Professor Dodson received his PhD from the Zoology Department of the University of Washington in 1970, on the interaction of size-selective predator-prey interactions and zooplankton community structure.  He has since worked at the University of Wisconsin, where he teaches courses in general ecology, plankton ecology, summer limnology, and runs an ecology internship program.  He is a freshwater ecologist, focusing on community ecology of zooplankton and population ecology of Daphnia (the water flea).  He has studied size-selective predation on zooplankton, Daphnia and copepod relationships, and effects of primary productivity on zooplankton biological diversity. His lab is currently investigating effects of watershed land use on aquatic community structure. His research is currently supported by a grant from the US National Science Foundation (Long Term Ecological Research).

Stanley directs undergraduate research projects and serves as major advisor for several graduate students. He is Chair of the Biological Aspects of Conservation (BAC) Program (an undergraduate major program with about 100 majors), and a member of the Limnology and Marine Science Program. He teaches introductory biology, general ecology, summer limnology, and runs an ecology internship program, which brings service learning opportunities to undergraduates. His productive research group includes several undergraduate and graduate students. He is on the editorial board of the journal “Hydrobiologia”.

Courses:

Zoology 152 - Introductory Biology (Ecology unit)
Zoology 315 - Limnology (summer)
Zoology 460 - General Ecology (fall)
Zoology 677 - Internship in Ecology (spring)
Zoology 699 with Dodson - Project Guidelines
Ecological Volunteer Possibilities

Note to prospective graduate students:

I look for graduate students that are self-motivated, independent, and committed to research and intellectual development and interested in collaborating with the other members of the research group. I look for students with research interests in zooplankton ecology, or in the intersection of aquatic toxicology and zooplankton community ecology, in the lab or field. Students interested in zooplankton taxonomy are also encouraged. It is important that students fit into my current research group, supporting the progress of the group.

Graduate students currently supervised:

Carolina Penalva-Arana. (dinora@uwm.edu)
PhD candidate at UWM - Great Lakes WATER Institute. US EPA GRO Fellow #MA-91633601. The goal of my graduate research is to increase our understanding of the sensory biology of the sentinel species Daphnia

Don Barrette.  (dbbarrette@wisc.edu)
MS candidate in Zoology - fish community structure in storm water retention ponds

Sarah Foltz.  (sfoltz@wisc.edu)

Students supervised who recently earned graduate degrees:

Dan O'Brien. Ph.D. - Zoology 2007
Relationship between regional land use and crayfish distribution

Ken Forshay.  Ph.D. - Zoology 2007
Relationships between organisms and biogeochemical processing of nutrients in aquatic ecosystems

Paula Allen. Ph.D. - Zoology 2005
Landscape influences on lake chemistry and ostracod community structure in small southern Wisconsin dimictic lakes. Abstract

Michael Hoffman. M.S. - Zoology 2004.
Effect of land use on zooplankton biodiversity. Abstract.

Colleen Flaherty. M.S. - Zoology 2003.
The effects of pharmaceuticals on non-target aquatic organisms. Abstract

Jeffrey M. Schell. Ph.D. - Zoology 2003.
Detecting and understanding land use effects on zooplankton communities at multiple scales. Abstract

Kashian, Donna Ph. D - Zoology. 2002.
Reproduction and development in Daphnia:  the role of hormones, pesticides and detoxification. Abstract

O'Keefe, Thomas C. Ph.D - Zoology. 2002.
Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Aquatic Ecosystems: Three Case Studies. Abstract

Santos Flores, Carlos. Ph.D - Oceanography and Limnology. 2001.   
Taxonomy and distribution of the freshwater micro-crustaceans and green algae of Puerto Rico, three contributions to American cladocerology, and a bibliography on West Indian limnology.

Weigel, Brian M., Ph.D - Zoology. 2001.
Detecting and regulating human distrubance for improved integrity of surface waters. Abstract

Gillooly, J.F. Ph.D. - Zoology. 1999.
The combined effects of temperature and body size on the life histories and ecology of aquatic ectotherms. Abstract

Selected Publications

Papers in refereed national/international journals:

• Dodson, S.I., W.R. Everhart, A.K. Jandl, and S.J. Krauskopf. 2006. Effect of watershed land use and lake age on zooplankton species richness. Hydrobiologia.  In press.

