Collecting bay gobies in Morro Bay for my dissertation (circa 1977)
ABBREVIATED CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL HISTORY
Name: Gary David Grossman
Title: Distinguished Research Professor - Animal Ecology
Address: Daniel B. Warnell School of Forest Resources University of Georgia
Telephone: (706) 542-1160
Languages: Castillian Spanish (fluent), French (basic conversation)
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
B.S. in Conservation of Natural Resources; University of California, Berkeley, 1975
Ph.D. in Animal Ecology and Limnology; University of California, Davis, 1979
FACULTY MEMBERSHIP
Graduate Faculty
Warnell School of Forest Resources Faculty
Ecology Faculty
Environmental Ethics Faculty (Friend)
Several founding members of the U.C. Davis Fish Ecology Research Collective: Bottom Row - me, Lynn Decker, Top Row - Bob Daniels, Peter Moyle, and Don Baltz
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Fisheries Society
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
Ecological Society of America
European Ichthyologists Union
North American Benthological Society
Animal Behavior Society
Society for Conservation Biology
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Distinguished Research Professor, Warnell School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. 2004 to present
Professor, Warnell School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. 1992 to 2004
Associate Professor, Warnell School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 1987 to 1992
Assistant Professor, Warnell School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 1981 to 1987
Lecturer, 9-77 to 2-78, Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Sacramento Post Doctoral
Post-Doctoral Researcher, 7-79 to 6-81, University of California, Davis
Lecturer, 1-80 to 6-80, Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Sacramento
COURSES INSTRUCTED
Population Ecology (Grad.), Community Ecology (Grad.),Research Methods in Forest Resources (Grad.), Quantitative Approaches to Conservation Biology (Grad.) Fisheries Biology (Undergrad./Grad.), Ecology (Undergrad.), Biological Conservation (Undergrad.), Fisheries Management (Undergrad.), Fish Ecology (Undergrad/Grad.), Graduate Seminar in Fish Ecology, Graduate Seminar in Community Ecology, Graduate Seminar in Stream Ecology.
CURRENT TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES
Graduate Seminar in Fish Ecology (FORS 8300), 3 units taught annually
INVITED LECTURES
1983
The detection of regulatory processes in ecological communities. Zoological Institute of University of Salzburg, Austria.
Microhabitat utilization in a guild of southeastern USA stream fishes. Limnological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Mondsee, Austria.
The detection of regulatory processes in ecological communities. Zoological Institute of the Universitat Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
1984
The detection of organization in animal assemblages: an empirical and philosophical examination of the concordance technique. Department of General Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
Food resource partitioning: the mechanism of deterministic organization in a rocky intertidal fish assemblage. Department of General Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
Paralomis grossmani (hmmm, why did my only taxonomist friend have to work on crabs)
1985
Assemblage structure and resource utilization in an Appalachian stream fish assemblage. Department of Wildlife & Fisheries Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
Population dynamics of a lightly exploited tilefish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps) substock off Georgia. Department of Wildlife & Fisheries Science. Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
Assemblage organization in a southeastern U.S.A. stream fish assemblage. Institute of Limnology, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden.
Microhabitat selection in a Spanish riverine fish assemblage. Institute of Limnology, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden.
1987
Assemblage organization in a southeastern stream fish assemblage. Department Biological Sciences, University Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS.
Assemblage organization in a southeastern stream fish assemblage. Department Biological Sciences, University California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA.
Dynamics of a southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. Appalachian Environmental Lab, University of Maryland, Frostburg, MD.
1988
Structure and function in a Southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
Structure and function in a Southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. Department of Zoology, University of Maine, Orono, ME.
Structure and function in a Southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. Department of Biology, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC.
Structure and function in a Southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. Institute of Zoology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Population variability in North American stream fish assemblages. Environmental Protection Agency Research laboratory, Duluth, MN.
1991
The regulation of assemblage structure in a stream fish assemblage. USDA Forest Service. Redwood Sciences Lab, Arcata, CA.
Structure and function in a southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. Department of Wildlife & Fisheries Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
1992
Structure and function in a southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. Department of Biology, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC.
1993
Regulation of a southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.
Function and structure of a southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. Department of Biology, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA.
Structure of a southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN.
1994
Organization of a southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. Department of Biologie, Université de Quebec, Trois Rivierés, Quebec.
1999
Structure and function in a southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. Department of Fisheries, Auburn University, Auburn, AL.
2000
Structure and function in a southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. USEPA Research Laboratory, Athens, GA.
2001
Environmental variation and fish assemblage structure in a southern Appalachian stream. Department of Biology, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC.
