The Vice-Chair serves a two-year term (2007-2009) and then assumes duties of the Chair (i.e., from 2009 – 2011). The Vice-Chair works with ESA to schedule and arrange the annual business meeting, advises the Chair, serves on the Frost and Best Student Talk Award Committees, and advises the Program Chair (e.g., reviews symposium proposals). The duties of the Chair include service on the ESA Council, chairing the annual business meeting, organizing the Best Student Talk and Student Travel Awards, serving on the Frost Award Committee, and providing other guidance as warranted.

Mike J. Lemke is an Associate Professor of Biology at The University of Illinois at Springfield where he teaches microbial ecology, microbiology, aquatic biology and other courses. Mike completed his BS. at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, his M.S. at the University of British Columbia, and his Ph.D. at Michigan Technological University. He was a post-doc at University of Alabama with Dr. Robert Wetzel and at Kent State University with Dr. Laura Leff. His papers examine bacterial populations in streams, interactions between hydrophobic phosphates and wetland bacteria, technique development for quantifying bacterial populations, bacteria as indicator species, role of organic detritus in minnow diets, and role of microbes in decomposition. Current investigations focus primarily on microbial diversity, processes, and interactions with respect to nutrient dynamics in the Illinois River floodplain. A recent honor includes the distinction as University Scholar 2002-2003 made by the University of Illinois. Mike serves on the editorial board of Microbial Ecology and Applied and Environmental Microbiology and has been a member of ESA since 1989.

Ace Sarnelle received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1992, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS). He is now an associate professor in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University. Sarnelle's research interests include both basic and applied issues in aquatic ecology/limnology, and his research cuts across population, community and ecosystem levels of organization. Much of his work focuses on species interactions in the pelagic zone of lakes, with particular emphasis on the herbivore-phytoplankton link, although he has also worked with periphyton, benthic invertebrates and fish in both lakes and streams. As an experimental ecologist, Sarnelle is very interested in the general issues of how well field experiments inform us about nature, and how best to combine published experimental data to yield general insights in ecology (meta-analysis). He adheres to the view that experiments are more powerful when linked to explicit theory.

Ace Sarnelle received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1992, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS). He is now an associate professor in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University. Sarnelle's research interests include both basic and applied issues in aquatic ecology/limnology, and his research cuts across population, community and ecosystem levels of organization. Much of his work focuses on species interactions in the pelagic zone of lakes, with particular emphasis on the herbivore-phytoplankton link, although he has also worked with periphyton, benthic invertebrates and fish in both lakes and streams. As an experimental ecologist, Sarnelle is very interested in the general issues of how well field experiments inform us about nature, and how best to combine published experimental data to yield general insights in ecology (meta-analysis). He adheres to the view that experiments are more powerful when linked to explicit theory.

Secretary (aka Frost Award Committee Chair: two-year term). The Secretary's main duty is to Chair the Frost Award Committee (to solicit nominations, collect nominating packets, coordinate the committee's deliberations, and announce the award). The Secretary also advises the Chair, votes on the Best Student Talk Award, and summarizes business handled at the annual business meeting.

Kathy Cottingham. I am an aquatic ecologist whose research interests include the temporal dynamics of lake food webs, the ecology of Vibrio cholerae (the bacterium which causes cholera), and the choice of ecological indicators for environmental monitoring programs. My research projects usually combine field observations and experiments with statistical analysis and simulation modeling, and I'm very interested in continuing to apply new quantitative approaches to ecological problems. I've been a faculty member in the Department of Biological Sciences at Dartmouth College since 1998, and am active in training undergraduate and graduate students there. Before moving to Dartmouth, I was a postdoctoral research associate at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) in Santa Barbara, CA, and a graduate student at the Center for Limnology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Yvonne Vadeboncoeur is an assistant professor at Wright State University in Ohio. Her research interests include physical and biotic controls of benthic primary production, littoral-pelagic links in lakes, lentic-lotic links, and watershed-level effects of agricultural pollutants. She has examined how cultural eutrophication affects the distribution of whole-lake primary production between littoral and pelagic habitats and how the suppression of littoral sources of primary production is transferred up reticulate lake food webs. Her current research focuses on the interplay between patterns of energy flow and the strength of predator control in coupled food webs. Her interest in measuring whole-lake primary production in a wide variety of lakes has taken her to Greenland, Denmark, Canada, and an unreasonable number of states that begin and end with vowels.

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