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E-mail: ggarman@vcu.edu
Contact: (804) 828-1574

VCU departmental affiliation:
• Director, Center for Environmental Studies
• Associate Professor, Department of Biology
• Research Director, VCU Rice Center for the Environmental Life Sciences

Education:
Ph.D. (Zoology) University of Maine, 1984 (Dissertation: Effects of Watershed Deforestation on a boreal river)

M.S. (Fisheries and Wildlife) Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1980 (Thesis: Changes in fish community structure following introduction of brown trout, Salmo trutta)

B.S. (Biology) Millersville University, 1978

Courses taught at VCU:
• Fish biology (graduate)
• Community ecology (graduate)

Research interests:
• Ecology of large coastal rivers
• Biology of migratory fishes
• Effects of urbanization on stream ecosystems

Recent publications/abstracts/presentations:
Viverette, C., G. Garman, S. McIninch, B. Watts, S. Macko. In Press. Finfish-Waterbird trophic interactions in Tidal Freshwater Tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay, Waterbirds.

Garman, C. and D. Orth 2007. Fish Kills in the Shenandoah Basin. Report of the Schenandoah Science Team to the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality.

Webb, S., G. Garman, S. McIninch. T. Nerad, M. Peglar, P. Gillevet, B. Brown. 2004. Etiology of ulcerative lesions of Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) from the James River, Virginia. Parasitology Research 97:358-366.

Selected Grants and Contracts:
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (2006-2007), Trophic interactions among fin fishes and avian predators in Chesapeake Bay.

Virginia Coastal Zone Management Program and Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation (2004-2007), Development and implementation of INSTAR: Integrated Stream Assessment Resource.

Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (2006-2008), Development of stream nutrient criteria based on fish community structure indices.