NSF Biographical Sketch - Grossman, Gary
 

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Name: Grossman, Gary
Telephone: 706.542.1160; Fax: 706.542.8356
Email: grossman@uga.edu
Organization:
Warnell School of Forest Resources
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia 30602

Position at Coweeta LTER: Principle Investigator
Habitat: Streams
Organism: Fish
Core Area(s): Trophic structure

Education:
B.A., University of California – Berkeley, Conservation, 1975
Ph.D., University of California – Davis, Ecology, 1979
Post Doctoral, University of California – Davis, Ecology, 1979 – 1981

Appointments:
Professor, Warnell School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia, 1992-present
Associate Professor, University of Georgia, 1987-1992
Assistant Professor, University of Georgia, 1981-1987

Publications (Five as examples of research foci):
Grossman, G.D. 1982. Dynamics and organization of a rocky intertidal fish assemblage: the persistence and resilience of taxocene structure. Am. Nat. 119:611-637.

Grossman, G.D., Moyle, P.B., and J.R. Whitaker, Jr. 1982. Stochasticity in structural and functional characteristics of an Indiana stream fish assemblage: a test of community theory. Am. Nat. 120:423-454.

Hill, J., and G.D. Grossman. 1993. An energetic model of microhabitat use for rainbow trout and rosyside dace. Ecology 74:685-698.

Grossman, G.D., Ratajczak, R.E., Crawford, M.K., and M.C. Freeman. 1998. Assemblage organization in stream fishes: effects of environmental variation and interspecific interactions. Ecol. Monogr. 68:395-420.

Grossman, G.D., Rincon, P.A., Farr, M.D., & R.E. Ratajczak. 2002. A new optimal foraging model predicts habitat use by drift-feeding stream minnows. Ecol. Freshwat. Fish, in press (10 journal pp).

Synergistic Activities:
1. Member of editorial board of two European-based international journals (Freshwater Biology & Ecology of Freshwater Fish).

2. Keynote speaker at the 2nd Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences. Presented invited seminar at Western Carolina University.

3. Presented invited lecture on the ethics of scientific publication for the Smith Postdoctoral Fellows (Nature Conservancy Post-Doc program).