2004-2005 (pdf)

Structure and Seasonal Changes of Nematode Communities from Vernal Pools (Santa Rosa Plateau)
Paul De Ley, Department of Nematology, UC Riverside
-->Annual Report 2004-2005 (pdf)

Pyrethroid Insecticides in Nursery Runoff: Transport and Impact on Aquatic Invertebrates
Jay Gan, Department of Environmental Sciences, UC Riverside
-->Annual Report 2004-2005 (pdf)

Linking Upland Landcover Change with Wetland Structure in Elkhorn Slough, CA
Nina M. Kelly, Environmental Sciences Policy and Management, UC Berkeley
-->Annual Report 2004-2005 (pdf)

Upstream and Upslope Translocation of River-Borne Materials by Aquatic and Riparian Organisms: Contrasts in Spatial Fluxes along Mainstems and at Tributary Confluences
Mary Power, Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley

Funded 2001-2002
Fate of Viruses, Endocrine Disrupters, and Nitrogen in Non-Conventional Onsite Wastewater Treatment Processes: A Technical and Economic Analysis (pdf)
Jeannie L. Darby, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Davis

Restoring Alpine Lake Ecosystems Through Control of Trout Spawning (pdf)
Peter Moyle, Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology, UC Davis

Funded 2000-2001
Freshwater Mussels in California's North Coastal Streams; Current Status and Geomorphologic Controls
Kurt Cuffey, Geography, UC Berkeley

The Influence of Introduced Trout on the Diversity and Structure of Native Aquatic Invertebrate Communities in High Sierran Streams
David B. Herbst, Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Lab, UC Santa Barbara

Conservation Genetics of the Tidewater Goby -- Eucyclogobius newberryi
David Jacobs, Organismic Biology, Ecol. & Evolution, UC Los Angeles

Assessing the Response of Degradative Biofilms to Groundwater Pollutants
Jay Keasling, Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley
Eric Gilbert, UC Berkeley

Examining the Relative Influence of Riparian and Upland Landcover and Landuse on Instream Habitat: Improved Methods for the Russian River Basin
Nina Maggi Kelly, Environmental Sci., Policy, and Mgmt., UC Berkeley
Adina M. Merenlender, Environmental Sci., Policy, and Mgmt., UC Berkeley

Effects of Fine Sediment Storage on Food Web Structure and Juvenile Salmonid Rearing in North Coast California Rivers
Mary Power, Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley

The Importance of Algal Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids (PUFA) and Carbon Flow Pathways in Mercury Transfer into the Lower Biota of Two California Lakes
Darell Slotton, Environmental Science & Policy, UC Davis

Funded 1999-2000
How California Fishes Swim Upstream Past Rapids, Waterfalls and Human-Made Barriers
Malcolm S. Gordon, Organismic Biology, Ecol. & Evolution, UC Los Angeles

Sources of Inorganic Nitrogen Utilized by Salt Marsh Macroalgae: Identification Using Stable Nitrogen Isotope Ratios (pdf)
Henry M. Page, Marine Science Institute, UC Santa Barbara

Habitat Features and Aquatic Health: Evaluating California’s Stream Bioassessment Procedure in Natural and Artificial Streams in a Grazed Eastern Sierra Valley
Kenneth W. Tate, Agronomy and Range Science, UC Davis