CURRICULUM VITAE
Melanie Ann Riedinger-Whitmore, Ph.D.
Environmental Science,
Policy and Geography Program
University of South
Florida – St. Petersburg
140 Seventh Avenue South
St. Petersburg, Florida
33701-5016
Work phone: 727-553-4971, Fax: 727-553-1526
E-mail: mariedin@stpt.usf.edu
Employment
Associate
Professor, Environmental Science, Policy, and Geography Program, University of
South Florida-St. Petersburg, 2005 –
Visiting
Professor, Stetson College of Law, Gulfport, Fall
2005.
Assistant
Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Geography Program, University of
South Florida - St. Petersburg, 2003
- 2005.
Associate Professor
(tenured), Department of Biology, Northeastern Illinois University, 1999 -
2003.
Assistant
Professor, Department of Biology, Northeastern Illinois University, 1993 ‑
1999.
Visiting
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Kentucky
University, 1991 ‑ 1993.
Instructor,
General Biology Program, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Kentucky
University, 1990 ‑ 1991.
Research
Associate, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Kentucky University,
1989 ‑ 1990.
Research Associate,
Department of Zoology, The Ohio State University,
Summer 1984 ‑ 1987, 1988 ‑ 1989.
Teaching
Associate, Department of Zoology, The Ohio State
University, 1983 ‑ 1988.
Education
Ph.D. Zoology The Ohio State University 1993
M.S. Zoology The Ohio State University 1986
B.S. Biological Sciences Northern Kentucky University 1983
Teaching
Experience
Graduate-level: Quaternary Ecology, Restoration Ecology,
Historical and Contemporary
Patterns in Species Diversity, Biological Literature, Graduate
Seminar.
Undergraduate: Wetland Environments*, Florida Ecosystems*, General
Ecology, Principles of
Ecology*, Freshwater Ecology**,Aquatic
Biology**, Biogeography**, Phycology, Invertebrate
Zoology,
Biology I – Cellular Processes* (major’s introductory
course), Biology of Organisms (major’s introductory course),
Biology of Populations (major’s introductory
course), Introduction to Biology (general education course),
Changing Natural
Environment (general education course), General Microbiology.
* USF-St. Petersburg; ** USF-St. Petersburg
& NEIU.
Research
Experience
Paleolimnology of Florida temperate and subtropical lakes:
1999 - Present.
Paleolimnology of hypersaline lakes
and lagoons, Galapagos Islands: 1991 ‑ Present. Paleolimnology of
Andean and Amazonian lakes,
Ecuador: 1988 ‑ 1992.
Diatom
taxonomy, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: 1986.
Culture
and taxonomic studies of tropical and temperate freshwater diatoms: 1983 ‑
1986. Physiological ecology of marine
invertebrates: 1981 ‑ 1982.
Field
Experience
Subtropical
and Temperate Paleolimnology: Florida, 1999 - 2006.
Temperate Paleolimnology: Indiana Dunes,
Indiana, 1994.
Tropical
Paleolimnology and Limnology: Galapagos Islands,
1991; Ecuadorian Andes, 1984, 1986, 1988, and
Amazonia,
1988. Tropical Marine Biology: Bahamas, 1981.
Dissertation
The application of fossil diatom
assemblages in reconstructing mid- to late-Holocene climate in the neotropics:
The Paleolimnology of Huarmicocha
and LakeAyauchi, Ecuador. The Ohio State
University, 1993. 292 pp.
Publications
Whitmore,
T.J., M. Brenner, K. Kolasa, W.F. Kenney, M.A. Riedinger-Whitmore, J.H. Curtis,
and J.M.
Smoak. Inadvertent alkalization of a
Florida lake caused by increased nutrient
and solute
loading to its watershed. Journal of Paleolimnology (in revision).
Brenner,
M., T.J.Whitmore, M.A. Riedinger-Whitmore,
B. DeArmond, D.A. Leeper,
W.F.
Kenney, J.H.Curtis, and B. Shumate. Geochemical and biological consequences of
groundwater
augmentation in lakes of west-central Florida (USA). Journal
of Paleolimnology. Accepted for publication (in
revision).
Riedinger-Whitmore, M., T.J. Whitmore, M. Brenner, A.
