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Paula E. Allen, Ph.D.
POSITION TITLEResearch Ecologist
EDUCATION
Ph.D. 2005 Zoology/Geology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Dissertation: Landscape influences on lake chemistry and ostracod community structure of
Southern Wisconsin LakesM.S. 1986 Environmental Science/Geology, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
B.S. 1980 Paleoecology, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Research Ecologist: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Landscape Ecology Branch, Las Vegas, NV, December 2006 - present.
- Lecturer: Department of Geology (Physical and Historical geology), University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, January 2005-June 2005.
- Senior Environmental Hydrogeologist: Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, Water Quality Section, March 1993-February 2006.
- Teaching Assistant: University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Zoology (Limnology), 2001, 2003.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
- Ecological Society of America, Paleoecology Section
- Paleontological Society
- International Association of Landscape Ecology
- National Association of Lake Managers (NALMs)
SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS
- USEPA NERL Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, December 2006
- USEPA NERL Special Accomplishment Recognition Award, August 2007
INVITED LECTURES/SYMPOSIA (past 5 years)
- Volunteer Monitoring of Atrazine in Lakes Situated Across an Agricultural Land Use Intensity Gradient. Citizen-based Monitoring Conference at Camp Jorn, Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin, October 21 and 22, 2005.
- Landscape Influences on Lake Chemistry of Southern Wisconsin Lakes. Wisconsin Rock River Wisconsin Watershed Conference. August 2005.
ASSISTANCE/LEADERSHIP PROVIDED TO THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY (past 5 years)
- Involvement of volunteers in environmental surveys. Volunteer lake monitors were involved in the collection
of water samples from 53 Wisconsin lakes tested for atrazine in 2005
http://www.uwsp.edu/cnr/uwexlakes/laketides/vol31-3/LTSummer06.pdf (About PDF, 16 pp, 2.4MB)
- Rock River Coalition Groundwater Education Committee 1995-2006
ASSISTANCE/LEADERSHIP PROVIDED TO THE AGENCY
Current Projects:
- Team Member on the Landscape Indicators of Pesticides on Streams in the Midwest (LIPS-Midwest)
- Team Member on the Ecological Research Program (ERP), water resources monitoring, watershed modeling of nutrients (and pesticides), Upper Midwest, shore land wetlands
- Chair of LEARN (Landscape Ecology and Assessment Reading Network)
Research Interests:
- Landscape Indicators of Pesticides on Lakes and Streams in the Midwest.
- Modeling decadal scale impacts of climate and landscape change (LUCC) on lake chemistry, biotic turnover, and ecosystem services.
- The use of ostracods as bioindicators of hydrologic change, ecosystem health, and climate.
- The affects of landscape pattern on pesticide and nutrient risk.
- Agricultural chemical impacts on groundwater resources.
PUBLICATIONS:
Vanden Brook, J., Rheineck, B., Postle, J., Allen, P. E., Zogbaum, R., Funk, J., Strohl, D., and Baldock, J., (2002), Pesticides in Wisconsin's Groundwater ARM-pub-98 available on the Web athttp://www.datcp.state.wi.us/arm/agriculture/land-water/water-quality/pdf/arm-pub-98.pdf (About PDF, 21 pp, 1MB)
Postle, J. J., Rheinek, B., Allen, P. E., Baldock, J., Cook, C., Zogbaum, R. and Vanden Brook, J., (2004), Chloroacetanilide Herbicide Metabolites in Wisconsin Groundwater. 2001 Survey Results, Environmental Science and Technology v. 38, no. 20, p. 5339-5343.
Schell, J. M., Santos-Flores, C. J., Allen, P. E., Hunker, B. M., Kloehn, S., Michelson, A., Lillie, R. A., Dodson, S. I. 2001. Physical-chemical influences on vernal zooplankton community structure in small lakes and wetlands of Wisconsin, U.S.A. Hydrobiologia 445:37-50.
NARRATIVE
Dr. Allen has a multidisciplinary environmental science background that includes ecology, geology, and paleoecology, combined with experience in surface water and groundwater resource management. She's worked as an environmental consultant environmental geologist, environmental audit program manager for the paper industry, and the State of Wisconsin. She currently specializes in landscape ecology and environmental paleoecology to model spatio-temporal changes in water quality, biodiversity, and ecosystem services in managed landscapes. Dr. Allen's dissertation focused on the landscape ecology of lakes and development of new environmental indicators of lake and landscape condition.