Research background in aquatic ecology and environmental toxicology focusing on fish, macroinvertebrate, and periphytic assemblages. Responsibilities at NRRI range from securing project funding through competitive grant proposals, coordinating field surveys, data collection and analysis, manuscript preparation, and managing NRRI's Microscopy Laboratory and support staff.
Project coordinator; Weber Stream Restoration Initiative: a multi-agency/community based consortium established in 2005 with the objective of mitigating human impact on Lake Superior coastal habitats and tributary streams (www.lakesuperiorstreams.org/weber). For more details, page down for the link.
Background
Masters, 1992, Biology. University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Bachelors, 1988, Mortuary Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Bachelors, 1987, Biology and General Science, Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, Iowa.
University of Minnesota Duluth. Additional graduate course work in toxicology, water pollution biology, experimental design, and ichthyology.
Current Publications
Niemi GJ, Brady VJ, Brown TN, Ciborowski JJH, Danz NP, Ghioca DM, Hanowski JM, Hollenhorst TP, Howe RW, Johnson LB, Johnston CA, Reavie ED. 2009. Development of ecological indicators for the U.S. Great Lakes coastal region – a summary of applications in Lake Huron. 12(1):1-13.
Johnston CA, Brown TN, Hollenhorst TP, Wolter PT, Danz NP, Niemi GJ. 2009. GIS in support of ecological indicator development. Manual of Geographic Information Systems (56):1095-1113.
Hutchens JJ, Schuldt JA, Richards C, Johnson LB, Host GE, Breneman DH. 2009. Multi-scale mechanistic indicators of Midwestern USA stream macroinvertebrates. Ecological Indicators 9(6):1138-1150.
Reavie ED, Kireta AR, Kingston JC, Sgro GV, Danz NP, Axler RP, Hollenhorst TP. 2008. Comparison of simple and multimetric diatom-based indices for Great Lakes coastline disturbance. Journal of Phycology 44:787-802.
Danz NP, Bracie A, Niemi GJ. 2008. Breeding bird monitoring in western Great Lakes national forests 1991-2007. NRRI/TR-2008/11
Morrice JA, Danz NP, Regal RR, Kelly JR, Niemi GJ, Reavie ED, Hollenhorst TP, Axler RP, Trebitz AS, Cotter AM, Peterson GS. 2008. Human influences on water quality in Great Lakes wetlands. Environmental Management 41:347-357.
