Biographical Information / CV
Dr. Paul E. Brunkow


This page contains information about my background and my activities at SIUE. A recent copy of my CV can be downloaded by clicking here; most of the information in my CV is summarized by following the links below.

  • Education
  • Professional Employment
  • Research Interests
  • Courses Taught
  • Grants/Contracts/Support
  • Publications
  • Meeting Presentations
  • Student Meeting Presentations
  • Service Committees


    • EDUCATION
  • University of Washington B.S. - Zoology 1988
  • Arizona State University Ph.D. - Zoology 1996


    PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
  • Arizona State University: Teaching/Research Assistant 8/89-5/96
  • Arizona State University: Postdoctoral Res. Associate 5/96-8/97
  • Arizona State University: Faculty Associate 6/96-12/96
  • Arizona State University West: Faculty Associate 7/96-8/96
  • Southern Illinois University Edwardsville: Assistant Professor 8/97-7/04
  • Southern Illinois University Edwardsville: Associate Professor 8/04-Present


    PRIMARY RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Aquatic Ecology; Ecology of Freshwater Snails, Fishes and Amphibians
  • Evolutionary and Behavioral Ecology
  • Ecomorphology of Freshwater Snails


    COURSES TAUGHT
    Arizona State University
  • BIO 415: Biometry (Introductory Statistics); sole instructor for class of 45 students, with two laboratory sections and two TAs.
  • BIO 330: Ecology and Conservation; sole instructor for class of 36 students (non-biology majors).
  • BIO 182: Introductory Biology; co-instructor for class of 10 incoming freshmen and high school senior minority students, as part of the Math and Science Honors Summer Program.
  • BIO 591: Teaching Biology; replacement instructor for class of 13 incoming graduate teaching assistants.
  • Teaching Associate for: BIO 100, Introductory Biology (non-majors); BIO 415, Biometry; ZOL 412, Wildlife Population Management; ZOL 350, Invertebrate Zoology.

    Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville
  • BIOL 120: Introductory Biology (majors). Instructor and laboratory coordinator for 190+ enrollment course, 9 laboratory sections, and three graduate TAs.
  • BIOL 111: Introductory Biology (non-majors). Instructor for 50+ enrollment course.
  • BIOL 591, 593: Research in Biology (graduate). Supervising graduate students in weekly readings, discussions, and primary research.
  • BIOL 485/585: Ichthyology (lecture and laboratory) (graduate and undergraduate).
  • BIOL 480: Animal Behavior (lecture and laboratory) (graduate and undergraduate).
  • BIOL 417: Biometry (Quantitative Methods in Experimental Biology) (graduate and undergraduate).
  • BIOL 466: Terrestrial Ecosystems (lecture) (graduate and undergraduate)
  • BIOL 596: Topics in Organismic Biology. Required seminar for graduate students.
  • BIOL 491, 493: Topics in Biology. Supervised numerous undergraduates for independent research credit earned while working in my laboratory.
  • BIOL 492, 497: Biological Sciences Senior Assignment

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    GRANTS, CONTRACTS, AND OTHER SUPPORT
    Arizona State University
  • Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society- 1991, 1992
  • American Museum of Natural History (Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Fund)- 1991, 1992
  • Graduate Student Association Research Development Program, ASU - 1993
  • American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (Gaige Fund Award) - 1994
  • "Effects of terrestrial grazers on freshwater habitats." 1996. Arizona Game and Fish Department. $28,000 (with J. P. Collins).
  • "Effects of size variability and density on pen culture of bonytail chub (Gila elegans)." 1996. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. $9000 (with J. P. Collins).

    Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville
  • "Faunal survey of the Lake Wappapello Project Area, southeast Missouri." 2002 - 2004. US Army Corps of Engineers. $144,000 (with J.A. Schaefer)
  • "Role of the Illinois Wildlife Enhancement Bonus Program in conservation of wildlife habitat." 2001 - 2002. Illinois Department of Natural Resources. $1075
  • "Effects of human activity on bird microhabitat use in an Illinois state nature preserve." 2001 - 2002. Illinois Department of Natural Resources. $850
  • "Lead contamination and Ozark stream fishes." 1999 - 2001. International Center for Tropical Ecology, University of Missouri - St. Louis. $20,000
  • "Effects of flooding on salamanders in the Horseshoe Lake Conservation Area." 1998 - 1999. US Department of Agriculture (Illinois Groundwater Consortium). $65,000.

