Mary Santelmann


Department of Geosciences

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Mary Santelmann
Curriculum Vitae

Year hired:	1994 hired as Faculty Research Associate 1996 hired as Assistant Professor, Senior Research
Specialty:	Wetlands ecology, biogeography
Research interests:	1) Ecosystem response to human land use and management practices; use of alternative future scenarios combined with diverse evaluative approaches 2) Environmental and anthropogenic influences on species composition and species richness in agricultural, urban and wetland ecosystems, including effects of landscape composition and pattern on native biodiversity 3) Ecology and biogeochemistry of wetlands and riparian systems
Recent Publications:	Santelmann, M. V. and, K. L. Larson. 2005. Sustaining multiple functions for urban wetlands. Wetlands 24(4): 717-718. Santelmann, M., D. White, K. Freemark, J. I. Nassauer, J. M. Eilers, K. B. Vache, B. J. Danielson, R. C. Corry, M. E. Clark, S. Polasky, R. M. Cruse, J. Sifneos, H. Rustigian, C. Coiner, J. Wu, D. Debinski. 2004. Assessing Alternative Futures for Agriculture in the U. S. Corn Belt. Landscape Ecology 19:1-18. Rustigian, H., M. Santelmann, N. Schumaker. 2003. Assessing the Potential Impacts of Alternative Landscape Designs on Amphibian Population Dynamics. Landscape Ecology 18:65-81. Vache, K.B., J.M. Eilers, M.V. Santelmann. 2002. Water quality modeling of alternative agricultural scenarios in two Iowa watersheds. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 38:773-787. Lamy, F., J. Bolte, K. Vache, M. Santelmann, and C. Smith. 2002. Development and evaluation of multi-objective decision-making methods for watershed management planning. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 38:517-530. Santelmann, M., K. Freemark, D. White, J. Nassauer, M. Clark, B. Danielson, J. Eilers, R. Cruse, S. Galatowitsch, S. Polasky, J. Wu. 2001. Applying Ecological Principles to Land-Use Decision-making in Agricultural Watersheds. In: V. Dale and R. Haueber, eds. Applying Ecological Principles to Land Management. J.Wiley and Sons, Inc. Adamus, P.R., D. White, M. Santelmann, P. Haggerty, and J.P. Baker. 2000. Terrestrial Vertebrate Species of the Willamette River Basin: Species-Habitat Relationships Matrix. Internal Report. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Corvallis, OR.
Recent Graduate Student Titles:	Kelli Larson (PhD Dissertation 2004): Resident's attitudes toward water resource protection in metropolitan Portland, OR Jen Larsen (M.S. Thesis, 2005): Characterizing Patterns of Wetland Occurrence in Oregon Using an Interactive Geodatabase: A Method for Conservation Planning Christina Lett (M.S. Paper 2002): Comparison and accuracy assessment of wetland land cover classification systems in the Willamette Valley, OR
Courses taught:	GEO 324 Biogeography GEO 539 Ecological Biogeography GEO 420/520 Geography of Resource Use BOT 341 Plant Ecology BOT 441/541 Physiological Plant Ecology
Degrees:	1988 Phd in Ecology University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 1980 M.S. in Biology University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 1978 B.S. in Botany University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (Honors College)
Office:	Wilkinson 258
Email:	santelmm<at>geo.oregonstate.edu