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Stephen Morreale |
Ph.D - Cornell University - 1999
M.A. - State University College at Buffalo - 1982
B.A. - State University College at Buffalo - 1979
Stephen Morreale is a Conservation Ecologist who teaches undergraduate and graduate courses, conducts applied and theoretical research, and heads up several programs that integrate original research and Extension. In addition, he is the Associate Director of Research at Cornell’s Arnot Teaching and Research Forest. He joined the Department of Natural Resources in 1999. His taxonomic expertise is in vertebrates, and especially reptiles and amphibians. Much of his research, which focuses on organisms and populations, incorporates remote-sensing, satellite telemetry, GIS and spatial analyses. All of his research integrates ecological theory and conservation, and is directed toward improving resource management strategies.
Research
His research in the area of Conservation Ecology concentrates on reptiles and amphibians in terrestrial forests and in freshwater and marine ecosystems. He has ongoing research: i) locally at Cornell’s Arnot Forest and other nearby forested sites, focusing on ecosystem enhancements and conservation-oriented forestry methods; ii) regionally at a National Wildlife Refuge studying freshwater turtles, and in coastal New York waters studying the ecology of juvenile sea turtles and the effects of anthropogenic impacts (such as underwater noise); and iii) internationally studying endangered and threatened sea turtles and humpback whales with respect to human activities (such as pelagic longline fishing and whale-watching industries) and the interactions between these and marine ecosystem processes.
Teaching
- NTRES326 (Applied Ecosystem Analysis)
- NTRES494/694 (Field Conservation Ecology)
Selected Publications
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Morreale, S.J. and E.A. Standora. 2005. Western North Atlantic waters: crucial developmental habitat for Kemp’s ridley and loggerhead sea turtles. Chelonian Cons. Biol. 4:870-880.
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Samuel, Y, S.J. Morreale, C.W. Clark, C. H. Greene, and M.E. Richmond. 2005. Underwater low-frequency noise in a coastal sea turtle habitat. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 117:1465-1472.
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Wallace, B.P., C.L. Williams, F.V. Paladino, S. J. Morreale, R.T. Lindstrom, and J.R. Spotila. 2005. Bioenergetics and diving activity of internesting leatherback turtles Dermochelys coriacea at Parque Nacional Las Baulas, Costa Rica. J. Exp. Biol. 208:3873-3884.
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Morreale, S.J., E.A. Standora, J.R. Spotila and F.V. Paladino. 1996. Migration corridor for sea turtles. Nature 384:319-320
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Morreale, S.J., G.J. Ruiz, J.R. Spotila and E.A. Standora.1982. Temperature depen¬dent sex determina¬tion: current practices threaten conservation of sea turtles. Science 216:1245 1247.
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Scribner, K.T., S.J. Morreale, M.H. Smith, and J.W. Gibbons. 1995. Factors contributing to temporal and age-specific genetic variation in the freshwater turtle Trachemys scripta. Copeia (4): 970-977.
- Morreale, S.J., J.W. Gibbons and J.D. Congdon. 1984. Significance of activity and movement in the yellow bellied slider turtle (Pseudemys scripta). Can. J. Zool. 62:1038 1042.
Book:
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Schneider, R.L, M.E. Krasny and S.J. Morreale. 2001. Hands-On Herpetology: Exploring Ecology and Conservation. NSTA Press, Arlington, VA.