SUNY Plattsburgh
Timothy Mihuc, Coordinator
Lake Champlain Research Institute

 

 

TIMOTHY B. MIHUC - CURRICULUM VITAE
Lake Champlain Research Institute
102 Hudson Hall 
SUNY- Plattsburgh
101 Broad Street,

Plattsburgh, NY 12901

office 518-564-3039

timothy.mihuc@plattsburgh.edu

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1999- Assistant/Assoc. Professor, Center for Earth and Environmental Sciences, SUNY- Plattsburgh.
          Coordinator, Lake Champlain Research Institute,  SUNY-Plattsburgh.
 
1996-98 Director, Great Rivers Field Station. Illinois Natural History Survey.
 
1994-96 Research assistant professor (1996) Louisiana State University.
    Post-doctoral research fellow (1994-95) Louisiana Cooperative Fish/Wildlife Research Unit.

1989-94 Graduate research assistant. Stream Ecology Center, Idaho State University.

1986-89 Graduate research assistant. Oklahoma State University/University of Colorado.

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:                                                                                                                                     

     Aquatic Systems          disturbance, land-use patterns, community/systems level patterns, seasonal   

                                          dynamics, benthic macroinvertebrates , secondary production, aquatic vegetation.

     Food Web dynamics    resource partitioning, autotrophy/heterotrophy, trophic linkages, 

                                           biochemical tracers. 

     Nutrient Cycling          N:P ratios, phosphorus/nitrogen limitation.

 

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. Idaho State University              1994 Ecology (minor- geology)
M.S. Oklahoma State University        1989 Zoology (minor- statistics)
B.S. Oral Roberts University              1986 Biology (minor- chemistry)

PUBLICATIONS:                                                                                                             

Thesis:

Mihuc, T.B.  1989.  Aquatic macroinvertebrate life history and phenology in a Colorado alpine wetland (Green Lakes Valley, Colorado Front Range).  M.S. thesis, Oklahoma State University. 

 

Mihuc, T.B.  1994.  The trophic niche of selected benthic macroinvertebrate populations in Rocky Mountain streams: Implications for food web dynamics in post-fire streams.  Ph. D. dissertation, Idaho State University.

 

Book: 

 

T. Manley, P. Manley, T. B. Mihuc,.  2004.  Kluwer Academic Press “Lake Champlain in transition: from research toward restoration”.  Kluwer Academic Press, 411 pages.

 

Peer-reviewed journal articles or book chapters:

Mihuc, T.B. and D.W. Toetz.  1994.  Determination of diets of alpine aquatic insects using stable isotopes and gut analysis.  American Midland Naturalist 131:146-155.  

 

Mihuc, T.B. and G.W. Minshall.  1995.  Trophic generalists versus trophic specialists: Implications for food web dynamics in post-fire streams.  Ecology 76:2361-2372.

Mihuc, T.B. and J.R. Mihuc.  1995.  Trophic ecology of five shredders in a Rocky Mountain stream.  Journal of Freshwater Ecology 10:209-215.

Mihuc, T.B., G. W. Minshall, and C.T. Robinson.  1996.  Responses of benthic macroinvertebrate populations in Cache Creek, Yellowstone National Park to the 1988 wildfires.  pages 83-94  In The Ecological Implications of Fire in Greater Yellowstone (J.Greenlee, editor).  International Association of Wildland Fire. 

Mihuc, T.B. and D.W. Toetz.  1996.  Phenology of aquatic macroinvertebrates in an alpine wetland. Hydrobiologia 330:131-136.

Mihuc, T.B., G.W. Minshall, and J. R. Mihuc.  1996.  Species-environment relationships among filter feeding caddisflies (Trichoptera: Hydropsychidae) in Rocky Mountain Streams.  Great Basin Naturalist 56:287-293.

Mihuc, T.B.  1997.  The functional trophic role of lotic primary consumers: Generalist versus specialist strategies.  Freshwater Biology 37:455-462.

