Speaker Biography

In his current research as a freshwater ecologist, David Lodge examines the many ways that human activities change the ecosystems that provide people with drinking water, recreation, fisheries and biodiversity resources. For almost 20 years, Lodge has studied the impacts of nonindigenous species - including the zebra mussel, Eurasian ruffe, and rusty crayfish - in the Great Lakes and inland waterways in the upper midwest. He is currently working on combined ecological and economic models to guide the management of future invaders in the Great Lakes. Lodge was the first Chairperson and is a current member of the national Invasive Species Advisory Committee. He received a B.S. in 1979 from the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. Supported by a Rhodes Scholarship, he earned a D.Phil. in 1982 from the University of Oxford. Following postdoctoral research and teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lodge joined the faculty at the University of Notre Dame in 1985, where he is now Professor.

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