Moore, J.M. Smoak, J. Curtis, and
C. Schelske. 2005. Cyanobacterial proliferation is a recent response to eutrophication in
Many Florida lakes: a paleolimnological
assessment. Lake and Reservoir
Management, 21(4):423-435.
Whitmore, T.J., and M. Riedinger-Whitmore. 2004.
Lake management programs: the
importance
of sediment assessment studies. Lakeline. Spring 2004: 27-30.
Riedinger, M.A., M. Steinitz-Kannan,
W.M. Last, and M.Brenner. 2002.
A ~ 6100 14C yr
record of El Niño activity from the Galápagos
Islands. Journal of Paleolimnology
27:1-7.
Steinitz-Kannan, M.,
M. A. Riedinger, W. Last, M. Brenner, and
M.C. Miller. 1998. Un registro de 6,000 años de manifestaciones
intensas del fenómeno de el Niño en sedimentos de
lagunas de las islas Galápagos. Bulletin del’Institut Français d’Etudes Andines 27(3):581-592.
Riedinger, M.,
M. Steinitz‑Kannan, W. Last,
and M. Brenner. 1997. A high‑resolution paleoenvironmental
record from Bainbridge Crater Lake, Galapagos Islands. Wurzburger
Geographische Manuscripte,
Heft 41:169.
Steinitz‑Kannan, M.,
M. Nienaber, M. Riedinger,
and R. Kannan.
1993. The fossil diatoms of Lake Yambo, Ecuador. A possible record of El Niño events.
Bull. L'Institut Français
d'Études Andines 22:227‑241.
Steinitz‑Kannan, M.,
M. Nienaber, and M. Riedinger. 1992.
The fossil diatoms of Lake Yambo, Ecuador; a
2500‑year record of intense El Niño
events. Paleo‑ENSO
records international symposium extended abstracts, ORSTOM and Instituto Geofisico del Peru,
Lima, p. 295‑298.
Colinvaux, P.A., M.B. Bush, K.‑b. Liu, P.E. De
Oliveira, M. Steinitz‑Kannan, M. Riedinger, and
M. Miller.
1989. Amazon without refugia: vegetation and climate of the Amazon basin through
a glacial cycle. Int. Symp. on Global changes in South
America during the Quaternary: Past‑Present‑Future. Sao Paulo
(Brazil).
Steinitz‑Kannan, M.,
M. Riedinger, and M. Miller. 1987. Las
diatomeas del Ecuador: II. Diatomeas de
la laguna de Limoncocha, Provincia de Napo. Publicaciones del Museo Ecuatoriano de
Ciencias Naturales. 5(7):51‑77.
Steinitz‑Kannan, M.,
M. Nienaber, M. Riedinger, L.Harrel, and M. Miller. 1982. Estudios limnologicos
en la Laguna de San Marcos con descripciones de las especies principales de
diatomeas. Publicationes
del Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales. 3(3):39‑65.
Riedinger, M.A., T.J. Whitmore, M. Brenner, C.L. Schelske, J.M. Smoak, and J. Curtis. 2005.
Threshold responses of cyanobacteria
to eutrophication:
paleolimnological evidence of alternative stable
states in Florida lakes. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography 2005 meeting, Salt
Lake City, Utah, Feb 20-25. .
Last,
W.M., N.A. Bryksina, M.A. Riedinger-Whitmore,
and K. Baxter. 2004. ENSO frequency
and
periodicity as interpreted from the 6200-year-long record from Bainbridge
Crater
Lake, Galapagos. Geological Society of
America Annual Meeting, Denver, November.
Riedinger-Whitmore,
M.A., T.J. Whitmore, M. Brenner, J. Smoak, and J. Curtis. 2004.
Algal populations and water quality in Florida lakes: sedimentary
evidence of anthropogenic impact.
Invited paper presented at the joint assembly
of the American Geophysical Union, the Canadian Geophysical Union, the Society
of Exploration Geophysicists, and the Environmental and Engineering Geophysical
Society, Montreal, Canada, May 17-21.
Riedinger-Whitmore,
M.A., T.J. Whitmore and J. Smoak. 2003. Sedimented algal-pigment and
diatom evidence of trophic state trends in Florida lakes. Presented at the 17th North
American Diatom Symposium, Lower Matecumbe Island,
Florida Keys, October 21-26.
