Bart De Stasio

After discovering my passion for freshwater ecology and marine biology as a Lawrence undergraduate, I continued developing these interests by studying evolutionary ecology of zooplankton, food web interactions in the Baltic Sea, and examining how climate change could affect physics, fishes, and plankton of lake ecosystems.  My students and I have been examining how other human-related changes are affecting lakes through our studies on changes in food webs following invasions by exotic fish and plankton.  By employing studies from the level of the physiology and behavior of individuals with different genetic backgrounds to modeling whole food web dynamics we hope to provide a complete, integrated view of ecological and evolutionary dynamics of lake ecosystems in our changing world.

Courses Offered: Integrative Biology: Principles, General Ecology, Aquatic Ecology, Ecological Energetics, Coral Reef Environments (Marine Term), Experimental Design and Analysis, Environmental Studies Senior Seminar, Freshman Studies, Tutorials in marine biology and ecological modeling.

Education:
PhD Cornell University
Post-doctoral Fellow UW-Madison