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Hank Vanderploeg is a Research Ecologist and Ecosystem Dynamics Branch Chief at NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, where he has spent most of his career studying the lower food web, invasive species, and spatial interactions of the food web. He is particularly interested in lab and field experimental work to define important processes such feeding and nutrient cycling that connect different components of the food web to each other.
PhD, Oregon State University (biological oceanography)
MS, University of Wisconsin, Madison (zoology)
BS, Michigan Technological University (biological sciences)