Bryksina, N.A., W.M. Last, K. Baxter, and M. Riedinger.
2003. Fractal characteristics of
Bainbridge Crater Lake sediment
gray-scale intensity data documenting the frequency
and
intensity of Holocene El Nino/Southern Oscillation events. Complexity and Fractals
in Nature
Conference, Vancouver, British Colombia.
Last,
W.M., N.A. Bryksina, K. Baxter, M. Riedinger and M. Brenner.
2003. Mineralogy,
geochemistry
& event stratigraphy of Bainbridge Crater Lake,
Galapagos Islands.
International Limnogeology Congress, Tucson, Arizona.
Whitmore, T., and M. Riedinger. 2001.
Characterization of pre-disturbance water-quality
conditions in Florida lakes using sedimented diatoms and algal pigments. Florida
Department of Environmental Protection, Bioassessment Criteria Committee Meeting,
Orlando FL, July 17.
Riedinger, M., T. Whitmore, M. Brenner, J. Curtis,
A. Moore, and C.L. Schelske.
2000.
Sedimented alga pigment profiles from Florida
lakes: algal community responses to eutrophication. 20th
International Symposium, North American Lake Management
Society, Miami, Florida, November.
Last, W.M., S. Pooler, R. Belsham,
M.A. Riedinger, M. Brenner & M. Steinitz-Kannan.
2000. Paleohydrology and paleochemistry of salt lakes of the Galapagos Islands. 8th
International Symposium on Palaeolimnology, Kingston,
Canada, August.
Rockwell,
P., M. Riedinger, M. Steinitz-Kannan,
W. Last, and M. Brenner. 1999.
A fossil
diatom record from Sergio
Lagoon, Santiago Island, Galapagos Islands. 15th North
American Diatom Symposium, Pingree
Park Field Station, Colorado, September.
Steinitz-Kannan, M.
M. Riediger, W. Last, M. Brenner, and M. Miller. 1999.
A six thousand year history of El Niño events
in the Galapagos: Evidence from lake
cores. Proceedings of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, Pacific Division 18(1):84. June.
Riedinger, M. 1999.
A mid-Holocene record of El Niño activity from
the Galapagos Islands. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of Illinois at Chicago, February 25. (Invited
seminar).
Riedinger, M.,
M. Steinitz-Kannan, W. Last,
and M. Brenner. 1998. A 6100 yr El Niño record
from the
Galapagos Islands. Geological Society of
America Annual Meeting, Toronto,
Canada, October.
Riedinger, M. 1998.
Mid-Holocene climate: a Galapagos perspective. Foundation for Exploration and Research on
Cultural Origins: Climate and Culture at 3000 BC,University of Maine, Orono,
Maine, October.
Riedinger, M.,
P. Rockwell, M. Steinitz‑Kannan, W. Last,
and M. Brenner. 1998. Late‑Holocene
fossil diatom records from the Galapagos Islands. 15th Biennial Meeting,
American Quaternary Association, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, August.
Steinitz‑Kannan, M.,
M. A. Riedinger, W. Last, M. Brenner, and
M. C. Miller. 1997. Un registro de 6000 años de manifestaciones
intensas del fenómeno de El Niño en sedimentos del lagunas
de las Islas Galapágos. Memorias Technicas,
Seminario International Concecuencias
Climaticas E Hidrologicas
del Evento El Niño A Escala Regional y Local.
ORSTOM
& INAMHI,Quito,
Ecuador, November.
Riedinger, M.,
M. Steinitz‑Kannan, W. Last,
and M. Brenner. 1997. A high‑resolution paleoenvironmental
record from Bainbridge Crater Lake, Galapagos Islands. 7th International Symposium
on Palaeolimnology, Riedlingen,
Germany, August.
Belsham, R. P., W. M. Last, M.
A. Riedinger, M. Steinitz‑Kannan,
and M. Brenner. 1996. Paleolimnology of salt lakes of the Galapagos Islands. Geological Association of
Canada Annual Meeting, April.
Gee, S., M. Steinitz‑Kannan, and M. Riedinger. 1995.
