Uzarski, Donald
Professor, Director - CMU Biological Station, Director - Institute for Great Lakes Research
FACULTY
Biography
Dr. Don Uzarski, CMU Professor of Biology, serves as the Director of CMU’s Institute for Great Lakes Research and Biological Station on Beaver Island, MI. He is a limnologist and aquatic ecologist with a focus on measures of ecosystem health of Great Lakes coastal wetlands.
Uzarski leads a 15-year $30 million Great Lakes coastal wetland-monitoring program for the US EPA. He can speak to a wide range of topics including human impacts on waterways, indicators of ecosystem health, pollution and runoff and the overall health of the Great Lakes.
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Publications & Presentations
Education
- B.S., Grand Valley State University, 1992
- M.S., Central Michigan University, 1995
- Ph.D., (Dual), Michigan State University, 1999
Research Interests
- Wetland Ecology
- Great Lakes Ecology
- Nutrient Cycling
- Ecosystem Ecology
Current research projects
I am a limnologist and aquatic ecologist. My research interests include measures of ecosystem health of Great Lakes coastal wetlands using indices of biotic integrity. My lab has developed indices of biotic integrity for inland depressional and Great Lakes coastal wetlands. Our work most often involves investigations of the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on community composition and the relationships of land use/land cover to chemical/physical variables and lentic and lotic biota.Courses Taught
- Wetland Ecology
- Limnology
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- Multivariate Statistics