Joseph Stachelek
Education
- 2016 – 2020, Ph.D., Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University. dissertation.
- 2009 – 2012, M.S., Deparment of Marine Science, University of Texas. thesis.
- 2004 – 2008, B.S., Department of Marine Science, University of Maine. thesis.
Professional Experience
2020 – Present, Post-doctoral Research Associate, Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2012 – 2016, Research Scientist, South Florida Water Management District
Publications
Peer-Reviewed
- Hanson, P., Stillman, A.B., Jia, X., Karpatne, A., Dugan, H.A., Carey, C.C., Stachelek, J., Ward, N.K, Zhang, Y., Read, J.S., Kumar, V., 2020. Predicting lake surface water phosphorus dynamics using process-guided machine learning. Ecological Modelling. Link to article
- Stachelek, J., Weng, W., Carey, C.C., Kemanian, A.R., Cobourn, K.M., Wagner, T., Weathers, K.C., Soranno, P.A., 2020. Granular measures of agricultural land-use influence lake nitrogen and phosphorus differently at macroscales. Ecological Applications. Link to article
- Servais, S., Kominoski, J.S., Coronado-Molina, C., Bauman, L., Davis, S.E., Gaiser, E.E., Kelly, S., Madden, C., Mazzei, V., Rudnik, D., Santamaria, F., Sklar, F.H., Stachelek, J., Troxler, T.G., Wilson, B.J., 2020. Effects of saltwater pulses on soil microbial enzymes and organic matter breakdown in freshwater and brackish coastal wetlands. Estuaries and Coasts. Link to article
- Soranno, P.A., Cheruvelil, K.S., Liu, B., Wang, Q., Tan, P.N., Zhou, J., King, K.B.S., McCullough, I.M., Stachelek, J., Bartley, M., Filstrup, C.T., Hanks, E.M., Lapierre, J.F., Lottig, N.R., Schliep, E.M., Wagner, T., Webster, K.E., 2020. Ecological prediction at macroscales using big data: Does sampling design matter? Ecological Applications.
- Wagner, T., <7 authors>, Stachelek, J., Cheruvelil, K.S., Filstrup, C.T., Lapierre, J.F., Liu, B., Soranno, P.A., Tan, P.N., Wang, Q., Webster, K., Zhou, J. 2019. Increasing accuracy of lake nutrient predictions in thousands of lakes by leveraging water clarity data. Limnology and Oceanography: Letters.
- McCullough, I., King K., Stachelek, J., Diaz, J., Sorrano, P.A., Cheruvelil K.S. 2019. Applying the patch-matrix model to lakes: a connectivity-based conservation framework. Landscape Ecology.
- Qian, S.S., Stow, C.A., Nojavan, F., Stachelek, J., Cha, Y., Alameddine, I., Soranno, P.A. 2019. The Implications of Simpson's Paradox for Cross-Scale Inference Among Lakes. Water Research.
- McCullough, I., Cheruvelil, K.S, Lapierre, J.F., Lottig, N., Moritz, M., Stachelek, J., Soranno, P.A. 2019. Do lakes feel the burn? Ecological consequences of increasing exposure of lakes to fire in the continental United States. Global Change Biology.
- Collins, S.M., Yuan, S., Tan, P.N., Oliver, S.K., Lapierre, J.F., Cheruvelil, K.S., Fergus, C.E., Skaff, N.K., Stachelek, J., Wagner, T., Soranno, P.A. 2019. Winter Precipitation and Summer Temperature Predict Lake Water Quality at Macroscales. Water Resources Research.
- Stachelek, J., Soranno, P.A. 2019. Does freshwater connectivity influence phosphorus retention in lakes? Limnology and Oceanography.
- Ward, N.K., Fitchett, L., Hart, J.A., Shu, L., Stachelek, J., <10 authors>, Weathers, K.C. 2018. Integrating fast and slow processes is essential for simulating human-freshwater interactions. Ambio.
