Hallett J. Harris

Professor Emeritus, Natural and Applied Sciences

UW-Green Bay ES-105

Green Bay, WI  54311-7001

TELEPHONE:  (920) 465-2796

 

 

EDUCATION:

BA, Biology, Coe College, 1961

M.S., Wildlife Ecology, Iowa State University, 1965

Ph.D., Zoology & Animal Ecology:  (Minor in Plant Ecology), Iowa State University, 1969

 

POSITIONS HELD:

Assistant Professor of Ecosystems Analysis, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 1969-1972

Associate Professor of Science and Environmental Change, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 1972-1983

Professor, 1983 to Present

Chairman, Dept. of Science and Environmental Change, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 1975-1977

Research Coordinator of Green Bay Program, UW Sea Grant Institute, 1978-1986

Director, Institute for Land and Water Studies, 1984 to Present

Onsite Coordinator - USEPA Green Bay Mass Balance Study, 1987-1991

Chairman, Dept. of Natural and Applied Science, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 1996-1999

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

American Institute of Biological Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, The Wildlife Society, Sigma XI - Research Society, Society for Wetland Scientist

 

ARTICLES APPEAR IN THE FOLLOWING JOURNALS:

Journal of Wildlife Management

Biological Conservation

International Journal of Environmental Studies

Environmental Management

Journal of Environmental Management

Ambio

Oceanus

Wetland Ecology and Management

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Environmental Science and Technology

Ecological Economics

Great Lakes Wetlands

 

GRANTS RECEIVED:   $1,100,000  (1972 to present)

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Harris, H.J., C.J. Yarbrough and J.M. Pezzetta.  1974.  Coastal zone management and the bay lake region; the role of the Bay Lake Regional Planning Commission.  Technical Report.  Bay Lake Regional Planning Commission and WI Dept. of Local Affairs and Development. (87 pp)

 

 

 


Harris, H.J., D.R. Talhelm, J.J. Magnuson and A. Forbes.  1982.  Green Bay in the future - A rehabilitative prospectus.  Great Lakes Fishery Commission, Technical Report No. 38, GLFC, 1451 Green Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48105  (59 pp)

 

Harris, H.J., M.S. Milligan and G.A. Fewless.  1983.  Diversity:  Quantification and ecological evaluation in freshwater marshes.  Biological Conservation 27:99-110.

 

Harris, H.J., C.J. Yarbrough, P.E. Sager and S. Richman.  1985.  Ecosystem rehabilitation - a shift toward a different paradigm.  in Papers from the Esturine Management Practices Symposium.  Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  November 12-13.  National Sea Grant College Program, National Marine Fisheries Service

 

Harris, H.J., P.E. Sager, C.J. Yarbrough and H.J. Day.  1987.  Evolution of water resource management:  a Laurentian Great Lakes case study.  Intern. J. Environmental Studies, 19:53-70.

 

Harris, H.J., P.E. Sager, S. Richman, V.A. Harris and C.J. Yarbrough.  1987.  Coupling ecosystem science with management:  a Great Lakes perspective from Green Bay, Lake Michigan, USA.  Environmental Management, 11:619-625.

 

Harris, H.J., V.A. Harris, H.A. Regier and D.J. Rapport.  1988.  Importance of the nearshore area for sustainable redevelopment in the Great Lakes with observations of the Baltic Sea.  Ambio, 17:112-120.

 

Harris, H.J., P.E. Sager, H.A. Regier and G.R. Francis.  1990.  Ecotoxicology and ecosystem integrity:  The Great Lakes examined.  Environmental Science and Technology, 24:598-603.

 

McLaughlin, D.B. and H.J. Harris.  1991.  Aquatic insect emergence in two Great Lakes marshes.  Wetland Ecology and Management, 1:111-121.

 

Harris, H.J., T.C. Erdman, G.T. Ankley, K.B. Lodge.  1993.  Measures of reproductive success and PCB residues in eggs and chicks of Forster=s Tern on Green Bay, Lake Michigan.  Archives of Env. Contam. & Toxicol., 25:304-314.

 

Harris, H.J., R.B. Wenger, V.A. Harris and D.S. DeVault.  1994.  A method of assessing environmental risk:  a case study of Green Bay, Lake Michigan.  Environmental Management, 18:295-306.

 

Harris, H.J. and D. Scheberle.  1998.  Ode to the miners canary:  the search for environmental indicators.  in Environmental Program Evaluation:  A Primer, G. Knapp and J. Kim eds., University of Illinois Press.

 

Wenger, R.B., H.J. Harris, R. Sivanpillai and D.S. DeVault.  1999.  A graph-theoretic analysis of relationships among ecosystem stressors.  Journal of Environmental Management, 57:109-122.

 

Wenger, R.B., H.J. Harris and D.S. DeVault.  2000.  An assessment of ecosystem risks in the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway.  Environmental Management, 25:599-611.

 

Harris, H.J. and V. Klump.  2000.  Fouling up on the farm: Agricultural non-point sources of pollution.  in Voices for the watershed: environmental issues in the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence drainage basin ed. Gregor Gilpin Beck, Bruce Littlejohn McGill, Queen=s University Press.  (299 p.)

 

HONORS:

Kiekhofer-Steiger Award for Excellence in Teaching - UW System, 1972

Northeastern Wisconsin Audubon Society Honorary Member for Research on Environmental Quality, 1988


UW-Green Bay Founders Award for Excellence in Scholarship, 1988

Herbert Fisk Johnson Professorship in Environmental Studies, 1989 to 1994

Green Bay Remedial Action Plan--Recognition Award--Chairman of Toxic and Point Source Advisory Committee, August 1991

Green Bay Mayor=s Committee--Award for Conservation of the Natural Environment, November 1991

 

Collaborators:  D. Swackhamer, H. Regier, J. Magnuson, C. Kraft