Professor of freshwater ecology

University affiliation

• Institute of Arctic Biology
• College of Natural Science and Mathematics
• Department of Biology and Wildlife
• University of Alaska Fairbanks (Fairbanks)

Contact information

• Email: mwipfli@alaska.edu
• Phone: (907) 474-6654

Media contact

University Relations

• Email: uaf-news@alaska.edu

Areas of expertise

• Ecology

Research interests/biography

Salmon ecology, freshwater food webs, trophic ecology, freshwater invertebrates. Processes that govern freshwater-riparian productivity, spatial subsidies in freshwater food webs, linkages between freshwater-marine and freshwater-terrestrial ecosystems, salmonid foraging ecology and trophic interactions, invasive species impacts in freshwater/riparian ecosystems, climate change effects on freshwater food webs, restoration and management of freshwater and riparian ecosystems.