Matthew R.

Dunkle
University of Wyoming mdunkle@uwyo.edu
Dept. Zoology and Physiology www.matthewrdunkle.weebly.com
1000 E. University Ave ORCID: 0000-0003-2147-3993
Laramie, Wyoming 82071 Phone: +1 (402) 427-4636

ACADEMIC Dept. Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie

APPOINTMENTS Postdoctoral Research Associate
Project: NSF-EPSCoR Track II Highly Predictive, Explanatory Models to Harness
the Life Science Data Revolution

EDUCATION University of Idaho, Moscow

Ph.D., Water Resources Science and Management, 2022.
Dissertation: Building a Food Web Portfolio: Hydrologic Heterogeneity Creates
Food Web Diversity on a Glacial Meltwater Landscape
Advisors: J. Ryan Bellmore and Christopher C. Caudill

M.S., Fisheries Science, 2017.

Thesis: Resource Subsidies from Spawning Pacific Lamprey: Spatial Dynamics of
Carcass Fate and Entry into Stream Food Webs
Advisor: Christopher C. Caudill

University of Montana, Missoula

B.S., with honors, Wildland Restoration (Aquatic), 2013.
B.A., with honors, Environmental Studies, 2013.
Minor Wilderness Studies

PUBLICATIONS

1. Dunkle, Matthew R., Bellmore, J., Fellman, J. & Caudill, C. Glaciers, snow, and rain: water source influ-
ences invertebrate community structure and secondary production across a hydrologically diverse sub-
arctic landscape. Limnology and Oceanography. In Press.
2. Fellman, J. B., Bellmore, J. R., Johnson, C., Dunkle, Matthew R & Hood, E. Glacier runoff influences bio-
geochemistry and resource availability in coastal temperate rainforest streams: Implications for juvenile
salmon growth. Limnology and Oceanography 68, 70–83 (2023).
3. Bellmore, J. R., Fellman, J. B., Hood, E., Dunkle, Matthew R & Edwards, R. T. A melting cryosphere con-
strains fish growth by synchronizing the seasonal phenology of river food webs. Global Change Biology
28, 4807–4818 (2022).
4. Dunkle, Matthew R, Dunbeck, R. A. & Caudill, C. C. Fish carcasses alter subyearling Chinook salmon dis-
persal behavior and density but not growth in experimental mesocosms. Ecosphere 12, e03856 (2021).
5. Dunkle, Matthew R, Lampman, R. T., Jackson, A. D. & Caudill, C. C. Factors affecting the fate of Pacific
lamprey carcasses and resource transport to riparian and stream macrohabitats. Freshwater Biology 65,
1429–1439 (2020).
6. Wicks-Arshack, A., Dunkle, Matthew R, Matsaw, S. & Caudill, C. An ecological, cultural and legal review of
Pacific lamprey in the Columbia River Basin. Idaho L. Rev. 54, 45 (2018).

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GRANTS AND AWARDS

2022 Water Resources Program Outstanding Graduate Student Award. University of Idaho, Moscow
2022 Outstanding Graduate Research and Creative Activity Award. University of Idaho, Moscow
2022 Outstanding Graduate Student Award. University of Idaho Graduate and Professional Student
Association
2022 Best Student Presentation. 2022 Alaska Chapter American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting.
(Remote)
2019-2022 Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center. The Potential Impacts of Climate Change on River
Food Webs and Salmon Productivity in Southeast Alaska. Bellmore, J. Ryan, Principal Investiga-
tor. Co-Investigators: Dunkle, M.R., Fellman, J.B., Caudill, C.C.
2017-2019 NSF Integrative Graduate Education Research Traineeship (IGERT)
2017 Outstanding Masters Student, College of Natural Resources, University of Idaho
2017 Outstanding Fisheries Science Graduate Student, Fisheries Sciences, University of Idaho
2016 Best Graduate Student Poster, College of Natural Resources, University of Idaho
2015 Clearwater Flycasters Association Graduate Student Research Award
2014 Kelly Creek Flycasters Association Conservation Research Scholarship
2012 Provost’s Student Enrichment Study Abroad Grant, University of Montana
2012 Study Abroad Program Grant, University of Montana
2011 USDA Climate Change Studies Small Grant
2011 NSF EPSCoR Undergraduate Research Award, University of Montana
2011 Division of Biological Sciences Research Grant, University of Montana
2011 Provost’s Student Enrichment Travel Grant, University of Montana

TEACHING Dept. Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie

• ZOO5890 Advanced Approaches in Aquatic Ecology (co-instructor), Spring 2023

Dept. Fish and Wildlife Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow

• WR 505 Professional Development in Water Resources (co-instructor),Spring 2019

• FOR 221 Principles of Ecology (TA),Spring 2019
• FISH 481 Ichthyology Laboratory (Instructor),Spring 2016
• Guest Lecture General Ecology, Invertebrate Zoology, Climate Change Impacts on Fish and Wildlife

MENTORSHIP University of Idaho, Moscow

• Mentored nontraditional and underrepresented students in fisheries ecology
• Mentored two Native students with Columbia River Intertribal Fish Commission
Teaching Rising American Indian Leaders (TRAILS) summer interns
• Managed 6 undergraduates conducting lab processing of invertebrates
• Supervised R.A. Dunbeck undergraduate thesis project in Ecology and
Conservation Biology leading to co-authorship on a manuscript

