Research Ecologist
Eastern Basin Ecosystems Branch, Tunison Laboratory of Aquatic Science

Education:
B.S. (Zoology), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1983
M.S. (Marine Biology), California State University-Los Angeles, 1987
Ph.D. (Zoology, Aquatic Ecology), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998

Research Interests:
Population and community ecology in aquatic systems, restoration ecology, impacts and ecology of exotic species.

Mailing Address:
USGS Great Lakes Science Center
Tunison Laboratory of Aquatic Science
3075 Gracie Road
Cortland, NY 13045-9457

E-mail: ddittman@usgs.gov

Phone: (607) 753-9391, ext. 23

Fax: (607) 753-0259

Machut, Leonard S., Karin E. Limburg, Robert E. Schmidt, and Dawn Dittman. 2007. Anthropogenic impacts on American eel demographics in Hudson river tributaries, New York. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 136(6): 1699-1713.
Contribution # 1563 [Abstract]

Walsh, Maureen G., Dawn E. Dittman, and Robert O'Gorman. 2007. Occurrence and food habits of the round goby in the profundal zone of southwestern Lake Ontario. Journal of Great Lakes Research 33(1): 83-92.
Contribution # 1391 [Abstract]

Halfman, John D., Dawn E. Dittman, Randall W. Owens, and Margaret D. Etherington. 2006. Storm-induced redistribution of deepwater sediments in Lake Ontario. Journal of Great Lakes Research 32(2): 348-360.
Contribution # 1314 [Abstract]