Author or Acknowledgement? Smith Fellows Post-Doctoral Program, Nature Conservancy Workshop, Lake Tahoe, CA.
2002
Drought, finding a home and nasty neighbors: dynamics of a southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC.
Dynamics of a southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. Laboratoire de Ecologie des Hydrosystemes fluviaux. University Lyon, Lyon, France.
Lessons from 20 years of habitat selection research. Department of Biology, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC.
2003
Determining authorship for scientific publications. Smith Fellows Post-Doctoral Program, Nature Conservancy Workshop, Jackson Hole, WY
International Visitor for Undergraduate Education (first invitee, 3 seminars presented) Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden.
2004
Habitat selection by lotic vertebrates – linking basic ecology and conservation biology. Dept. of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
Why I divorced community ecology and married population ecology. Laboratoire Dynamique de la Biodiversite, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Effects of turbidity on Georgia streams. Master Timber Harvesters Program, Georgia Pacific Corporation.
Reintroduction of native species: behavioral considerations. Georgia Dept. Natural Resources Fisheries Biologists Annual Meeting
2005
Why I divorced community ecology and married population ecology. School Biological Sciences, Kansas State University, Manhattan KS.
Why I divorced community ecology and married population ecology. School Biological Sciences, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC.
Why I divorced community ecology and married population ecology. School Biological Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
2006
Why I divorced community ecology and married population ecology. Dept. Watershed Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, UT
Streams in Eastern forests - Down the rapids in 30 minutes. Eastern Forest Wildlife Summit, Asheville NC
2007
Why I divorced community ecology and married population ecology. Ecology Graduate Program, University California Davis, Davis CA.
Habitat and population regulation in southern stream fishes. River Basin Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
From tulip trees to Tricoptera to trout: how streams work in the southern Appalachians. Tailwater Chapter Trout Unlimited, Clarkesville, GA
From tulip trees to Tricoptera to trout: how streams work in the southern Appalachians. Cohutta Chapter Trout Unlimited, Marietta GA
From tulip trees to Tricoptera to trout: how streams work in the southern Appalachians. Southeastern Chapter Conclave, Federation Fly Fishers, Calloway Gardens, GA
A different view of trout: how streams work in the southern Appalachians. RabunChapter, Trout Unlimited, Clayton, GA
1999 lab meeting with Mark Farr, Kathleen McDaniel, G2, Cathy Gibson, and Bob Ratajczak
SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED
1998
Landscape appraoches to the study of stream fish assemblages (with Pedro Rincon). Ecology of Stream Fishes: State of the Art, Luarca, Spain.
Commuity and population ecology of stream fish assemblages (with Pedro Rincon). Ecology of Stream Fishes: State of the Art, Luarca, Spain.
2000
Mechanistic approaches to habitat selection in fishes (with J.T. Petty). Ecology, Ethology, Evolution and Conservation Biology of Fishes, Athens, GA
HONORS
1979
Honorable Mention, Best Student Paper Award Ecological Research Society, Sacramento, CA.
1981
George Wise Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Tel Aviv (declined in order to accept position at University of Georgia).
1984
Best Student Paper (co-author) at Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society.
1986
Honorable Mention, Best Student Paper Award (co-author) at Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society.
1994
Listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 2nd Ed.
1995
Listed in Who's Who in America.
Listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 3rd Ed. 
1997
Listed in A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers, 1997-1998 edition.
1999
Listed in A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers, 1999-2000 edition.
RESEARCH GRANTS
1982-1983
Population dynamics of unexploited demersal fishes off Georgia. U.S. Dept. Commerce, N.O.A.A. Sea Grant Program, $36,700.
1982-1987
Community regulation in stream fishes and its relation to forest land management. USDA, Forest Service, McIntyre-Stennis Program. $161,000.
1983-1984
Population dynamics of an unexploited tilefish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps) stock off Georgia. U.S. Dept. Commerce, N.O.A.A. Sea Grant Program, $46,000.
1984-1986
Population dynamics of an unexploited tilefish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps) stock off Georgia. U.S. Dept. Commerce, N.O.A.A. Sea Grant Program, $79,900.
1984
Microhabitat utilization in Spanish stream fishes. University of Georgia Faculty Research Grant, $7,500.
1985-1988
Ecological-environmental relationships in some Rio Matarraña fish assemblages. With J. Nadal, Universidad de Barcelona. Joint U.S.-Spanish Committee for Scientific and Technological Cooperation (U.S. State Dept.), $180,000.
