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Owen T Gorman, PhD

Owen Gorman is a Research Fisheries Biologist based in Ashland, WI. 

The Lake Superior Biological Station in Ashland, Wisconsin has served as my duty station since entering the Great Lakes Science Center’s deepwater program in 1999. My early initiatives focused on building the Lake Superior research program around the capabilities of a new research vessel, the R/V Kiyi, the largest of its kind on the Great Lakes. My diverse research interests are reflected in my training and long career experience.  Current research topics include community ecology, population dynamics, biogeography, physiology, and life history of fishes of the Great Lakes region.  Much of my research reflects a strong evolutionary perspective.

Professional Experience

  • U.S. Geological Survey

    September 1999-present. Research Fishery Biologist, Lake Superior Biological Station, Ashland, Wisconsin. Served as Station Chief 1999-2004.  Served as Acting Branch Chief, Upper Great Lakes Ecosystem, 2001-2002.  

  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

    April 1991-September 1999. Fishery Management Biologist, Supervisory Research Fishery Biologist and Project Leader, Grand Canyon Fishery Resources Office, Flagstaff, Arizona.  

  • St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee

    March 1988-April 1991.  Post-doctoral Fellow.  

  • University of Memphis (Memphis State), Memphis, Tennessee

    1986-1991. Adjunct Professor.  

  • EnCAP, Incorporated, DeKalb, Illinois (Environmental Consultants and Planners, Inc.)

    1985-1988.  Senior scientist.  

  • Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois

    1984-1986.  Assistant/Adjunct Professor.  

Education and Certifications

  • Certified Ecologist by the Ecological Society of America Board of Professional Certification

  • Ph.D.  1984, University of Kansas, Division of Biological Sciences, Department of Systematics and Ecology, Lawrence, Kansas

  • M.Phil. 1983, University of Kansas, Division of Biological Sciences, Department of Systematics and Ecology, Lawrence, Kansas

  • M.S.  1976, Purdue University, Department of Biological Sciences, West Lafayette, Indiana

  • B.S.  1973, University of Delaware, Department of Entomology and Applied Ecology, Newark, Delaware

Honors and Awards

  • 1989-1991  NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship (National Research Service Award)

  • 1980-1982  NSF Predoctoral Fellowship and Dissertation Research Grant

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Publications by this scientist

Filter Total Items: 51

Cryopreservation of Sperm from the Endangered Colorado Pikeminnow

We developed methods for the cryopreservation of sperm of the endangered Colorado pikeminnow Ptychocheilus lucius. Sperm were collected from a captive broodstock population of Colorado pikeminnow reared and maintained at the Dexter National Fish Hatchery and Technology Center. Our objectives were to (1) evaluate the effects on sperm motility of 24-h storage in Hanks' balanced salt solution (HBSS);
Authors
T.R. Tiersch, C.R. Figiel, W.R. Wayman, J.H. Williamson, O. T. Gorman, G.J. Carmichael

Burrowing mayflies as indicators of ecosystem health: Status of populations in two western Lake Superior embayments

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Environment Canada are supporting the development of indicators of ecosystem health that can be used to report on progress in restoring and maintaining the Great Lakes ecosystem, as called for in the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement between the United States and Canada. One indicator under development for Great Lakes mesotrophic environments is based
Authors
Thomas A. Edsall, Owen T. Gorman, Lori M. Evrard
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Great Lakes Science Center

Hazard assessment of selenium to endangered razorback suckers (Xyrauchen texanus)

A hazard assessment was conducted based on information derived from two reproduction studies conducted with endangered razorback suckers (Xyrauchen texanus) at three sites near Grand Junction, CO, USA. Selenium contamination of the upper and lower Colorado River basin has been documented in water, sediment, and biota in studies by US Department of the Interior agencies and academia. Concern has be
Authors
S. J. Hamilton, K.M. Holley, K.J. Buhl
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Columbia Environmental Research Center

Non-USGS Publications**

Gorman, O. T. and R. R. Roth.  1989.  Consequences of a temporally and spatially variable food supply for an unexploited gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) population.  American Midland Naturalist 121:41-60.
Gorman, O. T.  1988.  The dynamics of habitat use in a guild of Ozark minnows.  Ecological Monographs 58:1-18.
Gorman, O. T.  1988.  An experimental study of habitat use in an assemblage of Ozark minnows.  Ecology 69:1239-1250.
Gorman, O. T.  1987.  Habitat segregation in an assemblage of minnows in an Ozark stream.  Pages 33-41 in W. J. Matthews and D. Heins, editors.  Evolutionary and Community Ecology of North American Stream Fishes.  University of Oklahoma Press, Norman.
Gorman, O. T.  1987.  Fishes and aquatic insects of Nippersink Creek, McHenry County, Illinois.  Transactions of the Illinois Academy of Science 80:233-252.

