Lauren E. Culler
Research Assoc Professor
Appointments
Research Associate Professor
Senior Fellow for Climate & Environment
Program Director, Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation (on assignment effective July 2023)
Area of Expertise
entomology ,
climate change ,
Arctic ecosystems,
population and community ecology,
science communication
Biography
Lauren is a Research Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and a Senior Fellow for Climate & Environment at Dartmouth's Institute of Arctic Studies. She is currently on assignment to the National Science Foundation as a Program Director in the Office of Polar Programs. Lauren studies ecological change in the Arctic. Her recent field projects in Greenland have explored landscape changes related to soil erosion and pond drying, biogeochemical cycling at the aquatic-terrestrial interface, and the roles of mosquitoes in Arctic social-ecological systems. She has a Ph.D. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology from Dartmouth, and a M.S. in Entomology and a B.S. in Zoology from the University of Maryland.
Education
B.S. University of Maryland
M.S. University of Maryland
Ph.D. Dartmouth College
Taught Courses
Publications
Culler, L.E., Stendahl, A.M., DeSiervo, M.H., Bliska, H.M., Virginia, R.A., and M.P. Ayres. 2021. Emerging mosquitoes (Aedes nigripes) as a resource subsidy for wolf spiders (Pardosa glacialis) in western Greenland. Polar Biology https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-021-02875-8 Link
Koltz, A.M.* & L.E. Culler*. 2021. Biting insects in a rapidly changing Arctic. Current Opinions in Insect Science. *equal contributions. Link
DeSiervo, M.H., Ayres, M.P., and L.E. Culler. 2021. Quantifying the nature and strength of intraspecific density dependence in Arctic mosquitoes. Oecologia. 196: 1061–1072 Link
DeSiervo, M.H., Ayres, M.P., Virginia, R.A., and L.E. Culler. 2020. Consumer-resource dynamics in Arctic ponds. Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3135. Link
Culler, L.E., M.P. Ayres, and R.A. Virginia. 2018. Spatial heterogeneity in the abundance and fecundity of Arctic mosquitoes. Ecosphere. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2345. Link
Høye, T.T. and L.E. Culler. 2018. Tundra arthropods provide key insights into ecological responses to environmental change. Polar Biology 41: 1523-1529. Link
Culler, L.E., Z.T. Wood, J. Diaz, S.B. Fey, D. Timmins, and M.P. Ayres. 2018. Streams in an uninhabited watershed have predictably different thermal sensitivities to variable summer air temperatures. Freshwater Biology 63: 676-686. Link
Müllerová, J., J. Elsterová, J. Cerny, O. Ditrich, J. Žárský, L.E. Culler, H. Kampen, D. Walther, S.J. Coulson, and L. Grubhoffer. 2018. No indication of arthropod-vectored viruses in mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) collected on Greenland and Svalbard. Polar Biology 41: 1581-1586. Link
Heindel, R.C., L.E. Culler, and R.A. Virginia. 2017. Rates and processes of aeolian soil erosion in West Greenland. The Holocene 27: 1281-1290. Link
Culler, L.E., M.P. Ayres, and R.A. Virginia. 2015. In a warmer Arctic, mosquitoes avoid increased mortality from predators by growing faster. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282 Link
Culler, L.E., M.A. McPeek, and M.P. Ayres. 2014. Predation risk shapes thermal physiology of a predaceous damselfly. Oecologia 176:653-660 Link
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