Home , Go Back to faculty page MARK B. EDLUND PhD, 1998, University of Michigan Adjunct Faculty St. Croix Watershed Research Station Science Museum of Minnesota You can email Dr. Edlund at mbedlund@smm.org

Research Interests

    My research interests have developed around diatoms, a group of microscopic algae. I use diatoms to pursue these research areas:

1. Historical environmental change—paleolimnology, climate change, anthropogenic impacts;
2. Use of sediment records for biomonitoring;
3. Biodiversity in ancient lakes and landscapes; and
4. Life history strategies.

Professional Society Memberships

• Phycological Society of America
• International Phycological Society
• International Society for Diatom Research
• International Association for Great Lakes Research

Selected Publications

• Bixby, R.J., Edlund, M.B. and Stoermer, E.F. (2005) Hannaea superiorensis sp. nov., an endemic diatom from the Laurentian Great Lakes. Diatom Research 20: 227-240.
• Edlund, M. B. (in press).500,000 years of persistent low plankton diversity within the highly diverse Lake Baikal ecosystem.  Nova Hedwigia, Beihefte
• Wolfe, A. P. and Edlund, M. B. 2005. Taxonomy, phylogeny, and paleoecology of Eoseira wilsonii gen. et sp. nov., a middle Eocene diatom (Bacillariophyceae: Aulacoseiraceae) from lake sediments at Horsefly, British Columbia, Canada.  Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 42: 243-257.
• Edlund, M. B., Soninkhishig, N. and Stoermer, E. F. (in press) The diatom (Bacillariophyta) flora of Lake Hovsgol National Park, Mongolia.  In Goulden, C., Sitnikova, T., Gelhaus, J., and Boldgiv, B. (eds)  The Geology, Biodiversity and Ecology of Lake Hovsgol (Mongolia).  Backhuys Publishers, Leiden.
• Edlund, M. B., Williams, R. M. and Soninkhishig, N. 2003. The planktonic diatom diversity of ancient Lake Hovsgol, Mongolia.  Phycologia 42:232-260.
• Soninkhishig, N., Edlund, M. B. and Peck, J. A. 2003. Diatom-based paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Lake Telmen for the last 6230 years.  Mongolian Journal of Biological Sciences 1(1):55-68.
• Edlund, M. B., Soninkhishig, N., Williams, R. M. and Stoermer, E. F. 2001. Biodiversity of Mongolia:  Checklist of diatoms, including new distributional reports of 31 taxa.  Nova Hedwigia 72:59-90.
• Edlund, M. B. and Stoermer, E. F. 2000. A 200,000-year, high-resolution record of diatom productivity and community makeup from Lake Baikal shows high correspondence to the marine oxygen-isotope record of climate change.  LimnologyandOceanography 45:948-962.
• Edlund, M. B., Taylor, C. M., Schelske, C. L. and Stoermer, E. F. 2000. Thalassiosira baltica (Bacillariophyta), a new exotic species in the Great Lakes.  CanadianJournalofFisheriesandAquaticSciences 57:610-615.
• Brandriss, M. E., O'Neil, J. R., Edlund, M. B. and Stoermer, E. F. 1998. Oxygen isotope fractionation between diatomaceous silica and water.  Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 62:1119-1125.
• Edlund, M. B. and Stoermer, E. F. 1997. Review: Ecological, evolutionary, and systematic significance of diatom life histories.  Journal of Phycology 33:897-918.

Recent Research Support

• 2005-4 Minnehaha Creek Watershed District, "Diatom-based Phosphorus Reconstructions on Sediment Cores from Lakes in the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District"
• 2005-3 National Park Service-WRD, "Using Wetland Environmental Histories to Develop Management Strategies for the St. Croix Riverway"
• 2005-2 USGS-NRPP Program, "Determining the Historical Impact of Water-level Management on Lakes in Voyageurs National Park"
• 2005-1 National Park Service, Great Lakes Network, "Biomonitoring prospects for diatoms and paleolimnology in the Western Great Lakes National Parks"
• 2004-1 Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, "Using Diatom-based Analysis of Sediment Records from Central Minnesota Lakes for Determining Nutrient Criteria"
• 2003-1 NSF, Biodiversity Surveys & Inventories Program, "The diatoms, ostracodes, and chironomids of western Mongolia's saline lakes: Biodiversity, ecology, and research applications"