    Internal Grants and Awards - SIUE
  • 2006. Summer Research Fellowship, SIUE Graduate School; Sabbatical Leave
  • 2005. State Matching Award, SIUE Graduate School
  • 2004. SIUE University Teaching Recognition Award
  • 2004. State Matching Award, SIUE Graduate School
  • 2004. Summer Research Fellowship, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
  • 1998 - 2001. Summer Research Fellowships, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
  • 2000. Research Equipment Matching Funds award, SIUE Graduate School ($7100)

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    PUBLICATIONS (* = publications with students)
  • *Tryfonas, A. E., J.K. Tucker, P.E. Brunkow, K.A. Johnson, H.S. Hussein, and Z.-Q. Lin. 2006. Metal accumulation in eggs of the red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) in the Lower Illinois River. Chemosphere 63:39 - 48.

  • *Brunkow, P.E., and T.A. Cochran. 2005. Evolution of honest signaling. In: CD_ROM Laboratory Exercise Supplement to Alcock, J. Animal Behavior. 8th Edition. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA.

  • *Brunkow, P. E., J. L. Badasch, and P. A. Herman. 2000. Decline of salamander populations due to the great flood of 1993? Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science, Supplement Vol. 93: 72.

  • *Herman, P. A., and P. E. Brunkow. 2000. Fluctuating asymmetry in fish from a lead-contaminated Ozark stream. Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science, Supplement Vol 93: 91.

  • *Brunkow, P. E., J. L. Badasch, and P. A. Herman. 2000. Effects of flooding on salamanders in the Horseshoe Lake State Conservation Area. Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference of the Illinois Groundwater Consortium. pp. 111 - 124.

  • Brunkow, P.E. 1999. The Science of Declining Amphibian Populations. Pp. 72 - 76 In: Speziale, B.J., W. H. Leonard, and J. E. Penick, eds. Biology: A Community Context. South-Western Educational Publishing, Cincinnati, Ohio.

  • *Sowka, P. A., and P. E. Brunkow. 1999. Cage culturing the endangered bonytail. North American Journal of Aquaculture 61: 326 - 330.

  • Brunkow, P. E. 1999. Effects of the 1993 flood on salamanders in southern Illinois. Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of the Illinois Groundwater Consortium. April 1, 1999. Carbondale, Illinois. pp. 126 - 134.

  • Brunkow, P.E., and J.P. Collins. 1998. Group size structure affects patterns of aggression in larval salamanders. Behavioral Ecology 9: 508-514.

  • Brunkow, P.E., and J.P. Collins. 1996. Effects of individual variability in size on growth and deveopment of larval tiger salamanders. Ecology 77: 1483-1492.

  • Holomuzki, J.R., J.P. Collins, and P.E. Brunkow. 1994. Trophic control of fishless ponds by tiger salamander larvae. Oikos 71: 55-64.

  • Allison, L.J., P.E. Brunkow, and J.P. Collins. 1994. An exceptional life history trait in tiger salamanders: opportunistic breeding after summer rains. Great Basin Naturalist 54: 376-379.

