Brian G. Laub

E-mail: blaub @ umd.edu
Phone: (301)-405-3951
Fax: 301-314-9290
Mail: 4128 Plant Sciences University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742
 
 
Research Interests
I am investigating how stream stability restoration projects impact diatom communities in urban streams on the western Coastal Plain Physiographic Province, Maryland. The number of stream restoration projects in the Chesepeake Bay watershed has increased rapidly in recent years, but thorough research into the effects of restoration on biological communities has been lacking. Stability restoration projects are not designed to recover biological communitities, but they do represent a substantial alteration of channel geometry and flow patterns. I am attempting to quantify how stability restoration projects alter channel complexity, and I hypothesize that these alterations will affect how diatom communities respond to and recover from, flood events. Understanding the effects of restoration on diatom communities is important, because the response of diatoms to restoration is poorly studied, and because diatoms are often the dominant primary producers in streams and support organisms higher in the food chain. I also hope to assess directly whether stability restoration projects help stabilize bed and bank sediments.
 
 
Education
University of Montana, Missoula, Montana (1999-2004)
B.S. Wildlife Biology

Neotropical Herpetology (2004)
Institute for Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Ecology and Systematics of Diatoms (2007)
Iowa Lakeside Laboratory
 
 
Representative Publications
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Laub, B. G. and M. A. Palmer. Restoration ecology of rivers. Pages 332-341 in Likens, G. E., ed. Encyclopedia of Inland Waters.
 

 

Awards and Recognition

Summer Graduate Fellowship, Maryland Water Resources Research Center (2006)

Hannah T. Croasdale Fellowship, Phycological Society of America (2007)

Eugenie Clark Summer Research Fellowship, Biology Department, University of Maryland (2007)

University of Maryland, Department of Biology, Outstanding TA Award (2009)

 

Teaching

TA for BSCI 205: Environmental Science

TA for BSCI 330: Cell Biology and Physiology

TA for BSCI 421: Cell Biology

 

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