Dr. Sandra Cooke

Contact Information:

Mellon Lecturing Fellow, University Writing Program;
Postdoctoral Researcher
Biology Department
Box 90025
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina 27708

Office: 919-660-7097
Fax: 919-681-0637
s.cooke@duke.edu
www.duke.edu/~sc153

Education:

Ph.D., 2006, Earth and Environmental Science, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Dissertation: The effects of ultraviolet radiation and dissolved organic matter on zooplankton communities.
Adviser: Dr. Craig E. Williamson

B.A., 2001, Pre-Professional Zoology/Environmental Studies, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio. Thesis: Nutrient limitation of phytoplankton across spatial and seasonal gradients in reservoirs of varying productivity.
REU adviser: Dr. Michael Vanni (Miami University)

Research Interests:

zooplankton ecology, effects of UV radiation and other aspects of environmental change on aquatic organisms and food webs, ecological effects of aquatic invasive species (Asian carp)

Publications:

Cooke, S. L., and W. R. Hill. 2010. Can filter-feeding carp invade the Laurentian Great Lakes? A bioenergetic modeling exercise. Freshwater Biology. 55: 2138-2152.

Williamson, C. E., C. Salm, S. L. Cooke, and J. E. Saros. 2010. How do UV, temperature, and zooplankton influence the dynamics of alpine phytoplankton communities? Hydrobiologia. 648: 73-81.

Cooke, S. L., W. R. Hill, and K. P. Meyer. 2009. Bighead carp growth under different zooplankton and phytoplankton densities. Hydrobiologia. 625: 185-193.

Cooke, S. L. 2009. Using writing to teach science and policy aspects of drought and water-ecosystem services in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (California, USA). Ecological Society of America's EcoEd Digital Library http://www.ecoed.net/pages/millennium/

Leech, D. M., W. J. Boeing, S. L. Cooke, C. E. Williamson, and L. Torres. 2009. UV enhanced fish predation on zooplankton in a transparent lake. Limnology and Oceanography. 54: 1152-1161.

Cooke, S. L., C. E. Williamson, D. M. Leech, W. J. Boeing and L. Torres. 2008. Effects of temperature and ultraviolet radiation on diel vertical migration of freshwater crustacean zooplankton. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 65: 1144-1152.

Cooke, S. L., C. E. Williamson and J. E. Saros. 2006. How do temperature, dissolved organic matter, and nutrients influence the response of Leptodiaptomus ashlandi to UV radiation in a subalpine lake? Freshwater Biology. 51: 1827-1837.

Cooke, S. L., C. E. Williamson, B. R. Hargreaves and D. P. Morris. 2006. Beneficial and detrimental interactive effects of dissolved organic matter and ultraviolet radiation on zooplankton in a transparent lake. Hydrobiologia. 568: 15-28.

Cooke, S. L. and C. E. Williamson. 2006. Positive effects of UV radiation on a calanoid copepod in a transparent lake: do competition, predation, or food availability play a role? Journal of Plankton Research. 28: 171-179.

Boeing, W. J., Leech, D. M., Williamson, C. E., Cooke, S., and Torres, L. 2004. Damaging UV radiation and invertebrate predation: Conflicting selective pressures for zooplankton vertical distribution in the water column of low DOC lakes. Oecologia. 138: 603-612.