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Matthew Cooper                                                                                     

Semester of Entry                                        

Fall 2009

 

Contact Information                                    

Office: 290 Galvin Life Science

Email: mcooper3@nd.edu

Lab webpage: http://www.nd.edu/~strmeco/matthew.html

 

Education                                                      

M.S., Grand Valley State University, 2008

B.S., Grand Valley State University, 2002

 

Research Interests                                      

Aquatic ecology, human impacts on ecosystems, coastal processes

 

Publications                                                   ___________________________   

Cooper, M.J., C.R. Ruetz III, D.G. Uzarski, and B.M. Shafer. (2009). Habitat use and diet of the round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) in coastal areas of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 24(3): 477-488.

Uzarski, D.G., T.M. Burton, Kolar, R.E. and M.J. Cooper.  2009. The ecological impacts of fragmentation and vegetation removal in Lake Huron’s coastal wetlands. Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management 12(1): 1-17.

Murry, B.A., M.J. Cooper, K. Kapuscinski, D. Coulter, D.F. Clapp, T. Paoli, C.R. Ruetz III, J.M. Farrell, and D.G. Uzarski. Submitted. Increasing prevalence of the invasive round goby in coastal wetlands of the Laurentian Great Lakes: implications to native fish refugia. Biological Invasions.

Cooper, M.J., R.R. Rediske, D.G. Uzarski, and T.M. Burton. 2009. Sediment contamination and faunal communities in two subwatersheds of Mona Lake, Michigan. Journal of Environmental Quality 38: 1255-1265.

Uzarski, D.G., A.T. Bosch, and M.J. Cooper. 2009. Wetland ecology and management for fish, amphibians and reptiles. In: Encyclopedia of Inland Waters: G.E. Likens (ed). Elsevier. pp. 582-589.

Cooper, M.J., D.G. Uzarski, and T.M. Burton. 2009. Benthic Invertebrate Fauna, Wetland Ecosystems.  In: Encyclopedia of Inland Waters: G.E. Likens (ed). Elsevier. pp. 232-241.

Cooper, M.J.,  D.G. Uzarski, and T.M. Burton. 2007. Macroinvertebrate community composition in relation to anthropogenic disturbance, vegetation, and organic sediment depth in four Lake Michigan drowned river-mouth wetlands. Wetlands 27(4): 894-903.

Cooper, M.J., C.R. Ruetz III, D.G. Uzarski, and T.M. Burton. 2007. Distribution of round gobies in coastal areas of Lake Michigan: Are wetlands resistant to invasion? Journal of Great Lakes Research 33(2): 303-313.

Bhagat, Y., J.J.H.Ciborowski, L.B .Johnson, D.G. Uzarski, T.M. Burton, Steven T.A. Timmermans, and M.J. Cooper. 2007. Testing a fish index of biotic integrity for responses to different stressors in Great Lakes coastal wetlands. Journal of Great Lakes Research 33 (Special Issue 3): 224-235.

Cooper, M.J., D.G. Uzarski, T.M. Burton, and R.R. Rediske. 2006. Macroinvertebrate community composition relative to chemical/physical variables, land use and cover, and vegetation types within a Lake Michigan drowned river mouth wetland. Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management 9(4):463-479.

Gyekis, K.G., M.J. Cooper, D.G. Uzarski, and T.M. Burton. 2006. A high-intensity LED light source for larval fish and invertebrate floating quatrefoil light traps. Freshwater Ecology 21:621-626.

Uzarski, D.G., T.M. Burton, M.J. Cooper, D.A. Albert, J. Ingram, and S. Timmermans. 2005. Fish habitat use within and across wetland classes of the five Great Lakes. Journal of Great Lakes Research 31:171-196.

 

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