Education
Ph.D., Zoology; Ecology, Evolutionary Biology & Behavior, Michigan State University, 2005
M.S., Biology – Conservation Biology, Central Michigan University, 1997
B.S., Biology, Central Michigan University, 1993
Research Interests
Ecology and evolution of vertebrates, ecological modeling, ornithology.
Publications
- Corace, R.G. III, Goebel, P.C., Hix, D.M., Casselman, T., and N.E. Seefelt. 2009. Ecological forestry at National Wildlife Refuges: experiences from Seney National Wildlife Refuge and Kirtland’s Warbler Management Areas. The Forestry Chronicle 85(5):696-701.
- Seefelt, N.E. and J.C. Gillingham. 2008. Bioenergetics and prey consumption of breeding Double-crested Cormorants ( Phalacrocorax auritus) in the Beaver Archipelago, northern Lake Michigan. Journal of Great Lakes Research 34(1)122-133.
- Seefelt, N.E. and J.C. Gillingham. 2006. Foraging locations of Double-crested Cormorants in the Beaver Archipelago of northern Lake Michigan: implications for Smallmouth Bass declines. Waterbirds 29(4):473-480.
- Seefelt, N.E. and J.C. Gillingham. 2006. A Comparison of Three Methods to Investigate the Diet of Breeding Double-crested Cormorants ( Phalacrocorax auritus) in the Beaver Archipelago, Northern Lake Michigan. Hydrobiologia (Special Publication) 567(1)57-67. (also published in Developments in Hydrobiology: Limnology & Aquatic Birds, A.R. Hanson and J. J. Kerekes, eds., Springer Publishing, The Netherlands, 567(2006):57-67).
- Seefelt, N.E. and J.C. Gillingham. 2005. The Double-crested Cormorant in Lake Michigan: A Review of Population Trends, Ecology and Current Management. Pages 351-363, In: T. Edsall and M. Munawar, Ed. State of Lake Michigan: Ecology, Health and Management, Ecovision World Monograph Series.
- Seefelt, N.E. and J.C. Gillingham. 2004. New colony location for Double-crested Cormorants ( Phalacrocorax auritus) and other waterbirds in the Beaver Archipelago, northern Lake Michigan. Michigan Birds and Natural History 11(3):122-127.
- Bowen, K.D. and N.E. Seefelt. 2002. Observation of the Avifauna of Garden Island, Michigan. Michigan Birds and Natural History 9(4):187-198.