Gorman, O. T.  1987.  A survey of the fishes and macroinvertebrates of some small streams in Cook, Lake, and DuPage counties, Illinois.  Transactions of the Illinois Academy of Science 80:253-272.
Gorman, O. T.  1986.  Assemblage organization of Indiana stream fishes: the effects of rivers on assemblages in adventitious streams.  American Naturalist 128:611-616.
Cross, F. B., O. T. Gorman and S. G. Haslouer.  1983.  The Red River Shiner, Notropis bairdi in Kansas, with notes on depletion of its Arkansas River cognate, Notropis girardi.  Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 86:93-98.
Toth, L. A., D. R. Dudley, J. R. Karr and O. T. Gorman.  1982.  Natural and man induced variability in a silverjaw minnow (Ericymba buccata) population.  American Midland Naturalist 107:284-293. 
Gorman, O. T., and J. R. Karr.  1978.  Habitat structure and stream fish communities.  Ecology 59:507-515.
Mayden, R. L., F. B. Cross, and O. T. Gorman.  1987.  Distributional history of the rainbow smelt, Osmerus mordax (Salmoniformes: Osmeridae), in the Mississippi River basin.  Copeia 1987:1051-1055.
Mandler, J., O. T. Gorman, S. Ludwig, E. Schroeder, W. M. Fitch, R. G. Webster and C. Scholtissek.  1990.  Derivation of the nucleoproteins (NP) of influenza A viruses isolated from marine mammals.  Virology 176:255-261.
Gorman, O. T., W. J. Bean, Y. Kawaoka and R. G. Webster.  1990.  Evolution of the nucleoprotein gene of influenza A virus.  J. Virology 64:1487-1497.
Gorman, O. T., R. Donis, Y. Kawaoka and R. G. Webster.  1990.  Evolution of influenza A virus PB2 genes: implications for evolution of the ribonucleoprotein complex and origin of human influenza A virus.  Journal of Virology 64:4893-4902.
Gorman, O.T., W.J. Bean, Y. Kawaoka, I. Donatelli, Y. Guo, and R.G. Webster.  1991. Evolution of influenza A virus nucleoprotein genes: implications for the origin of H1N1 human and classical swine viruses.  J. Virology 65:3704-3714.
Ito, T., O.T. Gorman, Y. Kawaoka, W.J. Bean, and R.G. Webster.  1991.  Evolutionary analysis of the influenza A virus M gene with comparisons of the M1 and M2 proteins.  J. Virology 65:5491-5498.
Bean, W., M. Schell, J. Katz, Y. Kawaoka, C. Naeve, O. Gorman, and R.G. Webster.  1992.  Evolution of the H3 influenza virus hemagglutinin from human and nonhuman hosts.  J. Virology 66:1129-1138. 
Gorman, O.T.  1992.  Evolutionary biology and historical ecology: assembly, structure, and organization of stream fish communities.  Pages 659-688 in R. L. Mayden, editor.  Systematics, Historical Ecology, and North American Freshwater Fishes.  Stanford University Press, Stanford, California. 
Gorman, O.T., W.J. Bean, and R.G. Webster.  1992.  Evolutionary processes in influenza viruses: divergence, rapid evolution and stasis.  In J. Holland (editor).  Genetic diversity of RNA viruses.  Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology 176:75-97.
Guo, Y., M. Wang, Y. Kawaoka, O. Gorman, T. Ito, T. Saito, and R. G. Webster.  1992. Characterization of a new avian-like influenza A virus from horses in China.  Virology 188: 245-255.
Webster, R.G., W.J. Bean, O.T. Gorman, T.M. Chambers, and Y. Kawaoka.  1992.  Evolution and ecology of influenza A viruses.  Microbiological Reviews 56:152-179.
Kawaoka, Y., Bean, W.J., Gorman, O.T., and others.  1993.  The roles of birds and pigs in the generation of pandemic strains of human influenza.  Pages 187-191 in C. Hannoun and Alan P. Kendal (editors).  Options for the Control of Influenza II: Proceedings of the International Conference on Options for the Control of Influenza.  Elsevier Science, Amsterdam
Webster, R.G., W.J. Bean, O.T. Gorman.  1995.  Evolution of influenza viruses: rapid evolution and stasis.  Pages 531-544 in Gibbs, A.J., C.H. Calisher, and F. Garcia Arenal, editors.  Molecular Basis of Virus Evolution.  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England.
Carmichael, G.J., J.H. Williamson, O.T. Gorman, and T.R. Tiersch.  1996.  Field propagation techniques for the endangered razorback sucker.  North American Journal of Fisheries Management 16:963-966.
Tiersch, T.R., W.R.Wayman, C.R. Figiel, Jr., O.T. Gorman, J.H. Williamson, G.J. Carmichael. 1997.  Field collection, handling and storage of sperm of the endangered razorback sucker.  North American Journal of Fisheries Management 17:167-173.
Kawaoka, Y., O.T. Gorman, I. Toshihiro, K. Wells, R.O. Donis, M.R. Castrucci, I. Donatelli, and R.G. Webster.  1998.  Influence of host species on the evolution of the nonstructural (NS) gene of influenza A viruses.  Virus Research 55: 143-156.
Tiersch, T.R., C.R. Figiel, Jr., W.R. Wayman, J.H. Williamson, Carmichael, G.J., and O.T. Gorman.  1998.  Cryopresevation of sperm of the endangered razorback sucker.  Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 127:95-104.
Gorman, O.T. and D.M. Stone. 1999.  Ecology of spawning humpback chub, Gila cypha, in the Little Colorado River in Grand Canyon.  Environmental Biology of Fishes 55:115-133.
Meretsky, V.J., R.A. Valdez, M.E. Douglas, M.J. Brouder, O.T. Gorman and P.C. Marsh. 2000.  Spatiotemporal variation in length-weight relationships of endangered humpback chub: implications for conservation and management.  Trans. Amer. Fish Soc. 129:419-428.
Tiersch, T.R., C.R. Figiel, Jr., W.R. Wayman, J.H. Williamson, G.J. Carmichael, and O.T. Gorman.  2000.  Cryopreservation of Sperm of the Endangered Razorback Sucker.  Pages 117-122 in Tiersch,T.R. and P.M. Mazik, eds.  Cryopreservation in Aquatic Species.  Advances in World Aquaculture, Volume 7, World Aquaculture Society, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
Gorman, O.T.  2000.  Ecological and genetic considerations for collection of gametes from wild fishes. Pages 319-322 in Tiersch, T.R. and P.M. Mazik, eds.  Cryopreservation in Aquatic Species.  Advances in World Aquaculture, Volume 7, World Aquaculture Society, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
Gorman, O. T.  1973.  Distribution of gray squirrels with respect to spatial variation in food abundance.  B.S. thesis, University of Delaware, Newark.  47 pages.
Gorman, O. T.  1976.  Diversity and stability in the fish communities of some Indiana and Panama streams.  M.S. thesis, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana.  102 pages
Gorman, O. T.  1983.  The determinants of habitat segregation among Ozark minnows.  Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kansas, Lawrence.  184 pages.

