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Environmental Studies and Sciences

Karen Kellogg

Karen Kellogg

Professor of Environmental Studies and Sciences & David H. Porter Chair

Contact Information:
Office: CIS 210i
Phone: x. 5198 (off campus: 518-580-5198)
E-mail: kkellogg@skidmore.edu

Education:

  • The Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D. in Ecology with Conservation Biology option (1997).
    Dissertation: Lake Malawi cichlid mating systems: Factors that influence mate selection.
  • University of Colorado, Boulder, Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology Department (1992-1993).
  • University of Iowa, B.S. in Industrial Engineering (1988).

Recent Publications

  • Kellogg, K. A. and *N. La Cumbre-Gibbs. 2023. The impact of state level residential building code stringency on energy consumption in the United States. Energy & Buildings. 278. 
  • *Chidekel, J., L. Quimby, and K. A. Kellogg. 2022. Living machines as a possible treatment for ibuprofen in wastewater. Solutions. [https://thesolutionsjournal.com/2022/07/24/].
  • Kellogg, K. A. and P. Leipzig-Scott.  2017.  The Influence of Turbidity on Prey Consumption in the Tessellated Darter.  Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc.  146(3):508-511.
  • Kellogg, K. and *C. Hobbs. 2016. A Case Study of Small Hydropower.  Solutions.  7(1), 46-54.
  • Kellogg, K. A. and *C. Hobbs. 2015. “Caring for a Legacy: Micro-hydro energy at ΢Ȧ College” <https://academics.skidmore.edu/blogs/microhydro/>.
  • *Liu-Sontag, N., K.A. Kellogg, and A. Chaucer. 2011. “Rephotography: Visualizing landscape and land use change” </wri/visual-landscape.php>.
  • Kellogg, K.A.  2010. “That is Our Bitterness”: Enslavement by Oil in the Niger Delta.  In: Environment and Object in Recent African Art.
  • Kellogg, K. A.  2009. A Suspended Landscape.  In: Lewis, T. and I. Berry (ed.).  Lives of the Hudson.
  • Jordan, R., D. Howe, K. A. Kellogg, F. Juanes, J. R. Stauffer, Jr., and E. Garcia-Vasquez.  2008.  Small-scale morphological differentiation in a cichlid may provide clues about rapidly diversifying systems.  Afr. Jour. Ecol.  46(1):107-109.
  • Juanes, F., K. T. Lee, A. McKnight, and K. A. Kellogg.  2008.  Claw allometry in green crabs, Carcinus maenas: heterochely, handedness, and sex.  Marine Biol.  153, 523-528.
  • Kellogg, K. A., *R. J. Bailey, *A. Cock-Esteb, *N. S. Dodge, M. Ennis-McMillan, J. A. Halstead, *B. K. Nesbitt, K. K. Nichols, and R. C. Turner.  2008.  The Water Resources Initiative (WRI) at ΢Ȧ College.  National Center for Science and Civic Engagement, Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities.  March, 2008:6-7.
  • Jordan, R., K. A. Kellogg, D. Howe, F. Juanes, J. R. Stauffer, Jr., and E. Loew.  2006.  Photopigment spectral absorbance of Lake Malawi cichlids.  Jour. Fish. Biol.  68, 1291-1299.
  • Wallace, A., A. L. Barnes, M. C. Ennis-McMillan, and K. A. Kellogg.  2006.  The Water Resources Initiative at ΢Ȧ College. <www.skidmore.edu/academics/env/wri>.
  • Stauffer, J. R., Jr., K. A. Kellogg, and K. R. McKaye.  2005.  Experimental Evidence of Female Choice in Lake Malaŵi Cichlids.  Copeia.  2005(3), 657-660.
  • Gray, E. S., K. A. Kellogg, and J. R. Stauffer, Jr.  2005.  Habitat shift of a native darter (Teleostei: Percidae) in sympatry with a non-native darter.  Amer. Mid. Nat.  154, 166-177.
  • Jordan, R., K. A. Kellogg, F. Juanes, D. Howe, J. R. Stauffer, Jr., G. Losey, and E. Loew.  2004. Ultraviolet reflectivity in three species of Lake Malawi rock-dwelling cichlids.  Jour. Fish. Biol. 65, 876-882.
  • Jordan, R., K. A. Kellogg, F. Juanes, and J. R. Stauffer, Jr.  2003.  Evaluation of female mate choice cues in a group of Lake Malawimbuna (Cichlidae).  Copeia.  2003(1), 181-186.
  • Lee, K. T., A. McKnight, K. A. Kellogg, and F. Juanes.  2003.  Salinity tolerance in color phases of female green crabs, Carcinus maenas (L.).  Crustaceana.  76(2), 247-255.
  • Kellogg, K. A.  2002.  Food supplies for the river otter (Lontracanadensis) in North America. In: The River Otter Action Plan.  Species Survival Commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.
  • Stauffer, J. R., Jr. and K. A. Kellogg.  2002.  Description of a new species in the Pseudotropheus williamsi complex from Lake Malawi, Africa.  Copeia.  2002(3), 146-151.
  • Jordan, R. C. and K. A. Kellogg.  2001.  Lake Malawi cichlid evolution and what stories females can tell.  Buntbarsche Bulletin.  April, 2001.
  • Kellogg, K. A., J. R. Stauffer, Jr., and K. R. McKaye.  2001.  Using cichlids to control parasitic diseases.  J. Aquar. & Aquat. Sci.  Vol. IX, 79-88.
  • Kellogg, K. A., J. R. Stauffer, Jr., and K. R. McKaye.  2000.  Characteristics that influence male reproductive success on a lek of Lethrinops c.f. parvidens (Teleostei:  Cichlidae).  Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol.  47(3):164-170.

