Curriculum Vitae – Karin E. Limburg

Work Address:
SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry
Illick Hall
Syracuse, NY  13210 USA
e-mail: KLimburg@esf.edu

EDUCATION
A.B. Vassar College, 1977
M.S. University of Florida (Systems Ecology), 1981
Ph.D. Cornell University (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology), 1994

POST-PhD  EMPLOYMENT
8/03 --         Associate Professor, SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry, Syracuse, NY.
7/99 -- 7/03 Assistant Professor, SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry, Syracuse, NY.
2/97 – 7/99  Research Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Ecology, University of Stockholm, Sweden.
1/94 - 1/97  Post-doctoral fellow, Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY.

RECENT AWARDS AND GRANTS
2007 • Grant Award, National Science Foundation: “MRI: Acquisition of a Laser-Ablation System for High Resolution, Micro-Scale Analysis of Environmental Materials”

• Conference support, Ford Foundation

2006 · Grant award, NYS Water Resources Institute: “Assessing the Ecosystem Services of Open Space for Water Resource Protection in the Moodna Watershed, NY”

· Grant award, NYS Dept of Environmental Conservation: “Otolith Microchemistry Studies in New York Waters”

· Fulbright stipendiate (France)

2005 · Grant award, National Science Foundation: “Can fatty acids improve our ability to trace food web processes?” (K.Schulz and M. Teece PIs)

2004 · Grant award, New York Sea Grant: “Hi P and Low F: testing for unexpected synergistic effects of phosphorus abatement and bivalve filtration”

2003 • Grant award, Hudson River Foundation: : “Importance of tributaries to the Hudson River eel population: implications for restoration and management”
         • Grant award, National Science Foundation: "CAREER: Watersheds and fisheries as foci of human impacts and ecological responses: a research and teaching agenda”

COURSES OFFERED:
EFB 487/687 Fisheries Science and Management; EFB 488 Fisheries Science Practicum

EFB 496/796 Watershed Ecology practicum
EFB 496/796 Watershed Ecology
Various graduate seminars including: Topics in Aquatic Ecology; Otolith Science; Grant Writing and Management; Topics in Mathematical Ecology & Ecological Modeling

GRADUATE STUDENTS, POST-DOCTORAL ASSOCIATES, & VISITING SCIENTISTS:

Current: K. Gehl (MS), B. Hong (Post-doc), A. Lochet (Post-doc), K. McGohan (MS), R. Monteiro (PhD), C. Olson (PhD), M. Ramsey (MS), A. Sopacua (PhD), F. Yu (Chinese Acad. Social Sciences)

Past: I. Blackburn (MPS), M. Chimaliza (MPS), L. Deutsch (PhD), T. Elsdon (Post-doc), L. Machut (MS), J. Maes (Post-doc), E. Menvielle (MS), K. Stainbrook (MS)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS – feel free to send requests for things you can’t download from here.

Limburg, K.E. 2009. Aquatic Ecosystem Services. In Gene E. Likens (editor) Encyclopedia of Inland Waters. Elsevier (forthcoming).

Limburg, K.E., Y. Walther, B. Hong, C. Olson, and J. Storå. 2008. Prehistoric vs. modern Baltic Sea cod fisheries: observations across the millennia. Proceedings of the Royal Society – Section B DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0711 (online).

Olson, C., K.E. Limburg, and M. Söderblom. 2008. Stone Age fishhooks – how were they dimensioned, and why? Journal of Archaeological Science 35:2813-2823.

Elsdon, T.S., B.K. Wells, S.E. Campana, B.M. Gillanders, C.M. Jones, K.E. Limburg, D.H. Secor, S.R. Thorrold, and B.D. Walther. 2008. Otolith chemistry to describe movements and life-history parameters of fishes: hypotheses, assumptions, limitations, and inferences. Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review 46: 297-330.

Elsdon, T., and K.E. Limburg. 2008. Nutrients and their period of enhancement influence benthic cover and biomass in a freshwater system. Marine and Freshwater Research 59(6):467-476.

Machut, L.S., K.E. Limburg, R. E. Schmidt, and D. Dittman. 2007. Anthropogenic impacts on American eel demographics in Hudson River tributaries, New York. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 136: 1699-1713.

Simonin, P.W., K.E. Limburg, and L.S. Machut. 2007. Bridging the energy gap: anadromous blueback herring feeding in the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers, New York. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 136: 1614-1621.

Hong, B., K.E.Limburg, M. Hall, and J.D. Erickson. 2007. Scenario Analysis of Economy-Ecology Interactions in the Hudson River Basin. Ch. 5 in Erickson et al. (Eds.), Ecological Economics of Sustainable Watershed Management. Elsevier Science.

Limburg, K.E., R. Huang, and D.H. Bilderback. 2007. Fish otolith trace element maps: new approaches with synchrotron microbeam X-ray fluorescence. X-Ray Spectrometry 36:336-342.

Waldman, J.R., K.E. Limburg, and D.L. Strayer, editors. 2006. Hudson River Fisheries and Their Environment. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD.

Stainbrook, K.M., K.E. Limburg, R.A. Daniels, and R.E. Schmidt. 2006. Long-term changes in ecosystem health of two Hudson Valley watersheds, New York, USA, 1936-2001. Hydrobiologia 571(1): 313-327 DOI 10.1007/s10750-006-0254-5.

Swaney, D.P., K. E. Limburg, and K. M. Stainbrook. 2006. Some historical changes in the patterns of population and land use in the Hudson River watershed. American Fisheries Society Symposium 51: 75-112.