**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.

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    Filter Total Items: 51

    Cryopreservation of Sperm from the Endangered Colorado Pikeminnow

    We developed methods for the cryopreservation of sperm of the endangered Colorado pikeminnow Ptychocheilus lucius. Sperm were collected from a captive broodstock population of Colorado pikeminnow reared and maintained at the Dexter National Fish Hatchery and Technology Center. Our objectives were to (1) evaluate the effects on sperm motility of 24-h storage in Hanks' balanced salt solution (HBSS);
    Authors
    T.R. Tiersch, C.R. Figiel, W.R. Wayman, J.H. Williamson, O. T. Gorman, G.J. Carmichael

    Burrowing mayflies as indicators of ecosystem health: Status of populations in two western Lake Superior embayments

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Environment Canada are supporting the development of indicators of ecosystem health that can be used to report on progress in restoring and maintaining the Great Lakes ecosystem, as called for in the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement between the United States and Canada. One indicator under development for Great Lakes mesotrophic environments is based
    Authors
    Thomas A. Edsall, Owen T. Gorman, Lori M. Evrard
    By
    Ecosystems Mission Area, Great Lakes Science Center

    Hazard assessment of selenium to endangered razorback suckers (Xyrauchen texanus)

    A hazard assessment was conducted based on information derived from two reproduction studies conducted with endangered razorback suckers (Xyrauchen texanus) at three sites near Grand Junction, CO, USA. Selenium contamination of the upper and lower Colorado River basin has been documented in water, sediment, and biota in studies by US Department of the Interior agencies and academia. Concern has be
    Authors
    S. J. Hamilton, K.M. Holley, K.J. Buhl
    By
    Ecosystems Mission Area, Columbia Environmental Research Center

    Non-USGS Publications**

    Gorman, O. T. and R. R. Roth.  1989.  Consequences of a temporally and spatially variable food supply for an unexploited gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) population.  American Midland Naturalist 121:41-60.
    Gorman, O. T.  1988.  The dynamics of habitat use in a guild of Ozark minnows.  Ecological Monographs 58:1-18.
    Gorman, O. T.  1988.  An experimental study of habitat use in an assemblage of Ozark minnows.  Ecology 69:1239-1250.
    Gorman, O. T.  1987.  Habitat segregation in an assemblage of minnows in an Ozark stream.  Pages 33-41 in W. J. Matthews and D. Heins, editors.  Evolutionary and Community Ecology of North American Stream Fishes.  University of Oklahoma Press, Norman.
    Gorman, O. T.  1987.  Fishes and aquatic insects of Nippersink Creek, McHenry County, Illinois.  Transactions of the Illinois Academy of Science 80:233-252.

