Welcome to my website! I am an ecosystem ecologist who uses experiments, field data, and statistical models to describe how ecosystems function. I am fascinated by how organisms respond and adapt to stressors.
I am fascinated by how organisms and their environment interact. I’ve worked on everything from storm tunnels under Minneapolis and St. Paul to the Laurentian Great Lakes, but the unifying theme of my research is how changes to the environment affect how ecosystems function.
I did two great postdocs. One with Craig Stow (NOAA) at the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research, and a second as a Donnelley postdoctoral fellow in the lab of David Skelly exploring the ecology and evolution of pond-breeding amphibians. Now I work at the Columbia Environmental Research Center as a US Geological Survey Research Ecologist — analogous to an Assistant Professor but with no teaching — incorporating a food-web perspective into ecotoxicology and leading the thiamine (vitamin B1) and thiaminase research. See Current Projects tab for more information on what I’m working on.
Feel free to contact me with any questions or if you’d like to collaborate.
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Freya E. Rowland, Ph.D. 