Travis Schmidt - USGS

Ecosystem Dynamics

Cooperator

Duty Station:
Fort Collins Science Center
2150 Centre Ave
Bldg C
Fort Collins, CO 80526

Phone: 970-226-9470
Fax: 970.226.9230
Email: tschmidt@usgs.gov

Current Research

• Ecological Effects of Nitrogen and Sulfur Deposition
• Predicting and Managing Climate Change Impacts on Semi-Arid Land Wetlands, Migratory Birds, and Their Prey: An Integration of Remote Sensing, Molecular Genetics, Hydrology, and Environmental Modeling

Products

Publications

Total Records:16

• Potential habitat distribution for the freshwater diatom Didymosphenia geminata in the continental US
• Climate-induced changes in high elevation stream nitrate dynamics
• Geochemistry of surface water in alpine catchments in central Colorado, USA: Resolving host-rock effects at different spatial scales
• Organizing and integrating the valuation process
• Relating the accumulation of trace-metals in aquatic insects to population effects
• How mineral deposit models can improve our understanding of the effects of trace-metals on aquatic communities
• Boulder Creek: A stream ecosystem in an urban landscape
• Climate-induced changes in nitrogen dynamics in Loch Vale Watershed, Rocky Mountain National Park
• Utilizing structural equation modeling techniques to model watershed structure and land use affects on stream geochemistry and ecological responses
• The effects of mines on aquatic communities in Central Colorado
• Selected field parameters from streams and preliminary analytical data from water and macroinvertebrate samples, Central Colorado Assessment Project, Task, 2004 and 2005
• Landscape ecotoxicology: Linking catchment lithology to ecological state of streams in the central Rocky Mountains of Colorado
• Regional variations in surface-water chemistry in central Colorado, including areas affected by high natural backgrounds and historic mining
• Distribution and potential ecological effects of Didymosphenia geminata (Schmidt) in Central Colorado
• Utilizing Path Analysis to model watershed structure and historical land use affects on local stream geochemistry and ecological responses
• The influence of catchment geology on water quality and benthic macroinvertebrate communities in streams from the Colorado Mineral Belt