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Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Understanding Ecosystems for a Sustainable Future

Ecological Modeling

Principal Investigator

Donald Weller

wellerd@si.edu

443-482-2214

Specialty

Quantitative Ecologist

Brief Resume

Publications

Brooks, R. P. ; Easterling, M. M. ; Bishop, J. A. ; Rubbo, J. ; Armstrong, B. ; Hite, J. ; Brinson, M. M. ; Rheinhardt, R. ; Baker, M. E. ; King, Ryan S. ; Weller, Donald E. ; O'Brien, D. ; Havens, K. J. (2006). Message 3: Watershed indicators . Integration of ecological and socioeconomic indicatiors for estuaries and watersheds of the Atlantic slope. Final Report to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency STAR Program, Agreement R-82868401 (43-52) Atlantic Slope Consortium .
Li, Xuyong ; Meixner, T. ; Sickman, J. O. ; Miller, A. E. ; Schimel, J. P. ; Melack, J. M. (2006). Decadal-scale dynamics of water, carbon and nitrogen in a California chaparral ecosystem: DAYCENT modeling results . Biogeochemistry, 77 , 217-245. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10533-005-1391-z
Russell, Marc J. ; Montagna, Paul A. ; Kalke, Richard D. (2006). Effect of freshwater inflow on net ecosystem metabolism in Lavaca Bay, Texas . Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 68 , 231-244. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2006.02.005
Seelbach, Paul W. ; Wiley, Michael J. ; Baker, Matthew E. ; Wehrly, K. E. (2006). Initial classification of river valley segments across Michigan's lower peninsula. Landscape Influences on Stream Habitats and Biological Assemblages (25-48) American Fisheries Society .
(2005). Assessing progress and effectiveness through monitoring streams and rivers . Chesapeake Research Consortium .
Gallegos, Charles L. ; Jordan, Thomas E. ; Hines, Anson H. ; Weller, Donald E. (2005). Temporal variability of optical properties in a shallow, eutrophic estuary: Seasonal and interannual variability . Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 64 , 156-170. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2005.01.013
Baker, M. E. ; Wiley, M. J. (2004). Characterization of woody species distributions in riparian forests of Lower Michigan using map-based models . Wetlands, 24 , 550-561.
King, Ryan S. ; Beaman, J. R. ; Whigham, Dennis F. ; Hines, Anson H. ; Baker, M. E. ; Weller, Donald E. (2004). Watershed land use is strongly linked to PCB's in white perch in Chesapeake Bay subestuaries . Environmental Science & Technology, 38 , 6546-6552.
Li, Xuyong ; Ambrose, R. B. ; Araujo, R. (2004). Modeling mineral nitrogen export from a forest terrestrial ecosystem to streams . Transactions of the ASAE, 47 , 727-739.
(2003). Importance of understanding ecological complexity to predicting effects of multiple stressors on coastal systems (COASTES Project). Final Report. Academy of Natural Sciences Estuarine Research Center .
Baker, M. E. ; Wiley, M. J. ; Seelbach, P. W. ; Carlson, M. L. (2003). GIS model of subsurface water potential for aquatic resource inventory, assessment, and environmental management . Environmental management, 32 , 706-719.
Jordan, Thomas E. ; Weller, Donald E. ; Correll, David L. (2003). Sources of nutrient inputs to the Patuxen River estuary . Estuaries, 26 , 226-243.
Wang, Lizhu ; Lyons, John ; Rasmussen, Paul ; Seelbach, Paul W. ; Simon, Thomas ; Wiley, Michael J. ; Kanehl, Paul ; Baker, Ed ; Niemela, Scott ; Stewart, Paul M. (2003). Watershed, reach, and riparian influences on stream assemblages in the Northern Lakes and Forest Ecoregion, U.S.A. Canandian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science, 60 (5) , 491-505. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f03-043
Weller, Donald E. ; Jordan, Thomas E. ; Correll, David L. ; Liu, Zhi-Jun. (2003). Effects of land-use change on nutrient discharges from the Patuxent River watershed . Estuaries, 26 , 244-266.
Whigham, Dennis F. ; Weller, Donald E. ; Jacobs, A. D. ; Jordan, Thomas E. ; Kentula, M. E. (2003). Assessing the ecological condition of wetlands at the catchment scale . Landschap, 20 , 99-112.

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