Orlando (Ace) Sarnelle

Associate Professor

PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara 1992

Dept. of Fisheries & Wildlife
Michigan State University
Hickory Corners, MI 49060
Email: sarnelle@msu.edu

Webpage: www.fw.msu.edu/~sarnelle/

Research Interests

I am a limnologist and ecologist with relatively broad interests.  A major theme in my research has been to understand the roles that interactions among aquatic populations (primarily phytoplankton and zooplankton) play in population and community dynamics within lakes.  I am also interested in how these interactions impact the overall functioning of aquatic ecosystems.   The approach that I take to questions relies very heavily on field experimentation, and I am very interested in assessing how well such experiments inform us about processes in nature.