MITCHELL A. HARRIS
Ecologist

EDUCATION
M. S. (1991) Colorado State University, Entomology Department, Fort Collins, Colorado. Certification in Program for Ecological Studies. Thesis: Developing Protocols for Monitoring Water Quality Using Stream Macroinvertebrates.

B. A. (1985) Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa. Liberal Arts, Biology Major.

CURRENT PROJECTS
Lower Illinois River Basin Study Unit of the National Water-Quality Assessment Project
Upper Illinois River Basin Study Unit of the National Water-Quality Assessment Project
Development of Civil Engineering Class: Field Methods for Hydrologic and Environmental Studies

AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Stream biomonitoring
Stream ecology
Aquatic macroinvertebrate, fish, and algae community sampling
Fish tissue and streambed sediment contaminant sampling
Geomorphic analysis of streams
Database management

PUBLICATIONS

Spaulding, S. A., Harris, M. A., McKnight, D. A., and Rosenlund, B. D., 1992, Aquatic biota in Baron, Jill, ed., Biogeochemistry of a subalpine ecosystem, Loch Vale Watershed: New York, Springer-Verlag, Ecological Studies No. 90, New York. p. 187-217.

Harris, M. A., and Webb, D W., 1995, The stoneflies of Illinois revisited: Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 67: 340-346.

DeWalt, R.E., Stark, B. P., and Harris, M. A., 1998, Perlesta golconda (Plecoptera: Perlidae), A new stonefly species from Illinois: Entomological News: 109: 315-317.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Adolphson, D. L., Fazio. D. J., and Harris, M. A.,1997, Habitat characterization for the National Water-Quality Assessment Program, Lower Illinois River Basin: 1997 Illinois Governor's Conference on Management of the Illinois River, Peoria, Illinois, October 10-11, 1997.

Harris, M. A., and Beeler, C. L., 1997, Streambed-sediment and fish-tissue contaminants in Central Illinois: North American Benthological Society Annual Meeting, May 27-30, San Marcos, Texas.

Roberts, L. R., Lee, K.E., Harris, M. A., and Porter, S. D., 1997, Persistence of selected organochlorine compounds in fish tissue in the Upper Mississippi hydrologic system: North American Benthological Society Annual Meeting, May 27-30, San Marcos, Texas.
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