- Wilson, B.J., Servais, S., <10 authors>, Stachelek J., Troxler, T. 2018. Salinity pulses interact with seasonal dry‐down to increase ecosystem carbon loss in marshes of the Florida Everglades. Ecological Applications.
- Mazzei, V., Gaiser, E., Kominoski, J., <7 authors> , Stachelek J., Troxler, T. 2018. Functional and compositional responses of periphyton mats to simulated saltwater intrusion in the southern Everglades. Estuaries and Coasts.
- Stachelek J., Kelly, S.P, Sklar, F., Coronado, C.M., Troxler, T., Bauman, L. 2018. In-situ simulation of sea-level rise impacts on coastal wetlands using a flow-through mesocosm approach. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
- Cobourn, K.M., <15 alphabetical authors>, Stachelek J., <4 alphabetical authors>. 2018. From concept to practice to policy: modeling coupled natural and human systems in lake catchments. Ecosphere.
- Stachelek J., Ford, C., Kincaid, D., King, K., Miller, H, and Nagelkirk, R. 2018. The National Eutrophication Survey: lake characteristics and historical nutrient concentrations. Earth Syst. Sci. Data.
- Rougier NP, Hinsen K, <34 alphabetical authors>, Stachelek J. <8 alphabetical authors>. 2017. Sustainable computational science: the ReScience initiative. PeerJ Computer Science. 3:e142
- Soranno P.A., <62 alphabetical authors>, Stachelek J., <15 alphabetical authors>. 2017. LAGOS-NE: A multi-scaled geospatial and temporal database of lake ecological context and water quality for thousands of U.S. lakes. Gigascience.
- Hollister J and Stachelek J. 2017. lakemorpho: Calculating lake morphometry metrics in R [version 1; referees: 2 approved]. F1000Research.
- Stachelek J. 2016. [Re] Least-cost modelling on irregular landscape graphs. ReScience. 2(1): 1-4.
- Stachelek J. and Madden C.J. 2015. Application of Inverse Path Distance Weighting for high density spatial mapping of coastal water quality patterns. International Journal of Geographical Information Science.
- Stachelek J. and Dunton K.H. 2013. Freshwater inflow requirements for the Nueces Delta, Texas: Spartina alterniflora as an indicator of ecosystem condition. Texas Water Journal. 4(2), 62-73.
Datasets
- Stachelek J. 2019. Freshwater connectivity and stream morphology metrics for Northeast and Midwestern US lakes. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2554212
- Stachelek J, Ford C, Kincaid D, King K, Miller H, Nagelkirk R. 2017. The National Eutrophication Survey: lake characteristics and historical nutrient concentrations. KNB Data Repository. http://dx.doi.org/10.5063/F10G3H3Z
- Madden C, Stachelek J, Kelly S, Blaha M. 2017. Florida Bay water quality estimated by underway flow-through measurement. KNB Data Repository. http://dx.doi.org/10.5063/F11R6NGR
Software Experience
Software package development (https://github.com/jsta)
Author
nhdR
: Tools for working with the National Hydrography Dataset https://github.com/jsta/nhdRLAGOSNE
: Interface to the Lake Multi-Scaled Geospatial and Temporal Database https://github.com/cont-limno/LAGOSNEwikilake
: Scrape Lake Metadata Tables from Wikipedia https://github.com/jsta/wikilakedbhydroR
: Everglades Hydrologic and Water Quality Data from R https://github.com/ropensci/dbhydroRipdw
: Interpolation by Inverse Path Distance Weighting https://github.com/jsta/ipdw
Contributor
rnoaa
: ‘NOAA’ Weather Data from R. https://github.com/ropensci/rnoaalakemorpho
: Lake Morphometry Metrics in R. https://github.com/USEPA/lakemorpho
Outreach Activity
- WikiProject Lakes (2017 - Present) Contributor