CURRICULUM VITA

Carol Lynn Folt
The Dartmouth Professor of Biological Science
Dean of Faculty, Dartmouth

ADDRESS
Dean of Faculty Office, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755
Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755

EDUCATION
University of California at Davis, PhD in Ecology.
University of California at Santa Barbara, MA in Biology.
University of California at Santa Barbara, BA in Aquatic Biology.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Current
2004 Dean of Faculty, Dartmouth College
1998 Associate Director, Dartmouth Toxic Metals Research Program
1997 Professor of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth

Previous
2001 Dean of Graduate Studies/ Associate Dean of the Faculty for Interdisciplinary Programs
2000 Associate Director, Dartmouth Center for Environmental Health Sciences
1991 Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth
1984 Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth
1983 Research Instructor, Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth
1982 Postdoctoral Fellow at W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State

SPONSORED RESEARCH PROJECTS (2005 – Present)
2008–13 NIEHS – "Toxic Metals in the Northeast: From Biological to Environmental Implications" Bruce Stanton (PI), Carol Folt (Associate Director), Margaret Karagas (Associate Director)

2008–13 NIEHS – "Training Core" Carol Folt (Project Leader)

2008–13 NIEHS – "Bioaccumulation and Trophic Transfer of Toxic Hg in Aquatic Food Webs" Celia Chen (PI), Carol Folt (Co-PI), Robert Mason (Co-PI)

2005–08 NIEHS – "Trophic Transfer of Toxic Metals in Aquatic Food Webs." Carol Folt (PI), Celia Chen (Co-PI)

2005–08 NIEHS – "Toxic Metals in the Northeast: From Biological to Environmental Implications" Joshua Hamilton (PI), Carol Folt (Associate Director), Bruce Stanton (Associate Director) 2005 NIEHS – "Training Core." Carol Folt (Project Leader) Dean Wilcox (Co-PI)

2002–07 NSF – “Development of Methods Linking Genomic and Ecological Responses in a Freshwater Sentinel Species” Joshua Hamilton (PI), Celia Chen (Co-PI), Carol Folt (Co-PI), Joseph Shaw (Co-PI), Michael Lynch (Co-PI)

2002–05 NSF – “Acquisition of a gas chromatography inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry system for interdisciplinary environmental and health science research at Dartmouth College” Xiahong Feng (PI), Carol Folt (Co-PI) and Stefan Stürup (Co-PI)

2000–05 NIEHS – "Trophic Transfer of Toxic Metals in Aquatic Food Webs" Carol Folt (PI), Celia Chen (Co-PI)

2000–05 NIEHS – "Outreach Core: Collaborative Initiative in Middle School Science Education with the Montshire Museum of Science" Carol Folt (PI), David Goudy (Co-PI)

2000–05 NIEHS – "Toxic Metals in the Northeast: From Biological to Environmental Implications" Joshua Hamilton (PI), Carol Folt (Associate Director)

SELECTED PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES (2005 – Present)
Chen, CY and Folt, CL. 2005. High plankton densities reduce mercury biomagnification. Environmental Science and Technology 39(1):115-121.

Chen, CY, Stemberger, RS, Kamman, NC, Mayes, BM, and Folt, CL. 2005. Patterns of Hg bioaccumulation and transfer in aquatic food webs across multi-lake studies in the northeast US. Ecotoxicology 14 (1-2): 135-149.

Shaw, JR, Dempsey, TD, Chen, CY, Hamilton, JW, and Folt, CL. 2006. Comparative toxicity of cadmium, zinc and mixtures of cadmium and zinc to daphniids. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 25(1):182-189.

Karimi, R and Folt, CL. 2006. Beyond macronutrients: element variability and multi-element stoichiometry in freshwater invertebrates. Ecology Letters 9(12):1273-1283.

Ward, DM, Nislow, KH, Armstrong, JD, Einum, S, and Folt, CL. 2007. Is the shape of the density-growth relationship for stream salmonids evidence for exploitative rather than interference competition? Journal of Animal Ecology 76(1): 135-138.

Karimi, R, Chen, CY, Pickhardt, PC, Fisher, NS, and Folt, CL. 2007. Stoichiometric controls of mercury dilution by growth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104:7477–7482.

Shaw, JR, Colbourne, JK, Davey, JC, Glaholt, SP, Hampton, TH, Chen, CY, Folt, CL and Hamilton, JW. 2007. Gene response profiles for Daphnia pulex exposed to the environmental stressor cadmium reveals novel crustacean metallothioneins. BMC Genomics 2007, 8:477.

