Curriculum Vitae

 

Kimberly L. Schulz

Department of Environmental and Forest Biology

456 Illick Hall, 1 Forestry Drive

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Syracuse, NY 13210-2788

phone: (315) 470-6808 (office); 470-4753 (laboratory); FAX: (315) 470-6934

email: kschulz@syr.edu

 

Education

 

Ph.D., 1996, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

B.A., 1990, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Major: Biology.

 

Professional Employment

 

8/2007-7/2008             Sabbatical Fellow, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), Santa Barbara, C.A.

8/2005-present           Associate Professor, Environmental and Forest Biology Faculty, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, N.Y.

2000-8/2005                Assistant Professor, Environmental and Forest Biology Faculty, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, N.Y.

1997 – 1999                National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioscience Related to the Environment, October 1997- October 1999; Supervisors: Professor Robert W. Sterner, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota and Professor Dag O. Hessen, Professor, Division of Limnology, University of Oslo, Norway

1996 - 1997                 Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota.

1995                            Research Technician, The University of Michigan, June-August 1995.  Supervisor - Assistant Professor George W. Kling. Responsible for running total phosphorus and nitrogen water chemistry samples collected from a long-term ecological research station in Alaska.                                  

1990                            Research Technician, The University of Michigan, May-August 1990.  Lake Michigan Ecosystems Studies.  Responsible for collection of phytoplankton and water chemistry samples.

1988                            Research Technician, The University of Michigan, August.  Lake Michigan Ecosystems Studies.  Responsible for collection of phytoplankton and water chemistry samples during a synoptic cruise on Lake Michigan.

1987                            Research Assistant, Cornell Ponds, Cornell University, June-August 1987. Supervisor - Robert Johnson, Director of Cornell Ponds.  Macrophyte Survey of Cayuga Lake.  Responsible for collecting and identifying macrophyte samples from the southern end of Cayuga Lake; investigated several methods of macrophyte control.

1986-1987                   Research Assistant, Cornell University. June 1986-August 1987. Supervisor - Professor N.G. Hairston.  Responsible for filming and analyzing the predatory behavior of blue-gill sunfish when fed several zooplankton species.

 

Grants

 

As PI or co-PI

 

·        Title: Food quality effects on ecological efficiency at multiple scales in aquatic systems.
Funding Agency: NCEAS (National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis) Center Fellowship
PI: K.L. Schulz
Amount: $66,784  
Dates: 1 August 2007-31 July 2008.

  • Title: Can Fatty Acids Improve Our Ability to Trace Food Web Processes?
    Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (Ecology and Ecosystems)
    PI: K. Schulz; co-PIs: M. Teece, K. Limburg, J. Farrell
    Amount: $541,900
    Dates: March 2005-February 2009
  • Title: Central New York District Cooling Project
     Funding Agency: Environmental Protection Agency, , actual funding level uncertain,
    PI: J.Hassett, co-PIs: Neil Ringler and K. Schulz
    Amount: ~$1.2 million
    Dates:  Summer 2006 - 2007. 
  •  Title: Low P and High F: Testing for unexpected synergistic effects of phosphorus abatement and bivalve filtration
    Funding Agency: NOAA Sea Grant (New York)
    PI: K.L. Schulz; co-PIs: K. Limburg, V. Ludzadis, M. Ritchie (    Syracuse), C. Mayer (University of Toledo)
    Amount: $211,706
    Dates:     1 February 2004-31 January 2006
  • Title: Aquatic Nuisance Species: Ecology and Control of the Invasive Plant, Hydrocharis morsusranae in Eastern Lake Ontario and St. Lawrence River Wetlands
    PIs: D. Leopold (with graduate student A. Halpern); co-PIs: J. Farrell, D. Parry, K.L. Schulz
    Funding Agency: NOAA Sea Grant
    Amount: $128,439 (all for ESF)
    Dates: June 2003 – May 2005
  • Title: Aquatic Nuisance Species: Effects of invasive invertebrate predators on the food webs of the Great Lakes
    Funding Agency: NOAA Sea Grant (National)
    PIs: K. Schulz, C. Cáceres (University of Illinois) and J. Dettmers (Illinois Natural History Survey); co-PIs: J. Makarewicz (SUNY Brockport), E. Mills (Cornell Biological Field Station), M. Teece (SUNY ESF) and     W. Culligan (New York D.E.C.)
    Amount: $274,431 ($179,822 for ESF)
    Dates: March 2002-November 2004
  •  Title: Aquatic Nuisance Species: Applied research project for the development of a Cercopagis interdiction/prevention protocol
    Funding Agency: NOAA Sea Grant (National)
    PIs: D. Baker and D.B. MacNeill (New York Sea Grant Extension Program); co-PIs: K.L. Schulz and J. Makarewicz (SUNY Brockport)
    Amount: $41,219 ($18,500 for ESF)
    Dates: October 2001 – September 2003
  • Title: Silica mediation of food web biochemical structure in the Great Lakes
    Funding Agency: Great Lakes Research Consortium
    Funding Amount:  This grant was approved for funding in 2001, but theGLRC program was not funded by     N.Y. State, so the grant was never awarded.
    co-PIs: K. Limburg, K.L. Schulz, J.M. Farrell, M.R. Teece (SUNY ESF), and C.M. Mayer (Syracuse)
  •  Title: Bioenergetic estimation of the predatory impact of the exotic zooplankter Cercopagis pengoi in Lake Ontario
    Funding Agency: Great Lakes Research Consortium
    PI: K. Schulz; co-PIs: J. Makarewicz (SUNY Brockport), L. Rudstam and E. Mills (Cornell Biological Field Station)
    Amount: $21,300 ($16,500 for ESF)
    Dates: July 2000-June 2001
  • Title: Stoichiometric bottlenecks: herbivore life-history constraints and optimal foraging responses.  Special starter grant for tenure track position.
    Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
    PI: K. Schulz
    Amount: $35,000 (matched with $70,000); all funding to SUNY ESF
    Dates: May 2000 - December 2002