    Gorman, O. T.  1987.  A survey of the fishes and macroinvertebrates of some small streams in Cook, Lake, and DuPage counties, Illinois.  Transactions of the Illinois Academy of Science 80:253-272.
    Gorman, O. T.  1986.  Assemblage organization of Indiana stream fishes: the effects of rivers on assemblages in adventitious streams.  American Naturalist 128:611-616.
    Cross, F. B., O. T. Gorman and S. G. Haslouer.  1983.  The Red River Shiner, Notropis bairdi in Kansas, with notes on depletion of its Arkansas River cognate, Notropis girardi.  Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 86:93-98.
    Toth, L. A., D. R. Dudley, J. R. Karr and O. T. Gorman.  1982.  Natural and man induced variability in a silverjaw minnow (Ericymba buccata) population.  American Midland Naturalist 107:284-293. 
    Gorman, O. T., and J. R. Karr.  1978.  Habitat structure and stream fish communities.  Ecology 59:507-515.
    Mayden, R. L., F. B. Cross, and O. T. Gorman.  1987.  Distributional history of the rainbow smelt, Osmerus mordax (Salmoniformes: Osmeridae), in the Mississippi River basin.  Copeia 1987:1051-1055.
    Mandler, J., O. T. Gorman, S. Ludwig, E. Schroeder, W. M. Fitch, R. G. Webster and C. Scholtissek.  1990.  Derivation of the nucleoproteins (NP) of influenza A viruses isolated from marine mammals.  Virology 176:255-261.
    Gorman, O. T., W. J. Bean, Y. Kawaoka and R. G. Webster.  1990.  Evolution of the nucleoprotein gene of influenza A virus.  J. Virology 64:1487-1497.
    Gorman, O. T., R. Donis, Y. Kawaoka and R. G. Webster.  1990.  Evolution of influenza A virus PB2 genes: implications for evolution of the ribonucleoprotein complex and origin of human influenza A virus.  Journal of Virology 64:4893-4902.
    Gorman, O.T., W.J. Bean, Y. Kawaoka, I. Donatelli, Y. Guo, and R.G. Webster.  1991. Evolution of influenza A virus nucleoprotein genes: implications for the origin of H1N1 human and classical swine viruses.  J. Virology 65:3704-3714.
    Ito, T., O.T. Gorman, Y. Kawaoka, W.J. Bean, and R.G. Webster.  1991.  Evolutionary analysis of the influenza A virus M gene with comparisons of the M1 and M2 proteins.  J. Virology 65:5491-5498.
    Bean, W., M. Schell, J. Katz, Y. Kawaoka, C. Naeve, O. Gorman, and R.G. Webster.  1992.  Evolution of the H3 influenza virus hemagglutinin from human and nonhuman hosts.  J. Virology 66:1129-1138. 
    Gorman, O.T.  1992.  Evolutionary biology and historical ecology: assembly, structure, and organization of stream fish communities.  Pages 659-688 in R. L. Mayden, editor.  Systematics, Historical Ecology, and North American Freshwater Fishes.  Stanford University Press, Stanford, California. 
    Gorman, O.T., W.J. Bean, and R.G. Webster.  1992.  Evolutionary processes in influenza viruses: divergence, rapid evolution and stasis.  In J. Holland (editor).  Genetic diversity of RNA viruses.  Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology 176:75-97.
    Guo, Y., M. Wang, Y. Kawaoka, O. Gorman, T. Ito, T. Saito, and R. G. Webster.  1992. Characterization of a new avian-like influenza A virus from horses in China.  Virology 188: 245-255.
    Webster, R.G., W.J. Bean, O.T. Gorman, T.M. Chambers, and Y. Kawaoka.  1992.  Evolution and ecology of influenza A viruses.  Microbiological Reviews 56:152-179.