*Indicates ΢Ȧ College undergraduate co-authors.

Contributed Papers

  • Kellogg, K. A., M. A. Ennis-McMillan, N. Dodge*, and B. Nesbitt*.  2011.  “Crooked Waters: A History of Riparian Conflict and Common Law in the Kayaderosseras Watershed, New York.”  Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences Annual Conference, Burlington, VT.
  • Ennis-McMillan, M. A., K. A. Kellogg, M. Bergen*, and L. Wohl-Pollak*.  2011.  “Ethnoecology of Aquatic Invasive Species: Conflicting Perspectives on Watershed Management in Upstate New York.” Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences Annual Conference, Burlington, VT.
  • Liu-Sontag, N.*, K. A. Kellogg, and A. Chaucer.  2011.  “Visualizing Changing Landscapes and Resource Use in the Saratoga Lake Watershed.”  National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Ithaca, NY.  
  • Youndt, M., and K. A. Kellogg. 2010.  Session: Business and the Environment.  Annual Meeting of International Association for Business and Society in Banff, Alberta, Canada.
  • Ennis-McMillan, M. C. and K. A. Kellogg.  2009.  Session: Water Wars: Water as a Commodity or as Human Right.  International Congress of Americanists in Mexico City, Mexico.
  • Kellogg, K. A., M. C. Ennis-McMillan, C. A. Gibson, J. A. Halstead, K. A. Marsella, K. K. Nichols, and R. C. Turner.  2008.  "Water Resources Initiative (WRI) at ΢Ȧ College." National Environmental Studies and Science Summit, Jonesboro, AR.
  • Ennis-McMillan, M. C., K. A. Kellogg, *A. Stafford, and *E. Black.  2008.  "Blessed with Water: Drinking Water Politics in Upstate New York."  American Anthropological Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA.
  • Kellogg, K. A., *R. Bailey, *A. Cock-Esteb, *N. S. Dodge, M. Ennis-McMillan, J. A. Halstead, *B. K. Nesbitt, K. K. Nichols, and R. C. Turner.  2008.  "The Water Resources Initiative (WRI) at ΢Ȧ College."  National Center for Science and Civic Engagement, Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities.  2008 Washington Symposium, Washington, D.C.
  • Ennis-McMillan, M. C. and K. A. Kellogg.  2008.  "Ethnoecology of Aquatic Invasive Species: Perspectives from Upstate New York."  Society for Applied Anthropology, Memphis, TN.
  • Ennis-McMillan, M.C., K. A. Kellogg, *M. Bergen, and *L. Wohl-Pollack.  2007.  "Ethnoecology of Aquatic Invasive Species: Conflicting views from Saratoga Lake, New York."  Annual Meetings of the Northeastern Anthropological Association, Ithaca, NY.
  • Jordan, R., K. A. Kellogg, F. Juanes, J. R. Stauffer, Jr., and E. Loew.  2003.  "Ultraviolet reflectivity and mate choice in a group of Lake Malawi mbuna (Cichlidae)."  Annual Meeting of the American Society of Icthyologists and Herpetologists, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
  • Jordan, R., K. A. Kellogg, F. Juanes, J. R. Stauffer, Jr., and E. Loew.  2002.  "Variation along a depth gradient of a Lake Malawi cichlid."  Annual Meeting of the American Society of Icthyologists and Herpetologists, Kansas City, Missouri.
  • Jordan, R., E. Loew, F. Juanes, K. Kellogg, and K. R. Stauffer, Jr.  2001.  "Photopigment sensitivity across taxa in Lake Malawi cichlids."  Annual Meeting of the American Society of Icthyologists and Herpetologists, Penn State University, University Park, PA.
  • Jordan, R., K. A. Kellogg, F. Juanes, and J. R. Stauffer, Jr.  2000.  "An evaluation of female mate choice cues in a group of Lake Malawi mbuna."  Annual Meeting of the American Society of Icthyologists and Herpetologists, Baja, Mexico.
  • Lee, K. T., A. McKnight, K. Kellogg, and F. Juanes.  2000.  "Distribution and salinity tolerance of red and green color phases of female green crabs, Carcinus maenas."  Annual Meeting of Benthic Ecology, UNC, Wilmington.

*Indicates ΢Ȧ College undergraduate co-authors.