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Kenneth S. Lubinski

Position title: Fish and Wildlife Biologist

Email: klubinski@usgs.gov
Phone: 608.781.6297
Fax: 608.783.6066

Education:
1979 Ph.D., Zoology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
1975  M.S., Zoology, Western Illinois University
1970   B.S., Zoology, Western Illinois University

Primary Responsibilities/Activities: 
My responsibilities center on the Upper Mississippi River.  I am a member of the Science Panel that is providing ecosystem expertise to the Corps of Engineers on implementing an adaptive management approach to the Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability Program on the river.  I have also agreed with the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service to begin coordinating a planning effort to establish the Upper Mississippi River Basin as a project of the National Fish Habitat Initiative.  I am a member of the Long Term Resource Monitoring and Aquatic Productivity teams.

Research Interests:

• Connecting science and river management
• Indicators of river ecosystem health
• Floodplain connectivity
• Biodiversity
• Conceptual Modeling
• Ecosystem Services
• Mussels

Active Projects:

• Upper Mississippi River Basin Fish Habitat Project
• Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability Program
• Comparing the Ecology and Economics of Four Great River Systems
• Defining and Measuring the Ecosystem Health of the Upper Mississippi River
• Conceptual Modeling in Support of a Science Strategy for Floodplain Connectivity

Select Publications:
Lubinski, K. S., R. Clevenstine, M. Davis, S. Brewer, N. McVay, P. West.  2007.  Environmental Science Panel Report:  Ecosystem Services: FY 2006 Workshop Summary and Initial Strategy Development, NESP ENV Report 4.  U. S. Army Engineer District, Rock Island, IL.  79 pp + appendices.

Marshall, M. R., K. S. Lubinski, and W. A. Lellis.  October 2006.  Structure and Functioning of Large River Ecosystems in the Eastern Rivers and Mountains Network: Conceptual Models and Vital Signs Monitoring.  Natural Resources Report NPS/NER/NRR--2006/010.  National Park Service.  Philadelphia, PA.

Reuter, M., K. Lubinski, P. West, D. Blodgett, and M. Khoury.  2005.  The Nature Conservancy’s approach to conserving and rehabilitating biological diversity in the Upper Mississippi River system.  Large Rivers Vol. 15, No. 104, Arch. Hydrobiol. Suppl. 155/1-4.  p 549-560. 

Norton, S. B., P. J. Boon, S. Gerould, T. Hall, K. S. Lubinski, and P. Verdonschot.  2004.  Formulating Assessment Questions.  In: Ecological Assessment of Aquatic Resources: Linking Science to Decicion-Making.  M. T. Barbour et al., eds., Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC).  ISBN 1-880611-56-2.   p. 13-37.

Lubinski, K. S.   1999.  Chapter 2.  Floodplain River Ecology and the Concept of River                        Ecological Health.  In  "Ecological Status and Trends of the Upper Mississippi        River System - 1998".  Environmental Management Technical Center, USGS,          Onalaska, WI.

Lubinski, K., R. Burkhardt, J. Sauer, D. Soballe, and Y. Yin.  2001.  Initial Analyses of Change Detection Capabilities and Data Redundancies in the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program.  U. S. Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, La Crosse, Wisconsin, September 2001.  LTRMP 2001-T001.  23 pp. + Appendices A-E.

Links:
Analysis of land cover changes in selected side channels of the Mississippi River

Ecocriteria to Measure the Health of the Upper Mississippi River

Ecological Status and Trends in the Upper Mississippi River System (1998)

Landscape analysis of freshwater mussels in the Upper Mississippi River System

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