Curriculum Vitae

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EDUCATION

Ph.D. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, expected 2009.
Michigan Teaching Fellow, May 2007.
B.A., Biology, College of Creative Studies. University of California, Santa Barbara, 2000.
B.A., Art History. University of California, Santa Barbara, 2000.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Graduate Student Instructor (GSI), Aquatic Ecology Lab with George Kling, University of Michigan; Winter 2007.
Graduate Student Mentor, GSI Training Course with Marc Ammerlaan, University of Michigan; Fall 2005.
GSI, Global Change I with Ben Van der Pluijm, University of Michigan; Fall 2005.
GSI, Introductory Microbiology with Marc Ammerlaan, University of Michigan; Fall 2004.
GSI, Introductory Biology. University of Michigan; Fall 2002, Winter 2003 and 2005.

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

EPA STAR Fellowship, 2007- current. 
Whittaker Research Mentoring Fellowship, Univ. Michigan, 2007. 
Edwin H. Edwards Endowed Fellowship, Univ. Michigan, 2006-2007.
Helen Olson Brower Endowed Fellowship for Environ. Science, Univ. Michigan 2004-2006.
U.M. Rackham Graduate School Discretionary Funds, Winter 2004.
EEB Departmental Fellowship, 2003-2004. 
EEB Block Grant, 2003-2004, 2007-2008.
Graduated with Highest Honors, UC Santa Barbara, 2000.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Workshop:  "High Latitude Terrestrial and Freshwater Ecosystems: Interactions and Response to Environmental Change" in Abisko, Sweden 11 - 14 September, 2007.
Workshop:  “LTER Synthesis Workshop:  Terrestrial and Aquatic Linkages" at Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan, 19-22 April 2007.
Research Experience for Undergraduates, Nyanza Project, Kigoma, Tanzania (University of Arizona, Tucson), Advisor: P.D. Plisnier; Summer 2000.
Independent Research Project, Mono Lake, Advisor: John Melack (University of California, Santa Barbara); 1999-2000.
Research Assistant, Mono Lake Project, Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory (University of California, Santa Barbara); Summer 1999.
Lab Assistant, Soil Ecology Lab of Josh Schimel, Marine Science Institute (University of California, Santa Barbara); 1998-1999.

PUBLICATIONS – peer reviewed

Adams, H.E. , B.C. Crump, and G.W. Kling.  In prep.  Temperature controls on aquatic bacterial activity and community dynamics.  Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 
Ball, B.A., J.S. Kominoski, H.E. Adams, S.E. Jones, E.S. Kane, T.D. Loecke, W.M. Mahaney, J.P. Martina, C.M. Prather, T.M.P. Robinson, C.T. Solomon.  In prep.  Putting the pieces together:  global environmental changes and terrestrial- aquatic linkages.  Frontiers in Ecology.
Crump, B.C., H.E. Adams, J.E. Hobbie, and G.W. Kling. 2007. Biogeography of bacterioplankton in lakes and streams of an arctic tundra catchment.  Ecology 88(6): 1365-1378.
Judd K.E., H.E. Adams, N.S. Bosch, J.M. Kostrzewski, C.E. Scott, B.M. Schultz, D.H. Wang, and G.W. Kling. 2005. A case history: Effects of mixing regime on nutrient dynamics and community structure in Third Sister Lake, Michigan during late winter and early spring 2003. Lake and Reservoir Management. 21(3): 316-329.
Jellison, R., H.E. Adams, and J.M. Melack. 2001. Re-appearance of rotifers in hypersaline Mono Lake, California during a period of rising lake levels and decreasing salinity. Hydrobiologia. 466(1): 39-43.

