| Name: | Mark M. Brinson | | Title: | Professor | | Area of Study: | Ecosystem and wetland ecology; Functional assesment | | Phone: | 252-328-6307 | | Fax: | 252-328-4178 | | E-mail: | brinsonm@ecu.edu | | Office: | BS-408 | | Address: | Department of Biology | | | East Carolina University | | | Greenville, NC 27858 |
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Education
B.S. 1965, Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio;
M.S. 1967, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan;
Ph.D. 1973, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Research Interests
Effects of Rising Sea Level on Coastal Wetlands
Rapid Assessment of Ecological Condition of Wetlands
Awards
National Wetlands Award for Science Research, Environmental Law Institute & Environmental Protection Agency (1995)
East Carolina University, College of Arts and Sciences, Distinguished Professor Award (1997)
ECU, Board of Trustees, Lifetime Achievement Award (1997)
ECU, Distinguished Research Professor Award, College of Arts and Sciences (1997)
Merit Award, Society of Wetland Scientists (1998)
Fellow, Society of Wetland Scientist (2007)
Relevant and Recent Publications
Brinson, M.M. 1993. Gradients in the functioning of wetlands along environmental gradients. Wetlands 13:65-74.
Moorhead, K.K. and M.M. Brinson. 1995. Response of wetlands to rising sea level in the lower coastal plain of North Carolina. Ecological Applications 5:261-271.
Brinson, M.M., R.R. Christian, and L.K. Blum. 1995. Multiple states in the sea-level induced transition from terrestrial forest to estuary. Estuaries 18:648-659.
Brinson, M. M. and R. Rheinhardt. 1996. The role of reference wetlands in functional assessment and mitigation. Ecological Applications 6:69-76.
Michener, W.K., E.R. Blood, K. L. Bildstein, Mark M. Brinson, and L.R. Gardner. 1997. Climate change, hurricanes and tropical storms, and rising sea level in coastal wetlands. Ecological Applications 7(3):770-801.
Rheinhardt, R.R., M.C. Rheinhardt, M.M. Brinson, and K.E. Faser, Jr. 1999. Application of reference data for assessing and restoring headwater ecosystems. Ecological Restoration7(3):241-251.
Brinson, M.M. and A.I. Malvárez. 2002. Temperate freshwater wetlands: types, status, and threats. Environmental Conservation 29(2):115-133. Abstract at: http://www.icef.eawag.ch/abstracts/temperateswamp.pdf
Kroes, D. and M. M. Brinson. 2004. Occurrence of riverine wetlands on floodplains along a climatic gradient. Wetlands 24:167-177.
Brinson, M.M. 2006. Chapter 12. Consequences for wetlands of a changing global environment. Pages 436-461. In D.P. Batzer and R.R. Sharitz (editors). Ecology of Freshwater and Estuarine Wetlands. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.
Rheinhardt, R., M. Brinson, R. Brooks, M. McKenney-Easterling, J. Masina-Rubbo, J. Hite, and B. Armstrong. 2007. Development of a reference-based method for identifying and scoring indicators of condition for Coastal Plain riparian reaches. Ecological Indicators 7:339-361.
