Kristina Beuning

Education

• Ph.D. University of Minnesota - Ecology/Quaternary Paleoecology - 1997
• M.S. University of Minnesota – Ecology - 1993
• M.A.T. Duke University – Biology - 1990
• B.S. Duke University – Biology/Music - 1989

Courses

• Biol 180 Conservation of the Environment
• Biol 211 Organismal Form and Function
• Biol 375 Limnology and Aquatic Ecology
• Biol 485 Issues in Biology
• Biol 491 Ecosystem Ecology

Research - Paleoecology

• Research in the ecology of aquatic environments (both temperate (NE and Midwest US)
• Tropical ecosystems (Indonesia and Africa) with a focus on aquatic macrophytes as indicators of both the current health of an aquatic ecosystem and as potential indicators of past and future environmental change 
• Additional research in palynology and paleoecology of terrestrial plant communities using charred grass cuticle remains in lake sediments to characterize the changing composition of grass-dominated ecosystems through time 
• Selected Publications:
  

  Schmidt, S. and K Beuning. (2005).  “Pine Lake, Wisconsin: Science and Settlement of a Tranquil Repose.”, La Crosse, WI, RC Printing, 120pp.

  Beuning, KRM and J Russell.  (2004).  Vegetation and sedimentation in the Lake Edward Basin, Uganda-Congo, during the late Pleistocene and Early Holocene.  Journal of Paleolimnology 32: 1-18.

  Beuning, KRM, MR Talbot, D Livingstone and G Schmukler.   (2003).  The sensitivity of carbon isotopic proxies to paleoclimatic forcing:  Case study from Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana over the last 32,000 years.  Global Biogeochemical Cycles 17: 1121

Contact information:
Phillips Hall 357
Department of Biology
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004
Ph: 715-836-6014
Fax: 715-836-5089
email: beuninkr@uwec.edu