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Fish and
Wildlife Resources
University of Idaho
Moscow, ID 83844-1136

Office Phone:
(208) 885-7218
Office Fax:
(208) 885-9080

email: fwilhelm@uidaho.edu

Welcome to UI Limnology

Limnology is the broad study of inland waters, including, biota, physical and chemical properties and their interactions.  Research in the UI Limnology lab is focused on the examination of surface and groundwater, as well as the ecology of invertebrates that inhabit these environments.  The goal of the first two areas is to characterize and understand these environments; to recommend management strategies to improve water quality; and to examine the long-term effects of the implemented strategies. The focus of the third area is to understand the ecology of key invertebrates in aquatic ecosystems and to predict their response to changing environmental conditions. Thus, the first two research areas provide the environmental information necessary to place the biological and ecological findings in context.
 

I'm an associate professor in the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources in the College of Natural Resources at the University of Idaho.  I joined the department in 2007 after six years on the faculty at Southern Illinois University.  I earned my undergraduate and master degrees from Trent University, in Peterborough, Ontario.  I then moved to the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Alberta for my PhD. I used the temperature change along an elevation gradient in the Canadian Rockies to examine the ecology and life history strategy of an amphipod to make predictions under altered climatic conditions.  Other research in the alpine lakes included predator-prey relations, nutrient regeneration and community dynamics in enclosure experiments.

For more background info click here, for lab research sites, go here.

Frank M. Wilhelm Ph.D., 1999, Environmental Science and Ecology, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada M.Sc., 1994, Watershed Ecosystems Program, Trent University, Ontario, Canada B.Sc. 1991, Trent University, Ontario, Canada