Dan Breneman
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Dan Breneman, Research Fellow

Position and Focus

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, Reavie ED, Peterson GS, Kelly JR, Johnston CA, Johnson LB, Howe RW, Host GE, Hollenhorst TP, Danz NP, Ciborowski JJH, Brown TN, Brady VJ, Axler RP. 2011. An integrated approach to assessing multiple stressors for coastal Lake Superior. Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management 14(4):1-21.
  • Danz NP, Reich PB, Frelich LE, Niemi GJ. 2011. Vegetation controls vary across space and spatial scale in a historic grassland-forest biome boundary. Ecography 34:402-414.
  • 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. Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management 12(1):1-13.
  • 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.
  • Etterson MA, Niemi GJ, Danz NP. 2009. Estimating the effects of detection heterogeneity and overdispersion on trends estimated from avian point counts. Ecological Applications 19(8):2049-2066.
  • 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.

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    GLEI II - Indicator Testing and Refinement
    The GLEI-II project will focus on wetland near shore conditions of the Great Lakes, and consist of five tasks: 1) Refine coastal ecosystem indicators from previous monitoring programs through calibration against updated landscape/land use information within the entire Great Lakes basin, 2) test the temporal and geographic integrity of existing Great Lakes indicators. Determine scores for a suite of metrics from sites not sampled previously, and test the applicability of metrics across the entire Great Lakes basin, including Canada, 3) test and compare analytical techniques to cross-calibrate indicators from concurrent monitoring programs, 4) evaluate indicators for cost-effectiveness, 5) implement a data collection, analysis, and reporting system for recommended indicators. Implement a web-based reporting system that integrates landscape/land use information systems, and 6) Create a map of baseline conditions for the Great Lakes basin based on historical and current monitoring information.