Research interests are lake and water quality management and restoration, aquatic ecosystem responses to pollutants, nutrient cycling and food web dynamics, web-based environmental education and constructed treatment wetlands.
Background
Ph.D., Ecology/Limnology, University of California, Davis, 1979
B.A., Physics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 1970
Current Publications
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.
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.
Trebitz AS, Brazner JC, Brady VJ, Axler RP, Tanner DK. 2007. Turbidity tolerances of Great Lakes coastal wetlands fishes. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 27(2):619-633.
Danz NP, Niemi GJ, Regal RR, Hollenhorst TP, Johnson LB, Hanowski JM, Axler RP, Ciborowski JJH, Hrabik T, Brady VJ, Kelly JR, Morrice JA, Brazner JC, Howe RW, Johnston CA, Host GE. 2007. Integrated measures of anthropogenic stress in the U.S. Great Lakes basin. Environmental Management 39:631-647.
Kireta AR, Reavie ED, Danz NP, Axler RP, Sgro GV, Kingston JC, Brown TN, Hollenhorst TP. 2007. Coastal geomorphic and lake variability in the Laurentian Great Lakes: implications for a diatom-based monitoring tool. Journal of Great Lakes Research 33(3):136-153.
