Curriculum Vitae – Melvin C. Zimmerman

 

PRESENT POSITION: Professor of Biology, Lycoming College (Holds Lowry Professorship); Director of Lycoming College Clean Water Institute (1999-present); Chair, PA Keystone Stream Team (2003-present)

 

Address: Biology Department, Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA 17701

Telephone: Office - (570) 321-4185

E-mail: zimmer@lycoming.edu

Websites:  Clean Water Institute – www.lycoming.edu/biology/cwi

                Keystone Stream Team – www.keystonestreamteam.org

 

EDUCATION:

B.S. State University of New York - Cortland, 1971
M.S. Miami University (Oxford, Ohio), 1973
Ph.D. Miami University, 1977

Post Doc Fellowship, Cornell University 1978-1979

 

HONORS:

October 2005; one of 6 honorees at a state dinner by PA Governor Rendell for “Lighting the way through positive impact on commonwealth’s environment”

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (partial):

·         Chair Biology Department, 1998-2004

·         Elected Chair Lycoming College, Faculty 2000-2002.

·         Elected Chair Citizens Round Table Advisory Committee, DEP, 2002-2004

·         Chair Keystone Stream Team, 2004-present

·         Board Member Lycoming chapter Audubon Society, 2002-present

·         Member of the Advisory Board for Rider Park, 1992 - present.

·         Member of Project Advisory Committee for North Central PA Conservancy, 1998-preset

·         Chair of Susquehanna River Heartland Coalition for Environmental studies (SRHCES) 2005-present

 

GRANTS (last 5 years):

·         PA Growing Greener Grants 2005-2008,  “Establishment of Lower West Branch Susquehanna  Advisory Group”, - 2 grants at $10,0000 each and a third grant for $6,000 to support Keystone Stream Team projects

·         Growing Greener/319h grant 2004-2006,  “Development of an online data base for National Stream Channel Design for PA”, - $182,000

·         Growing Greener Grant, 2000-2002, “Clean Water Institute for the West Branch Susquehanna”, - $20,500

·         Merck/AAAS Undergraduate Research Grant, 1999-2001, “Leaf Processing in Streams”, $20,000

 

 

PUBLICATIONS (last 5 years):

·         M.C. Zimmerman 2005.  The Clean Water Institute at Lycoming College.  CUR Quarterly vol. 26(2)

·         Gerardi, M.H. and M.C. Zimmerman 2005. Wastewater Pathogens.  Wiley Interscience. N.J.

·         M.C. Zimmerman 2003.  Putting Wetlands to Work.  Environmental Protection, vol. 14(2)

·         M.C. Zimmerman 2003.  De-Bugging Macroinvertebrate QA/QC.  Monitoring Matters, vol. 9(1).

·         M.C. Zimmerman 2002.  Microscopy in Wastewater Analysis.  Chap 3 of Wastewater Biology: The Microlife, Water environment Federation.  2nd ed.

·         M.C. Zimmerman 2002.  Wastewater Parasites.  Chap 11 of Wastewater Biology: The Microlife, Water Environment Federation.  2nd ed.

·         M.C. Zimmerman and M. H. Girardi, 2002.  Cryptosporidium:  A Water Born Protozoan Parasite.  The Keystone Tap.  Spring 2002, P 8-9; 42-49.

·         M.C. Zimmerman 2001.  Treatment Wetlands Chap 6 of Wastewater Biology:  The Habitats, Water Environment Federation.

 

PAPERS PRESENTED AT MEETINGS (16 presentations in the last 4 years), including:

·         135th Annual Meeting of American Fisheries Society, 2005, Anchorage, Alaska

·         Mid Atlantic Highlands Stream Restoration Workshop, 2005, WV

·         50th and 51st Annual Meeting, PA Academy of Science 2004, 2005

·         133rdAnnual Meeting American Fisheries Society, Quebec Canada 2003

·         3rd Volunteer Monitoring Summit.  Feb 2003.  Penn State University

·         Presentation at the Association of State Wetland Managers Training Workshop, Bear mtn. New York, 2003.