Ward, DM, Nislow, KH and Folt, CL. 2008. Do native species limit survival of reintroduced Atlantic salmon in historic rearing streams? Biological Conservation

Ward, DM, Nislow, KH and Folt, CL. 2008. Predators reverse the direction of density dependence for juvenile salmon mortality. Oecologia 156(3):515-522.

Kennedy, BP, Nislow, KH and Folt, CL. 2008. Linking consumption rates to habitat, growth and survival of juvenile Atlantic salmon. In press: Ecology.

Chen, CY, Hathaway, KM, Thompson, DG, and Folt, CL. 2008. Multiple stressor effects of release®, ph, and food on forest wetland zooplankton and larval amphibians. In press: Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety.

GRADUATE RESEARCH

Graduate Thesis Advisor

Peter Schulze, PhD. The effects of food resources and conspecifics on the foraging, survivorship, and reproduction of the omnivorous copepod, Epischura lacustris.

Michele Dionne, PhD. Littoral habitat structure and the role of macrophyte growth form in the foraging ecology of the pumpkinseed sunfish.

Celia Chen, PhD. The effect of food quality on behavior, growth and population dynamics of herbivorous copepods.

Ruth Darling, PhD. The importance of prey patch composition and abundance on the foraging efficiency of planktivorous freshwater fishes.

Keith Nislow, PhD. Interactive effects of habitat and prey on stream fish performance: implications for Atlantic salmon restoration in New England streams.

Brian Kennedy, PhD. Linking Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and their streams: chemical records of salmon habitat, performance and movements.

Paul Pickhardt, PhD. Zooplankton accumulation of trace metals: mechanisms and taxonomic consequences in freshwater pelagic systems.

Deborah Chiavelli, PhD. The influence of host distribution and movement on colonization and population dynamics of an ectosymbiont.

Lou-Anne Conroy, MS/MALS. Dams and rivers: a regional study of the history, politics and ecological impacts of flood control and beaver dams in Northern New England.

Roxanne Karimi, PhD. The role of the benthic food web in the movement of toxic metals through aquatic food webs to humans.

Darren Ward, PhD. Linking density-dependent survival and growth of juvenile Atlantic salmon to their predators and prey.


