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Emily Shumchenia

Emily Shumchenia
Postdoctoral Fellow
South Lab
emily@gso.uri.edu

Educational Background

B.S. Marine Biology
PhD Oceanography
 Univ. of Rhode Island
Univ. of Rhode Island
 2005
2010

Areas of Specialization

Research

My research focuses on characterizing species-environment relationships at multiple scales in marine benthic ecosystems. The goal of my research is to increase our ecological understanding of the marine benthic environment in order to better inform management activities such as resource inventories, biodiversity/other assessments, monitoring programs, habitat classification, marine spatial planning and ecosystem valuation.

Publications:

Stolt, M., Bradley, M., Turenne, J., Payne, M., Scherer, E., Cichetti, G., King, J., Shumchenia, E., Guarinello, M., Boothroyd, J., Oakley, B., Thornber, C., August, P. 2011. Methods and protocols for mapping shallow subtidal benthic habitats. Journal of Coastal Research 27 (6A), 1- 15.  

Shumchenia, E., King, J. 2010. Comparison of methods for integrating biological and physical data for marine habitat mapping and classification. Continental Shelf Research 30, 1717-1729.
 

Madden, C., Goodin, K., Allee, R., Cicchetti, G., Moses, C., Finkbeiner, M., Soule, J., King, J., Shumchenia, E. 2010. Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard. NOAA and NatureServe. 149 pp.


Shumchenia, E., King, J.. 2010. Evaluation of sediment profile imagery as a tool for assessing coastal water quality. Ecological Indicators 10, 818-825.

Shumchenia, E., King, J. 2010. Assessment of shallow water habitat mapping tools and methods: A pilot study at Fire Island National Seashore. Natural Resource Technical Report NPS/NERO/NRTR - 2010/323. National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado.

Guarinello, M., Shumchenia, E., King, J. 2010. Marine habitat classification for ecosystem-based management: A proposed hierarchical framework. Environmental Management 45, 793-806.

Publications - non-refereed
Shumchenia, E., Pesch, C., Pryor, M., Cicchetti, G., Deacutis, C., Pelletier, M. 2011. Biological condition gradient for Greenwich Bay, Rhode Island: Case study and recommendations. Narragansett Bay Estuary Program and U.S. EPA Atlantic Ecology Division, Narragansett, RI.

Pesch, C., Shumchenia, E., Charpentier, M., Pelletier, M. 2011. Ecological history of Greenwich Bay, Rhode Island. Narragansett Bay Estuary Program and U.S. EPA Atlantic Ecology Division, Narragansett, RI.

Presentations:

Shumchenia, E. 2011. Developing benthic monitoring protocols for offshore renewable energy impacts. Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation Biannual Conference, Daytona Beach, FL.

Shumchenia, E., King, J.. 2011. A benthic habitat heterogeneity map for Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island (talk). Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation Biannual Conference, Daytona Beach, FL.

Shumchenia, E., King, J., LaFrance, M. 2011. Developing a habitat template for offshore benthic habitats of Rhode Island, USA (talk). Annual Science Conference, International Council for Exploration of the Sea, Gdansk, Poland.

Shumchenia, E., King, J., Guarinello, M. 2009. Combined Top-down and Bottom-up Analyses Improve Habitat Classification with NOAA's Coastal Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS) (talk). Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation Biannual Conference, Portland, OR.

Guarinello, M., King, J., Shumchenia, E. 2009. A Case for a Bottom-up Approach to Habitat Classification at Fine Scales of Resolution: Determining spatial scales of ecological relevance in a shallow coastal lagoon (talk). Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation Biannual Conference, Portland, OR.

King, J., Shumchenia, E., Guarinello, M., LaFrance, M. 2009. Habitat mapping from the beach to the shelf: Lessons from Rhode Island mapping projects (talk). Survey Methods for Shallow Water Habitat Mapping in Northeast Department of the Interior Holdings & Estuarine Research Reserves, Durham, NH.

Shumchenia, E., King, J., Guarinello, M., Roman, C., Gibson, C.. 2009. Mapping and classifying shallow-water marine habitats at Fire Island National Seashore, NY (poster). George M.  Wright Society, Portland, OR.