PUBLICATIONS – technical reports

Adams, H.E. and R.M. Charles. 2000. A preliminary investigation of lake stability and chemical analysis of deep waters of the Kigoma sub-basin (northern basin) and the Kalemie sub-basin (southern basin) of Lake Tanganyika. Nyanza Project 2000 Annual Report. Tucson, Arizona. http://www.geo.arizona.edu/nyanza/publications/annual_reports.html

PUBLISHED ABTRACTS, PRESENTATIONS, AND POSTERS

Adams, H.E., B.C. Crump, and G.W. Kling.  2008.  Downstream dispersal and activity of bacteria.  Presentation for American Society for Limnology and Oceanography, Summer Meeting, 9-13 June 2008, St. John’s, Newfoundland.  p. 1.
Adams, H.E., B.C. Crump, and G.W. Kling. 2006.  Community mediation of environmental response: Bacterial physiological adaptation versus structural shifts in community composition. Poster for Long Term Ecological Research, All-Scientists Meeting, 20-23 September 2006, Estes Park, Colorado. http://www.lternet.edu/asm/2006/posters/schedule.php
Adams, H.E., B.C. Crump, and G.W. Kling.  Bacterioplankton community composition mediates the effect of temperature and nutrients on bacterial activity. Presentation for American Society for Limnology and Oceanography, Summer Meeting, 4-9 June 2006, Victoria, B.C., p. 4.
Crump, B.C., H.E. Adams, J.E. Hobbie, and G.W. Kling.  Mechanisms of spatial variability in bacterioplankton community composition among lakes and streams of an arctic tundra watershed.  Poster for American Society for Limnology and Oceanography, Summer Meeting, 4-9 June 2006, Victoria, B.C., p. 28.
Crump, B.C., J.E. Hobbie, H.E. Adams, and G.W. Kling. Shifts in bacterioplankton community composition across a landscape: influence of bacterial production and lake residence time. Poster for International Society of Microbial Ecology, ISME-10, 22-27 August 2004, Cancun, Mexico, p. 304.

SEMINARS AND TALKS PRESENTED

Adams, H.E., B.C. Crump, and G.W. Kling.  Downstream processing of terrestrially-derived carbon by bacteria in lakes and streams in an arctic catchment, Alaska, USA.  Presentation for "High Latitude Terrestrial and Freshwater Ecosystems: Interactions and Response to Environmental Change" Workshop, 11 - 14 September, 2007, Abisko, Sweden.
Adams, H.E.  Metacommunity Dynamics in Bacterioplankton.  Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 17 April 2007, University of Michigan.
Adams, H.E., B.C. Crump, and G.W. Kling.  Carbon versus temperature limitation of aquatic bacteria across an arctic lake district; Effects of temperature, substrate, and community composition on aquatic bacterial production; Community mediated controls of temperature and nutrients on bacteria; Activity of transient versus resident bacterioplankton.  Posters for Arctic LTER Annual Planning Meeting, 2004-2007. 
Adams, H.E.  Does bacterial diversity matter?  Abiotic factors versus community composition as controls on aquatic bacterial productivity.  Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 15 March 2005, University of Michigan.
Adams, H.E.  Microbial Ecology:  Aquatic and Terrestrial Habitats.  Guest Lecture for Introductory Microbiology, 29 October 2004, University of Michigan.
Adams, H.E.  Spatial and temporal variability of aquatic bacterial productivity.  Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 13 November 2003, University of Michigan.

SERVICE AND OUTREACH

Graduate Representative, Graduate Affairs Committee, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; 2007-2008.
Science Fair Mentor, Scarlett Middle School, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Winter 2007.
Science Fair Judge, Grade 6, Scarlett Middle School, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Winter 2007.
Forensics Science Night Volunteer, Mitchell Elementary School, Ann Arbor, Michigan; 2007
President, GREEBs (Graduate Researchers in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology), University of Michigan; 2006-2007.
Graduate Representative, Admissions Committee, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan; 2005-2006.
High School AP Biology Tutor, 2005-2006.
Graduate Representative, Executive Committee, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan; 2004-2005.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
American Society of Microbiology