·        Title: Can nutrient loading determine the community structure of herbivores?  Examining the effects of variable nutrient loading on herbivore competition, community structure and nutrient recycling, using experimental laboratory and field studies in concert with population and ecosystem-level modeling.
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioscience Related to the Environment
PI: K.L. Schulz; Sponsoring scientists: Associate Professor Robert W. Sterner, University of Minnesota and Professor Dag O. Hessen, University of Oslo, Norway
Dates: 1997-1999.


As Associate Investigator or Personnel

·        Title: Ecological Indicators and Sustainability of the Lake Ontario Ecosystem: Melding Science and Stakeholder Involvement
P.I. E. Mills (Cornell); Collaborators: L. Rudstam (Cornell),. R. O’Gorman (USGS), D.B. MacNeill and D.G. White (NY Sea Grant).
Agency: Hatch Proposal 2006-07-097; CUAES (Hatch research support) and CCE (federal extension)
Amount:  Total of $23,500 a year
Dates: Oct 1, 2006 – Oct 1, 2009

·        Title: “Impact of acid rain on microbial communities in Adirondack State Park lakes: A systems approach to assessing the effects of chronic acidification on aquatic communities”
P.I.: D. Treves (Clarkson); Associated Personnel: H. Prutzman, C. Lawrence and T.C. Young (Clarkson); Expert consultants: K.L. Schulz and J.P. Zehr (UC Santa Cruz)
Funding Agency: Center for Environmental Management, Clarkson University
Amount: $6,500
Dates: Summer 2001

 

 

Awards and Fellowships

 

National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biosciences Related to the Environment.  October 1997-1999.

DIALOG II (Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Limnology and Oceanography) participant; October 1997.

Edwin Edwards Fellowship.  The University of Michigan, September-December 1995.

Rackham Dissertation Fellowship.  The University of Michigan;  September-December 1993.

Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellowship.  The University of Michigan;  July 1992-May 1993.

Rackham Travel Grant.  The University of Michigan, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993

Summer Block Grant.  Department of Biology, The University of Michigan;  Summer 1990, 1991, 1993.

Peter Olaus Okkelberg Award.  Department of Biology, The University of Michigan, 1990, 1993.

Regents Fellowship.  College of Literature, Science and Arts, The University of Michigan.

National Science Foundation Graduate Scholarship Semi-Finalist.

Undergraduate Honors Project Research Support Grant.  Cornell University; The morphometric effects of Chaoborus americanus on a population of Daphnia pulex.  Advisor - Professor N.G. Hairston, Jr.

 

 

Publications

 

Peer-Reviewed

In review

Johnson, R.K., C.M. Mayer, E.M. Mills, and K.L. Schulz. Increased benthic algal primary production in response to zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) invasion in Oneida Lake, N.Y.  Journal of Integrative Plant Biology

Williams, J. and K.L. Schulz. To mate or defend: Testing the adaptive function of zooplankton swarming. Behavioral Ecology

Snyder, M.D. and K.L. Schulz. An evaluation of the effects of physical and chemical control measures on the development of Cercopagis pengoi resting eggs. J. Great Lakes Res.

