Charles Kerfoot

Contact

wkerfoot@mtu.edu
906-487-2769
GLRC 305, office

Emeritus Research Professor, Biological Sciences
Adjunct Professor, Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences

PhD, University of Michigan

Links of Interest

Keweenaw Buffalo Reef Project

Research Interests

Aquatic Ecology
Paleoecology

Recent Publications

Kerfoot, W.C.; Hobmeier, M.M.; Green, S.A.; Yousef, F.; Brooks, C.N.; Shuchman, R.; Sayers, M.; Lin, L.; Luong, P.; Hayter, E.; Reif, M. Coastal Ecosystem Investigations with LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) and Bottom Reflectance: Lake Superior Reef Threatened by Migrating Tailings. Remote Sens. 2019, 11, 1076. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11091076
Kerfoot, W.C., N.R. Urban, C.P. McDonald, H. Zhang, R. Rossmann, J. Perlinger, T. Khan, A. Hendricks, M. Priyadarshini, M. Bolstad, 2018, Mining Legacy Across a Wetland Landscape: High Mercury in Upper Peninsula (Michigan) Rivers, Lakes, And Fish. Environ. Sci. Processes Impacts. 20: 708-733. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7EM00521K ESPI Best Paper Nominees collection http://rsc.li/espi-nominees
Staples, D.F., Maki, R.P., Hirsch, J.K., Kerfoot, W.C., LeDuc, J.F., Burri, T., Moraska Lafrancois, B. Glase, J. 2017. Decrease in young-of-the-year yellow perch growth rates following Bythotrephes longimanus invasion. Biol. Invasions. 19: 2197-2205 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-017-1431-3
Kerfoot, W.C., M.M. Hobmeier, F. Yousef. B. Moraska LaFrancois, R.P. Maki, J.K. Hirsch. 2016. A Plague of Waterfleas (Bythotrephes): Impacts on Microcrustacean Community Structure, Seasonal Biomass, and Secondary Production in a Large Inland-lake Complex. Biol. Invasions. 18 (4): 1121-1145 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-015-1050-9
Kerfoot, W.C., N.R. Urban C.P. McDonald, R. Rossmann, H. Zhang 2016. Legacy mercury releases during copper mining near Lake Superior. J. Great Lakes Res. 42(1): 50-61 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2015.10.007
Kerfoot, W.C. and Savage, S.C. 2016. Multiple inducers in aquatic foodwebs: Counter-measures and vulnerability to exotics. Limnol. Oceanogr., 61: 382–406. 12 Nov 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lno.10223
Rowe, MD., D.R. Obenour, T.F. Nalepa, H.A. Vanderploeg, F. Yousef, W.C. Kerfoot. 2015. Mapping the spatial distribution of invasive dreissenid mussels on the winter-spring phytoplankton bloom in Lake Michigan. Freshwater Biology 60: 2197-2454, 6 Aug 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/fwb.12653
Kerfoot, W.C., M.M. Hobmeier, F. Yousef, S.A. Green, R. Regis, C.N. Brooks, R. Shuchman, J. Anderson, and M. Reif. 2014. Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) and Multispectral Scanner Studies (MSS) Examine Coastal Environments Influenced by Mining. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf 3: 66-95 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi3010066
Yousef, F., W.C. Kerfoot, R. Shuchman, and G. Fahnenstiel. 2014. Bio-optical properties and primary production of Lake Michigan: insights from 13-years of SeaWiFS imagery. J. Great Lakes Res. 40: 317-324 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2014.02.018
Yousef, F., W.C. Kerfoot, C.N. Brooks, R. Shuchman, B. Sabol, and M. Graves. 2013. Using LiDAR to reconstruct the history of a coastal environment influenced by legacy mining. J. Great Lakes Res. 39 Sup. 1: 205-216 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2013.01.003
Kerfoot, W.C., F. Yousef, S.A. Green, R. Regis, R. Shuchman, C.N. Brooks, M. Sayers, B. Sabol, M. Graves. 2012. Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) and Multispectral Studies of Disturbed Lake Superior Coastal Environments. Limnol. Oceanogr. 57(3): 749-771 http://dx.doi.org/10.4319/lo.2012.57.3.0749
Kerfoot, W.C., F. Yousef, M. Hobmeier, R.P. Maki, S.T. Jarnagin, J.H. Churchill. 2011. Temperature, Recreational Fishing and Diapause Egg Connections: Dispersal of Spiny Water Fleas (Bythotrephes longimanus) Biol. Invasions. 13: 2513-2531 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-011-0078-8
Cooke, C.A., P.H. Balcom, W.C. Kerfoot, M.B. Abbott, A.P. Wolfe. 2011. Pre-Columbian Mercury Pollution with the Smelting of Argentiferous Ores in the Bolivian Andes. AMBIO 40: 18-25 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-010-0086-4
Kerfoot, W.C., F. Yousef, S.A. Green, J.W. Budd, D.J. Schwab, and H.A. Vanderploeg. 2010. Approaching storm: Disappearing winter bloom in Lake Michigan. J. Great Lakes Res. 36: Supplement 3: 30-41 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2010.04.010
Kerfoot, W.C. and A.S. McNaught. 2010. ‘Two-step’ dialogue between the cladoceran Bosmina and invertebrate predators: Induction and natural selection. Limnol. Oceanogr. 55(1) 403-419 https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2010.55.1.0403
Berendonk, T.U., K. Spitze, W.C. Kerfoot. 2009. Ephemeral metapopulations show high genetic diversity at regional scales. Ecology. 90(10): 2670-2675 https://doi.org/10.1890/08-0667.1
Kerfoot, W.C., J.W. Budd, S.A. Green, J.B. Cotner, B.A. Biddanda, D.J. Schwab and H.A. Vanderploeg 2008. Doughnut in the desert: late-winter production pulse in southern Lake Michigan. Limnol. Oceanogr 53: 589-604 https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2008.53.2.0589