Dr. Jameson Chace
- Professor
- Chair, Cultural, Environmental and Global Studies
- Faculty director of community engaged learning
Areas of Expertise
- Ornithology, ecology, environmental science, sustainability
- Research driven by how human impacts on the landscape affect animal populations (especially birds), communities and ecosystems
Education
- B.S. in biology - environmental science, Eastern Connecticut State University (1989)
- M.A. in ecology, University of Colorado Boulder (1995)
- Ph.D. in ecology, University of Colorado Boulder (2001)
What's My Why?
My research is based on creating opportunities for undergraduates to gain experience in field ecology and environmental sciences. I also maintain an active research program in hydroponics and in avian ecology. I spend a lot of time with students in the field – in the forests and wetlands of Aquidneck Island studying bird behavior, along Narragansett Bay studying sea ducks and osprey, measuring water quality in ponds, streams and coastal environments, and on field trips to New Hampshire, Cape Cod, Belize and the Amazon basin of Brazil.
Professional Experience
In addition to being a professor of biology, I also chair the interdisciplinary majors in the Department of Cultural, Environmental and Global Studies. My research is based on creating opportunities for undergraduates to gain experiences in field ecology and environmental sciences. To that end, I have been awarded two National Science Foundation RI-EPSCoR grants related to marine response to climate change and the collaborative Northeast Water Regional Network (Rhode Island, Delaware and Vermont). I also maintain an active research program in hydroponics and in avian ecology. I am the author of over 25 peer-reviewed papers and have given nine papers at national conferences in the past 10 years. All of this work, and its success, is completed with students as partners in the investigation.
Selected Publications
Mermoz, M. E., A. Cruz, J. F. Chace, and J. C. Reboreda. 2021. Shiny Cowbird (Molothrus bonariensis Gmelin, 1788). Chapter 12 in Downs, C. T., and L. A. Hart (eds.) Invasive Birds: Global Trends and Impacts, CABI Inc., NHBS, London. DOI: 10.1079/9781789242065.0011
Mangiante, E.S., C. Pickering, J. Conklin, A. Semerjian, and J. F. Chace. 2019. Engineering a Windowsill Hydroponics System to Grow Lettuce. Science Scope July: 47-59.
Chace, J. F. and A. Cruz. 2018 Host Resource Partitioning Among Sympatric Molothrine Generalist Brood Parasites. Pp 235-250 in, M. Soler (Ed.), Avian Brood Parasitism - Behaviour, Ecology, Evolution and Coevolution, Springer Pub., Switzerland.
Hudson, J. E., D. F. Levia, K. I. Wheeler, C. G. Winters, M. Vaughan, J. F. Chace, S. P. Inamdar, and R. Sleeper. 2018. American beech leaf litter leachate chemistry: effects of geography, senescence, and ageing. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science. doi:10.1002/jpln.201700074
Carmody, L. C., A. Cruz, and J. F. Chace. 2016. Brood Parasitism Defense Behaviors Along and Altitudinal Gradient in the American Robin (Turdus migratorius). Open Ornithology Journal 9:39-49.