Caleb J. Robbins

Caleb's dissertation focused on stream metabolism and food web responses to whole-stream dissolved organic carbon (DOC) enrichment in an Alaskan headwater stream. He found dramatic increases in production all the way up to juvenile salmonids, which were both in greater densities and grew faster (marked-recaptured fish) when exposed to low-level DOC. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Kansas under the mentorship of Prof. Jim Thorp. He is part of a large NSF Macrosystems project on rivers of the western USA and in Mongolia.