Diatoms of Galapagos saline lagoons:
the changes caused by recent frequent El Niño
events. 13th North American Diatom Symposium, Iowa Lakeside
Laboratory, Milford, Iowa, September.
Riedinger,
M.A., M. Steinitz‑Kannan, M. Brenner, and W.M.
Last. 1995. Reconstruction of climate change in the
eastern equatorial Pacific, 6000 yr B.P. to present: the paleolimnology
of Bainbridge Crater Lake, Galapagos Islands.
First International Limno‑Geological
Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark, August.
Riedinger,
M.A., and M. Steinitz‑Kannan. 1995.
Galapagos sediments used to examine
Holocene climate change
in the equatorial Pacific. NOAA
Climate and Global Change
World Wide Web project
summary, June.
Riedinger, M.,
and M. Brenner. 1994. Paleolimnological investigations into the recent history of
Lake Yambo, Ecuador.
13th Biennial American Quaternary Association,
University of Minnesota, June.
Riedinger, M.,
M. Brenner, M. Steinitz‑Kannan, W.M. Last,
and M.C. Miller. 1994. The paleolimnology
of Bainbridge Crater Lake, Galapagos Islands: a Holocene record of salinity
fluctuations. 13th Biennial American Quaternary Association
meeting, University of Minnesota, June.
Steinitz‑Kannan, M.,
M. Brenner, and M.A. Riedinger. 1993.
History of El Niño events in the Galapagos
Islands: the diatom record from El Junco Lake.
12th North American Diatom Symposium,
University of Manitoba, September.
Riedinger, M.A. 1993. Mid‑ to late‑ Holocene lake‑level
fluctuations: a fossil diatom record
from Ecuadorian Amazonia. 6th International Palaeolimnology Symposium, Canberra, Australia, April.
Riedinger,
M.A., M. Steinitz‑Kannan, and M. Brenner. 1993.
A mid‑Holocene record of precipitation events from the equatorial
Pacific: The paleolimnology
of Bainbridge Crater Lake, Galapagos Islands.
6th International Palaeolimnology
Symposium, Canberra, Australia, April.
Steinitz‑Kannan, M.,
M. Riedinger, and M. Brenner. 1993. Paleolimnology of Galapagos saline lagoons and a history of
El Niño events.
Inter‑INQUAConference,
Canberra, Australia, April.
Riedinger, M.,
and M. Steinitz‑Kannan. 1992.
The late Holocene record of precipitation events from the Galapagos
Islands. 12thAmerican Quaternary Association meeting, Davis,
CA. August.
Riedinger, M.,
and P. Colinvaux. 1989.
Paleolimnology of Lake Ayauchi,
Ecuador: Evidence
from the
diatoms. X Biennial North American
Diatom Symposium, University of
Minnesota, October.
Grants
and Contracts
Whitmore,
T.J., and M. Riedinger.
Florida Department of Environmental Protection Contract -
Sedimented algal pigment profiles in Florida lakes:
evaluating algal community
responses to eutrophication. $20,000; March 2002 - March 2003.
Riedinger, M.
Northeastern Illinois University, Committee on Organized Research Grant
-
Cyanobacterial and diatom community dynamics in hypereutrophic central Florida lakes: evaluating historic
changes in trophic state using sedimentary pigments,
$3000; 2000 -
2001.
Riedinger, M. Northeastern Illinois University, Committee
on Organized ResearchGrant ‑ The Paleolimnology of Sergio Lagoon: A Late‑Holocene Paleoclimate Record from Santiago Island, Galapagos, $3000; 1997 ‑ 1998.
Riedinger, M., and M. Steinitz-Kannan. National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, Paleoclimatology Program ‑ Climate Reconstruction in the
Galapagos Islands, 6000 yrs BP to Present, $65,680; 1995 ‑ 1998.
Riedinger, M. Northeastern Illinois University, Committee
on Organized ResearchGrant ‑ Paleolimnological Investigations in the Indiana Dunes
National Lakeshore, $3000;
1994 ‑ 1995.
Steinitz-Kannan, M.,
and M. Riedinger. National Science Foundation, Climate Dynamics
Program (ATM‑9106282) ‑ A late
Holocene history of precipitation events in the Equatorial Pacific: a record
from Galapagos lake cores,$150,000; 1991 ‑ 1994.
