Department of Botany, 3165
  1000 E. University Ave.
   University of Wyoming
Laramie, WY
82071
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BUTTON

Surveying redwoods for marbled murrelets

 

 Meyer Family near the Eiger in Switzerland

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flying into our research site in Alaska

Surveying otter latrines on Knight Island in Prince William Sound, AK

My "dudes" on Chilkoot Lake, AK

Carolyn B. Meyer

Specialization: Fish, Wildlife, and Plant Ecology

Office: 1687 Cole Blvd., Suite 200

Lakewood CO 80401
Phone: 303-231-9115 ext. 124

Cell Phone: 303-524-2747
E-mail (university): meyerc@uwyo.edu

E-mail (consulting): carolyn.meyer@arcadis-us.com

   Current Positions

   Adjunct Assistant Professor in Department of Botany
   Adjunct Assistant Professor in Department of Zoology and Physiology

   Principal Ecologist Consultant for ARCADIS, U.S.

   Education

      B.S., Humboldt State University, 1983
      M.S., University of Wyoming, 1985
      Ph.D., University of Wyoming, 1999

  Curriculum Vitae

   Courses

      Field Ecology (BIOL 3410 for fall 2006), Ecology (BIOL 3400 for spring 2006)

      Application of population ecology to ecological risk assessments. Short course at 2008 North American

     Society of Environmental Toxicology and Contaminants (SETAC) conference and at NORCAL SETAC in 2009.

  Past Professional Positions

  • 1989 – 1995. Fish and Wildlife Ecologist, Branch Chief, Redwood National Park, Orick, California.
  • 1988 – 1989. Fish Biologist. Swiss Federal Institute for Water Resources, Duebendorf, Switzerland.
  • 1984 – 1987. Fish and Wildlife Biologist. Ecological Services, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Pierre, South Dakota.

   Research Emphasis

   Landscape ecology and plant, fish, and wildlife ecology in natural compared to human-impacted systems.

   Current Research Projects in Progress

 

  • Historic range of variability of vegetation in national forests
  • Mechanisms underlying mortality in salmonid redds
  • Landscape and stand characteristics associated with marbled murrelet occupancy on managed forested lands.
  • Modeling the global distribution and abundance of the marbled murrelet and its habitat.
  • Metapopulation modeling for the marbled murrelet
  • From latrines to landscapes: Effects of spatial and temporal variation in nutrient transport by coastal river otters on terrestrial communities in Prince William Sound, Alaska
  • Application of population models to ecological risk assessments and natural resource damage assessments (subdiscipline leader of population biology and modeling at ARCADIS)

   Student presentations

Aaron Roe, graduate student completed river otter study in Alaska. Thesis.

Poster. Presentation: Effect of coastal river otters on plant community of Prince William Sound, AK.

Matthew Wood, undergraduate student worked on river otter study in Alaska. EPSCoR presentation on effect of otter latrines on plant diversity.

Alyssa Wechsler, undergraduate student worked on river otter study in Alaska. EPSCoR presentation on effect of otter latrines on tree growth.

Bonnie Myers, undergraduate student worked on river otter study in Alaska. EPSCoR presentation on importance of diversity vs. disturbance.

 

  Select Publications

 

       Meyer, C.B., D.H. Knight, and G.K. Dillon. in press. Use of the historic range of varaibility to evaluate

               ecosystem sustainability. Pages xx-xx in Reck, R., A. editor. Climate change and sustainable growth.

               Linton Atlantic Books, Ltd.

      Roe, A.M., C.B. Meyer, N.P. Nibbelink, and M.Ben-David. in revision Differential production of

             trees and shrubs in response to fertilization and disturbance by coastal river otters in Alaska.

             Ecology.

       Meyer, C.B., K.D. Jenkins, K. Walsh, and N. Bonnevie. In preparation. How do you define exposure areas in

               ecological risk assessments relevant to the biology of populations? To be submitted to

               EnvironmentalToxicology and Chemistry.

