Paleoecology, Ecology and
Environmental Science Education
University of Maine
300A Bryand Global Sciences Center
Orono, ME 04469-5790
207-581-2707 Ph/Voicemail
mschauff at maine.edu
My overarching interest is to increase citizens' understanding of and appreciation of natural systems, scientific research, and environmental change. I work with K-12 teachers to help them incorporate cross-disciplinary environmental monitoring projects into their science curricula. In collaboration with the Dept. of Earth Sciences and the Center for Science and Mathematics Education Research Education, I teach a graduate course for teachers for that gives them first-hand experience in environmental research. I maintain an online index of environmental monitoring programs in Maine, to facilitate public access to environmental data.
Graduate and post-doctoral research includes investigation into the infiltration of road salt runoff and aerosols into peatlands, a paleoecological study of long-term changes in the distribution of spruce forests in Maine using fossil pollen in forest sediments, and collaboration in a paired-watershed study of mercury and nitrogen processing by waterhsheds in Acadia National Park.
Schauffler, M. and G. L. Jacobson Jr., 2002. Persistence of coastal spruce refugia during the Holocene in northern New England, USA, detected by stand-scale pollen stratigraphies, Journal of Ecology 90: 235-250.
Schauffler, M., S. Vidito, S., Johnson, K., G. L. Jacobson, Jr., J. S. Kahl, 2002. Paleoecological history of forest disturbance in two upland watersheds in Acadia National Park. Chapter in Establishing paired gauged watersheds at Acadia National Park for long-term research on acidic deposition, nitrogen saturation, forest health, and mercury biogeochemistry (1998-2002), J. S. Kahl et al., Eds. In press.
Schauffler, M., G. L. Jacobson, Jr., S. A. Norton, A. L. Pugh IV. 1996. Capture of road-salt aerosols in an acidic peatland in central Maine. Ecological Applications 6: 263.
Lindbladh, M., G. L. Jacobson, Jr., M. Schauffler 2003. The postglacial history of three Picea species in New England, USA. Quaternary Research.