LAUREN NOLFO-CLEMENTS, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Lauren Nolfo-Clements, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Biology

Suffolk University

41 Temple Street

Boston, Massachusetts 02114-4280

Phone: (617) 573-8603

Fax: (617) 573-8245

lnolfo-clements@suffolk.edu

Office:  Donahue Building, room #510

 

Research Interests

• Community Ecology
• Habitat Selection and Movement
• Mammalogy
• Introduced Species

 

Education

Tulane University

Ph.D: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 2006 Dissertation title: "Seasonal variations in habitat availability, habitat selection, and movement patterns of Myocastor coypus on a subtropical freshwater floating marsh."  

The College of New Jersey

BS: Biology, 1999 Senior thesis: "The thermal biology of timber rattlesnakes, Crotalus horridus, in the New Jersey Pine Barrens"

 

Employment

September 2007 – present:  Assistant Professor of Biology Suffolk University Boston, MA

July 2007 – August 2007:  Post-doctoral Research Associate Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA

February 2006 – June 2007: Wildlife Scientist The Humane Society of the United States Gaithersburg, MD

September 2003 – September 2005: Biology Field Technician Loyola University New Orleans, LA

June 2001 – May 2003:  Student Contractor / Wildlife Technician U.S. Geological Survey / National Wetlands Research Center- Biological Research Division Lafayette, LA

May 2000 – August 2000: Field Technician Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA

September 1999 – May 2001Teaching Assistant Tulane University New Orleans, LA

September 1998 – May 1999 Student Field Researcher The College of New Jersey Ewing, NJ

 

Publications

Hadidian, J., M. Baird, M. Brasted, L. Nolfo-Clements, D. Pauli, and L. Simon. 2007. Wild Neighbors: The Humane Approach to Living with Wildlife. Humane Society Press. Washington D.C. 283 pp.

Nolfo, L.E. and E.E. Hammond. 2006. A novel method for the capture and transmitter implantation of nutria, Myocastor coypus. Wildlife Society Bulletin 34(1): 104 - 110.

Nolfo -Clements, L.E. 2006. Vegetative survey of wetland habitats at Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve in southeastern Louisiana. Southeastern Naturalist 5(3): 499 – 514.

Nolfo - Clements, L.E. Habitat selection of nutria on a freshwater floating marsh: a multi-scale assessment. Southeastern Naturalist. IN SUBMISSION.

Nolfo-Clements, L.E. Nutria survivorship, movement patterns, and home ranges. Southeastern Naturalist. IN SUBMISSION.  

 

POSTERS AND PRESENTATIONS

Hood, C., L. E. Nolfo, and B. Welsh. 2007. Biodiversity and activity patterns of bats inhabiting Jean Lafitte National Park, Louisiana. Annual Meeting of American Society of Mammalogists, Albuquerque, NM.

Hood, C.S. and L.E. Nolfo. 2005. Mammal biodiversity as a component of Louisiana coastal wetland restoration monitoring – a model from Jean Lafitte National Park. Poster presentation at the CREST Symposium – “Progress in Understanding Coastal Land Loss and Restoration in Louisiana”, Lafayette, LA.

Hood, C.S. and L.E. Nolfo. 2004. Challenges of inventory and monitoring mammals of Jean Lafitte National Park – Historic and ongoing urban impacts. Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting, Society for Conservation Biology, New York, NY.

Nolfo, L.E. 2003. Habitat selection and ecological impacts of the nutria (Myocastor coypus) on wetland plant communities. Oral presentation at the invasive species symposium of The Wildlife Society (TWS) in Sacramento, CA.

Nolfo, L.E. 2003. Nutria movements, habitat use, and food preference in feral versus native populations. Oral presentation at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Society of Wetland Scientists. New Orleans, LA.

Nolfo, L.E. and C.S. Hood. 2001. A 5-study of microhabitat use and roost preference in eastern pipistrelle bat, Pistrellus subflavus in Southeastern Louisiana. Oral presentation at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists in New Orleans, LA.

Nolfo, L.E. and H.K. Reinert. 1999. The thermal biology of timber rattlesnakes, Crotalus horridus, in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Poster presentation at the Annual Meetings of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in College Station, PA.

 

Courses Taught

BIO114  - Majors Biology II 
BIO102  - Non-Majors Biology II
Plant Biology (projected 2009)
Vertebrate Biology (projected 2010)