Research Interests

• Effect of multiple stressors interactions on benthic food webs of large rivers
• Development and application of artificial streams for use in environmental effects assessment
• Application of stable isotope technologies environmental effects assessments
• Effects of forest harvesting on stream systems in the boreal forest
• Importance of benthic predator-prey interactions to riverine community structure

Major Affiliations

• President, North American Benthological Society (http://www.benthos.org/index.htm)
• Environmental Effects Monitoring Science Committee (Environment Canada)
• Special Editor, Journal of Aquatic Ecosystem Stress and Recovery
• Review Panel Member, Toxic Substance Research Initiative

 

Selected publications

• Culp, J.M., R.B. Lowell and K.J. Cash. 2000 Integrating in situ community experiments with field studies to generate weight-of-evidence risk assessments for large rivers. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 19:1167-1173.
• Lowell, R.B., J.M. Culp and M.G. Dube. 2000. A weight-of evidence approach for northern river risk assessment: integrating the effects of multiple stressors. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 19:1182-1190.
• Glozier, N.E., J.M. Culp, G.J. Scrimgeour, and D.B. Halliwell. 2000. Comparison of gut fluorescence and gut dry mass techniques for determining feeding periodicity in lotic mayflies. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 19:169-175.
• Lowell, R.B. and J.M. Culp. 1999. Cumulative effects of multiple effluent and low dissolved oxygen stressors on mayflies at cold temperatures. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 56:1624-1630.
• Podemski, C.L. and J. M. Culp. (in press) Toxicant interactions with food algae: a missing link between laboratory and field effects. Environmental Toxicology and Water Quality.
• Culp, J.M., C.L. Podemski, K.J. Cash and R.B. Lowell. 2000. A research strategy for using stream microcosms in ecotoxicology: integrating single population and community experiments with field data. Journal of Aquatic Ecosystem Stress and Recovery 7:167-176.