Stephen Klobucar
Dr. Stephen Klobucar was born and raised in Janesville, Wisconsin, and as a youngster, he spent as much time as possible in the “northwoods” of Wisconsin. His passion for the outdoors eventually led to a shift in majors during his undergraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he graduated with a BS in Zoology and Biological Aspects of Conservation, and a certificate in Environmental Studies in 2010. While at Wisconsin, he conducted undergraduate research within the Center for Limnology, and upon graduating, Stephen moved west to begin a M.S. in the Department of Watershed Sciences at Utah State University (USU) with Dr. Phaedra Budy. While at USU, he studied predator-prey dynamics and visual foraging, native fish habitat in desert rivers, and the trophic implications and life history of nonnative burbot in Flaming Gorge Reservoir. Stephen remained at USU for a Ph.D. project, where he studied the abiotic and biotic controls of arctic lake food webs in northern Alaska. Upon finishing his Ph.D. in 2017, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Jereme Gaeta at USU, modeling food web dynamics in Utah Lake, Utah, before joining the Dr. Jeff Falke’s Freshwater Fish Ecology Lab as a postdoctoral fellow in June 2018. For his current postdoc, he is integrating outputs of terrestrial (e.g., fire, vegetation, permafrost) and climate models with hydrologic and stream temperature models to predict the effects of fire and climate change on aquatic habitats and fish populations in boreal watersheds of interior Alaska. He is also working to characterize and quantify freshwater spawning and rearing habitat potential for Chinook salmon in the Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers, Alaska. In his free time, he enjoys hunting and fishing (and, if successful, cooking his quarry), spending time outdoors with his wife and dogs, and dabbling in nature photography.
For more information on Stephen’s research, also visit: http://stephenklobucar.weebly.com/.
Dr. Stephen Klobucar was born and raised in Janesville, Wisconsin, and as a youngster, he spent as much time as possible in the “northwoods” of Wisconsin. His passion for the outdoors eventually led to a shift in majors during his undergraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he graduated with a BS in Zoology and Biological Aspects of Conservation, and a certificate in Environmental Studies in 2010. While at Wisconsin, he conducted undergraduate research within the Center for Limnology, and upon graduating, Stephen moved west to begin a M.S. in the Department of Watershed Sciences at Utah State University (USU) with Dr. Phaedra Budy. While at USU, he studied predator-prey dynamics and visual foraging, native fish habitat in desert rivers, and the trophic implications and life history of nonnative burbot in Flaming Gorge Reservoir. Stephen remained at USU for a Ph.D. project, where he studied the abiotic and biotic controls of arctic lake food webs in northern Alaska. Upon finishing his Ph.D. in 2017, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Jereme Gaeta at USU, modeling food web dynamics in Utah Lake, Utah, before joining the Dr. Jeff Falke’s Freshwater Fish Ecology Lab as a postdoctoral fellow in June 2018. For his current postdoc, he is integrating outputs of terrestrial (e.g., fire, vegetation, permafrost) and climate models with hydrologic and stream temperature models to predict the effects of fire and climate change on aquatic habitats and fish populations in boreal watersheds of interior Alaska. He is also working to characterize and quantify freshwater spawning and rearing habitat potential for Chinook salmon in the Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers, Alaska. In his free time, he enjoys hunting and fishing (and, if successful, cooking his quarry), spending time outdoors with his wife and dogs, and dabbling in nature photography.
For more information on Stephen’s research, also visit: http://stephenklobucar.weebly.com/.
Contact information:
PO BOX 757020
Fairbanks, AK 99775
214 Irving I Bldg
University of Alaska Fairbanks
office: 907.474.7913
fax: 907.474.7872
email: [email protected]
PO BOX 757020
Fairbanks, AK 99775
214 Irving I Bldg
University of Alaska Fairbanks
office: 907.474.7913
fax: 907.474.7872
email: [email protected]