Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources employees measure current velocity and dissolved oxygen as part of a Long Term Resource Monitoring Program (LTRMP) partnership with the Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC), Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS) Pool 8
Jeff Houser, PhD
Jeff Houser
Experience
2003 – present: Research Ecologist, U.S. Geological Survey Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center.
2004 – present: Adjunct, Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin—La Crosse.
2001- 2003: Postdoctoral Research Associate—Stream Ecology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Research Interests
Aquatic ecology, large rivers, ecosystem metabolism, carbon and nutrient cycling, biogeochemistry, food webs, applied ecology, ecosystem restoration
Professional Societies
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography; Society for Freshwater Science; Mississippi River Research Consortium
Science and Products
Understanding constraints on submersed vegetation distribution in a large, floodplain river: the role of water level fluctuations, water clarity and river geomorphology
Aquatic vegetation is a key component of large floodplain river ecosystems. In the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS), there is a long-standing interest in restoring aquatic vegetation in areas where it has declined or disappeared. To better understand what constrains vegetation distribution in large river ecosystems and inform ongoing efforts to restore submersed aquatic vegetation (SAV), we...
National Stream Summarization: Standardizing Stream-Landscape Summaries
As research and management of natural resources shift from local to regional and national scales, the need for information about aquatic systems to be summarized to multiple scales is becoming more apparent. Recently, four federally funded national stream assessment efforts (USGS Aquatic GAP, USGS National Water-Quality Assessment Program, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [EPA]...
USGS Employee At Work
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources employees measure current velocity and dissolved oxygen as part of a Long Term Resource Monitoring Program (LTRMP) partnership with the Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC), Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS) Pool 8
Science and Products
Understanding constraints on submersed vegetation distribution in a large, floodplain river: the role of water level fluctuations, water clarity and river geomorphology
Aquatic vegetation is a key component of large floodplain river ecosystems. In the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS), there is a long-standing interest in restoring aquatic vegetation in areas where it has declined or disappeared. To better understand what constrains vegetation distribution in large river ecosystems and inform ongoing efforts to restore submersed aquatic vegetation (SAV), we...
National Stream Summarization: Standardizing Stream-Landscape Summaries
As research and management of natural resources shift from local to regional and national scales, the need for information about aquatic systems to be summarized to multiple scales is becoming more apparent. Recently, four federally funded national stream assessment efforts (USGS Aquatic GAP, USGS National Water-Quality Assessment Program, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [EPA]...
USGS Employee At Work
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources employees measure current velocity and dissolved oxygen as part of a Long Term Resource Monitoring Program (LTRMP) partnership with the Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC), Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS) Pool 8
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources employees measure current velocity and dissolved oxygen as part of a Long Term Resource Monitoring Program (LTRMP) partnership with the Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC), Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS) Pool 8