 

Published or in press

Smyntek, P., M. Teece, K. Schulz and A. Storch. 2008. Taxonomic differences in essential fatty acid composition of groups of freshwater zooplankton relate to distinct ecological adaptations.  Freshwater Biology, in press

Murry, B., J.M. Farrell, K.L. Schulz, and M.A. Teece. 2008. The effect of egg size and nutrient content on larval performance: implications to protracted spawning in northern pike (Esox lucius Linnaeus, 1758). Hydrobiologia in press

Smith, J., G.L. Boyer, E.Mills, and K.L. Schulz. 2008. Toxicity of microcystin-LR, a cyanobacterial toxin, to multiple life-stages of the burrowing mayfly, Hexagenia, and possible implications for recruitment.  Environmental Toxicology online early DOI 10.102/tox.20369

Ji, X. and K.L. Schulz. accepted. Oligotrophication, water clarity and ecological stoichiometry – Using the Oneida Lake long-term data set to test a zooplankton food quality model. Oneida Lake Book (peer reviewed). E. Mills, L. Rudstam, and D. Stewart editors.

Storch, A.J., K.L. Schulz, C.E. Cáceres, P.M. Smyntek, J.M. Dettmers, M.A. Teece. 2007.  Consumption of the exotic zooplankton, Bythotrephes longimanus and Cercopagis pengoi, by alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) and rainbow smelt (I) in three Laurentian Great Lakes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 64: 1314-1328.

Smyntek, P.M., M.A. Teece, K.L. Schulz and S.J. Thackeray. 2007. Standardizing the use of stable isotopes in aquatic food web research: The influence of fatty acid content on stable carbon isotope values of zooplankton and the utility of mass balance correction models. Limnology and Oceanography. 52(5):2135-2146.

Qin, P., C.M. Mayer, K.L. Schulz, X. Ji, and M. Ritchie. 2007. Ecological stoichiometry in benthic food webs: Effect of light and nutrients on periphyton food quantity and quality in lakes. Limnology and Oceanography 52(4): 1728-1734.

Schulz, K.L. 2005. Implications of an energetic comparison of native and exotic predatory invertebrates in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Verh. Int. Verein. Limnol. 29(2): 1059-1063.

Schulz, K.L., C. Mayer, E.L. Mills, R. Dermott, D. Dittman, D. Fitzgerald, J. Haynes, R. O’Gorman, O.E. Johannsson, R.W. Owens, L. Rudstam, T. Schaner, P. Smyntek, A. Storch, M. Teece, N. Tisch, D. Warners, and B. Zhu, 2003.  Status of Ponto-Caspian invasive species in Lake Ontario, 2000-2002. State of Lake Ontario. Great Lakes Review

Sterner, R.W. J.H. Schampel, K.L. Schulz, A.E. Galford, and J.J. Elser. 2001. Joint variation of zooplankton stoichiometry in lakes and reservoirs. Verh. Int. Verein. Limnol., 27: 3009-3014.

Bridgeman, T.B., C.D. Wallace, G.S. Carter, R. Carvajal, L.C. Schiesari, S. Aslam, E. Cloyd, D. Elder, A. Field, K.L. Schulz, P.M. Yurista and G.W. Kling. 2000. A limnological survey of Third Sister Lake, Michigan, with historical comparisons.  Lake and Reservoir Management 16: 253-267.

Elser,J.J., W. Fagan, R.F. Denno, D.R. Dobberfuhl, A. Folarin, A. Huberty, S. Interlandi, S.S. Kilham, E. McCauley, K.L. Schulz, E.H. Siemann, and R.W. Sterner. 2000. Elemental analysis illuminates nutritional constraints on terrestrial and freshwater food webs. Nature 408 (6812): 578-580.

Schulz, K.L. and R.W. Sterner. 2000. Zooplankton food quality in large lakes: growth of Daphnia on high P content seston from Lake Superior. Verh. Int. Verein. Limnol., 27: 1855-1860.

Schulz, K.L. and P.M. Yurista. 1999. Implications of an invertebrate predator’s (Bythotrephes cederstroemi) atypical effects on a pelagic community.  Hydrobiologia 380: 179-193.

