E. Kiviat
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Name
Erik Kiviat
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Dates
1947 -
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Specialities
Algae
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Roles
Collector, Determiner
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Notes
Extract from : https://hudsonia.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Resume_Kiviat.pdf, accessed 14 Feb 2019
Hudsonia
PO Box 5000 / 30 Campus Rd
Annandale NY 12504
845-758-7273
kiviat@bard.edu, www.hudsonia.org
12 January 2019
ERIK KIVIAT
Recent Professional Experience
Hudsonia Ltd.: Executive Director; 1988- (excepting two years); Ecologist, 1981-1988; Co-founder.
Bard College: Associate Professor then Professor of Environmental Studies; Graduate School of Environmental Studies, 1987-2005; Research Associate, Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics,
2002-.
Technical assistance to: Non-governmental organizations (land trusts, environmental groups, citizens’
groups); landowners; renewable energy developers; other businesses; planning, law, and engineering
firms; sporting associations; federal, state and local government; in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut,
Massachusetts, Ohio: more than 300 reports prepared, 1975-.
Professional workshops taught or co-taught: Winter Woody Plant Identification; Phragmites Ecology
and Management; Reptile and Amphibian Survey Methods; Reptiles and Amphibians of the Hudson River; Wetland Habitat Creation and Turtle Conservation; Conservation of Urban Biodiversity; many others.
Fellowships: Cary Summer Research Fellowship 1993, Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY:
Vegetation and biogeochemistry of Blanding's turtle habitats. Short-term Visitor, 1995, Smithsonian Environmental Research Laboratory, Edgewater, MD: Freshwater-tidal and nontidal wetland studies.
Peer Reviewer: Biological Invasions; Chelonian Conservation and Biology; Ecosphere; Environmental
Monitoring and Assessment; Estuaries; Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science; Journal of Herpetology;
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom; Mires & Peat; New York State Museum Bulletin; Northeastern Naturalist; Studies in Avian Biology; Urban Habitats; Urban Naturalist;
Wetlands; Wetlands Ecology and Management; Wilson Bulletin; American Museum of Natural History;
Countryman Press; Hudson River Foundation; Long Island Sound License Plate Fund; Marsh Ecology
Research Program (Man.); Marsh Ecology Research Program (NJ); Rutgers University Press; San Francisco Bay-Delta Research Enhancement Program; Connecticut Sea Grant; Rhode Island Sea Grant; State
University of New York Press; Nature Conservancy; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; U.S. Geological
Survey; U.S. Office of Technology Assessment.
PhD thesis committees: SUNY Environmental Science & Forestry; Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (South Africa; external reader). Master’s thesis committees: Bard College; SUNY Albany; SUNY
New Paltz.
Volunteer (selected field biology projects): Turtle research, Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary, Maryland,
1990s-2000s; Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas, James Bay - Hudson Bay Lowland, Canada, 1985; Herpetofaunal surveys, Jekyll Island, GA, 1979-2013; Osprey survey and herpetofaunal survey, St. Catherine's
Island, GA, 1973; Reptile and amphibian population studies, Kalbfleisch Field Research Station, Long
Island, NY, 1964; Additional reptile and amphibian surveys in New York, Massachusetts, Georgia (Sea
Islands), and México (Querétaro), American Museum of Natural History, 1961-1979.
Education
PhD Ecology, Union Institute and University, 1991. Thesis: Wetland human ecology.
MA Biology, State University at New Paltz, NY, 1979. Thesis: Hudson Estuary shore zone: Ecology and
management.
BS Natural Sciences, Bard College, 1976. Thesis: Snapping turtle ecology in a New York tidemarsh.
Professional courses and workshops taken: Mosses: Structure, Ecology, and Identification (5 days),
White Creek Field School, 2017; Wildlife Study Design (1 day), Wildlife Society, 2002; Spiders: Identification, Biology, and Ecology (5 days), Eagle Hill Institute, 2001; Mosquito Identification and Surveillance (2 days), New York State Department of Health, 2000; Applied Multivariate Methods (5 days), Institute for Professional Education, VA, 1995; Control of Mosquitoes and Mosquito-borne Diseases in the
U.S. (5 days), International Center for Public Health Research, SC, 1993; Understanding Wetland Soils
(2 days), Cook College, Rutgers University, NJ, 1989; Landscape Preservation: Ecological and Social Issues (1 day), Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY, 1987; Energy Analysis (1 day), University
of Georgia, Athens, 1977; Freshwater Fishes of New York (5 days), American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, 1970.
Research Interests
Nonnative weed ecology and management; Wetland ecology and management; Herpetofaunal ecology
and conservation (including estuary, fen, woodland pool, and barrier island faunas); Habitat ecology, assessment, monitoring, creation, restoration; Urban and rural biodiversity, rare or little-known species;
Energy development impacts on biodiversity; Human cultural adaptations to wetlands and vector-borne
diseases, and human interactions with wetlands; Ethnobotany and economic botany.
Current research projects (with staff, interns, and collaborators): Urban biodiversity and its management,
a case study of the New Jersey Meadowlands (includes field surveys of mammals, birds, herpetofauna,
butterflies, dragonflies, clam shrimp, land snails, vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens, macrofungi);
Long-term response of the threatened Blanding’s turtle to created wetland and upland habitats; An oldgrowth forest in the Hudson Valley after 40 years; Two prickly-pear species near their range limits in
rocky habitats of the Hudson Valley; Human-disturbed habitats as sentinels for early detection of
nonnative weeds in the Catskill Mountain region; Habitat functions of Phragmites, purple loosestrife,
and knotweed for organisms from cryptogams to mammals; Bioenergy and other uses of abundant
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