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Walt Sadinski

Position Title: Research Ecologist

Email: wsadinski@usgs.gov                           
Phone: 608.781.6337           
Fax: 608.783.6066

Education:
B.A. in Biology, University of Southern Maine (1986)
Ph.D. in Ecology, Penn State University (1991)
Postdoctoral fellow, E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1992-1995) and the University of California, San Francisco (1995-1997)

Related training:
Supervisory Biologist, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (1997-2000)
Senior Project Ecologist, The Nature Conservancy (2000-2001)
Adjunct Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara (1998-2001)

Primary Responsibilities/Activities:
Implement and execute the Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative (ARMI) in the 13 states of ARMI’s Midwest Region and related work regarding amphibian and wetland conservation.  These efforts include working with partners and collaborators to study the statuses of amphibian populations in terms of their distribution, abundance, and long-term persistence and as indicators of changed environmental conditions.

Research Interests:

• Effects of global change on terrestrial wetland systems and amphibian populations
• Development and application of effective, integrated biotic and abiotic indicators of effects of global change on terrestrial and fresh-water ecosystems
• Understanding key ecosystem linkages to inform effective conservation and management of essential ecological processes relative to human needs and activities.

Active Projects:

• ARMI in the Midwest Region
• A geospatial analysis of risks environmental stressors pose to the persistence of amphibian populations across the 13 states of ARMI’s Midwest Region
• Development and implementation of protocols, key research tools, and the research network necessary to study effects of climate change on terrestrial wetland systems in Alaska, Canada, and the conterminous U.S.

Select Publications:

Muths E., R.E. Jung, L.L. Bailey, M.J. Adams, P.S. Corn, C.K. Dodd Jr, G.M. Fellers, W.J. Sadinski, C.R. Schwalbe, S.C. Walls, R.N. Fisher, A.L. Gallant, W.A. Battaglin, and D.E. Green. 2005. Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative (ARMI): A successful start to a national program in the United States. Applied Herpetology 2:355-371

Cleaver, J. E., V. Afzal, L. Feeney, M. McDowell, W. Sadinski, J. P. Volpe, D. B. Busch, D. M. Coleman, D. W. Ziffer, Y. Yu, H. Nagasawa, and J. B. Little. 1999. Increased ultraviolet sensitivity and chromosomal instability related to P53 function in the Xeroderma Pigmentosum Variant. Cancer Research 59, 1102–1108

 Sadinski, W.J., G. Levay, M.C. Wilson, J.R. Hoffman, W.J. Bodell, and S.L. Anderson. 1995. Relationships among 32P-postlabeled DNA adducts, micronuclei, and fitness parameters in Xenopus laevis. Aquatic Toxicology 32(4):333-­352

Anderson, S.L., W. Sadinski, L. Shugart, P. Brussard, M. DePledge, T. Ford, J. Hose, J.Stegeman, W. Suk, I. Wirgin, and G. Wogan. 1994. Genetic and molecular ecotoxicology: A research framework. Environmental Health Perspectives 102 (Supplement 12):3–8

Sadinski, W.J., and W.A. Dunson. 1992. A multilevel study of effects of low pH on amphibians of temporary ponds. Journal of Herpetology 26(4):413–422

Links:
Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative (ARMI)

Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative, Midwest Region

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