Sterner, R.W. and K.L. Schulz. 1999. Phytoplankton phosphorus limitation and food quality for Bosmina.  Limnology and Oceanography 44(6): 1549-1556.

Schulz, K.L. and R.W. Sterner. 1998. Zooplankton food quality in large lakes: growth of Daphnia on high P content seston from Lake Superior.  Verh. Int. Verein. Limnol., in press.

Sterner, R.W. J.H. Schampel, K.L. Schulz, A.E. Galford, and J.J. Elser. 1998. Joint variation of zooplankton stoichiometry in lakes and reservoirs.  Verh. Int. Verein. Limnol., in press.

Sterner, R.W. and K.L. Schulz. 1998. Zooplankton nutrition: recent progress and a reality check. Aquatic Ecology 32: 261-279.

Yurista, P.M. and K.L. Schulz. 1996. Comments on “A model for growth, development, and diet selection by the invertebrate predator, Bythotrephes cederstroemi” by Lehman and Branstrator.  J. Great Lakes Res. 22:925-929.

Yurista, P.M. and K.L. Schulz. 1995. Bioenergetic analysis of prey consumption by Bythotrephes cederstroemi in Lake Michigan. Can. J. Fish. and Aquat. Sci.  52: 141-150.

Schulz, K.L. and P.M. Yurista. 1995. Diet composition from allozyme analysis in the predatory cladoceran Bythotrephes cederstroemi. Limnology and Oceanography 40 (4): 821-826.

 

Additional, non-peer reviewed

 

Schulz, K.L. 2006. A long view of lakes Ecology:  87(12): 3222-3223.

MacNeill, D., M. Snyder, K. Schulz and J. Makarewicz. 2004. Guidelines for reducing the spread of “fishhook waterfleas” (Cercopagis pengoi). New York Sea Grant Fact Sheet.

Schulz, K.L. and A. Saunders. 2003. “Aquatic exotics: How ‘biological pollution threatens our native ecosystem” Aquatic Exotic Activity Booklet and Teacher’s  Guide.  Huntington Wildlife Publication, SUNY ESF.

Donovan, T.M. and K.L. Schulz. 2002. Population estimation: Mark-recapture techniques.  IN: T.M. Donovan and C.W. Welden. Spreedsheet exercises in Conservation Biology and Landscape Ecology. Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, Massachusetts.

 

Dissertation

 

Schulz, K.L. 1996.  The nutrition of two cladocerans: the predaceous Bythotrephes cederstroemi and the herbivorous Daphnia pulicaria.  Ph.D. Thesis.  The University of Michigan. Associate Professor George W. Kling and Professor Susan S. Kilham (Drexel University), Co-chairs.

 

Meeting Abstracts

 

Smith, J.L., K.L. Schulz and G.L. Boyer.  May 2007.  Development of an internal standard for the measurement of free microcystins in fish tissue and sediment.  International Association of Great Lakes Research 50th annual meeting, University Park, Pennsylvania.

Ji, X. and K.L. Schulz. May 2007.  Oligotrophication, water clarity and ecological stoichiometry – using the Oneida Lake long-term data to evaluate food quantity and quality for zooplankton.  International Association of Great Lakes Research 50th annual meeting, University Park, Pennsylvania.

Williams, J.J. and K. Schulz.  February 2007.  The importance of light and chemical cues for the swarming behavior of a predatory cladoceran (Polyphemus pediculus). American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Whritenour, C.A. and K. Schulz.  February 2007.  Ecological stoichiometry of the salt marsh: Si:N ratios and effects on algal community composition and the lower food web.  American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Schulz, K.L. and M.A. Teece.  February 2007.  Effects of a polyunsaturated fatty acid on trophic transfer efficiency, growth and body composition in a three trophic level model system.  American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Teece, M.A., P.M. Smyntek and K.L. Schulz.  October 2006.  Tracing the flux of essential fatty acids through aquatic food webs using stable carbon isotopes of individual biomarker compounds.  Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Binghamton, N.Y.

Whritenour, C.A. and K.L. Schulz.  August 2006.  Ecological stoichiometry of the salt marsh: Si:N and the effects on food web dynamics.  Polgar Fellowship Presentations, Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, N.Y.

Schulz, K.L., A.J. Storch, C. Mayer, C.E. Cáceres, M.A. Teece, X. Ji and P. Qin.  July 2006.  Effects of exotic species on flows of energy and materials in aquatic systems.  Gordon Research Conference on the Metabolic Basis of Ecology, Bates College, Maine..

