STEPHEN B. BRANDT
- Position:
- Director
- Affiliation and Contact Information:
- Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- 2205 Commonwealth Boulevard
- Ann Arbor, MI 48105-2945
- Phone: (734) 741-2244
- Fax: (734) 741-2003
- e-mail: stephen.b.brandt@noaa.gov
- Research Interests:
- Ecology and management of marine and freshwater ecosystems. Specifically, bioenergetics, trophic relationships, and predator-prey interactions
among fishes; Ecology of thermal fronts; Spatial modeling of fish growth and production; and application of underwater acoustics.
- Education:
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1978, Oceanography and Limnology
- M.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1975, Oceanography and Limnology
- B.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1972, Zoology and Mathematics
- Professional Experience:
- Current Adjunct Professorships:
- School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan, MI
- Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, University of Michigan, MI
- Department of Geography, SUNY-Buffalo, NY
- Department of Biology, Buffalo State College, NY
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Windsor, Ontario
- SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY
- (1997-present) Director, NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI.
- (1994-1997) Director, Great Lakes Center for Environmental Research and Education, and Professor of Biology, SUNY College at Buffalo, NY.
- (1987-1994) Professor, University of Maryland, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, MD.
- Selected Publications:
- Mason, D.M., and S.B. Brandt. 1996. Effects of spatial scale and foraging efficiency on predictions made by spatially-explicit models of fish growth rate potential. Env. Biol. Fish. 45:283-298.
- Brandt, S.B., D.M. Mason, A. Goyke, K.J. Hartman, J. Kirsch and J. Luo. 1996. Spatial modeling of fish growth: underwater views of the aquatic habitat. pp 225-230 In: M.F. Goodchild (Ed). Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Integrating GIS and Environmental Modeling. 486 pp.
- Luo, J. and S.B. Brandt, and M.J. Klebasko. 1996. Virtual reality of planktivores: Are fish really size selective? Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 140:271-283.
- Brandt, S.B. 1996. Acoustic assessment of fish abundance and distribution. Chapter 13, pp. 385-432, In: B. Murphy and D. Willis (eds.) Fisheries Techniques, American Fisheries Society Publication, 1996. 732 p.
- Hondorp, D., and S.B. Brandt. 1996. Spatially explicit models of fish growth rate: Tools for assessing habitat quality. Great Lakes Research Review., 2:11-19.
- Hartman, K.J., and S.B. Brandt. 1995. Trophic resource partitioning, diets, and growth of sympatric estuarine predators. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc., 124:520-537.
- Hartman, K.J. and S.B. Brandt. 1995. Comparative energetics and the development of bioenergetics models for sympatric estuarine piscivores. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 52(8):1647-1666.
- Mason, D.M., A. Goyke and S.B. Brandt. 1995. A spatially-explicit bioenergetics measure of habitat quality for adult salmonines: Comparison between Lakes Michigan and Ontario. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 52(7):1572-1583.
- Hartman, K.J. and S.B. Brandt. 1995. Predatory demand and impact of striped bass, bluefish and weakfish in the Chesapeake Bay: Application of bioenergetics models. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 52(8):1667-1687.
Last updated June 24, 1998