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    MEETING PRESENTATIONS (* = presentations with student authors)
  • *Brunkow, P., and S. Calloway. 2005. Plasticity as phenotype: G x E interaction in a freshwater snail. North American Benthological Society Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana
  • *Brunkow, P., and S. Calloway. 2005. Plasticity as phenotype: G x E interaction in a freshwater snail. Illinois State Academy of Science meeting, Galesburg, Illinois.
  • *Novak, D., R. Brugam, W. Retzlaff, and P. Brunkow. 2005. Heat budget of a southwestern Illinois impoundment. Illinois State Academy of Science meeting, Galesburg, Illinois.
  • *Wiechert, M., Z. Lin, R. Brugam, P. Brunkow, and W. Retzlaff. 2005. Active and passive air sampling at Horseshoe Lkae, Madison County, Illinois, for lead, arsenic, and zinc. Illinois State Academy of Science meeting, Galesburg, Illinois.
  • *Brunkow, P.E., and B.R. Bunchman. 2004. Effect of human activity on mammalian diversity aorund a flood control reservoir in southeastern Missouri. Ecological Society of America meeting, Portland, Oregon.
  • *Brunkow, P.E., and L. Carraher. 2004. Biometric information in the eyes of mosquitofish? Illinois State Academy of Science meeting, Charleston, Illinois.
  • *Brunkow, P.E., and L.A. Bauer. 2003. Algal growth and flow resistance in a freshwater snail. Ecological Society of America meeting, Savannah, Georgia.
  • *Rehmann, A.A., L. Perkins, E. Abusharbain, P. Brunkow, and W. Retzlaff. 2003. The correlation between participation of students in outdoor environmental education and student environmental literacy. Illinois State Academy of Science meeting, Normal, Illinois.
  • *Brunkow, P.E., and A. J. Manuel. 2002. Genetics of phenotypic plasticity in a freshwater snail. Ecological Society of America meeting, Tucson, AZ.
  • *Brunkow, P.E., and P.A. Herman. 2001. Fluctuating asymmetry in stonerollers from streams of varying lead contamination history. Ecological Society of America meeting, Madison, WI.
  • *Brunkow, P. E., J. L. Badasch, and P. A. Herman. 2000. Effects of flooding on salamanders in southern Illinois. Ecological Society of America meeting, Snowbird, Utah.
  • *Brunkow. P. E., J. L. Badasch, and P. A. Herman. 2000. Decline of salamander populations due to the great flood of 1993? Illinois State Academy of Science meeting, Rock Island, Illinois.
  • Brunkow, P.E. and J. Nagy. 1999. Predicting effects of individual variation at population and community levels. Ecological Society of America meeting, Spokane, Washington.
  • *Brunkow, P.E. and P.A. Sowka. 1998. Effects of stocking density and size variability on growth and survival of cage-cultured bonytail chub. Joint American Society of Limnology and Oceanography and Ecological Society of America meeting, St. Louis, Missouri.
  • Brunkow, P.E., and J.P. Collins. 1997. Effects of size variability in a top predator on a temporary pond community. Ecological Society of America. Albuquerque, New Mexico.
  • Brunkow, P.E., and J.P. Collins. 1997. The ecology of temporary ponds as affected by sediment disturbance. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Seattle, Washington.
  • Brunkow, P.E. and J.P. Collins. 1996. Group size structure affects patterns of aggression in larval tiger salamanders. Animal Behaviour Society. Flagstaff, Arizona.
  • Brunkow, P.E., and J.P. Collins. 1996. Who's top (water)dog? Group size structure affects patterns of aggression in larval tiger salamanders. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. New Orleans, Louisiana.
  • Brunkow, P.E., and J.P. Collins. 1995. Effects of variability in body size on growth and development of larval tiger salamanders. Ecological Society of America. Snowbird, Utah.
  • Brunkow, P.E. 1994. Effects of sediment disturbance on a temporary pond community. Southwestern Association of Biologists. Ghost Ranch, New Mexico.
  • Brunkow, P.E. 1993. Variability in the relationship between body size and diet in larval Ambystoma. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Austin, Texas.
  • Maret, T.J., J.P. Collins, P.E. Brunkow, and R.E. Ziemba. 1995. The effect of habitat alteration on mountain treefrogs: a model of how permanent ponds can provide a refuge for predators. Symposium on Declining Amphibians. Phoenix, Arizona.
  • Collins, J.P., P.E. Brunkow, T.J. Maret, and R.E. Ziemba. 1995. Hybridization and amphibian conservation: the distinctive biology and current status of an isolated subspecies of salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum stebbinsi, along the borderlands of Arizona and Sonora. Symposium on Declining Amphibians. Phoenix, Arizona.

