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Robert Buddemeier Robert Buddemeier
Senior Scientist

Office: 414 Moore Hall
Phone: 785-864-2112
Email: buddrw@ku.edu

Courses Taught   Research Interests
Geog. 304: Environmental Conservation
Undergrad & Grad: Seminar courses dealing with climate change, coral reefs, and soil-water interactions
 
Hydrology and the hydrologic cycle, biogeography, biogeochemistry, and bioinformatics, with particular emphasis on issues related to resources, climate change, and natural "interfaces" (e.g., surface and groundwater, land-sea-air interactions, and biologically vs. physically controlled environments).
Current Projects   Selected Publications
 
Buddemeier, R. W., J. A, Kleypas, and R. B. Aronson. 2004. Coral Reefs and Global Climate Change: Potential Contributions of Climate Change to Stresses on Coral Reef Ecosystems. Pew Center on Global Climate Change, Arlington, VA. v +44 pp.

Buddemeier R.W., Baker A.C., Fautin D.G., and Jacobs J.Rr (2004) The adaptive hypothesis of bleaching. In: Coral Health and Disease (Rosenberg E & Loya Y, eds.), Springer-Verlag, New York, Berlin, pp. 427-444

Smith, S. V., Swaney, D. P., Talaue-McManus, L., Bartley, J. D., Sandhei, P. T., McLaughlin, C. J., Dupra, V. C., Crossland, C. J., Buddemeier, R. W., Maxwell, B. A., Wulff, F. 2003. Humans, Hydrology, and the Distribution of Inorganic Nutrient Loading to the Ocean. Bioscience 53(3): 235-245.

Guinotte, J. M., R.W. Buddemeier, R. W., Kleypas, J. A., 2003. Future coral reef habitat marginality: temporal and spatial effects of climate change in the Pacific basin. Coral Reefs 22(4): 551-558.

Bokuniewicz, H, Buddemeier, R., Maxwell, B., Smith, C. 2003. The typological approach to submarine groundwater discharge (SGD). Biogeochemistry 66: 145-158.

McLaughlin, C. J., Smith, C., Buddemeier, R. W., Bartley, J. D., and Maxwell, B. A. 2003. Rivers, Runoff, and Reefs. Global and Planetary Change 820:1-9.

Buddemeier, R.W., Smith, S. V., Swaney, D. P., and Crossland, C. J. 2002. The role of the coastal ocean in the disturbed and undisturbed nutrient and carbon cycles. LOICZ Reports & Studies No. 24, LOICZ IPO, Texel, The Netherlands, ii + 83 pages.

Maxwell, B. A. and Buddemeier, R. W., 2002. Coastal typology development with heterogeneous data sets. Regional Environmental Change 3: 77-87.

Buddemeier, R. W., Rubin, H., and Young, D. P. 2002. Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) for the Preservation and Improvement of Water Quality in South-Central Kansas. Chapter 11 (pp. 193-214) in: Rubin, H., Nachtnebel, P., Furst, J. and Shamit, U. (Eds.), Water Resources Quality. Springer, Berlin.

Peterson, A. T., Sanchez-Cordero, V., Soberon, J. Buddemeier, R. W., Bartley, J. and Stockwell, D. R. B. 2002. Future projections for Mexican faunas under global climate change scenarios. Nature 416, 626 - 629.

Rubin, H., and Buddemeier, R.W., 2002. Groundwater contamination downstream of a contaminant penetration site. Part 1: Extension-expansion of the contaminant plume, J. of Environmental Science and Health Part A, A37 (10), 1781-1812.

Rubin, H., and Buddemeier, R.W., 2002. Groundwater contamination downstream of a contaminant penetration site. Part 2: Horizontal penetration of the contaminant plume, J. of Environmental Science and Health Part A, A37(10), 1813-1839

Scavia, D., Field, J. C., Boesch, D. F., Buddemeier, R.W., Burkett, V., Cayan, D. R., Fogarty, M., Harwell, M. A., Howarth, R. W., Mason, C., Reed, D. J., Royer, T. C., Sallenger, A. H., Titus, J. G. 2002. Climate change impacts on U.S. coastal and marine ecosystems. Estuaries 25:149-164.

Kleypas, J.A., Buddemeier, R.W. and Gattuso, J.-P., 2001. The future of coral reefs in an age of global change. International Journal of Earth Science 90:426-437.