       Meyer, C.B., S.L. Miller, and C.J. Ralph. in prep. Time lags in response to forest fragmentation: Case study

               with the marbled murrelet. Biological Conservation

Meyer, C.B., and M.D. Sparkman. in review. Holistic field method to assess sediment effects on egg survival to hatching and emergence in artificial salmonid redds. North American Journal of Fisheries Management..

        Meyer, C.B. D.H. Knight, and G.K. Dillon. 2008. Use of the historic range of variability to evaluate ecosystem

               sustainability. Forum on Public Policy, a Journal of the Oxford Round Table (summer):1-15.

Meyer, C.B. 2007 Does scale matter in predicting species distributions? Case study with the marbled murrelet. Ecological Applications 17:1474-1483

Meyer, C.B., D.H. Knight, and G.K. Dillon. 2006. Historic range of variability of upland vegetation in the Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming. Contract report for U.S. Forest Service Region 2, Denver, CO. (Figures)

Meyer, C.B., and W. Thuiller. 2006. Accuracy of resource selection functions across spatial scales. Diversity and Distributions 12:288-297.

Meyer, C.B., D.H. Knight, and G.K. Dillion. 2005. The historic variability for upland vegetation on the Bighorn National Forest, U.S. Forest Service General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-140, Fort Collins, CO.

Dillon, G.K., D.H. Knight, and C.B. Meyer. 2005. The historic variability for upland vegetation on the Medicine Bow National Forest, U.S. Forest Service General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-159, Fort Collins, CO.

Meyer, C.B., M.D. Sparkman, and B.A. Klatte. 2005. Sand seals in coho salmon redds: Do they improve egg survival? North American Journal of Fisheries Management 25:105-121.  [download predictive survival model with example database, and instructions to use it. Model runs in SPSS. If you have a different program you can run it in, download the model, EXCEL database, variable descriptions for database, and instructions here]

Meyer, C.B., S.L. Miller, and C.J. Ralph. 2004. Stand-scale habitat associations across a large geographic region of an old-growth specialist, the marbled murrelet.  Wilson Bulletin 116(3):197-210. [download painting of marbled murrelet in its habitat published with this paper]

Meyer, C.B., S.L. Miller, and C.J. Ralph. 2004. Logistic regression accuracy across different spatial and temporal scales for a wide-ranging species, the marbled murrelet. Pages 94-106 in S. Huzurbazar, editor. Resource Selection Methods and Applications.  Omnipress, Madison, Wisconsin.

Meyer, C.B. 2003. Importance of measuring abiotic and biotic factors in the lower egg pocket to predict salmonid egg survival. Journal of Fish Biology 62:534-548.

Meyer, C.B., S.L. Miller, and C.J. Ralph. 2002. Multi-scale landscape and seascape patterns associated with marbled murrelet nesting areas on the U.S. West Coast. Landscape Ecology 17(2):95-115.

Meyer, C.B., and S.L. Miller. 2002. Marbled murrelet use of fragmented landscapes in southern Oregon. Conservation Biology 16(3):755-766.

Miller, S.L., C.B. Meyer, and C.J. Ralph. 2002. Landscape and seascape patterns associated with marbled murrelet abundance offshore. Waterbirds 25(1):100-108.

Meyer, C.B., M.A. Madej, and R.D. Klein. 1993. Effects of fine sediment on salmonid redds in Prairie Creek, a tributary of Redwood Creek, Humboldt County, California. Pages 47-55 in Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Research in California's National Parks. National Park Service NPS/NRUC/NRTP-43/9.

 

 

   Family

   My husband, Dr. Joseph Meyer, an internationally known aquatic ecotoxicologist and biogeochemist, is a retired

   Zoology professor of the University of Wyoming and former Director of the Red Buttes Environmental Research

    Laboratory and currently consults part-time for ARCADIS in Lakewood, CO.  We have a 9-year old son.