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Patrick M. Eggleston
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Ashuelot River

Patrick M. Eggleston

Biology Department

359 Science Building

Keene State College

Keene, New Hampshire   03435-2001  

603   358-2579

pegglest@keene.edu

 

Patrick Eggleston did his M.S. thesis on endogenous rooting substances of  Malus sylvestris and several Prunus species.   His Ph.D. dissertation was on the energy requirements of the crayfish, Orconectes rusticus , and its ability to utilize various species of algae as food.  

Work in progress:  

 

Patrick is currently working on a population study of diatom algae in the Ashuelot River, southwestern New Hampshire.   In conjunction with this, he has worked three summers with members of the Ashuelot River Local Advisory Committee and other members of the community, to gather physical-chemical data at ten sites along the 64 miles of the Ashuelot River.   Patrick has been looking at correlations between diatom species numbers and the concentrations of some chemicals, oxygen concentration, pH, and conductivity.  

Publications:  

Eggleston, P. M., Loiselle, D. S., and Skalny, M. S.   1991.   The effects of nitric and sulfuric acids on the diatom Nitzschia palea   (Kutz.)   W. Smith.   Journal of Freshwater Ecology   6(4): 451-453.   

Lee, T. F. and Eggleston, P. M.   1989.   Airborne algae and Cyanobacteria.  

Grana   28:   63-66.

Eggleston, P. M., Wilson, R. T., and Harrington, C. B.   1987.   The effect of two buffers on cell yield of Nitzschia palea   (Kutz.) W. Smith.   Journal of Freshwater Ecology   4(1): 33-38.

Eggleston, P. M. and Lustick, S. I.   1981.   The oxygen requirements of the crayfish, Orconectes rusticus .   Ohio Journal of Science   81(2): 92-94.

 

Presentations:

Eggleston, P. M. 2009  The Acidification of the Ashuelot River, New Hampshire.  Northeast Algal Symposium, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. 

Eggleston, P. M., Hanscom, D. L., Jardine, R. J., Skuly, B. A., Stepenuck, S. J., Wise, B. N. 2003   The effect of various Environmental factors on the population structure of diatoms from the Ashuelot River.   Poster presented to the Northeast Algal Symposium,   Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York 26 April 2003.   

Eggleston, P. M., Schlette, D. P. and Skalny,   M. S.   1991.   The effect of nitric and sulfuric acids on the growth rate of Nitzschia palea   (Kutz.).   Presented at the Fourth International Phycological Congress at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.   Paper presented by Patrick M. Eggleston.    August 1991. 

Schlette, D. P., Skalny, M. S. and Eggleston, P. M.   1990   The effect of nitric and sulfuric acids on the growth rate of Nitzschia palea   (Kutz.).   Presented at the Beta Beta Beta Northeastern Convention, at Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York on 21 April 1990.    Research directed by Patrick M. Eggleston.   Paper presented by Deb Schlette.

Eggleston, P. M.   1986.   The acid tolerance of Nitzschia palea .   Paper presented June 1986 to the combined meetings of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography and the Phycological Society of America at the University of Rhode Island.

Eggleston, P. M.   1986.   The acid tolerance of Nitzschia palea .   Poster presented at the Northeast Algal Symposium, Woods Hole, Mass.

Eggleston, P. M.   1981.   The assimilation of nutrients from the algae by the crayfish, Orconectes rusticus .   Paper presented at Northeast Algal Symposium, Wood Hole, Mass.

Lee, T. F. and Eggleston, P. M.   1980.   Airborne algae of the New England coast collected on marine media.   Paper presented at Botany 80 in Vancouver, British Columbia to the Phycological Society of America.

 

Diatom Nanotechnology  one photo on the cover January 2005

Academic Research Programs

New Hampshire rivers  VRAP

Undergraduate research Shoals Marine Lab

Freshwater Ecoregions of the World

UTEX Culture Collection of Algae

Algaebase