Phone: (406) 982-3301
E-mail Address: ric.hauer@umontana.edu
Office : Flathead Lake Bio Station2001-present Professor of Limnology: Flathead Lake Biological Station University of Montana
1994-2001 Research Professor: Flathead Lake Biological Station University of Montana
1991-1996 Director, Leland Schoonover Freshwater Research Laboratory University of Montana
1989-1994 Associate Research Professor: Flathead Lake Biological Station University of Montana
1986-1989 Assistant Research Professor: Flathead Lake Biological Station University of Montana
1984-1985 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship University of Alabama
1981-1984 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: Institute of Ecology - SREL University of Georgia
1976-1980 Graduate Fellow/Research Assistant: Department of Biological Sciences University of North Texas
1973-1975 Research Assistant: Michigan State University Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
My research interests encompass the fields of stream and wetland ecology. By the nature of its scope, aquatic ecology spans a broad array of subdisciplines such as geomorphology, hydrology, nutrient cycling, bioenergetics, energy flow through food webs, and population and community ecology. The continuing goal of my research is a synthesis of these many areas of organismal biology and ecology and their application toward holistic understanding of stream and wetland environments. This goal has led me to investigate a broad range of topics, for example the interaction of temperature and stream hydrologic cycles on growth and production of stream invertebrates; nutrient and organic matter dynamics in disturbed stream systems; the role of large wood debris in bull trout spawning habitat; and the role of hydrology and geomorphology on wetland vegetation structure and function.
Teaching Interests
Teaching has always been an important part of my professional life. I have taught across a range of students and courses from General Biology for non-majors to upper level undergraduate and graduate level courses in Stream Ecology and Limnology. I find teaching to be exciting and a new challenge each year with a different cohort of students with varied personalities and backgrounds. Currently, I teach stream ecology each summer at Flathead Lake Biological Station, and have done so since summer 1983. Teaching stream ecology within the Flathead Lake Biological Station teaching environment stimulated the conception and development of the book Methods in Stream Ecology, which I co-edited with my colleague, Dr. Gary Lamberti.
2003 Lorang, M. S. and F.R. Hauer. 2003. Flow competence evaluation of steambed stability: An assessment of the technique and limitations of application. J. N. Am. Benthol. Soc. In press (December 2003 issue).
2003 Baxter, C. V. and F. R. Hauer, and W. W. Woessner. 2003. New techniques for installing piezometers, estimating hydraulic conductivity and detecting patterns in groundwater-stream water exchange. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 132 (3): 493-502.
2003 Hauer, F. R., D. B. Fagre and J. A. Stanford. 2003. Hydrologic processes and nutrient dynamics in a pristine mountain catchment. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 28(3):1490-1493.
2003 Hauer, F. R., C. N. Dahm, G. A. Lamberti and J. A. Stanford. 2003. Landscapes and ecological variability of rivers in North America: factors affecting restoration strategies, pp. IN: Wissmar, R. C. and P. A. Bisson (ed.), Strategies for Restoring River Ecosystems: Sources of Variability and Uncertainty in Natural and Managed Systems. American Fisheries Society. pp 81-105.
2003 Ellis, B. K., J. A. Stanford, J. A. Craft, D. W. Chess, F. R. Hauer and D. C. Whited. 2003. Plankton communities of alpine and subalpine lakes in Glacier National Park, Montana, U.S.A., 1984 - 1990. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 28(3):1542-1550.
2003 Spencer, C.N., K.O. Gabel, and F.R. Hauer. 2003. Wildfire effects on stream food webs and nutrient dynamics in Glacier National Park, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 178:141-153.
2002 Stevenson, R. J. and F. R. Hauer. 2002. Integrating Hydrogeomorphic and Index of Biotic Integrity approaches for environmental assessment of wetlands. Journal of North American Benthological Society 21(3):502-513.
2002 Stafford, C. P., J. A. Stanford, F. R. Hauer and E. B. Brothers. 2002. Changes in lake trout growth associated with Mysis relicta establishment: a retrospective analysis using otoliths. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 131:994-1003.
2002 Pepin, D. M. and F. R. Hauer. 2002. Benthic responses to groundwater – surface water exchange in two alluvial rivers. J. N. Am. Benthol. Soc. 21(3):370-383.
