Nicole Cormier

Ecologist

Short Biography

I am an Ecologist for the US Geological Survey, National Wetlands Research Center, in Lafayette, Louisiana.  As a support scientist and ecologist, I focus on a project designed to monitor climate change effects in tidally influenced freshwater forested wetlands of the Southeast United States to better understand forest to marsh ecosystem transitions. My responsibilities include field, laboratory, and programming support for forest ecology research.   I received my Master’s from the University of Lousiana at Lafayette in wetland biogeochemistry in 2003.  I then worked for the USDA Forest Service, Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, in Honolulu and Hilo, Hawaii for five years.  I traveled to the Federated States of Micronesia where we conducted studies on coastal foodwebs and mangrove ecosystems.  My research interests include sedimentation, aquatic community structure and foodweb dynamics of mangrove forests, nutrient cycling in tropical streams, typhoon effects on nearshore fisheries, invasive mangrove expansion in the Hawaiian islands, and belowground productivity and nutrient biochemistry of mangrove ecosystems.     

Publications

Krauss, K. W., D. R. Cahoon, J. A. Allen, K.C. Ewel, J. C. Lynch, and N. Cormier. Surface Elevation Change and Susceptibility of Different Mangrove Zones to Sea-Level Rise on Pacific High Islands of Micronesia. Ecosystems, 13:129-143.

Demopoulos, A. W. J.; Cormier, N.; Ewel, K. C.; Fry, B. , 2008. Use of multiple chemical tracers to define habitat use of Indo-Pacific mangrove crab, Scylla serrata (Decapoda: Portunidae). Estuaries and Coasts, 31: 371-381.

Chimner, R., M. Kaneshiro, B. Fry, and N. Cormier. 2006. Current extent and historical expansion of introduced mangroves on Oahu, Hawaii. Pacific Science 60:377-383.

Fry, B., N. Cormier, and A.W. J. Demopoulos. 2009. Adventures in an isotopically ordered world – the chemical ecology of Micronesian mangroves and crabs. In: N. Yoshida, (Ed.), Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Isotopomers, 292 pp. ISI2008-18:50-56.

 

Cormier, N. 2003. Belowground productivity in mangrove forests of Pohnpei and Kosrae, Federated States of Micronesia. Lafayette: University of Louisiana at Lafayette; M.S. thesis. 117p.

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