Christopher Craft |
Christopher Craft
Professor
School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Indiana University Bloomington
Expertise:
Estuarine and freshwater wetlands ecology
Issues of Interest:
Climate change, sea level rise and coastal wetlands; nutrient enrichment and eutrophication; carbon and nutrient sequestration; wetland restoration
Current Projects:
- Effects of climate change on ecosystem services provided by tidal marshes (US EPA). Location: Altamaha, Ogeechee and Satilla Rivers GA; coastal South Carolina
- Effects of freshwater pulsing on soil properties and vertical accretion of tidal marshes (Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER). Location: Sapelo, Doboy, Altamaha Sounds
- Effects of land management and climate change on non-game migratory and non-migratory birds (Sapelo Island NERRS). Location: Sapelo Island, Altamaha River
- Re-introduction of tidal inundation to restore estuarine marshes of Woodbridge River, NJ (New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Office of Natural Resources Restoration). Location: New York-New Jersey Harbor
- Peat accretion and chronology in marshes of the Florida Everglades (Everglades National Park). Location: South Florida
- Reconstruction of medieval environmental conditions from lake and wetland sediment geo-chronologies (ENKI OPS and Czech Botanical Institute). Location: South Bohemia, Czech Republic
Project Link:
Georgia
Coastal Ecosystems - Long Term Ecological Research (LTER)
Merryl
Alber, Tim Hollibaugh, Steve Pennings, Wade Sheldon, Clark Alexander, Dale Bishop, Jack Blanton,
Adrian Burd, Chris Craft, Daniela Di Iorio, Mandy
Joye, Christof Meile, Billy Moore, Brian Silliman and John Wares (see
project summary for affiliations).
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