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Tom Cuffney

Ecologist
Albemarle-Pamlico NAWQA
U.S. Geological Survey
Water Resources Discipline

North Carolina Water Science Center
3916 Sunset Ridge Rd
Raleigh, NC 26707

(919) 571-4019 Voice
(919) 571-4041 FAX
tcuffney@usgs.gov

Education · Research · Publications

Educational Background

Doctor of Philosophy, Aquatic Ecology/Entomology (1984) University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.

Master of Science, Biology (1980) Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho.

Bachelor of Science, Zoology (1974) State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.

Recent Research Projects

Effects of urban and agricultural land uses on physical, chemical, and biological indicators of water quality

Macroinvertebrates as indicators of environmental health using multimetric and multivariate statistical techiques

Community responses to environmental stressors at multiple spatial scales

Multivariate statistical methods and their application to the design and interpretation of integrated water-quality studies

Selected Publications

Coles, J.F., Cuffney, T.F., McMahon, Gerard, and Beaulieau, Karen, (in press), The effects of urbanization on the biological, physical, and chemical characteristics of Coastal New England Streams: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 04-1695.

Cuffney, T.F., 2003, User manual for the National Water-Quality Assessment Program Invertebrate Data Analysis System (IDAS) software—Version 3.0: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-172, 103 p.

Cuffney, T.F., Meador, M.R., Porter, S.D., and Gurtz, M.E., 2000, Responses of physical, chemical, and biological indicators of water quality to a gradient of agricultural land use in the Yakima River Basin, Washington: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, v. 64, p. 259-270.

Cuffney, T.F., Zappia, Humbert, Giddings, E.M., and Coles, J.F., in press, A comparison of the effects of urbanization on benthic macroinvertebrate communities in contrasting environmental settings—Massachusetts, Alabama, and Utah, in Brown, L.R., Gray, R.H., Hughes, H., and Meador, M.R., eds., Effects of urbanization on aquatic ecosystems: American Fisheries Society.

McMahon, Gerard, and Cuffney, T.F., 2000, Quantifying urban intensity in drainage basins for assessing stream ecological conditions: Journal of the American Water Resources Association, v. 36, no. 6, p. 1247-1261.

Tate, C.M., Cuffney, T.F., McMahon, Gerard, Coles, J.F., Giddings, E.M., and Zappia, Humbert, in press, Use of urban intensity index and gradient design to assess effects of urbanization on streams in three contrasting environmental settings, in Brown, L.R., Gray, R.H., Hughes, H., and Meador, M.R. eds., Effects of urbanization on aquatic ecosystems: American Fisheries Society.

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