FRENKEL, Robert Edgar
Oregon State University
Science
GEOSCIENCES
130 Wilkinson Hall
Corvallis , Oregon 97331 USA

Phone: (541) 737-1207
Fax: (541) 737-1200
E-Mail: frenkelr@geo.oregonstate.edu

Position: Professor Emeritus Appointed: 1991

Qualifications:
A.B., Chemistry, Kenyon College, 1950;
M.S., Metallurgy, University of California, Berkeley, 1954;
Ph.D., Geography, University of California, Berkeley, 1967

Membership:
Association of American Geographers;
Association of Pacific Coast Geographers;
Ecological Society of America;
International Association for Vegetation Science;
Society for Ecological Restoration;
California Botanical Society;
Society of Wetland Scientists;
Northwest Scientific Association;
Natural Areas Association

Past Positions:
1986-1991, Oregon State University, Professor

Expertise:
My current research interests include the following:
salt marsh community ecology of the Pacific Northwest, (United States);
wetland community ecology of the Pacific Northwest, (United States);
wetland restoration in Oregon and Washington;
plant community ecology of Oregon and Washington;
ecological invasions related to roads and road sides;
ecology of trampled vegetation in western North America.

Language:
reading, writing, speaking; scale: 1 (basic) to 3 (fluent):
German: 1, 1;
French: 1, -, -

Publications:
1991, R.E. Frenkel and J.C. Morlan. Can we restore our salt marshes? Lessons from the Salmon River, Oregon. The Northwest Environmental Journal 7:119-135;

1988, R.E. Frenkel and T.R. Boss. Introduction, establishment and spread of Spartina patens on Cox Island, Siuslaw estuary, Oregon. Wetlands;

R.E. Frenkel and E.F. Heinitz. Composition and structure of Oregon Ash (Fraxinus latifolia) forest in William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon. Northwest Sci. 61:203-212;

R.E. Frenkel, W.H. Moir, and J.A. Christie. Vegetation of Torrey Lake Mire, central Cascade Range, Oregon. Madrono 33:24-29;

1981, R.E. Frenkel, H.P. Eilers, and C.A. Jefferson. Oregon coastal salt marsh upper limits and tidal datums. Estuaries 4:198-205

Description:
Ecology; Wetlands

Keywords:
ecology; marshes; salt marshes; wetlands; saltmarsh ecology; wetland ecology; alien plant invasion; ecological invasion