1985-1990
Long-term ecological research in forested watersheds at Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, North Carolina. With 15 co-principal investigators. National Science Foundation, $1,824,937.
1987-1988
The effects of rosyside dace (Clinostomus funduloides) on microhabitat use by rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri). USDA Forest Service, $30,000.
1987-1992
Community regulation in streams fishes and its relation to forest land management. USDA, Forest Service, McIntyre-Stennis Program. $195,000 (renewal).
1988-1989
The effects of turbidity on foraging success of rainbow trout. USDA Forest Service. $29 000.
Replacement of brook trout by rainbow trout in the Southeastern USA: a problem analysis. USDA Forest Service, $10,000.
1991-1996
Long-term studies of ecosystem response to disturbance along environmental gradients at Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory. With 17 co-principal investigators. National Science Foundation. $3,100,000.
1992-1997
Community regulations in stream fishes and its relation to forest land management. USDA, Forest Service, McIntire-Stennis program. $227,600.
1996-2001
Long-term studies of disturbances as they affect ecological processes in landscapes of the southern Appalachians. With 32 co-principal investigators. National Science Foundation, $6,030,489.
1997-2002
The regulation of stream fish populations in a forested habitat.USDA, Forest Service, McIntire-Stennis program. $275,000.
2002 - 2006
Effects of trout stocking on native non-game fishes in Georgia. Georgia Dept. Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Division. $138,408.
2002-2008
Ecological consequences of Land Use change in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. With 32 co-principal investigators. National Science Foundation, $6,600,000. (Grossman’s share $242,896 [includes indirect costs]).
2002-2007
Habitat models for management and conservation of stream fishes in southern Appalachian forests. U.S. D.A., Forest Service, McIntire-Stennis program. $379,500 (formula funds).
2002
A study on the use of hydroacoustic and biological surveying to assess fish populations in the Altamaha and MacKay Rivers. $10,000 (Co-PI- Daniela DiIorio)
2003
Effects of Turbidity on Foraging Success of Native Upland Stream Fishes. U.S.E.P.A., Athens branch, $25,000
The effects of inter-vs. intraspecific aggression on the neuroendocrine stress axis. Drs. Matt Grober & Gary Grossman Co-PI’s, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Georgia State University, $30,000
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
University-wide Committees
University Council 1991-1994
Graduate Council 1991-1994
Faculty Grievance Committee 1991-1994, Chair 1993-1994
Graduate Council Faculty Admissions and Retention Committee 1991-1994
Ad-Hoc Committee to Evaluate the Director of the Georgia Museum of Art. 1996
President's Student Judiciary Appeal Hearing Panel 1996-present
School of Forest Resources and Ecology Graduate Group Committees.
Executive Committee (The decision-making responsibilities of this committee include: administration, policy, and graduate admissions and assistantships), Ecology Graduate Group, 1983-1992.
Ad-Hoc Committee on Faculty Evaluations, School of Forest Resources, 1989.
Strategic Planning Committee, School of Forest Resources, 1991.
Convocation Committee, School of Forest Resources, 1983-1992.
Research Review Committee, School of Forest Resources, 1992-present.
Graduate Affairs Committee, 1994-present.
Curriculum Committee, School of Forest Resources, 1982-1983, 1992-1996.
Administrative Committee, School of Forest Resources, 1993-1994, 1995-1996.
Staff Awards Committee 1991-present.
Ad-Hoc Committee for the Evaluation of Faculty EFT's, 1996.
Promotion and Tenure Committee 1997 -1998
Seminar Committee (Chair) 1999-present.
Membership on Committees of Professional Societies
Estuarine Resource Committee, Southern Division, American Fisheries Society, 1985-1987
Animal Care Committee, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 1987-1988.
Board of Governors, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 1987-1990, 1991-1995).
Publications Policy Committee, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 1987- 1990.
Chair, subcommittee on Endowments, Long Range Planning and Finance Committee American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists 1991-1992
Chair, subcommittee on Life Membersips, Long Range Planning and Finance Committee American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists 1992-1993
Long-Range Planning and Finance Committee, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 1991-1994.
Editorial Responsibilities
Editor for ecology, ethology and environmental physiology, for Copeia (Journal of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists), August 1987 to October 1990.
Associate Editor for Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, September 1991-September 1993.
Member of the editorial board of Copeia (Journal of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists) 1985-1987, 1991-1993.
Member, Board of Editors, Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 2002-present.
Member of the editorial board of Ecology of Freshwater Fishes, June 1992-present.
Member of the editorial board of Freshwater Biology, August 1993-present.
