Frank deNoyelles - Aquatic Ecology
Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University
Phone (785) 864-1504
http://www.kbs.ku.edu
My research interests include the ecology of aquatic ecosystems, the effects of various types of stress on aquatic ecosystems, the vertical distribution of water quality conditions in thermally stratified water bodies, and the use of in situ experimental methods to determine ecological cause and effect. Most recently I have been studying particular Kansas reservoirs in an attempt to better understand water quality issues related to land use in watersheds and the aging process where reservoirs fill with sediments at varying rates. With several students and faculty from my department, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Chemistry, I am also studying the degradation of organic pollutants such as pesticides and pharmaceutical products under different experimentally manipulated environmental conditions. I also continue to conduct research on subepilimnetic phytoplankton in lakes begun more than 20 years ago at the Experimental Lakes Area in Ontario, Canada and more recently also pursued in lakes elsewhere in Canada and in the Rocky Mountains in Wyoming.
Often my research includes using experimental manipulation to simulate certain types of aquatic disturbances that produce phytoplankton changes, such as those resulting from eutrophication, acidification, climate change, and toxicant stress. For such experimentation, at the University of Kansas I have designed and constructed nearly 200 experimental ponds (0.045 ha), outdoor fiberglass tanks (10 m3), and different types of in situ enclosures for smaller scale experiments within these systems. Research over the 20-year history of our aquatic field station reported in nearly 100 publications has also continually refined the use of experimentally manipulated surrogate ecosystems for aquatic research. In 1991 a 4.5-ha 13-m deep reservoir was constructed at this field station (5 km from campus) in a protected 50-ha watershed to add further variety to this compliment of experimental ecosystems. As one of our projects with this reservoir my students, other faculty and I have been closely monitoring and experimentally manipulating the vertical migration of subepilimnetic phytoplankton populations like those in natural lakes that we also continue to study. The publications listed below represent the variety of the types of research that I have pursued through the years and continue to pursue.
Gordon, D.A., G.P. Toth, D.W. Graham, J.M Lazorchack, T.V. Reddy, C.W. Knapp, F. deNoyelles, Jr., S. Campbell, and D.L. Lattier. 2006. Effects of eutrophication on vitellogenin gene expression in male fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) exposed to 17 alpha-ethynylestradiol in field mesocosms. Environmental Pollution 142:559-566.
Smith, V.H., B.L. Foster, J.P. Grover, R.D. Holt, M.A. Leibold, and F. deNoyelles, Jr. 2005. Phytoplankton species richness scales consistently from laboratory microcosms to the world’s oceans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102:4393-4396.
Wang, S.-H., D.G. Huggins, L. Frees, C.G. Volkman, N.C. Lim, D.S. Baker, V.H. Smith, and F. deNoyelles, Jr. 2005. An integrated modeling approach to watershed management: water and watershed assessment of Cheney Reservoir, Kansas, USA. Journal of Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 164:1-19.
Wang, S.H., A.R. Dzialowski, J.O Meyer, F. deNoyelles, Jr., N.-C. Lim, W. Spotts and D.G. Huggins. 2005. Relationships between cyanobacterial production and the physical and chemical properties of a midwestern reservoir, USA. Hydrobiologia 541:29-43
Chapin, B.R.K., F. deNoyelles, Jr., D.W. graham and V.H. Smith. 2004. A deep maximum of green sulphur bacteria (Chlorochromatium aggregatum) in a strongly stratified reservoir. Freshwater Biology 49:1337-1354.
Knapp, C.W., F. deNoyelles, Jr., D.W. Graham and S. Bergin. 2003. Physical and chemical conditions surrounding the diurnal vertical migration of Cryptomonas spp. (Cryptophyceae) in a seasonally stratified midwestern reservoir (USA). Journal of Phycology 39:855-861.
