Biography

Website:  http://www.courtneyerichmond.com

Video introduction: https://youtu.be/fy9oW4ICvu8 

Courses:
Biological Skills for Transfer Students
Environmental Science

Introduction to Evolution and Scientific Inquiry
Introduction to Ecology
Invertebrate Zoology
Marine Biology
Special Topics in Biological Sciences

Education:
BA (Biology), Swarthmore College
PhD (Marine Science), University of South Carolina
Postdoctoral (Ecological Modelling), National Research Council & Environmental Protection Agency
Postdoctoral (Ecological Modelling), Academy of Natural Sciences Estuarine Research Center

Research Expertise:
Ecological modeling | Individual to community responses to environmental stressors | Life history strategies of marine invertebrates | Biocontrol of crop pests

My research interests focus on how stressful environmental conditions affect individual organisms, and how those individual-level effects scale up to population- and community-level effects in space and through time. I study both natural and anthropogenic (human-induced) stressors as the drivers of these ecological changes. The techniques I use include empirical, manipulative studies as well as the construction of ecological models to project short-term and/or individual-level effects to larger scales.

I’ve studied many marine invertebrate taxa, including copepods, ctenophores, and the larvae of snails and marine polychaetes. Despite my background in invertebrates, I’ve also collaborated with others who work on Florida seagrasses and wasps that infect and damage wheat crops in the Northern Plains of the United States and Canada.

Member of:
American Association for the Advancement of Science  
Ecological Society of America  
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology  
Union of Concerned Scientists  

Recent Academic Projects:
Ecological modelling of biocontrol of the wheat stem sawfly, Cephus cinctus
Zooplankton population studies in South Jersey reservoirs (includes undergraduates in field and laboratory studies)

Recent Publications (*indicates undergraduate student co-author):   
Ruhl, N, *Ruggiero, D, *Iuliucci, S, Grove, M and Richmond, CE. 2023 Predicting the density of zooplankton subsidy to a stream with multiple impoundments using water quality parameters. Aquatic Sciences 85: article 29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00027-022-00931-x

Ruhl, N, *Ruggiero, D, *Iuliucci, S, Grove, M, and Richmond CE.  2023. Predicting the density of zooplankton subsidy to a stream with multiple impoundments using water quality parameters.  Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1vhhmgqxd

Ruhl, N, Crumrine, P, Oberle, J, Richmond, CE, Thomas, S and Wright, S. 2022. Harnessing the Four-Dimensional Ecology Education Framework to redesign an introductory ecology course in a changing higher education landscape. Ecosphere 13(2):e03857. 10.1002/ecs2.3857   http://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3857

Rand, TA, Richmond, CE, Doughterty, ET (2020) Modeling the combined impacts of host plant resistance and biological control on the population dynamics of major pest of wheat. Pest Management Science 76(8): 2818-2828 https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.5830.

Ruhl, N, *Haban, D, *Czajkowski, C, Grove, M, and Richmond CE. (2019) Community composition of zooplankton exported from a shallow polymictic reservoir linked to wind conditions. PeerJ 7:e7611 DOI 10.7717/peerj.7611    

Rand, TA, Richmond, CE, Dougherty, ET (2017) Using matrix population models to inform biological control management of the wheat stem sawfly, Cephus cinctus. Biological Control: 109:27-36.   https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2017.03.007 

Richmond, CE, Rose, KA, Breitburg DL (2013) Individual variability and environmental conditions: effects on zooplankton cohort dynamics. Marine Ecology Progress Series 486:59-78.

Richmond CE, Kolesar SE (2012) Consensus building for environmental issues: marine protected areas as a case study. In Proceedings of the 33rd Conference of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ABLE) (Tested Studies for Laboratory Teaching Vol. 33) McMahon K, ed. pp.302-310.

Richmond, CE, Ebert-May, D, Hodder, J. (2008) Lyme disease: a case about ecosystem services. In: Pathways to Scientific Teaching, Sinauer Associates, Inc. Sunderland, MA, USA, pp. 77-78  

Richmond, CE, Wethey, DS, Woodin, SA. (2007) Climate change and increased environmental variability: Demographic responses in an estuarine harpacticoid copepod. Ecological Modelling 208: 189-202