Grants and Awards
Kalamazoo Community Foundation Environment Now (2007, $14,500), shared with Joan Esson, Chemistry Department, to support research on effects of a subdivision development on a local wetland ecosystem

Hanes Foundation (2004, $2500) in support of prairie restoration research in cooperation with the Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy

National Science Foundation (2002, $43,000) in support of a project entitled: “Incorporating real-world experience in diverse science curricula through community building partnerships”

Selected Publications
(* denotes undergraduate coauthor)

Girdler, E. B. and B. T. Connor Barrie*. 2008. The scale-dependent importance of habitat factors and dispersal limitation in structuring of a Great Lakes shoreline plant community. Plant Ecology. DOI: 10.1007/s11258-008-9396-z

Siccama, T. G., T. J. Fahey, C. E. Johnson, T. W. Sherry, E. G. Denny, E. B. Girdler, G. E. Likens, and P. A. Schwarz. 2007.  Population and Biomass Dynamics of Trees in a Northern Hardwood Forest at Hubbard Brook.  Canadian Journal of Forest Research 37:737-749. (pdf)

Girdler, E. B. and T. Radtke*. 2006.  Individual scale spatial pattern reveals density dependence and nonrandom herbivory in the threatened dune thistle, Cirsium pitcheri. American Midland Naturalist 156:213-228. (pdf)

Girdler, E. Binney, Stephen C. Trombulak, and Ana Ruesink. 2002. Guidelines for partnerships in applied ecology and education. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 83 (2): 123-124. (pdf)

 

Other interests

Most of my spare time is spent with my two kids, now nine and four. I store their cute pictures for online consumption at my Picasa Web Album. They both could read before they were three, using the methods in a book called Native Reading.