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titleboxELKA PORTER titlebox

professor pictureLecturer

email:eporter@umd.edu
phone:
301.405.8148 (office)
fax:301.314.9358
office:4218 Bio-Psych




Previous Appointments
2006 – 2007
  
Temporary Assistant Professor, Biology Department, American University, Washington, D.C. (Sabbatical Replacement).
Summer 2006   Adjunct Professorial Lecturer, Biology Department, American University, Washington, D.C.
2004 – 2006   Lecturer Biology Department, University of Maryland at College Park.
2000 – 2005   Postdoctoral Investigator, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES). Large-scale interdisciplinary physical, biological, chemical benthic-pelagic coupling experiments.
1999 – 2000   Postdoctoral Investigator, Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES). Developed experimental ecosystems to simulate both high bottom shear stress and realistic water column turbulence levels.

Education
1999   Ph.D., Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Sciences Program. University of Maryland at College Park/Horn Point Laboratory.
1992   Vordiplom and Diplom (M.S. equiv.), Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, Germany. Major: Zoology, minors: Botany, Physical Oceanography. M.S. Thesis at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).
1988   Zwischenprüfung: Biology, (B.S. equiv.), Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, Germany. Majors: Biology and German, Minor: Education.
1987   Zwischenprüfung: German (B.A. equiv.), University of Hamburg, Germany. German, Biology, Education. (I was in a High School teacher’s program to teach Biology and German at the highest level high school in Germany).

Research Interests
Research Expertise. Effect of organisms and water flow on benthic-pelagic coupling processes. Benthic-pelagic coupling. Design and testing of experimental ecosystems. Scaling of water flow/mixing in experimental ecosystems. Bivalve ecology. Larval ecology (M.S. thesis). Animal-plant interactions in aquatic ecosystems. Special interest in interdisciplinary studies; physical – biological – chemical interactions.

Courses Taught
at the University of Maryland
BSCI375   Biological Oceanography
BSCI375Lab   Biological Oceanography Laboratory
BSCI206FC   Chesapeake: A Living Resource
BSCI106   Principles of Biology II Ecology and Evolution (Lecture)
BSCI370   Principles of Evolution

at American University, Washington, DC
Bio240   Oceanography for non-majors
Bio210   General Biology II Ecology and Evolution (Lecture)
Bio220   The Case for Evolution
Bio100   “Great Experiments in Biology” (= General Biology for non majors)

Publications
Porter ET, Mason RP, Sanford LP, Soulen HL (in revision) Effect of tidal resuspension on benthic-pelagic coupling in an experimental ecosystem study. Limnology and Oceanography.

Porter ET, Porter FS, Reardon M, Mason RP (in revision) Feeding by hard clams, Mercenaria mercenaria (L.), under induced tidal resuspension. Marine Biology.

Sanford LP, Suttles SE, Porter ET. (2008) Physical factors: mixing and flow, p. 63-74. In VS Kennedy, WM Kemp, JE Petersen, WC Dennison. Experimental ecosystems and scale: Tools for understanding and managing coastal ecosystems, Springer-Verlag. In press.

Kemp WM, Petersen SE, Houde ED, Chen C-C, Cornwell JC, Porter ET. (2008) Spatial and Temporal Scaling, p. 49-62. In VS Kennedy, WM Kemp, JE Petersen, WC Dennison. Experimental ecosystems and scale: Tools for understanding and managing coastal ecosystems, Springer-Verlag. In press.

Porter ET, Cornwell JC, Sanford LP, Newell RIE. (2008) Biofiltration, water quality, and sediment processes, p. 190-194. In VS Kennedy, WM Kemp, JE Petersen, WC Dennison. Experimental ecosystems and scale: Tools for understanding and managing coastal ecosystems, Springer-Verlag. In press.

Mason R.P, Porter ET. (2008) Toxicity and bioaccumulation in benthic organisms. 203-211. In VS Kennedy, WM Kemp, JE Petersen, WC Dennison. Experimental ecosystems and scale: Tools for understanding and managing coastal ecosystems, Springer-Verlag. In press.

Cornwell JC, Porter ET. (2008) Biogeochemical factors, p. 93-101. In VS Kennedy, WM Kemp, JE Petersen, WC Dennison. Experimental ecosystems and scale: Tools for understanding and managing coastal ecosystems, Springer-Verlag. In press.

Schneider, Porter ET, Baker JE (2007) PCB release from resuspended Hudson River sediment. Environmental Science and Technology 41(4) 1097-1103.

Porter ET, Owens MS, Cornwell JC (2006) Effect of sediment manipulation on the biogeochemistry of experimental sediment systems. Journal of Coastal Research 22(6): 1539-1551.

Kim E-H, Mason RP, Porter ET, Soulen HL (2006) The impact of resuspension on sediment mercury dynamics, and methylmercury production and fate: A mesocosm study. Marine Chemistry 102:300-315.

Porter ET, Cornwell JC, Sanford LP, Newell RIE (2004) Effects of oysters (Crassostrea virginica) and bottom shear velocity on benthic-pelagic coupling and estuarine water quality. Marine Ecology Progress Series 271:61-75.

Porter ET, Sanford LP, Gust G, Porter FS (2004) Combined water column mixing and benthic boundary-layer flow in mesocosms: Key for realistic benthic-pelagic coupling studies. Marine Ecology Progress Series 271:43-60.

Kim E-H, Mason RP, Porter ET, Soulen HS (2004) The effect of resuspension on the fate of total and methyl mercury in sediments. Marine Chemistry 86:121-137.

Porter ET, Sanford LP, Suttles SE (2000) Gypsum dissolution is not a universal integrator of water motion. Limnology and Oceanography. 45(1): 145-158.

Porter ET (1999) Physical and biological scaling of benthic-pelagic coupling in experimental ecosystem studies. Ph.D. Thesis. Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences Program, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.

Thomsen E (1992) The transport of Mercenaria mercenaria [larvae] through a New England estuary. MS (German Diplom) thesis, in English. Christian-Albrechts Universität, Kiel, Germany.