• Peckham, S.D., J.J.W. Chipman, T.M. Lillesand, and S.I. Dodson. 2006. Alternate Stable States and the Shape of the Lake Trophic Distribution. Hydrobiologia.  571:401-407.

• Grishanin, A.K., E.M. Rasch, S.I. Dodson and G.A. Wyngaard. 2006. Variability in genetic architecture of the cryptic species complex of Acanthocyclops vernalis (Crustacea: Copepoda) II.  Evidence for its origins and continuity from crossbreeding experiments & cytogenetics. Evolution 60: 247-256

• Dodson, S.I. and C.E. Lee.  2006. Recommendations for taxonomic submissions to Hydrobiologia. Hydrobiologia 556:1-5.

• Szulkin, M., P. Dawidowicz, and S.I. Dodson. 2005. Behavioral uniformity as a response to cues of predation risk.  Animal Behavior.  71: 1013-1019.

• Karateyev, A.Y., L.E. Burlakova, and S.I. Dodson. 2005. Community analysis of Belarusian lakes: relationship of species diversity to morphology, hydrology, and land use.  Journal of Plankton Research. 27: 1045-1053.

• Hoffmann, M.D. and S.I. Dodson. 2005. Land Use, Primary Productivity, and Lake Area as Descriptors of Zooplankton Diversity.  Ecology 86:255-261.

• Grishanin, Al, E.M. Rasch, S.I. Dodson, and G.A. Wyngaard. 2005.  Variabiliy in genetic architecture of the cryptic species complex of Acanthocyclops vernalis (Copepoda).  I.  Evidence from karyotypes, genome size, and ribosomal DNA sequences. J. of Crustacean Biology. 25: 375-383.

• Flaherty, C.M. & S.I. Dodson. 2005.  Effects of pharmaceuticals on Daphnia survival, growth, and reproduction. Chemosphere. In press.

• Dodson, S.I., R.A. Lillie, and S. Will-Wolf. 2005. Land use, water chemistry, aquatic vegetation, and zooplankton community structure of shallow lakes. Ecological Applications 15:1191-1198.

• Torrentera, L. and S.I. Dodson. 2004. Ecology of the brine shrimp Artemia in the Yucatan, Mexico, Salterns. Journal of Freshwater Ecology. 26 (6): 617-624.

• Kashian, D.R. and Dodson, S.I. 2004. Effects of vertebrate hormones on development and sex determination in Daphnia magna. Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry 23: 1282-1288.

• Vinebrooke, R. D., Cottingham, K. L., Norberg, J., Scheffer, M., Dodson, S. I., Maberly, S. C., and Sommer, U. 2003. Implications of multiple stressors on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: the role of species co-tolerance. Oikos 104:451-457

• Dodson, S.I., A.K. Grishanin, K. Gross, and G.A. Wyngaard. 2003. Morphological analysis of some cryptic species in the Acanthocyclops vernalis species complex from North America. Hydrobiologia 500: in press.

• Kashian, D.R. and Dodson, S.I. 2004. Effects of vertebrate hormones on development and sex determination in Daphnia magna. Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry 23: in press.

• Vinebrooke, R. D., Cottingham, K. L., Norberg, J., Scheffer, M., Dodson, S. I., Maberly, S. C., and Sommer, U. 2004. Implications of multiple stressors on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: the role of species co-tolerance. Oikos in press.

• Torrentera, L. and S.I. Dodson. 2004. Ecology of the brine shrimp Artemia in the Yucatan, Mexico, Salterns. Journal of Freshwater Ecology. in press.

• Santos-Flores, C.J. and S.I. Dodson. 2003. Dumontia oregonensis n. fam., n. gen., n. sp. A new family of Water-fleas (Crustacea Anomopoda) from U.S.A., and on the classification of the Order Anomopoda. Hydrobiologia: 500:145-155.

• Dodson, S.I., A.K. Grishanin, K. Gross, and G.A. Wyngaard. 2003. Morphological analysis of some cryptic species in the Acanthocyclops vernalis species complex from North America. Hydrobiologia 500: in press.

• Kashian, D.R. and Dodson, S.I. 2003. Effects of common-use pesticides on developmental and reproductive processes in Daphnia. Toxicology and Industrial Health. 18: 225-235.

• Mittlebach, GG, CR Steiner, KL Gross, HL Reynolds, SM Scheiner, RB Waide, MR Willig, and SI Dodson. 2001. What is the relationship between species richness and productiviey? Ecology 82: 2381-2396.