Department of Biological Sciences
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI
Email: GFORRESTER@URI.EDU

Project:          Ecological Consequences of Alternative Abandonment Strategies for POCS Offshore Facilities and   

                                                        Implications for Policy Development

 

Education:             B.S.                   Zoology, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, U.K.                                1985

                                M.S.                 Zoology, University of Sydney, Australia                                                           1988

                                Ph.D.                Zoology, University of New Hampshire                                                             1992

 

Positions:              1999-Present   Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island

                                1995-1999        Assistant Professor, Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology and Evolution, University of California, Los Angeles

                                1993-95            Postdoctoral Research, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara

                                1992                  Statistical Consultant, Ithaca College

                                1991                  Research Associate, Arizona State University

                                1985                  Research Technician, University of Wales

 

Distinctions:        1998                  Faculty Career Development Award, University of California, Los Angeles

                                1997                  Mildred Mathias award for top rated natural science proposal to UCMEXUS Program

                                1991-92            Dissertation Fellowship, University of New Hampshire

                                1989                  Stoye Award

                                1989-1990        Summer Graduate Fellowships, University of New Hampshire

                                1986-88            University Postgraduate Research Scholarship, University of Sydney

 

Selected Publications: 

Forrester, G.E and S.E. Swearer. Quantifying the use of different nursery habitats by juvenile California halibut through the analysis of trace-elements in otoliths.  Limnology and Oceanography (in review). 

O'Bryan, L.M. and G.E. Forrester.  Horizontal distributions of Chaoborus punctipennis:  documentation of patterns and tests of moonlight as a proximal controlling factor.  Hydrobiologia (in review).

Steele, M.A. and G.E. Forrester. Early post-settlement predation on three reef fishes: effects on spatial patterns of abundance.  Ecology (in review).

Steele, M.A., McClean, A.M., Malone, J.C., Forrester, G.E., and M.H. Carr. A test for limitation of population size by larval supply in the kelp bass (Paralabrax clathratus).  Oecologia (in review).

Swearer, S.E., Forrester, G.E., Steele, M.A., Brooks, A.J., and D.W. Lea.  2003.  Spatio-temporal and interspecific variation in otolith trace-elemental fingerprints in a temperate estuarine fish assemblage. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (in press).

Forrester, G.E., and S.E. Swearer. 2002. Trace elements in otoliths indicate the use of open-coast versus bay nursery habitats by juvenile California halibut. Marine Ecology Progress Series 241: 201-213.

Forrester, G.E., Vance, R.R., and M.A. Steele.  2002. Simulating Large-Scale Population Dynamics Using Small-Scale Data.  Invited chapter in Coral Reef Fishes: Dynamics and Diversity in a Complex Ecosystem, P.F.  Sale (editor), pp. 275-301.  Academic Press.

Steele, M.A. and G.E. Forrester. 2002. Early postsettlement predation on three reef fishes: effects on spatial patterns of recruitment. Ecology 83(4): 1076-1091.

Steele, M.A. and G.E. Forrester. 2002. Variation in the relative importance of sublethal effects of predators and competitors on growth of a temperate reef fish. Marine Ecology Progress Series 237: 233-245.

Steele, M.A., Malone, J.C., Findlay, A.M., et al. 2002. A simple method for estimating larval supply in reef fishes and a preliminary test of population limitation by larval delivery in the kelp bass (Paralabrax clathratus). Marine Ecology Progress Series 235: 195-203.

Forrester, G.E. and M.A. Steele. 2000.Variation in the presence and cause of density-dependent mortality in three species of reef fishes.  Ecology 81(9): 2416-2427.

Holbrook, S.J., Forrester, G.E., and R.J. Schmitt. 2000. Spatial patterns in abundance of damselfish reflect availability of suitable habitat.  Oecologia 122(1): 109-120.

Forrester, G.E. 1999. The influence of adult density on the settlement of larval coral reef fish (Coryphopterus glaucofraenum). Coral Reefs 18: 85-89.

Forrester, G.E., Dudley, T.L.,  and N.B. Grimm. 1999. Trophic interactions in open systems:  influences of predators and nutrients on food chains in streams.  Limnology and Oceanography 44: 1187-1197.

Malone, J.M., Forrester, G.E., and M.A. Steele. 1999. Effects of subcutaneous microtags on the growth, survival and vulnerability to predation of small reef fishes.  Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 237: 243-253.

Steele, M.A., Forrester, G.E., and G.R. Almany. 1998. Influences of predators and conspecifics on recruitment of a tropical and temperate reef fish.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 172: 115-125.

O’Bryan, L.M. and G.E. Forrester. 1997. Effects of fish presence and simulated moonlight gradients on night-time horizontal movements of a predatory zooplankter (Chaoborus punctipennis).  Journal of Plankton Research 19(10): 1441-1453. 

Forrester, G.E. 1995. Strong density-dependent survival and recruitment regulate the abundance of a coral reef fish.  Oecologia. 103: 275-182.

Douglas, P.L., Forrester, G.E., and S.D. Cooper. 1994. Effects of trout on the diel periodicity of drifting in baetid mayflies. Oecologia 98(1): 48-56. 

Forrester, G.E. 1994. Diel patterns of drift by five species of mayfly at different levels of fish predation.  Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 51(11): 2549-2557. 

Forrester, G.E. 1994. Influences of predatory fish on drift dispersal and local density of stream insects.  Ecology 75(5): 1208-1222. 

Forrester, G.E., Chace, J.G., and W. McArthy. 1994. Diel and density-related changes in food consumption and prey selection by brook trout in a New Hampshire stream. Environmental Biology of Fishes 39(3): 310-311.

Sale, P.F., Forrester, G.E., and P.S. Levin. 1994. The fishes of coral reefs-ecology and management.  National Geographic Research and Exploration 10(2): 225-235. 

Forrester, G.E. 1991. Social rank, individual size and group composition as determinants of food consumption by humbug damselfishes (Aruanus spp.).  Animal Behaviour 42(5): 701-711. 

Forrester G.E. 1990. Factors influencing the juvenile demography of a coral-reef fish.  Ecology 71(5): 1666-1681.

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