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Lecturer, Biological Sciences; College of Science and Mathematics

I am a freshwater ecologist specializing in the ecology of human-dominated ecosystems. I am currently studying seasonal succession, resource subsidies and cyanobacterial blooms in impounded streams. I also develop innovative strategies for career development and teaching about the interaction between science, society, and the environment.

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I am a freshwater ecologist specializing in the ecology of human-dominated ecosystems. I am currently studying seasonal succession, resource subsidies and cyanobacterial blooms in impounded streams. I also develop innovative strategies for career development and teaching about the interaction between science, society, and the environment.

2015 - Present	Lecturer, Biological Sciences, Rowan University ‐ College of Science & Mathematics
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Life Sciences, Biology, and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

ecology, environment, pedagogy, and sustainability

Exploring the nature of science with abnormal frogs

Journal of Biological Education (2022)

Nathan Ruhl and Bailey Sanders

The discovery of frog abnormalities by students on a school field trip in 1995 sparked hundreds of scientific studies in ...

Harnessing the Four-Dimensional Ecology Education Framework to redesign an introductory ...

Ecosphere (2022)

Nathan Ruhl, Patrick Crumrine, Jennifer Oberle, Courtney Richmond, et al.

As higher education undergoes rapid and fundamental change, eco-educators need to be prepared to promote the inclusion of the ecological ...

Contribution to Book

Social Phenotypes in Zebrafish

The rights and wrongs of zebrafish: Behavioral phenotyping of zebrafish (2017)

Ana Rita Nunes, Nathan Ruhl, Svante Winberg, Rui F. Oliveira, et al.

Zebrafish are an established model organism in developmental and behavioral neuroscience, also recently emerging as an excellent model to study ...

Contribution to Book

Critically Evaluating Non-Scholarly Sources Through Team-Based Learning

Learner-Centered Teaching Activities for Environmental and Sustainability Studies (2016)

Non-scholarly sources of information (e.g., non-peer-reviewed popular press and mass media articles) have been shown to shape individual opinions about ...

Journal Articles (14)

Climate change and Strawberries: A real-life problem-based activity for teaching ...

Nicole Hopkins, Holly Felker, Catharine Dickerson, Terry O'Brien, et al.

Landform type mediates compositional change in a hurricane-disturbed sub-tropical forest

Ecological Processes (2020)

Robert L. Spicer, Ariel E. Lugo and Nathan Ruhl

Background Categorization of topographical features into landform type is a long-standing method for understanding physiographic patterns in the environment. Differences ...

It's in the bag: Tidal volumes in adult and ...

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine (2020)

Benjamin Dafilou, Daniel Schwester, Nathan Ruhl and Andreia Marques-Baptista

Introduction: A bag valve mask (BVM) is a life saving device used by all levels of health care professionals during ...

Community composition of zooplankton exported from a shallow polymictic reservoir ...

Nathan Ruhl, Desiree Haban, Caitlyn Czajkowski, Michael Grove, et al.

Zooplankton exported from lentic systems provision lotic systems with easily captured, consumed, and assimilated prey items. Previous studies have demonstrated ...

Disturbance‐mediated Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Bloom (CHAB) formation in a ...

Lakes and Reservoirs: Research and Management (2017)

Nathan Ruhl and Nicole Sullivan

Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms (CHABs) in lentic waterbodies are becoming increasingly common because of climate change, changes in water usage ...

Interactions between aggression, boldness and shoaling within a brood of ...

Behavioural Processes (2015)

Sarah Moss, Stephanie Tittaferrante, Gregory P. Way, Ashlei Fuller, et al.

A behavioral syndrome is considered present when individuals consistently express correlated behaviors across two or more axes of behavior. These ...

Sex differences in a shoaling-boldness behavioral syndrome, but no link ...

Behavioural Processes (2015)

Gregory P. Way, Alexis L. Kiesel, Nathan Ruhl, Jennifer L. Snekser, et al.

A behavioral syndrome is observed in a population when specific behaviors overlap at the individual level in different contexts. Here, ...

Spatial variation in the littoral vertebrate community of a reservoir ...

Nathan Ruhl, Jessica J. Soski and Willem M. Roosenburg

Reservoirs possess gradients in conditions and resources along their long (deep-shallow) axis, but the response of littoral vertebrates (fish and ...

Applying a reservoir functional-zone paradigm to littoral bluegills: differences in ...

Nathan Ruhl, Holly DeAngelis, Abigale M. Crosby and Willem M. Roosenburg

Reservoirs exhibit gradients in conditions and resources along the transition from lotic to lentic habitat that may be important to ...

Behavioural syndromes and shoaling: connections between aggression, boldness and social ...

Behaviour (2012)

Scott P. McRobert, Alexis L. Kiesel, Jennifer L. Snekser and Nathan Ruhl

The Influence of Sex and Phenotype on Shoaling Decisions in ...

International Journal of Comparative Psychology (2010)

Jennifer L. Snekser, Nathan Ruhl, Kristoffer Bauer and Scott P. McRobert

Shoaling preferences and the effects of sex ratio on spawning ...

Lab Animal (2009)

Nathan Ruhl, Scott P. McRobert and Warren J. S. Currie

Shoaling preferences of two common killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus and F ...

Behavioural Processes (2009)

Carrie Blakeslee, Nathan Ruhl, Warren Currie and Scott McRobert

Phosphorus loadings associated with a park tourist attraction: limnological consequences ...

Environmental Management (2007)

Andrew M. Turner and Nathan Ruhl

Are Humans Natural? Part 4: Human-Nature Relational Values through Time

Open Educational Resources (2020)

Nathan Ruhl and Sirena Pimenta

This activity assumes students have a background in evolutionary theory, so students without such a background should have additional instruction ...

Are Humans Natural? Part 2: Exploring Human-Nature Relational Values and ...

Open Educational Resources (2019)

This learning module is part of a series of modules that seeks to help students develop human-nature relational values. Relational ...

Are Humans Natural? Part 3: Nature Relatedness and the American ...

Open Educational Resources (2019)

Nathan Ruhl and Taylor Dobson

This learning module is part of a series of activities designed to encourage students to develop relational values with nature. ...

Are humans natural? Exploring relational values in the human-nature relationship ...

Open Educational Resources (2018)

This learning module is a three-part series of learning activities focused around the following themes: The words “nature” and “natural” ...

The Lotic-Lentic Gradient in Reservoirs and Estuaries

Student Posters (6)

Correlation Matrices of Cyanobacterial Bloom Predictors Varies Between Lakes

Biology Student Symposium Posters (2020)

Jessica E. Torrey, Shemaiah S. Sotrah, Michael Grove, Courtney E. Richmond, et al.

Under anthropogenically-altered conditions, cyanobacteria may form harmful algal blooms (cHABs) that can be toxic and disrupt ecosystem function. Developing tools ...

Ecological Thresholds and Environmental Indicators of the Density of Zooplankton ...

Biology Student Symposium Posters (2020)

Dominic A. Ruggiero, Michael Grove, Courtney E. Richmond and Nathan Ruhl

Zooplankton export from a reservoir is an important indicator of resources in the lotic system below the reservoir and is ...