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SES Distinguished Scientist Seminar Series
09/17/04
Are Fish made from Algae or Trees?
Michael Pace – Institute of Ecosystem Studies
3:00 PM, Whitman Auditorium
Michael Pace is an Aquatic Ecologist and the Assistant Director at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York. Pace earned two under-graduate degrees, in English and Biology (magna cum laude), from the University of Virginia and his M.S. in Zoology and Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of Georgia. He joined the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in 1986.
Pace investigates interactions and feedbacks between biogeochemical processes and food webs in aquatic systems. His recent work has focused on understanding and predicting properties of aquatic ecosystems from external watershed characteristics. Pace and his co-workers are currently conducting large scale experiments in which 13C-isotope tracer is added to whole lakes to trace carbon flows and make infer-ences about the role of terrestrial organic matter in aquatic food webs.
Dr. Pace has served on the Visions Committee for the Ecological Society of America since 2002. This committee is dedicated to expanding ecological knowledge as well as increasing understanding between ecological scientists, policy makers and the public. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis and served as chair from 2000 to. From 2001 to 2003 he served on the National Research Council of the Committee on Endangered and Threatened Fishes of the Klamath Basin. In 1992 he received the American Fisheries Society Award for Most Significant Paper.
Suggested Reading:
Wetzel, R.G. (1995). Death, detritus and energy flow in aquatic ecosystems. Freshwater Biology 33:83-89.
Michael L. Pace, Jonathan J. Cole, Stephen R. Carpenter, James F. Kitchell, James R. Hodgson, Matthew C. Van de Bogert, Darren L. Bade, Emma S. Kritzberg, David Bastviken (2004. Whole lake carbon-13 additions reveal terrestrial support of aquatic food webs. Nature 427:240-243.
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