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Northland College in Ashland, WI USA
Meeker is a source on wetland vegetation. He is currently involved in multiple wetland vegetation studies. Some of the areas include Voyageurs National Park, Isle Royal National Park, Lake Ontario, Lake Superior, Bad River/Kakagon and the Apostle Islands.
He is also an expert on wild rice. His doctorate work focused on the ecology of wild rice. He is currently researching the impact invasive plant life has on wild rice in Voyageurs National Park. He also published a paper for Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission that looked at the ecology of wild rice.
Meeker is associate professor of natural resources at Northland College in Ashland, Wis. His course load includes The Vegetation of the Great Lakes Region, Vegetation Management, Habitat Sampling and Data Analysis, Wetlands, Woodland Plants and Introduction to Natural Resources. He is currently working on 8 separate research projects. These projects include; restoration of vegetation structure in Voyageurs National Park, aquatic macrophyte monitoring in Isle Royal National Park, assessment and monitoring for vegetation change in Lake Ontario’s coastal wetlands, vegetation characterization in Lake Superior coastal peatlands, Apostle Island wetland monitoring, and northern forest restoration.Meeker has served on the Society for Wetland Scientists, Natural Areas Association, and Michigan Botanical Society. He has been an invited speaker at numerous events including the 10th Annual Wetland Science Forum, the Wisconsin Association of Environmental Educators Fall Forum, Natural Areas Conference, and Lake Superior National Park Research Conference.
Meeker, James E. 2000. The cology of “wild” wild-rice (Zizania palustris var. palustris) in the Kakagon Sloughs, a riverine wetland on Lake Superior, In: Proceedings of the Wild-rice Research and Management Conference, Lisa Williamson, Lisa Dlutkowski and Ann McCammon Soltis, Eds. Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, pp 68-83.Meeker, James E. 1996. Wild-rice and sedimentation processes in a Lake Superior coastal wetland, Wetlands 16: 219-231.Wilcox, Douglas A. and James E. Meeker. 1991. Disturbance effects on aquatic vegetation in regulated and non-regulated lakes in northern Minnesota, Wetlands 12: 192-203.
Restoration of vegetation structure in Voyageurs National Park after modification in water level regulations.
Aquatic macrophyte monitoring in Isle Royal National Park (NPS Great Lakes Network)Assessment and monitoring for vegetation change in Lake Ontario’s coastal wetlands (USGS-BRD).Dunes/swale vegetation characterization in Lake Superior coastal peatlands (US Geological Survey-Biological Resource Division)Structural characteristics of Apostle Island old growth (US Geological Survey-Biological Resource Division)Northern Forest Restoration: exclosure and conifer restoration study (US Environmental Protection Agency-Great Lakes National Program office)Bad River/Kakagon wetland monitoring (Bad River Tribe and The Nature Conservancy)Apostle Island Wetland Monitoring (Apostle Island National Lakeshore)
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Ph.D. (Botany) University of Wisconsin-MadisonTitle: The Ecology of Wild-rice in Riverine SystemsM.S. (Environmental Science) University of Wisconsin-Green BayTitle: The Population Biology of an Endangered SpeciesM.S. (Education) Northern Illinois UniversityB.S. (Geology) Northern Illinois University
Email: jmeeker@northland.edu
Url: http://www.northland.edu
Business phone: 715-682-1550
Address:1411 Ellis AvenueAshland, WI 54806
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