Molly Schauffler
Assistant Professor
PhD, Paleoecology, Ecology and Environmental Science Education
Address:
5790 Bryand Global Sciences Center
Room: 300A
Tel: (207) 581 2707
Fax: (207) 581 2202
E-Mail: mschauffler@maine.edu
Research Interests:
My overarching interest is to increase citizens' understanding of and appreciation of natural systems, scientific research, and environmental change. I work with K-12 teachers to help them incorporate cross-disciplinary environmental monitoring projects into their science curricula. In collaboration with the Dept. of Earth Sciences and the Center for Science and Mathematics Education Research Education, I teach a graduate course for teachers for that gives them first-hand experience in environmental research. I maintain an online index of environmental monitoring programs in Maine, to facilitate public access to environmental data (www.memapindex.org).
Graduate and post-doctoral research includes investigation into the infiltration of road salt runoff and aerosols into peatlands, a paleoecological study of long-term changes in the distribution of spruce forests in Maine using fossil pollen in forest sediments, and collaboration in a paired-watershed study of mercury and nitrogen processing by waterhsheds in Acadia National Park.
Publications:
Schauffler, M. and G. L. Jacobson Jr., 2002. Persistence of coastal spruce refugia during the Holocene in northern New England, USA, detected by stand-scale pollen stratigraphies, Journal of Ecology 90: 235-250.
Schauffler, M., S. Vidito, S., Johnson, K., G. L. Jacobson, Jr., J. S. Kahl, 2002. Paleoecological history of forest disturbance in two upland watersheds in Acadia National Park. Chapter in Establishing paired gauged watersheds at Acadia National Park for long-term research on acidic deposition, nitrogen saturation, forest health, and mercury biogeochemistry (1998-2002), J. S. Kahl et al., Eds. In press.
Schauffler, M., G. L. Jacobson, Jr., S. A. Norton, A. L. Pugh IV. 1996. Capture of road-salt aerosols in an acidic peatland in central Maine. Ecological Applications 6: 263.
Lindbladh, M., G. L. Jacobson, Jr., M. Schauffler 2003. The postglacial history of three Picea species in New England, USA. Quaternary Research.
