|
Dr. Sandra Cooke
jump to: Home | Alison
| Dan | Sönke |
Jamie | Cynthia
Contact Information:
Mellon Lecturing Fellow,
University Writing Program;
Postdoctoral Researcher
Biology Department
Box 90025
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina 27708
Office: 919-660-7071
Fax: 919-681-0637
s.cooke@duke.edu
Education:
Ph.D., 2006, Earth and Environmental Science,
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Dissertation:
The effects of ultraviolet radiation and dissolved organic
matter on zooplankton communities.
Adviser: Dr. Craig E.
Williamson
B.A., 2001, Pre-Professional Zoology/Environmental Studies,
Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio. Thesis: Nutrient
limitation of phytoplankton across spatial and seasonal gradients
in reservoirs of varying productivity.
REU adviser: Dr. Michael
Vanni (Miami University)
Research Interests:
zooplankton ecology, effects of UV radiation
and other aspects of environmental change on aquatic organisms
and food webs, ecological effects of aquatic invasive species
(Asian carp)
Publications:
Cooke, S. L., C. E. Williamson, D. M. Leech,
W. J. Boeing and L. Torres. 2008. Effects of temperature
and ultraviolet radiation on diel vertical migration of freshwater
crustacean zooplankton. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and
Aquatic Sciences. 65: 1144-1152.
Cooke, S. L., C. E. Williamson and J. E. Saros. 2006. How
do temperature, dissolved organic matter, and nutrients influence
the response of Leptodiaptomus ashlandi to UV radiation in
a subalpine lake? Freshwater Biology. 51: 1827-1837.
Cooke, S. L., C. E. Williamson, B. R. Hargreaves and D.
P. Morris. 2006. Beneficial and detrimental interactive effects
of dissolved organic matter and ultraviolet radiation on
zooplankton in a transparent lake. Hydrobiologia. 568: 15-28.
Cooke, S. L. and C. E. Williamson. 2006. Positive effects
of UV radiation on a calanoid copepod in a transparent lake:
do competition, predation, or food availability play a role?
Journal of Plankton Research. 28: 171-179.
Boeing, W. J., Leech, D. M., Williamson, C. E., Cooke, S.,
and Torres, L. 2004. Damaging UV radiation and invertebrate
predation: Conflicting selective pressures for zooplankton
vertical distribution in the water column of low DOC lakes.
Oecologia. 138: 603-612.
in review:
Cooke, S. L., W. R. Hill, and K. P. Meyer. In review. Bighead
carp growth under different zooplankton and phytoplankton
densities. Submitted to Hydrobiologia.
Cooke, S. L., and W. R. Hill. In review. Using bioenergetics
models to estimate the susceptibility of the Laurentian Great
Lakes to invasion by filter-feeding Asian carp. Submitted
to Biological Invasions.
Leech, D. M., W. J. Boeing, S. L. Cooke, C. E. Williamson,
and L. Torres. Under revision. UV enhanced fish predation
on zooplankton in a transparent lake. Submitted to Limnology
and Oceanography.
|
