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Michael D. Jawson

Position title: Center Director

Email: mjawson@usgs.gov
Phone: 608.781.6221
Fax: 608.783.6066

Education: 
PhD, 1983, Environmental Microbiology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
MS (2), 1976, Soil Science and Water Resources Management, University of Wisconsin – Madison
BS, 1971, Chemistry, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse

Primary Responsibilities/Activities:
Responsible for all aspects of the Center’s Operations: Scientific Programs, Science Support, Administration, and Facilities. Facilitates and coordinates, with the assistance of UMESC staff and scientists, interactions with USGS program coordinators, managers and administrators as well as partners and stakeholders in the Department of Interior, other federal and state agencies and non governmental organizations. Assures Center adheres to all applicable national, departmental and bureau policies and procedures. Identifies and assists scientists in the development of new research and monitoring  opportunities. 

Research Interests: 

The Center’s research program has six thrust areas that are conducted by 12 teams.
Thrust areas (with associated teams shown in parentheses) are:

1. Large River Ecosystems (Long Term Resource Monitoring Program, River Productivity)
2. Geospatial Sciences and Decision Support System Development (Geospatial Sciences, Resource Mapping and Spatial Analysis)
3. Invasive Species Control (GLFC, Invasive Species)
4. Fisheries Management Chemical and Drug Development and Registration (Fisheries Management Chemicals and Drugs)
5. Endangered Species (Avian Conservation Ecology, Native Mussels, Amphibians and Reptiles) 
6. Contaminant Effects on Wildlife (Wildlife Toxicology, Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products)

Teams can cut across both branches and thrust areas.

Active Projects:
Does not personally conduct research. Oversees the Centers projects on:

• Aquaculture drug research and development for U.S. public aquaculture
  
• DOI Fish Chemicals and Drugs Synopsis
  
• Development of a liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry method to detect antimycin A in natural waters at piscicidal concentrations
• Managing pathways of biological production of large rivers
• Information Technology
• Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP)
• Development of habitat layers and landscape models for fish and wildlife populations
• Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability Program (NESP) Support of Science Panel for the Preconstruction, Engineering and Design (PED)Phase of the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS)-Illinois Waterway Navigation
• Factors Limiting the Distribution and Abundance of Freshwater Mussels in Large Rivers
• The role of nutrients in control of producttivity and trophic interactions in the Upper Mississippi River:  implications for river management
• Habitat models and conservation planning tools for management of bird populations
• Importance of the Upper Mississippi River Ecosystem to Migrating Neotropical Migratory Birds
• Factors affecting common loon (Gavia immer) productivity
• Management of migratory birds on the Upper Mississippi River
• Monitoring vegetation response to water level drawdowns in navigation pools 5 and 8 of the Upper Mississippi River.
• National Wildlife Refuge System Biological Program Support
• Conservation planning for candidate species in the Upper Mississippi: A survey of Eastern Massasauga, Sistrurus catenatus catenatus, in the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge
• The distribution, abundance, and population dynamics of reptiles and amphibians in forested lakes, streams, rivers, and riparian areas in relation to land management
• Assess biological consequences of contaminants to wildlife and technical support to other agencies
• Exposure and effects of trace elements from abandoned mine tailings on cavity nesting birds along 3 drainages near Montezuma, Colorado
• Organochlorine concentrations in eggs of two or more swallow species at a highly PCB-contaminated site and the effect of egg laying order on organochlorine concentrations in tree swallow clutches.
• ER-UMESC Long term monitoring of the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS)
• Support to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission in lampricide re-registration and lamprey treatment regimes
• Invasive Species in the Upper Mississippi River
• WRD - Best Management - Halfway Creek
• SSP -Elimination of renibacterium salmoninarum, the causative agent of bacterial kidney disease, from Lake Trout eggs and juveniles (05-R3-01)
• SSP - Science support for development and review of National Wildlife Refuge System (06-R3-02)
• SSP - Translating regional population goals for bird species of concern into local habitat conservation objectives:  overcoming the intervening impediments (06-R3-06)
• ARMI - Amphibian monitoring in the Midwest Region (formerly Upper Mississippi River Region (7-25-2006))
• ARMI - The development and implementation of protocols to study wood frogs as indicators of global change in terrestrial wetlands across the range of wood frogs in Alaska, Canada, and the conterminous United States
• ARMI - UMESC/Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) -Method for identifying populations at risk of decline using a landscape-level ecological approach
• Nutrient Enrichment and Ecology (NEET) Project:  Nitrate Uptake and Sediment Ammonia in Agricultural Streams
• CENTRAL REGION - Vegetation Mapping
• QR-F3-07-43  Evaluation of the toxicity of BioBullets and BioBullet degradation products to zebra (Dreissena polymorpha) and unionid mussels in standardized bioassay tests
• QR-F3-07-44  Comparison of the effectiveness of moist air incubators to Heath incubators in the culture of lake trout eggs (Salvelinus namaycush)

Links:
Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center

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