Research and Teaching Interests
Dr. Auer has been working on Great Lakes fish biology and ecology
for over 25 years. She has been principal investigator on grant’s
totaling over $700,000 in projects involving lake sturgeon ecology funded
by the Great Lakes Fishery Trust, Lake Superior Basin Trust, NOAA, Michigan
Department of Natural Resources, and US Fish and Wildlife Service. She has
also been co-principal investigator on several Lake Superior studies involving
lower food web investigations funded by the National Science Foundation
and Michigan Great Lakes Protection Fund. She has provided thesis support
for 1 Ph.D. and 11 Master’s students. She teaches several graduate
level courses when needed and helped develop and regularly teaches two sections
of Perspectives on Inquiry for incoming freshmen titled: Ocean Fishery Resources
(Where have all the fishes gone?) and The State of the World’s Freshwater
(Freshwater: Uses and Abuses).
Related Activities
Director, several US-Mexico student and faculty exchange projects
Editorial Board, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology
Member, Groundwater Management Committee, American Society of Civil Engineering
Hydrology consultant to public interest groups
Selected Publications
Oyadomari, J.K. and N.A. Auer. (in press) “Distribution
of larval fishes in the Keweenaw Current region of Lake Superior.“ Journal
of Great Lakes Research.
Auer, N.A. and J.E. Kahn (in press) “Abundance and distribution
of benthic invertebrates, with emphasis on Diporeia, along the Keweenaw
Peninsula, Lake Superior” Journal of Great Lakes Research
Holtgren, J.M. and N. A. Auer. 2004. “Movement and habitat
of juvenile lake sturgeon in the Sturgeon River/Portage Lake System, Michigan.” Journal
of Freshwater Ecology. 19(3): 419-432.
Auer, N. A. and E.A. Baker. 2002. Duration and drift of larval
lake sturgeon in the Sturgeon River, Michigan. Journal of Applied Ichthyology
18 (2002) 557-564.
Auer, N.A. 2002. (ed). A Lake Sturgeon Rehabilitation Plan for
Lake Superior. Great Lakes Fishery Commission, 25 pp.
Auer, N. A. (in press). Conservation. Chapter 12 In: LeBreton,
G. (ed). The Biology of North American Sturgeon and Paddlefish. Kluwer Academic
Publishers.
Siegfried, C.A., Auer, N.A., and S.W. Effler. 1996. Chapter
6, Biology, Section 6.2, Zooplankton. pp. 421-436, In: S.W. Effler (ed.),
Limnological and Engineering Analysis of a Polluted Urban Lake: Prelude
to Environmental Management of Onondaga Lake, New York. Springer-Verlag
Publishers, New York, New York, 832 pp.
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