Charles P Madenjian, PhD
Charles P. Madenjian is a Research Fishery Biologist in the Lake Michigan Section of the Deepwater Sciences Branch of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Great Lakes Science Center. He is stationed at the USGS Great Lakes Science Center headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
The scientist’s research efforts can be categorized into four theme areas: (1) fish community dynamics and native fish restoration in the Laurentian Great Lakes, (2) invasion biology in the Laurentian Great Lakes, (3) bioenergetics modeling, and (4) contaminant accumulation in fish. The scope of the scientist’s research varies across these four theme areas. For fish community dynamics, native fish restoration, and invasion biology, the scientist’s research is focused on Lake Michigan, given the scientist’s assignment to the Lake Michigan Section. However, comparing Lake Michigan with the other Laurentian Great Lakes is within the scientist’s scope of research. Much of the scientist’s research work emanates from these inter-lake comparisons. Data available for analysis of fish community dynamics, native fish restoration, and invasion biology extend back to the 1960s, or even earlier in some cases. These long-term time series represent a valuable resource for trying to identify the important factors regulating fish community dynamics, native fish restoration, and effects of invasives on the fish community. For bioenergetics modeling and contaminant accumulation in fish, the scientist’s focus is on the Laurentian Great Lakes. Nonetheless, for both bioenergetics modeling and contaminant accumulation in fish, the scientist’s scope of research is global, because the scientist examines results from studies around the world to advance our knowledge in both fields. Bioenergetics modeling can be applied to organisms and populations around the world. Analogously, fish from all areas of the globe accumulate environmental contaminants, such as mercury (Hg) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The scientist collaborates with scientists and researchers both within the Laurentian Great Lakes basin and outside the basin, with most of the collaborations within the basin. Even so, collaborations have been forged with researchers across the United States, Canada, Europe, and China. Much of the funding received by the scientist is drawn from the base budget of the USGS Great Lakes Science Center (GLSC), because the GLSC has been mandated to maintain long-term surveys for fish communities in the Laurentian Great Lakes, and maintaining these surveys is part of the scientist’s assigned duties. Supplemental funding has been provided by the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, the Great Lakes Fishery Trust, the Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act, and the USGS Climate Adaptation Science Center.
Professional Experience
March 1995-present; Research Fishery Biologist; NBS/USGS Great Lakes Science Center. Duties: Research on prey fish dynamics, food web dynamics, lake trout population dynamics in Lakes Michigan and Huron, laboratory and field evaluations of fish bioenergetics models, using PCBs as a tracer of food consumption by fish, contaminant accumulation in fish, effects of invasives on food web dynamic
January 1992-March 1995; Research Fishery Biologist; USFWS/NBS Lake Erie Biological Station. Duties: Research on life-history characteristics, population dynamics, and stock-recruitment relationships of Lake Erie fishes; also bioenergetics modeling of zebra mussels and waterbirds.
1990-1991; Associate Researcher; Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin. Duties: Research on variability in contaminant accumulation rates within populations of Lake Michigan salmonines, via individual-based modeling.
1989-1990; Postdoctoral Fellow; Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin. Duties: Basic and applied research on variability in growth rates of age-0 walleyes (Sander vitreus), using individual-based modeling.
1988-1989; Associate Researcher; Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, University of Hawaii. Duties: Research on prediction of primary production and secondary production in artificial upwellings, via computer simulation modeling.
1983-1988; Graduate Research Assistant; Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii. Duties: Research on predicting overnight loss of dissolved oxygen from aquaculture ponds, using computer simulation modeling.
1980-1983; Research Associate; Great Lakes Research Division, University of Michigan. Duties: Research on the impact of the J. H. Campbell Power Plant and D. C. Cook Power Plant on fish populations in eastern Lake Michigan.
1978-1980; Research Assistant; Great Lakes Research Division, University of Michigan. Duties: Research on the impact of the J. H. Campbell Power Plant on fish populations in eastern Lake Michigan.
1977-1978; Research Assistant; University of Michigan. Duties: Research on time series analysis of fishery catch and effort.
1976-1977; Teaching Assistant; School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan. Duties: Assisted in teaching an introductory course on applied statistics.
Education and Certifications
Ph.D., Zoology, University of Hawaii, 1988.
M.S., Resource Ecology, University of Michigan, 1979.
B.S., Aquatic Biology (minor in mathematics), Rutgers University, 1975.
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Sex difference in PCB concentrations of a catostomid fish
Feeding ecology of the walleye (Percidae, Sander vitreus), a resurgent piscivore in Lake Huron (Laurentian Great Lakes) after shifts in the prey community
2016 Lake Michigan Lake Trout Working Group Report
Sex differences in contaminant concentrations of fish: a synthesis
Age and growth of round gobies in Lake Huron: Implications for food web dynamics
Testing for synchrony in recruitment among four Lake Michigan fish species
Population ecology of the sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) as an invasive species in the Laurentian Great Lakes and an imperiled species in Europe
Mercury accumulation, and the mercury-PCB-sex interaction, in lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis)
Mercury accumulation and the mercury-PCB-sex interaction in summer flounder
Reply to comments by Riley and Dunlop on He et al. (2015)
Differences in energy expenditures and growth dilution explain higher PCB concentrations in male summer flounder
PCB concentrations of lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) vary by sex
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