Dr. Melissa Wuellner

Associate Professor

Office: BHS 345 | Phone: (308) 865-8006 | Email: wuellnermr@unk.edu

Biography

Areas of Interest:

Fisheries ecology and management
Human dimensions of wildlife and fisheries
Systems thinking and systems dynamics
Scholarship of teaching and learning

Degrees:

B.S. - (2002) – Ball State University
M.S. - (2007) – Montana State University – Bozeman
PhD. - (2009) – South Dakota State University

Professional Affiliations:

American Fisheries Society
Great Plains Natural Science Society
International Association for Society and Natural Resources

Dissertation and Thesis:

Wuellner, M. R. 2009. Competitive interactions between walleye (Sander vitreus) and smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) in South Dakota waters. PhD Dissertation, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD. 134 pp.
Wuellner, M. R. 2007. Influence of reach and watershed characteristics on fish distributions in small streams of eastern Montana. Thesis, Montana State University - Bozeman. 80 pp.

Publications:

Dembkowski, D. J., Weber, M. J., and Wuellner, M. R. 2017. Factors influencing recruitment and growth of age-0 yellow perch in eastern South Dakota glacial lakes. Fisheries Management and Ecology doi: 10.1111/fme.12240.
Turner, B.L., Wuellner, M., Nichols, T., Gates, R., Tedeschi, L. O., and Dunn, B. H. 2017. A systems approach to forecast agricultural land transformation from economic, policy, and cultural scenarios in the north central United States (2012 – 2062). International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability 15(2): 102-123. doi: 10.1080/14735903.2017.1288029
Wuellner, M. R., Vincent, L., and Felts, B. 2017. Environmental mental models of college students. International Journal of Environmental and Science Education 12: 105-115.
Smith, B. J., Blackwell, B. G., Wuellner, M. R., Graeb, B. D. S., and Willis, D. W. 2017. Contact selectivity for four fish species sampled with North American standard gill nets. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 37: 149-161.
Wuellner, M. R., Grote, J. D., and Fincel, M. J. 2016. Spatial and temporal distinction of microelemental signatures of Missouri River tributaries. River Research and Applications doi: 10.1002/rra.3115.
Bogner, D. M., Kaemingk, M. A., and Wuellner, M. R. 2016. Consequences of hatch phenology on stages of fish recruitment. PLoS ONE 11(10): e0164980.
Dembkowski, D. J., Wuellner, M. R., and Willis, D. W. 2016. Synchrony in larval yellow perch production: the influence of the Moran Effect during early life history. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 73(10): 1567-1574.
Turner, B. L., Wuellner, M., Nichols, T., Gates, R., Tedeschi, L. O., and Dunn, B. H. 2016. Development and evaluation of a system dynamics model for investigating agriculturally driven land transformation in the north central United States. Natural Resource Modeling 29(2): 179-228.
Smith, B. J., Dembkowski, D. J., James, D. A., and Wuellner, M. R. 2016. A simple method to increase precision, reduce error, and facilitate the aging of otoliths: the otolith illumination device. The Open Fish Science Journal 9: 1-7.
Smith, B. J., Blackwell, B. G., Wuellner, M. R., Graeb, B. D. S., and Willis, D. W. 2016. Escapement of fishes from modified fyke nets with varying throat configurations. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 36(1): 96-103.