Smith, V.H., J. Sieber-Denlinger, F. deNoyelles, Jr., S. Campbell, S. Pan, S.J. Randtke, G.T. Blain, and V.A. Strasser. 2002. managing taste and odor problems in a eutrophic drinking water reservoir. Lake and Reservoir Management 18:318-322.
deNoyelles, F., S.H. Wang, J.O. Meyer, D.G. Huggins, J.T. Lennon, W.S. Kolln, and S.J. Randtke. 1999. Water quality issues in reservoirs: some considerations from a study of a large reservoir in Kansas. In: Environmental Engineering Conference Proceedings. 49th Annual Engineering Conf., Lawrence, KS, pp. 83-119.
Graham, D.W., D. Miles, F. deNoyelles, and V.H. Smith. 1999. Development of small outdoor microcosms for studying contaminant transformation rates and mechanisms under various water column conditions. Environ. Tox. Chem. 18:1124-1132.
Graham, W.H., D.W. Graham, F. deNoyelles, V.H. Smith, C.K. Larive, and E.M. Thurman. 1999. Metalachlor and alachlor breakdown product formation patterns in aquatic field mesocosms. Environ. Sci. Technol. 33:4471-4476.
Wang, S.H., D.G. Huggins, F. deNoyelles, and W.S. Kolln. 1999. An analysis of the trophic state of Clinton Lake. Lake and Reservoir Management 15:239-250.
Pennuto, C.M., F. deNoyelles, M.A. Conrad, F. Vertucci, and S.L. Dewey. 1998. Winter macroinvertebrate community structure in two montane Wyoming streams. Great Basin Naturalist 58:231-244.
deNoyelles, F., S.L. Dewey, D.G. Huggins, and W.D. Kettle. 1994. Aquatic mesocosms in ecological effects testing: detecting direct and indirect effects of pesticides, p. 577-603. In: R. L. Graney et al. (eds.), Aquatic Mesocosm Studies in Ecological Risk Assessment. Lewis Publishers, Inc., Boca Raton, FL.
Johnson, M.L., D.G. Huggins, and F. deNoyelles, Jr. 1991. Ecosystem modeling with LISREL: a new approach for measuring direct and indirect effects in ecosystem level ecotoxicological testing. Ecological Applications 1:383-398.
Kettle, W.D., M.F. Moffett, and F. deNoyelles, Jr. 1987. Vertical distribution of zooplankton in an experimentally acidified lake containing a metalimnetic phytoplankton peak. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 44 (Suppl. 1):91-95.
deNoyelles, F., Jr. and G.E. Likens. 1985. Production and limiting factors. 2. Phytoplankton, p. 250-257. In G.E. Likens (ed.) An Ecosystem Approach to Aquatic Ecology - Mirror Lake and its Environment, Springer-Verlag, New York.
deNoyelles, F., Jr. and G.E. Likens. 1985. Species composition, distribution, population, biomass and behavior. 2. Phytoplankton, p. 161-175. In G.E. Likens (ed.) An Ecosystem Approach to Aquatic Ecology - Mirror Lake and its Environment, Springer-Verlag, New York.
deNoyelles, F., Jr., W.D. Kettle and D.E. Sinn. 1982. The responses of plankton communities in experimental ponds to atrazine, the most heavily used pesticide in the United States. Ecology 63:1285-1293.
deNoyelles, F., Jr., D. Reinke, R. Knoechel, D. Treanor and C. Altenhofen. 1980. Continuous culturing of natural phytoplankton communities in the Experimental Lakes Area---effects of enclosure, in situ incubation, light, phosphorus and cadmium. Canadian Journal of; Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 37:424-433.
deNoyelles, F., Jr. and W.J. O'Brien. 1978. Phytoplankton succession in nutrient enriched experimental ponds as related to changing carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus conditions. Arch. Hydrobiol. 84:137-165.
deNoyelles, F., Jr. 1968. A stained-organism filter technique for concentrating phytoplankton. Limnology and Oceanography 13:562-565.
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