Catherine Pringle (CP - University of Georgia):

Cathy Pringle is a stream ecologist/limnologist who is widely known for her work on species-community-ecosystem linkages that combines field studies and experimental approaches. CP's interdisciplinary collaborations with biogeochemists, hydrologists, and behavioral ecologists have successfully advanced integration across disciplines and she serves as an invited member of the National Center for Ecological Synthesis' Scientific Advisory Board. She has developed innovative experimental techniques to work in running water systems - most notably an electric exclosure technique, by which macrobiota presence and absence is manipulated via an electric field. CP has extensive experience studying stream ecosystems in the US, Costa Rica, and Puerto Rico, and she has worked more recently in Panama, Micronesia and Madagascar. She has served as President of the North American Benthological Society and is an elected US Representative of the International Society of Limnology and Oceanography. CP's contributions will include investigation of the impact of guppy introductions on stream ecosystem properties using an electric exclosure technique to manipulate the presence and absence of fishes in situ. CP will also estimate invertebrate secondary production and use stable isotope and gut analysis techniques to characterize food web configuration in experimental streams.

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