{"id":293,"date":"2011-03-01T11:06:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T16:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learn.bowdoin.edu\/courses\/test-site-rivers-estuaries-and-coastal-fisheries\/"},"modified":"2011-03-01T11:06:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T16:06:59","slug":"john-lichter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/rivers-estuaries-and-coastal-fisheries\/people\/john-lichter\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lichter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8 \" src=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/rivers-estuaries-and-coastal-fisheries\/files\/2011\/03\/john-lichter.gif\" alt=\"John Lichter\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Lichter<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Samuel S. Butcher Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences<\/p>\n<p>Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1995<\/p>\n<p>My research as an ecosystem ecologist began on coastal sand dunes bordering Lake Michigan where I studied the mechanisms underlying plant succession and forest development.\u00a0 Since then, I have contributed to research investigating the effects of rising atmospheric CO<sub>2<\/sub> on forest productivity and carbon sequestration with colleagues at Duke University and other institutions.\u00a0 After coming to Bowdoin College in 2000, I began research on the ecology and environmental history of Merrymeeting Bay and the lower Kennebec estuary.\u00a0 This work was expanded to link Maine\u2019s rivers and estuaries with the nearshore marine ecosystems to better understand ecological recovery and the ecological and social constraints preventing further recovery of these once bountiful ecosystems.\u00a0 With\u00a0collaborators at Bowdoin, Bates, USM, and the Penobscot East Resource Center,\u00a0I work with undergraduate students to provide vital information for the restoration and sound management of Maine\u2019s waterways and coastal fisheries.<\/p>\n<h4>Links:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/j\/jlichter\/\">John Lichter&#8217;s faculty page \u00bb<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/learn.bowdoin.edu\/merrymeeting-bay\/news\/2005\/environmental-science.html\">Lichter&#8217;s Environmental Science Article Cited as Widely Influential \u00bb<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/j\/jlichter\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/j\/jlichter\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/j\/jlichter\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel S. Butcher Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1995 My research as an ecosystem ecologist began on coastal sand dunes bordering Lake Michigan where I studied the mechanisms underlying plant succession and forest development.\u00a0 Since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/rivers-estuaries-and-coastal-fisheries\/people\/john-lichter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":292,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-293","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/rivers-estuaries-and-coastal-fisheries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/rivers-estuaries-and-coastal-fisheries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/rivers-estuaries-and-coastal-fisheries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/rivers-estuaries-and-coastal-fisheries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/rivers-estuaries-and-coastal-fisheries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/rivers-estuaries-and-coastal-fisheries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/293\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/rivers-estuaries-and-coastal-fisheries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/rivers-estuaries-and-coastal-fisheries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}