Associate Professor, Biology
My research focuses on understanding the impacts of global change on all ecological levels — populations, communities and ecosystems. My current research projects include the impacts of earlier ice-out dates on New England lakes, the response of scallop populations to small-scale fishery closures and identifying sources of pharmaceutical and personal-care products in aquatic ecosystems.
McDowell, W.G.; Sousa, R. (2019). “Mass Mortality Events of Invasive Freshwater Bivalves: Current Understanding and Potential Directions for Future Research.” Frontier Ecology in Evolution, 7:331. https://doi.org10.3389/fevo.00331
McDowell, W. G., & Sousa, R. (2019). Mass Mortality Events of Invasive Freshwater Bivalves: Our Current Understanding and Future Directions for Research. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7, 331.
McDowell, W. G., & Byers, J. E. (2019). High abundance of an invasive species gives it an outsized ecological role. Freshwater Biology, 64(3), 577-586.
McDowell, W. H., McDowell, W. G., Potter, J. D., & Ramírez, A. (2019). Nutrient export and elemental stoichiometry in an urban tropical river. Ecological Applications, 29(2), e01839.
Burke, R. L., Bernatis, J., Byers, J. E., Carter, J., Martin, C. W., McDowell, W. G., & Van-Dyke, J. (2017). Identity, reproductive potential, distribution, ecology, and management of invasive Pomacea maculata in the southern United States. Biology and Management of Invasive Apple Snails. Philippine Rice Research Institute, Maligaya, Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija, 3119, 293-333.
McDowell, W. G., McDowell, W. H., & Byers, J. E. (2017). Mass mortality of a dominant invasive species in response to an extreme climate event: Implications for ecosystem function. Limnology and Oceanography, 62(1), 177-188.
McDowell, W. G., Benson, A. J., & Byers, J. E. (2014). Climate controls the distribution of a widespread invasive species: implications for future range expansion. Freshwater biology, 59(4), 847-857.
Byers, J. E., McDowell, W. G., Dodd, S. R., Haynie, R. S., Pintor, L. M., & Wilde, S. B. (2013). Climate and pH predict the potential range of the invasive apple snail (Pomacea insularum) in the southeastern United States. PLoS One, 8(2), e56812.
Kajal Purohit M’24 and Erin Lincoln ’24 are working this academic year as research assistants on Associate Professor Azam Noori’s National Science Foundation grant to examine the impact of silver and nanomaterials on tomatoes.