Steinitz-Kannan, M.,
and M. Riedinger. National Geographic Society (4630‑91) ‑
History of Strong El Niño Events from the Galapagos
Islands, $12,000; 1991.
Feldmann, Paul. G. 2002.
The influence of hurricanes on the Luquillo
Experimental Forest of
Puerto Rico. Department of Biology,
Northeastern Illinois University.
Crosby,
Jennie. 2001. Primiparous
maternal behavior and infant development in a western
lowland gorilla mother-infant
pair: implications for captive husbandry.
Department of
Biology, Northeastern
Illinois University.
Slobodnik, Linda M. 2000.
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) analysis of CommonCarp
(Cyprinus carpio)
and sediment in the Grand Calumet Lagoons (Indiana Dunes, Indiana).
Department of
Biology, Northeastern Illinois University.
Manuscript reviewer, Journal of Paleolimnology,
2001, 2003, 2004, 2005.
Proposal reviewer, National Science Foundation, 2005, 2006.
North American Lake Management Society member, 2005 – 2006.
Florida
LAKEWATCH volunteer, 1999 - 2000.
Proposal reviewer, Department of Education, 1997.
Book reviewer, Prentice-Hall Publ.
1997, 1998.
Proposal
reviewer, Paleoclimatology Program, National Oceanic
and Atmospheric
Administration, 1994.
University
Service
Departmental:
University
of South Florida-St. Petersburg
Organic
Chemist Search Committee, 2005-2006.
Senior
Scientist in Environmental Science Search Committee, USF, 2003 – 2004.
Environmental Science Bylaws Committee, 2003.
Environmental
Science Executive Committee, 2004 (3-person committee handling
administrative responsibilities for the ESP&G program
during spring and summer 2004)
Northeastern Illinois University
Biology Undergraduate
and Graduate Program Review Committee, 2002 - 2003, chairperson.
Biology Graduate Program Review Committee, 1996 - 2002,
co-chair.
Biology
Personnel Committee, 2000 - 2003, secretary.
Biology
graduate program advisor, 1997 - 2003.
General biology advisor, 1993 - 2003.
Environmental biology advisor, 1993 - 1997.
Service
on eight tenure-track faculty search committees (chairperson for terrestrial
ecology and
exercise physiology search
committees).
Service
on ad hoc committees dealing with undergraduate curriculum review, development,
and
assessment.
Service on eight M.S. Biology thesis committees.
College
and University:
USF-St.
Petersburg
Center for Science and Policy Applications for Coastal Environments
(SPACE) Executive Committee member, 2004 – 2005.
College
of Arts and Sciences Council, 2004 - 2006.
Assistant Vice President for Research and Community
Partnerships Search Committee, 2004.
Annual and Mid-Tenure Review Committee, 2004.
Research Committee, 2003.
Northeastern
Illinois University
University Faculty
Excellence Award Committee, 2003.
Graduate
College Associate Dean Search Committee, 2002.
University
Committee on Organized Research Proposal Review, 2001 - 2003.
College
of Arts and Sciences Fiscal Affairs Committee, 2002 - 2003.
College of Arts and Sciences Assessment Working Group, 2001.
College of Arts and Sciences Dean Search Committee, 2000.
General
Education Committee, 1999 - 2001.
Faculty
Council on Development and Public Affairs, 1998 - 1999.
Teaching,
Learning, and Technology Roundtable Working Group, 1998 - 1999.
Faculty
Council on Academic Affairs, 1994 –1998; vice‑chair, 1997 -1998; acting
chair, fall
1997.
College
of Arts & Sciences Academic Affairs Committee, 1993 - 2003; vice‑chair,
1996 -
1997.
Awards
Land Use and Environmental Change
visiting scholar, University of Florida, Summer/Fall 2001,
Summer 2002.
NEIU Sabbatical Award for 2001 -
2002.
NEIU Faculty Excellence Award in Research for 1998.
NEIU Research Month, 1997.
Osburn Fellowship, The Ohio
State University, 1987.
Biological
Sciences Annual Award for Academic Excellence, Northern Kentucky University,
1983.
Clara L. Richards Scholarship in Biology, Northern Kentucky
University, 1982.
U.S. Presidential Scholarship, Northern Kentucky University,
1978 ‑ 1982.