Profile of Dr. Mike Pace

Department of Environmental Sciences
University of Virginia
291 McCormick Road
P.O. Box 400123
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123
Phone: 434-924-6541
pacem@virginia.edu

Current Position:  Professor, Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia

Education: Ph.D. Ecology, University of Georgia, 1981

Dr. Pace is an aquatic ecologist with broad interests in lake, river, and estuarine ecosystems.  His current research projects focus on: 1) the support of aquatic food webs by terrestrial organic matter; 2) the long-term impacts of a zebra mussel invasion;  3) the detection of leading indicators of ecosystem regime shifts through  whole-lake manipulation; and 4) the role of atmospheric deposition and landscape structure in determining organic carbon and nutrient inputs to lakes.