    Kawaoka, Y., Bean, W.J., Gorman, O.T., and others.  1993.  The roles of birds and pigs in the generation of pandemic strains of human influenza.  Pages 187-191 in C. Hannoun and Alan P. Kendal (editors).  Options for the Control of Influenza II: Proceedings of the International Conference on Options for the Control of Influenza.  Elsevier Science, Amsterdam
    Webster, R.G., W.J. Bean, O.T. Gorman.  1995.  Evolution of influenza viruses: rapid evolution and stasis.  Pages 531-544 in Gibbs, A.J., C.H. Calisher, and F. Garcia Arenal, editors.  Molecular Basis of Virus Evolution.  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England.
    Carmichael, G.J., J.H. Williamson, O.T. Gorman, and T.R. Tiersch.  1996.  Field propagation techniques for the endangered razorback sucker.  North American Journal of Fisheries Management 16:963-966.
    Tiersch, T.R., W.R.Wayman, C.R. Figiel, Jr., O.T. Gorman, J.H. Williamson, G.J. Carmichael. 1997.  Field collection, handling and storage of sperm of the endangered razorback sucker.  North American Journal of Fisheries Management 17:167-173.
    Kawaoka, Y., O.T. Gorman, I. Toshihiro, K. Wells, R.O. Donis, M.R. Castrucci, I. Donatelli, and R.G. Webster.  1998.  Influence of host species on the evolution of the nonstructural (NS) gene of influenza A viruses.  Virus Research 55: 143-156.
    Tiersch, T.R., C.R. Figiel, Jr., W.R. Wayman, J.H. Williamson, Carmichael, G.J., and O.T. Gorman.  1998.  Cryopresevation of sperm of the endangered razorback sucker.  Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 127:95-104.
    Gorman, O.T. and D.M. Stone. 1999.  Ecology of spawning humpback chub, Gila cypha, in the Little Colorado River in Grand Canyon.  Environmental Biology of Fishes 55:115-133.
    Meretsky, V.J., R.A. Valdez, M.E. Douglas, M.J. Brouder, O.T. Gorman and P.C. Marsh. 2000.  Spatiotemporal variation in length-weight relationships of endangered humpback chub: implications for conservation and management.  Trans. Amer. Fish Soc. 129:419-428.
    Tiersch, T.R., C.R. Figiel, Jr., W.R. Wayman, J.H. Williamson, G.J. Carmichael, and O.T. Gorman.  2000.  Cryopreservation of Sperm of the Endangered Razorback Sucker.  Pages 117-122 in Tiersch,T.R. and P.M. Mazik, eds.  Cryopreservation in Aquatic Species.  Advances in World Aquaculture, Volume 7, World Aquaculture Society, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
    Gorman, O.T.  2000.  Ecological and genetic considerations for collection of gametes from wild fishes. Pages 319-322 in Tiersch, T.R. and P.M. Mazik, eds.  Cryopreservation in Aquatic Species.  Advances in World Aquaculture, Volume 7, World Aquaculture Society, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
    Gorman, O. T.  1973.  Distribution of gray squirrels with respect to spatial variation in food abundance.  B.S. thesis, University of Delaware, Newark.  47 pages.
    Gorman, O. T.  1976.  Diversity and stability in the fish communities of some Indiana and Panama streams.  M.S. thesis, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana.  102 pages
    Gorman, O. T.  1983.  The determinants of habitat segregation among Ozark minnows.  Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kansas, Lawrence.  184 pages.

    **Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.

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