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Heather Adams
Ph.D. student
B.A., Biology, College of Creative Studies, University of California-Santa Barbara
B.A., Art History, University of California-Santa Barbara
U-M affiliation
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Contact information
University of Michigan
1272 Kraus Natural Science Building
830 North University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048
Phone: (734) 647-0898
Fax: (734) 763-0544
Email: hea@umich.edu
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Fields of study
Aquatic ecosystem ecology
Research interests
I am interested in the interactions of controls on aquatic bacterial activity. More specifically, how those processes vary at different spatial and temporal scales, across an interconnected lake district. I am also interested in the bacterial community shifts that occur during the ice-free season with changes in carbon substrate source and how community composition may affect the relative strength of their controlling factors. My research is based out of the Toolik Lake LTER, located on the north slope of the Brooks Range, Alaska.
Advisor
George Kling
Lab Web site
Kling Lab
Adams' research webpage
News
Adams is a STAR
Congratulations to Heather Adams who received the STAR Fellowship from the Environmental Protection Agency.
The three-year Science To Achieve Results Fellowship will support Adams' dissertation research. She will receive $37,000 a year. Her project asks how the effects of climate change, such as increased temperature and nutrients, interact with community composition to control aquatic microbial production and various ecosystem functions. Answering these questions will help resolve the actual mechanisms of interaction between microbial diversity, environmental factors, and ecosystem function in terms of microbial activity. This understanding will help us to predict how ecosystems will respond to impending changes in biodiversity and global climate change.
Recent publications
Judd K.E., H.E. Adams, N.S. Bosch, J.M. Kostrzewski, C.E. Scott, B.M. Schultz, D.H. Wang, and G.W. Kling. A case history: Effects of mixing regime on nutrient dynamics and community structure in Third Sister Lake, Michigan during late winter and early spring 2003. Lake and Reservoir Management (in press).
Crump, B.C., J.E. Hobbie, H.E. Adams, and G.W. Kling. 2004. Shifts in bacterioplankton community composition across a landscape: influence of bacterial production and lake residence time. International Society of Microbial Ecology, ISME-10, p. 304.
Jellison, R., H.E. Adams, and J.M. Melack. 2001. Re-appearance of rotifers in hypersaline Mono Lake, California during a period of rising lake levels and decreasing salinity. Hydrobiologia. 466(1):39-43.
Adams, H.E. and R.M. Charles. 2000. A preliminary investigation of lake stability and chemical analysis of deep waters of the Kigoma sub-basin (northern basin) and the Kalemie sub-basin (southern basin) of Lake Tanganyika. Nyanza Project 2000 Annual Report . Tucson, Arizona.
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