Linda Deegan

NE CASC Principal Investigator

Senior Scientist

Woodwell Climate Research Center

http://whrc.org/about-whrc/our-experts/ Website

Research Interests

Dr. Deegan is interested in the relationships between ecosystem dynamics and animal populations. With the knowledge that grazing, predation and physical disturbance by animals can influence a host of processes at the ecosystem level, Dr. Deegan’s research combines the ecosystem perspective of energy and nutrient flows with traditional population and community dynamics. She is particularly interested in aquatic ecosystems because of their importance in connecting landscape elements through the flow of water and animals. She has examined problems ranging from the importance of fish in exporting nutrients and carbon from estuaries, and the effect of habitat degradation on fish community structure in coastal embayments, to the response of upper trophic levels to increased nutrients in arctic streams. Prior to joining WHRC, she was a senior scientist at the Ecosystems Center of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. Dr. Deegan received her B.S. from Northeastern University, her M.S. from the University of New Hampshire, and her Ph.D. from Louisiana State University.

Expertise

Coastal processes

Estuaries

Eutrophication

Freshwater input

Food web interactions

Education

B.S.: Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 1976

M.S.: University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 1979

Ph.D.: Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1985

Experience

Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center November 2016- present

NSF/NOAA Program Director, Comparative Analysis of Marine Ecosystem Organization, 2009 to present

Adjunct Professor, Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1989 to present

Assistant, Associate and Senior Scientist, The Ecosystems Center, MBL, 1989 to present

MBL/Brown Joint Program Professor, Brown University, Providence, RI, 2004 to present

Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1985 to 1988

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Projects

The role of freshwater input in determining the contributions of different primary production sources to estuarine food webs in a tidal river Insights into the long-term physical controls on estuarine food webs and implications for future change Climate change facilitates northern expansion of an estuarine decapod ecosystem engineer

Effects of moderate eutrophication on saltmarsh food webs Understanding Conservation Management Decisions in the Face of Sea-Level Rise Along the U.S. Atlantic Coast Interactions between climate change and beavers in coastal streams Ecology of coastal migratory striped bass (Morone saxatalis)Resilient rivers, Resilient coasts: River restoration benefits for river herring populations. Mapping Salt Marsh Response to Sea Level Rise and Evaluating 'Runneling' as an Adaptation Technique to Inform Wildlife Habitat Management in New England

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