		CURRICULUM VITA Carol Lynn Folt The Dartmouth Professor of Biological Science Dean of Faculty, Dartmouth ADDRESS Dean of Faculty Office, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755 Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755 EDUCATION University of California at Davis, PhD in Ecology. University of California at Santa Barbara, MA in Biology. University of California at Santa Barbara, BA in Aquatic Biology. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Current 2004 Dean of Faculty, Dartmouth College 1998 Associate Director, Dartmouth Toxic Metals Research Program 1997 Professor of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth Previous 2001 Dean of Graduate Studies/ Associate Dean of the Faculty for Interdisciplinary Programs 2000 Associate Director, Dartmouth Center for Environmental Health Sciences 1991 Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth 1984 Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth 1983 Research Instructor, Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth 1982 Postdoctoral Fellow at W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State SPONSORED RESEARCH PROJECTS (2005 – Present) 2008–13 NIEHS – "Toxic Metals in the Northeast: From Biological to Environmental Implications" Bruce Stanton (PI), Carol Folt (Associate Director), Margaret Karagas (Associate Director) 2008–13 NIEHS – "Training Core" Carol Folt (Project Leader) 2008–13 NIEHS – "Bioaccumulation and Trophic Transfer of Toxic Hg in Aquatic Food Webs" Celia Chen (PI), Carol Folt (Co-PI), Robert Mason (Co-PI) 2005–08 NIEHS – "Trophic Transfer of Toxic Metals in Aquatic Food Webs." Carol Folt (PI), Celia Chen (Co-PI) 2005–08 NIEHS – "Toxic Metals in the Northeast: From Biological to Environmental Implications" Joshua Hamilton (PI), Carol Folt (Associate Director), Bruce Stanton (Associate Director) 2005 NIEHS – "Training Core." Carol Folt (Project Leader) Dean Wilcox (Co-PI) 2002–07 NSF – “Development of Methods Linking Genomic and Ecological Responses in a Freshwater Sentinel Species” Joshua Hamilton (PI), Celia Chen (Co-PI), Carol Folt (Co-PI), Joseph Shaw (Co-PI), Michael Lynch (Co-PI) 2002–05 NSF – “Acquisition of a gas chromatography inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry system for interdisciplinary environmental and health science research at Dartmouth College” Xiahong Feng (PI), Carol Folt (Co-PI) and Stefan Stürup (Co-PI) 2000–05 NIEHS – "Trophic Transfer of Toxic Metals in Aquatic Food Webs" Carol Folt (PI), Celia Chen (Co-PI) 2000–05 NIEHS – "Outreach Core: Collaborative Initiative in Middle School Science Education with the Montshire Museum of Science" Carol Folt (PI), David Goudy (Co-PI) 2000–05 NIEHS – "Toxic Metals in the Northeast: From Biological to Environmental Implications" Joshua Hamilton (PI), Carol Folt (Associate Director) SELECTED PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES (2005 – Present) Chen, CY and Folt, CL. 2005. High plankton densities reduce mercury biomagnification. Environmental Science and Technology 39(1):115-121. Chen, CY, Stemberger, RS, Kamman, NC, Mayes, BM, and Folt, CL. 2005. Patterns of Hg bioaccumulation and transfer in aquatic food webs across multi-lake studies in the northeast US. Ecotoxicology 14 (1-2): 135-149. Shaw, JR, Dempsey, TD, Chen, CY, Hamilton, JW, and Folt, CL. 2006. Comparative toxicity of cadmium, zinc and mixtures of cadmium and zinc to daphniids. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 25(1):182-189. Karimi, R and Folt, CL. 2006. Beyond macronutrients: element variability and multi-element stoichiometry in freshwater invertebrates. Ecology Letters 9(12):1273-1283. Ward, DM, Nislow, KH, Armstrong, JD, Einum, S, and Folt, CL. 2007. Is the shape of the density-growth relationship for stream salmonids evidence for exploitative rather than interference competition? Journal of Animal Ecology 76(1): 135-138. Karimi, R, Chen, CY, Pickhardt, PC, Fisher, NS, and Folt, CL. 2007. Stoichiometric controls of mercury dilution by growth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104:7477–7482. Shaw, JR, Colbourne, JK, Davey, JC, Glaholt, SP, Hampton, TH, Chen, CY, Folt, CL and Hamilton, JW. 2007. Gene response profiles for Daphnia pulex exposed to the environmental stressor cadmium reveals novel crustacean metallothioneins. BMC Genomics 2007, 8:477. Ward, DM, Nislow, KH and Folt, CL. 2008. Do native species limit survival of reintroduced Atlantic salmon in historic rearing streams? Biological Conservation Ward, DM, Nislow, KH and Folt, CL. 2008. Predators reverse the direction of density dependence for juvenile salmon mortality. Oecologia 156(3):515-522. Kennedy, BP, Nislow, KH and Folt, CL. 2008. Linking consumption rates to habitat, growth and survival of juvenile Atlantic salmon. In press: Ecology. Chen, CY, Hathaway, KM, Thompson, DG, and Folt, CL. 2008. Multiple stressor effects of release®, ph, and food on forest wetland zooplankton and larval amphibians. In press: Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. GRADUATE RESEARCH *Graduate Thesis Advisor* Peter Schulze, PhD. The effects of food resources and conspecifics on the foraging, survivorship, and reproduction of the omnivorous copepod, Epischura lacustris. Michele Dionne, PhD. Littoral habitat structure and the role of macrophyte growth form in the foraging ecology of the pumpkinseed sunfish. Celia Chen, PhD. The effect of food quality on behavior, growth and population dynamics of herbivorous copepods. Ruth Darling, PhD. The importance of prey patch composition and abundance on the foraging efficiency of planktivorous freshwater fishes. Keith Nislow, PhD. Interactive effects of habitat and prey on stream fish performance: implications for Atlantic salmon restoration in New England streams. Brian Kennedy, PhD. Linking Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and their streams: chemical records of salmon habitat, performance and movements. Paul Pickhardt, PhD. Zooplankton accumulation of trace metals: mechanisms and taxonomic consequences in freshwater pelagic systems. Deborah Chiavelli, PhD. The influence of host distribution and movement on colonization and population dynamics of an ectosymbiont. Lou-Anne Conroy, MS/MALS. Dams and rivers: a regional study of the history, politics and ecological impacts of flood control and beaver dams in Northern New England. Roxanne Karimi, PhD. The role of the benthic food web in the movement of toxic metals through aquatic food webs to humans. Darren Ward, PhD. Linking density-dependent survival and growth of juvenile Atlantic salmon to their predators and prey. Back to Top
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