Mihuc, J.R., C.H. Trost, and T.B. Mihuc.  1997.  Shorebird predation on benthic macroinvertebrates at an irrigation reservoir.  Great Basin Naturalist 57:245-252. 

Mihuc, T.B., J. M. Battle, J.R. Mihuc and C.F. Bryan.  1999.  Zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) seasonal colonization patterns in a sub-tropical floodplain river.  Hydrobiologia 392:121-128.

Toetz, D., L. Tang, T.B. Mihuc, D. Storm, and M. Smolen.  1999.  Assessment of predictors of stream eutrophication potential.  Journal of the North American Water Resources Association 35:853-865.

Battle, J. M. and T.B. Mihuc.  2000.  Decomposition dynamics of four aquatic macrophytes in a neotropical large floodplain river.  Hydrobiologia 392:121-128.

Mihuc, T.B., L.T. Beck, and C .F. Bryan. 2000.  Long-term comparison of water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) invertebrate assemblages in a subtropical floodplain river: 1975-76 and 1994-95.  Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 27: 2535-2539.

Mihuc, T.B.  and J.W. Feminella. 2001.  Understanding Large River Systems. Journal of the North American Benthologcal Society  20:223-225. 

Mihuc, T.B., J.M. Battle, J.R. Mihuc, and C.F.Bryan.  2002.  Macroinvertebrate communities in littoral regions of a large-river floodplain: relationships with water quality and vegetation.  Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 28:1023-1026.

Toetz, D.W. and  Mihuc, T.B. 2002.  Effects of Ultraviolet radiation on algae and chironomids in a subalpine stream: Colorado Front Range.   Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 28:1095-1100.

Mihuc, Timothy B.  2004. Food web dynamics in Yellowstone streams: shifts in the trophic basis of a stream food web after wildfire disturbance.  Chapter 9 (pp. 189-199), in Linda Wallace (editor). After the Fires: The ecology of change in Yellowstone National Park. Yale University Press.

Boyer, G.L., M.F. Satchwell, A. Shambaugh, M. Watzin, T.B. Mihuc, B. Rosen.  2004.  The occurrence of cyanobacterial toxins in Lake Champlain Waters.  In T. Manley, P. Manley, T. B. Mihuc, (editors).  – pp. 241-257 In T. Manley, P. Manley, T. B. Mihuc,  (editors).  Lake Champlain: Partnerships and Research in the New Millennium, Kluwer Academic Press.    

Carling, K. T. B. Mihuc, C. Siegfried, F. Dunlap, R. Bonham.  2004.  Where have all the Rotifers Gone? Zooplankton community patterns in Lake Champlain from 1992-2001.  In T. Manley, P. Manley, T. B. Mihuc,  (editors).  – pp. 259-270 In T. Manley, P. Manley, T. B. Mihuc, (editors).  Lake Champlain: Partnerships and Research in the New Millennium”, Kluwer Academic Press.  

Mihuc, T.B., Boyer, G.L., Satchwell, M.F., Pellam, M., Jones, J., Vasile, J., Bouchard, A., and R. E. Bonham.  2005. Phytoplankton Community Composition and Cyanobacterial Toxins in Lake Champlain, U.S.A. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. In press.

Mihuc J. R.,  Mihuc, T.B., Woodcock, T., E. A. Romanowicz, Jackson, T., Spring, K., Tran, C., Welch, D., Myers, L.  In press. Composition of Stream Benthic Macroinvertebrate Assemblages in Managed and Preserve Adirondack (New, York, U.S.A.) headwater catchments.   Verh. Internat. verein. Limnol. 

Timothy B. Mihuc and G. Wayne Minshall.  In Press.  The trophic basis of reference and post-fire stream food webs 10 years after wildfire in Yellowstone National Park.  Aquatic Sciences

 Michael Dieterich, Thomas Woodcock, Kenneth Adams, and Timothy Mihuc.  In Press.  Effects of forest management on riparian zone characteristics in the Adirondack uplands.  Northern Journal of Applied Forestry.