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PRESENTATIONS

1. Bellmore, J., Dunkle, M.R., Fellman, J. & Caudill, C. Meta-food-webs in a hydrologically diverse meltwater
riverscape: contributions to ecosystem stability and species persistence in Freshwater Sciences 2023 Annual
Meeting (Brisbane, Australia, 2023).
2. Dunkle, M.R., Bellmore, J., Fellman, J. & Caudill, C. Seasonal Variation in Physicochemical Conditions and
Impact on Stream Food Webs in Complex Alaskan Riverscapes in Freshwater Sciences 2023 Annual Meeting
Presented by C. C. Caudill due to illness (Brisbane, Australia, 2023).
3. Dunkle, M.R., Bellmore, J., Fellman, J., Hood, E. & Caudill, C. Riverscape Seasonal Regimes Create Distinct
Food Web Phenologies in Meltwater and Non-Meltwater Streams near the Juneau Icefield, Alaska in Joint
Aquatic Sciences Meeting (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2022).
4. Dunkle, M.R., Bellmore, J., Fellman, J., Hood, E. & Caudill, C. Riverscape Heterogeneity and Food Web
Diversity in Southeast Alaska in Alaska Chapter American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting (Remote, 2021).
5. Dunkle, M.R., Bellmore, J., Fellman, J., Hood, E. & Caudill, C. Riverscape Heterogeneity and Food Web
Diversity in Southeast Alaska in (Dec. 2020).
6. Dunkle, M.R., Bellmore, J., Fellman, J., Hood, E. & Caudill, C. Stream Physico-Chemical Heterogeneity Cre-
ates Asynchronous Food Web Dynamics Across Glacial Landscapes in Society for Freshwater Science An-
nual Meeting Abstract accepted and published in conference proceedings; conference canceled due to
COVID-19 (Madison, Wisconsin, 2020).
7. Bellmore, J., Fellman, J., Hood, E., Dunkle, M.R. & Edwards, R. From Glacial, To Snow, To Rain: Effects of
Hydrologic Homogenization on Aquatic Food Webs in Southeast Alaska in Society for Freshwater Science
Annual Meeting (Salt Lake City, Utah, 2019).
8. Johnson, C. T., Hood, E., Bellmore, J., Dunkle, M.R., Fellman, J. & Dwyer, M. Watershed Type Influences
Export Rates of Organic Matter and Stream Invertebrates in Alaska Chapter American Fisheries Society
Annual Meeting (Juneau, Alaska, 2019).
9. Dunbeck, R., Dunkle, M.R. & Caudill, C. Movement Response of Juvenile Chinook Salmon (O. tshawytscha)
to Carcasses of Rainbow Trout (O. mykiss) and Pacific Lamprey (E. tridentatus) in Western Division Ameri-
can Fisheries Society 2018 Annual Meeting (Anchorage, AK, 2018).
10. Dunkle, M.R., Bellmore, J., Fellman, J., Hood, E. & Caudill, C. Glaciers and Salmon in Southeast Alaska:
Does Landscape Complexity and Mobility Influence Energy Pathways to Aquatic Consumers? in Western
Division American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting (Anchorage, AK, May 2018).
11. Dunkle, M.R., Bellmore, J., Fellman, J., Hood, E. & Caudill, C. Hydrologic Heterogeneity Drives Asynchronous
Food Web Dynamics in Southeast Alaskan Rivers in American Geophysical Union 2018 Fall Meeting Poster
presentation (Washington D.C., 2018).
12. Dunbeck, R., Dunkle, M.R., Caudill, C. & Lampman, R. Quantifying the Response of Benthic Invertebrates
to Post-Spawn Pacific Lamprey Carcasses in an Interior Columbia Basin Stream in 2017 Annual Meeting of
the Idaho Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Poster presentation (Boise, ID, 2017).
13. Dunkle, M.R. & Caudill, C. Can a Specifically-Timed Resource Lessen Early Life-History Density Dependence?
Exploring the Response of Juvenile Salmon to a Historic Marine-Derived Nutrient Subsidy in 2017 Annual
Meeting Ecological Society of America (Portland, Oregon, 2017).
14. Dunkle, M.R. & Caudill, C. Can Restoring a Historic, Culturally Important Species Improve Recovery of Oth-
ers? Insights into the Role of Pacific Lamprey in Northwest Streams in 2017 Washington State University
EARThS Conference (Pullman, WA, 2017).
15. Dunkle, M.R., Caudill, C., Lampman, R., Jackson, A. & McIlraith, B. Missing Nutrients from Pacific Lamprey:
Insights from Translocation into Historic Spawning Reaches in 2017 Annual Meeting of the Idaho Chapter
of the American Fisheries Society Poster presentation (Boise, ID, 2017).

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 16. Wicks-Arshack, A., Dunkle, M.R., Matsaw, S. & Caudill, C. An Ecological, Cultural, and Legal Review of
Pacific Lamprey in the Columbia River Basin in 2017 Annual Meeting of the Idaho Chapter of the American
Fisheries Society Poster presentation (Boise, ID, 2017).
17. Dunkle, M.R., Caudill, C., Fremier, A. & Bellmore, J. Using a Food Web Model to Explore the Ecosystem
Response to Pacific Lamprey Restoration in 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society Poster
presentation (Portland, OR, 2015).

MEMBERSHIPS Society Memberships

AND SERVICE • American Fisheries Society
• Society for Freshwater Science
• Associated Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography
• Ecological Society of America

Society Service
• Palouse Unit, American Fisheries Society, Secretary, 2015-2016
• Society for Ecological Restoration Board of Directors, Student Representative, 2011
• UM Student Chapter Society for Ecological Restoration, President, 2011

Reviewer
Global Change Biology, Journal of Animal Ecology, Ecology of Freshwater Fish,
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science, Inland Waters

TECHNICAL • Statistics Certificate, U. of Idaho

SKILLS • COMPASS Science Communication Training
• Proficient in modern programming in R, LATEX, and familiar with QGIS

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