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    STUDENT MEETING PRESENTATIONS (presentations by students under my supervision or advisement) (* = SIUE student)
  • *Barrow, S., J. Holomuzki, and P. Brunkow. 2005. Morphological variation in the New Zealand mud snail, Potamopyrgus antipodarum. North American Benthological Society meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana.
  • *Barrow, S., J. Holomuzki, and P. Brunkow. 2005. Morphological variation in the New Zealand mud snail, Potamopyrgus antipodarum. Illinois State Academy of Science meeting, Galesburg, Illinois. (award for Best Student Poster).
  • *Calloway, S., *A. Bookhout, and P. Brunkow. 2004. Plasticity of predator avoidance in a freshwater snail. Ecological Society of America meeting, Portland, Oregon.
  • *Bunchman, B., and P. Brunkow. 2004. Effect of human activity on mammalian diversity around a flood control reservoir in southeastern Missouri. Illinois State Academy of Science meeting, Charleston, Illinois.
  • *Calloway, S., *A. Bookhout, and P. Brunkow. 2004. Predator avoidance plasticity in a freshwater snail. Illinois State Academy of Science meeting, Charleston, Illinois.
  • *Hedrick, V., and P. Brunkow. 2004. Avian response to human trail use in two forested preserves in central Illinois. Illinois State Academy of Science meeting, Charleston, Illinois.
  • *Durbin, K., P. Brunkow, and *S. Burns. 2003. Food web manipulation of a hypereutrophic lake. Ecological Society of America meeting, savannah, Georgia.
  • *Hedrick, V., and P. Brunkow. 2003. Effect of human intrussion on bird behavior in an Illinois nature preserve. Ecological Society of America meeting, Savannah, Georgia.
  • *Durbin, K., P. Brunkow, and *S. Burns. 2003. Use of food web manipulation to restore a degraded reservoir. Illinois State Academy of Science meeting, Normal, Illinois.
  • *Bauer, L., and P. Brunkow. 2003. Effects of algal growth on flow resistance in a freshwater snail. Illinois State Academy of Science meeting, Normal, Illinois.
  • *Manuel, A.M., and P. Brunkow. 2002. Genetics of phenotypic plasticity in a freshwater snail. Illinois State Academy of Sciences meeting, Edwardsville, IL (award for Best Student Poster).
  • *Durbin, K., P. Brunkow, and *L. Bauer. 2002. Relationships between foot shape and shell shape in two freshwater snails. Illinois State Academy of Sciences meeting, Edwardsville, IL.
  • *Hedrick, V., and P. Brunkow. 2002. Effects of human recreation on bird species in an Illinois state nature preserve. Illinois State Academy of Sciences meeting, Edwardsville, IL.
  • *Durbin, K. and P. Brunkow. 2002. Foot shape and shell shape in a freshwater snail. Ecological Society of America meeting, Tucson, AZ.
  • *Hedrick, V. and P. Brunkow. 2002. Response of bird species to human presence and recreation in a nature preserve. Ecological Society of America meeting, Tucson, AZ.
  • *Gann, V.A., P.E. Brunkow, *T. Marriage, *K. Kahl, *C. Jones, K.E. Schulz, and J. Zasada. 2001. Effects of simulated herbivory and light on growth and reproductive allocation in Dirca palustris (Eastern leatherwood). Ecological Society of America meeting, Madison, WI.
  • *S. Burns, *K. Weiss, and P. Brunkow. 2001. Effects of shell orientation on resistance to crushing in freshwater snails. Illinois State Academy of Sciences meeting, Macomb, IL.
  • *P.A. Herman, and P.E. Brunkow. 2001. Developmental stability of fish from regions of varying lead contamination in the Ozark mountains. Illinois State Academy of Sciences meeting, Macomb, IL.
  • *K. Victory, M. Smith, R. Pearson, M. Starr, and P. Brunkow. 2001 An exclusionary approach to modeling Boltonia decurrens, a federally listed wetland plant. Illinois State Academy of Sciences meeting, Macomb, IL.
  • *Gann, V., P. Brunkow, *T. Marriage, *K. Kahl, and *C. Jones. 2001. Growth and reproductive allocation responses to simulated herbivory and light conditions in Dirca palustris (Eastern leatherwood). Illinois State Academy of Sciences meeting, Macomb, IL.
