Holly L. Menninger
Department of Entomology
University
of Maryland
4176 Plant Sciences Building
College Park, MD 20742-4454
menninhl@umd.edu
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Behavior,
Ecology, Evolution and Systematics Program (BEES) at the University of Maryland, College
Park. Advisor:
Dr. Margaret Palmer
I am interested in how energy flows in the form of food, nutrients, and detritus across habitat boundaries can drive ecosystem dynamics. Specifically, I study food webs and ecosystem processes in watersheds where terrestrial-aquatic energy flows are affected by agriculture and urbanization. My dissertation employs three case studies:
1.) Role of herbaceous leaf detritus as a basal food resource for open-canopy headwater streams
2.) Linkage between emerging aquatic insects and generalist ground spiders in agro-ecosystems
Education Academic Honors & Awards Teaching/Outreach Presentations Publications Affiliations
2003
Stable Isotope Ecology
Lecture and Laboratory
Short Course,
University of Utah
Ph.D.
Candidate in Behavior, Ecology, Evolution and Systematics
(BEES) Program
University of
Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Research advisor: Dr. Margaret Palmer
2001
Fundamentals
in Ecosystem Ecology Short Course, Institute for Ecosystem Studies,
Millbrook, New York.
1996
- 2000
B.S. in
Biology, Denison University, Granville, OH. Research Advisor:
Dr. Tom
Schultz
2006 Dean's Dissertation Fellowship
2005 AIBS Emerging Public Policy Leader Award Honorable Mention
2003 Maryland Water Policy Conference, First place poster
2003 BEES Graduate Fellowship
2002 Maryland Water Resources Research Center Assistantship
2000 Biology of Small Populations RTG Graduate Student Fellowship
2000 Denison University President’s Medal
2000 Phi Beta Kappa
2005, 2006 Teaching Assistant, Principles of Ecology, BSCI 361, University of Maryland
2005 Teaching Assistant, Insects, BSCI 120, University of Maryland2005 Dept. of Biology Outstanding Teaching Assistant, University of Maryland
2004 - 2005 Expert contributor, CNN American Morning
2004 Cicada-maniac outreach presenter
2003 Dept. of Entomology Allen L. Steinhauer Award for Excellence in Teaching
2003 University of Maryland Distinguished Teaching Assistant2002-04 Teaching Assistant, Animal Diversity, BSCI 224, University of Maryland
2005 Terrestrial-aquatic linkage: The effects of periodical cicadas on stream ecosystem function. Oral presentation at the 90th annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Montreal, Canada, 10 August.
2004 Terrestrial aquatic linkages in human-altered landscapes. Invited seminar for Dept. of Biology, Denison University, 5 November.
2004 Terrestrial-aquatic linkages: Agro-ecosystems and headwater streams. Poster presentation at the 89th annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Portland, Oregon, 3 August.
2003 Terrestrial-aquatic linkages: Herbaceous vegetation and headwater streams. Poster presentation at the 88th annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Savannah, Georgia, 7 August.
1999 Initiation of a long-term monitoring program for Odonata at the Denison University Biological Reserve. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America, Atlanta, Georgia, 14 December.
Menninger, H.L. and Palmer, M.A. (In press). 2006. Restoring ecological communities: Theory and
practice. In Foundations of Restoration Ecology, Falk, D., Palmer, M.A., and Zedler, J., Eds. Island Press: Washington, DC.Menninger, H. and Raupp, M. 2005. Aquatic gardens and dragonflies – Build it and they will come. Groundwork (A publication of the Landscape Contractors Association MD-DC-VA). Pp. 20-21.
Ecological Society of America
North American Benthological Society