Daverat, F., K.E. Limburg, I. Thibault, J.-C. Shiao, J.J. Dodson, F. Caron, W.-N. Tzeng, Y. Iizuka, and H. Wickström. 2006. Phenotypic plasticity of habitat use by three temperate eel species Anguilla anguilla, A. japonica and A. rostrata. Marine Ecology Progress Series 308: 231-241.

Limburg, K.E., and D.I. Siegel. 2006. The hydrogeochemistry of connected waterways, and the potential for tracing fish migrations. Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences 28(3): 254-265.

Daniels, R.A., K.E. Limburg, R.E. Schmidt, D.L. Strayer, and R.C. Chambers. 2005. Changes in fish assemblages in the tidal Hudson River, New York. p. 471-503 In: Rinne, J. N., R. M. Hughes, and B. Calamusso (eds.). Historical changes in large river fish assemblages of America. American Fisheries Society. Bethesda, Maryland.

Limburg, K.E., K.M. Stainbrook, J.D. Erickson, and J.M. Gowdy. 2005. Urbanization consequences: case studies in the Hudson Valley, pp. 23-37 In Brown, L.R., R.H. Gray, R.M. Hughes, and M. Meador, editors. The Effects of Urbanization on Stream Ecosystems. American Fisheries Society Symposium 47.

Limburg, K.E. 2004. The biogeochemistry of strontium: a review of H.T. Odum’s contribution. Ecological Modelling 178(1-2): 31-33.

Limburg, K.E. and J.R. Waldman, editors.  2003.  Biodiversity, Status, and Conservation of the World's Shads.  American Fisheries Society.

Limburg, K.E., M. Elfman, P. Kristiansson, K. Malmkvist, and J. Pallon. 2003.  New insights into fish ecology via nuclear microscopy of otoliths.  Proc.17^th International Conferemce on Applications of Accelerators in Research and Industry (J.Duggan, editor). AIP Conference Proc. 680: 339-342.

Limburg, K.E., R.V. O’Neill, R. Costanza, and S. Farber. 2002.  Complex systems and valuation.  Ecological Economics 41:409-420.

Westin, L., and K.E. Limburg. 2003.   Newly discovered reproductive isolation reveals sympatric populations of Esox lucius in the Baltic.  Journal of Fish Biology 61: 1647-1652.

Olson, C, K. Limburg, W. Patterson, M. Elfman, P. Kristiansson, and S. Ehrenberg. 2002.  Reconstruction of Fisheries and Environment from the Stone Age: Preliminary Studies of Hard Parts of Codfish (Gadus morhua) from Ajvide, Gotland, Sweden.  Remote Sensing II: 375-385.

Limburg, K.E., P. Landergren, L. Westin, M. Elfman, and P. Kristiansson.  2001.  Flexible modes of anadromy in Baltic sea-trout (Salmo trutta): Making the most of marginal spawning streams.  Journal of Fish Biology 59: 682-695..

Limburg, K.E.  2001. Through the gauntlet again: demographic restructuring of American shad by migration. Ecology 82 (6): 1584-1596.

Limburg, K.E., M.L. Pace, and K.K. Arend. 1999. Growth, mortality, and recruitment of larval Morone spp. in relation to food availability and temperature in the Hudson River.  Fishery Bulletin 97:80-91.

Limburg, K.E. and C. Folke, editors.  Special issue of Ecological Economics on “The Ecology of Ecosystem Services.” (Volume 29, No.2 May 1999)

Limburg, K.E. 1999.  Estuaries, ecology, and economic decisions: an example of perceptual barriers and challenges to understanding. Ecological Economics 30: 185-188.

Caraco, N.F., G. Lampman, J.J. Cole, K.E. Limburg, M.L.Pace, and D.Fischer. 1998. Microbial assimilation of DIN in a nitrogen rich estuary: implications for food quality and isotope studies.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 167: 59-71.

Limburg, K.E. 1998. Anomalous migrations of anadromous herrings revealed with natural chemical tracers. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 55:431-437.

Costanza, R., R. D’Arge, R. de Groot, S. Farber, M. Grasso, B. Hannon, K. Limburg, S. Naeem, R. V. O’Neill, J. Paruelo, R. G. Raskin, P. Sutton, and M. van den Belt. 1997 The value of the world’s ecosystem services and natural capital. Nature 387:253-260.

Limburg, K.E., M.L. Pace, D. Fischer, and K.K. Arend. 1997. Consumption, selectivity, and utilization of zooplankton by larval Morone spp. in a seasonally pulsed estuary. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 126:607-621.

Limburg, K.E. 1996.  Modeling the ecological constraints on growth and movement of juvenile American shad, Alosa sapidissima, in the Hudson River Estuary. Estuaries 19: 794-813.

Limburg, K.E. 1996. Growth and migration of 0-year American shad (Alosa sapidissima) in the Hudson River estuary: otolith microstructural analysis. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 53: 220-238.

Limburg, K.E. 1995. Otolith strontium traces migratory histories of juvenile American shad, Alosa sapidissima. Marine Ecology Progress Series 119: 25-35.

Limburg, K.E. and R.E. Schmidt. 1990 Patterns of fish spawning in the Hudson River watershed: biological response to an urban gradient?  Ecology 71:1238-1245.

Limburg, K. E., M. A. Moran, and W. H. McDowell. 1986.  The Hudson River Ecosystem.  Springer-Verlag, New York.  331 pp.

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