Rick Relyea
Director
Department of Biological Sciences
Biology Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Relyea completed his PhD at the University of Michigan in 1999 and then spent the next 15 years as a professor at the University of Pittsburgh. In 2014, he moved his research group to Rensselaer to become the Director of the Darrin Fresh Water Institute and the Director of The Jefferson Project at Lake George.
Research Interest
Ecology, Disease Ecology, Ecotoxicology
Publications
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Gervasi SS, Stephens PR, Hua J, Searle CL, Xie GY, Urbina J, Olson DH, Bancroft BA, Weis V, Hammond JI, Relyea RA, Blaustein AR. Linking Ecology and Epidemiology to Understand Predictors of Multi-Host Responses to an Emerging Pathogen, the Amphibian Chytrid Fungus. Plos One. 12: e0167882. PMID 28095428 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0167882
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Hintz WD, Relyea RA. Impacts of road deicing salts on the early-life growth and development of a stream salmonid: Salt type matters. Environmental Pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987). PMID 28131472 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2017.01.040
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Hintz WD, Relyea RA. A salty landscape of fear: responses of fish and zooplankton to freshwater salinization and predatory stress. Oecologia. PMID 28762176 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-017-3925-1
