Dan Kotter

Expertise:

• Spatial modeling and visualization
• Non-invasive sampling
• Geographic Information Systems
• Field Logistics Optimization
• Regional Ecological Monitoring
• Regional non-point source groundwater vulnerability
• Impacts of leaky underground storage tanks on soil and groundwater
• Geomorphic response of river systems

Research interests:

• GIS based forecasting and planning
• Non-invasive Grizzly Bear monitoring
• Assessment of ecological effects of anthropogenic stressors
• Hyporheic exchange in geologically diverse environments
• Geomorphic response to climate variability
• Ecohydraulics

Publications:
Muhlfeld C.C., Jones L., Kotter D., Miller D.W., Geise D., Tohtz J. et al. (2011) Assessing the impacts of river regulation on native bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) and westslope cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi) habitats in the upper Flathead River, Montana, USA. River Research and Applications doi: 10.1002/rra.1494.

Carey, D., D. Kotter, and G. Beck. 2006. Generalized Geologic Map for Land-Use Planning: Breckenridge County, Kentucky. University of Kentucky – Kentucky Geological Survey. MAP AND CHART 146, Series XII, 2006. http://kgsweb.uky.edu/olops/pub/kgs/mc145_12.pdf


Presentations:
“Cabinet-Yaak Ecosystem – Research” Dan Kotter, University of Montana. Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee – Selkirk/Cabinet-Yaak Subcommittee Meeting. Coeur d’Alene, ID, Nov. 9, 2011.

“Environmental Monitoring and Assessment of the Groundwater Quality in Calloway County, Kentucky”, Dan Kotter and others, KGS, Henderson, KY. Kentucky Water Resources Symposium Oral Presentations, Louisville, KY., March 26, 2007.

“Environmental Monitoring and Assessment of Selected Inorganic Ions and Metals in Groundwater Samples from Calloway County, KY”, Sandra Thompson and Dr. Harry Fannin, Department of Chemistry, Murray State University; Daniel Kotter and Dr. Paul Doss, Department of Geology and Physics, University of Southern Indiana, 12th Annual EPSCoR Conference, Poster Session, Louisville, Kentucky, 2006.

“Preliminary Interpretations of the Structure and Stratigraphy of Wesley Chapel Gulf using Ground Penetrating Radar”, Kotter, Daniel L. and Durbin, James M., Dept. of Geology, University of Southern Indiana. Geological Society of American, North-Central Section – 39th Annual Meeting (May 19-20. 2005) Paper No. 46-6.

Current Research Projects:

• Cabinet-Yaak Grizzly Bear DNA Project
• Monitoring Bear Populations with Non-Invasive Sampling in the NCDE