Denice Heller Wardrop

302 Walker Building
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Telehone: 814.863.1005
FAX: 814.863.7943
Email: dwh110@psu.edu

education and licenses:

Pennsylvania State University - Ph.D. Ecology
University of Virginia - M.S. Wildlife Environmental Sciences
University of Virginia - B.S. Systems Engineering
Licensed Professional Engineer, Commonwealths of Pennsylvania and Virginia

professional employment:

2005–Present: Senior Reseach Associate, Penn State University
2003–Present: Associate Director, Cooperative Wetlands Center
2000–2003: Assistant Director, Cooperative Wetlands Center
1997–2005: Research Associate, Penn State University
1933–1997: Research Assistant, Penn State University
1991–1993: Risk Assessment Specialist, Environmental Standards Inc. Valley Forge, PA
1988–1991: Project Manager, Nittany Geosciences, State College, PA
1985–1988: Senior Project Manager, Environmental Resources Management, Inc., Exton, PA
1982–1984: Research/Teaching Assistant, University of Virginia
1979–1980: Systems Engineer, Satellite Business Systems, McLean, Virginia

selected service

Associate Director, Penn State Cooperative Wetlands Center
Pennsylvania Governor’s Representative, Chesapeake Bay Program Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee
Director, Mid-Atlantic Regional Wetland Working Group, USEPA/Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
Member, National Biological Assessment of Wetlands Working Group, US EPA Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds
Member, National Tiered Aquatic Life Use Working Group, US EPA Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds
Chair and/or Geography Representative, Fixed Term and Research Faculty Advisory Committee, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
Appointed Member, Commission for Women, 2003-2006

selected teaching:

ECOL 597, Advances in Ecology (Fall 2004, 2005, 2006)
GEOG 497, 21st Century Environmental Challenges: Movies That Matter (Fall 2005, 2006)
GEOG 497, Environmental Issues Across the Americas: Field Experience in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest (Spring 2006, 2007)
MKT 435, Marketing and Society (Spring 2006)
WFS 550, Wetland Ecology and Management (Spring 1999, 2001, 2003)

selected publications:

Wardrop, D.H., M.E. Kentula, D.L. Stevens, S.F. Jensen, and R.P. Brooks. Assessment of Wetland Condition: An Example form the Upper Juniata Watershed in Pennsylvania, USA. Wetlands, in press.

Wardrop, D.H., M.E. Kentula, S.F. Jensen, D.L. Stevens, K.C. Hychka, and R.P. Brooks. Assessment of Wetlands in the Upper Juniata Watershed in Pennsylvania, USA, Using the Hydrogeomorphic Approach. Wetlands, in press.

Wardrop, D.H., C. Herschner, K. Havens, K. Thornton, and D. Bilkovic. Developing and Commuicating a Taxonomy of Ecological Indicators: A Case Study from the Mid-Atlantic. Ecohealth, in press.

Miller, S.J., D.H. Wardrop, W.M. Mahaney, and R.P. Brooks. (2006). A plant-based index of biological integrity (IBI) for headwater wetlands in central Pennsylvania. Ecological Indicators 6:290-312.

Wardrop, D.H., J.A. Bishop, M. Easterling, K. Hychka, W.L. Myers, G.P. Patil, and C. Taille. (2005). Use of landscape and land use parameters for classification and characterization of watersheds in the Mid-Atlantic across five physiographic provinces. Environmental and Ecological Statistics 12, 209-223.

Patil, G. P., J. Bishop, W.L. Myers, C. Taillie, R. Vraney, and D. H. Wardrop. (2004). Detection and delineation of critical areas using echelons and spatial scan statistics with synoptic cellular data. Environmental and Ecological Statistics: Special Issue on Multiscale Advanced Raster Map Analysis.

Brooks, R.P., D.H. Wardrop, and J.A. Bishop. (2004) Assessing wetland condition on a watershed basis in the mid-Atlantic region using synoptic land cover maps. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Vol 94(1), pp. 9-22.

Niemi, G., D.H. Wardrop, R.P. Brooks, S. Anderson, V. Brady, H. Paerl, C. Rakocinski, M. Brouwer, B. Levinson, M. McDonald. (2004). Rationale for a new generation of ecological indicators for coastal waters. Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol 112, No. 9, pp. 979-986.

Mahaney, W.M., D.H. Wardrop, and R.P. Brooks. (2004) Impacts of stressors on the emergence and growth of wetland plant species in Pennsylvania, USA. Wetlands, Vol 24 No. 3, pp. 538-549.

Cole , C.A., R.P. Brooks, and D.H. Wardrop. 1998. Wetland hydrology and water quality as a function of hydrogeomorphic subclass. Wetlands 17(4):456-467.

Methods for Evaluating Wetland Condition: Module #10, Using Vegetation to Assess Environmental Conditions in Wetlands. EPA 822-R-01-007j. December 2001. Major Contributors: S. Fennessey, M. Gernes, J. Mack, and D.H. Wardrop.