  • *Herman, P. A., and P. E. Brunkow. 2000. Lead contamination and fluctuating asymmetry in Ozark stream fish. Ecological Society of America meeting, Snowbird, Utah.
  • *Herman, P. A., and P. E. Brunkow. 2000. Fluctuating asymmetry in fish from a lead-contaminated Ozark stream. Illinois State Academy of Science meeting, Rock Island, Illinois.
  • *Herman, P.A., *S.M. Welch, and P.E. Brunkow. 1999. Morphological variation of sunfish in a vegetation-free reservoir. Illinois State Academy of Science meeting, Carbondale, Illinois.
  • *Herman, P.A., *S.M. Welch, and P.E. Brunkow. 1999. Morphological variation of sunfish in a vegetation-free reservoir. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists meeting, College Station, Pennsylvania.
  • *Herman, P.A., *S.M. Welch, and P.E. Brunkow. 1999. Morphological variation of sunfish in a vegetation-free reservoir. Ecological Society of America meeting, Spokane, Washington.
  • *Dumey, C.M., *E.J. Wonnacott, and P.E. Brunkow. 1999. Size-dependent competition, fecundity, and trematode infection rate in a freshwater snail. Illinois State Academy of Science meeting, Carbondale, Illinois.
  • *Dumey, C.M., *E.J. Wonnacott, and P.E. Brunkow. 1999. Size-dependent competition, fecundity, and trematode infection rate in a freshwater snail. Ecological Society of America meeting, Spokane, Washington.
  • *Badasch, J., *H. Richardson, and P.E. Brunkow. 1999. Effects of social isolation stress on immune system parameters in sunfish. Illinois State Academy of Science meeting, Carbondale, Illinois.
  • *Badasch, J., *H. Richardson, and P.E. Brunkow. 1999. Effects of social isolation stress on immune system parameters in sunfish. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists meeting, College Station, Pennsylvania.
  • *Badasch, J., *H. Richardson, and P.E. Brunkow. 1999. Effects of social isolation stress on immune system parameters in sunfish. Ecological Society of America meeting, Spokane, Washington.
  • Linda, S., and P.E. Brunkow. 1997. Laboratory manipulations of skin pigmentation and the effects on larval fitness in tiger salamanders. Ecological Society of America. Albuquerque, New Mexico.
  • Seddon, J.A., P.E. Brunkow, E.W. Davidson, and J.P. Collins. 1997. Behavioral fever in salamanders (Ambystoma tigrinum nebulosum): the establishment and effect on survival. Ecological Society of America. Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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    SERVICE COMMITTEES
    Arizona State University
  • Graduate Program Committee. Department of Zoology, Arizona State University. 1992 -1993.
  • Graduate Council. Graduate College, Arizona State University. 1994 - 1995.
  • Search committee for Dean of the Graduate College. Graduate College, Arizona State University. 1994 - 1995.
  • Search committee for Theoretical Ecologist (tenure-track position). Department of Zoology, Arizona State University. 1995 - 1996.

    Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville
  • Chair, Graduate Program Committee, Department of Biological Sciences. August 1998 - 2001
  • Graduate Committee. Department of Biological Sciences. August 1997 - Present.
  • Search Committee. Environmental Physiologist tenure-track position. Nov. 1998 - Feb. 1999; Nov. 1999 - Mar. 2000; Nov. 2000 - Mar. 2001.
  • Search Committee. Biology Education tenure-track position. August 2001 - April 2002.
  • Executive Committee, Department of Biological Sciences. August 2001 - May 2006.
  • Educational and Research Policies subcommittee of SIUE Graduate Council. 2001-2003.
  • Research and Projects Advisory Board. SIUE Graduate School. 2003 - Present.
  • Business Program Review Committee, SIUE Office of the Provost. August 2005 - May 2006.
  • Chair, Search Committee. Microbiologist tenure-track position. September 2005 - May 2006.
  • Chair, LEVELS Task Force, SIUE Faculty Senate. April 2005 - December 2006.

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