Williams, J.J. and K.L. Schulz.  Swarming-related chemotaxis in a predatory cladoceran?  June 2006, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Summer Meeting, Victoria, Canada.

Schulz, K.L., C.M. Mayer, X. Ji, and P. Qin.  Stoichiometric and ecosystem effects of phosphorus abatement and bivalve filtration.  June 2006, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Summer Meeting, Victoria, Canada.

Storch, A.J., K.L. Schulz, C.E. Cáceres, P. Smyntek, J.M. Dettmers, and M.A. Teece.  Energetic and biochemical consequences of exotic zooplankton on fish growth and essential fatty acid balance. June 2006, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Summer Meeting, Victoria, Canada.

Smith, J.L., G.L. Boyer and K.L. Schulz.  Impacts of microcystins, a cyanobacterial toxin, on the recruitment and survival of Hexagenia, the burrowing mayfly, June 2006, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Summer Meeting, Victoria, Canada; Won best poster award.

Schulz, K.L., M.R. Teece, A.J. Storch, P. Smyntek, C.E. Cáceres, and J. Dettmers. The role of exotic predatory invertebrates in food webs of the Laurentian Great Lakes.  International Association of Great Lakes Research 2005 Meeting, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 23-27, 2005

Qin, P., C.M. Mayer, K.L. Schulz, X. Ji, and M. Ritchie. Effects of phosphorus abatement and Dreissena on periphyton production and stoichiometry in lakes. International Association of Great Lakes Research 2005 Meeting, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 23-27, 2005

Storch, A.J., K.L. Schulz, C.E. Cáceres, J.M. Dettmers, P. Smyntek, and M.A. Teece. The role of invasive zooplankton in the diets of Great Lakes planktivores.  Great Lakes Research Consortium, Student-Faculty Conference, March 18-19, 2005

Hotaling, C.W. and K. Schulz. Spatial and temporal comparisons of native and exotic predatory invertebrates in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Great Lakes Research Consortium, Student-Faculty Conference, March 18-19, 2005.

Nelson, J.L., A.J. Storch, and K.L. Schulz. Can we do better than traditional zooplankton length-weight regression models?  Great Lakes Research Consortium, Student-Faculty Conference, March 18-19, 2005.  Won best poster award.

Smyntek, P., M. Teece and K. Schulz. Taxon-specific fatty acid characteristics of two major zooplankton groups: implications for fish health and recruitment. Great Lakes Research Consortium, Student-Faculty Conference, March 18-19, 2005

Qin, P., C. Mayer, K. Schulz, X. Ji and M. Ritchie. Phosphorus abatement and Dreissena filtration: effects on periphyton production and stoichiometry in lakes. Great Lakes Research Consortium, Student-Faculty Conference, March 18-19, 2005

Ji, X. and K. Schulz. Synergistic effects of phosophorus abatement and Dreissena filtration on ecosystem primary production and algal stoichiometry. Great Lakes Research Consortium, Student-Faculty Conference, March 18-19, 2005.

Qin, P., C.M. Mayer, K.L. Schulz, X. Ji, and M. Ritchie. Phosphorus abatement and Dreissena filtration: effects on periphyton production and stoichiometry in lakes? American Society of Limnology and Oceanography 2005 Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, February 20-25 2005  Won student poster award

Storch, A.J., K.L. Schulz, C.E. Cáceres, J.M. Dettmers, P. Smyntek, and M.A. Teece. The role of invasive zooplankton in the diets of Great Lakes planktivores. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography 2005 Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, February 20-25, 2005

Ji, X., K.L. Schulz, P. Qin, and C.M. Mayer. Synergistic effects of phosphorus abatement and Dreissena filtration on ecosystem primary production and algal stoichiometry. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography 2005 Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, February 20-25 2005

Hotaling, C.W. and K.L. Schulz. Spatial and temporal comparisons of native and exotic predatory invertebrates in the Laurentian Great Lakes. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography 2005 Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, February 20-25 2005

Schulz, K.L. Implications of an energetic comparison of native and exotic predatory invertebrates in the Laurentian Great Lakes. International Society of Theoretical and Applied Limnology Meetings (SIL), Finland, August 2004.

Johnson, R.K., C.M. Mayer, E.L. Mills, and K.L. Schulz. Effects of Increased Water Clarity Due to Zebra Mussels on Benthic Algal Primary Production in Oneida Lake. 47th Annual Conference of the International Association of Great Lakes Reseach,