Curt Stager - Curriculum Vitae

CURRICULUM VITAE

J. Curtis Stager

Natural Resources Division

Paul Smith's College

Paul Smiths, NY 12970

(518) 327-6342

stagerj@pscmail.paulsmiths.edu

Education

Professional Experience

Selected Publications

Awards, Honors, Grants

Other Recent Activities

Education

B.A.
1979. Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME; magna cum laude, biology/geology

Ph.D
1985. Duke University, Durham, NC; zoology/geology. Advisor: D.A. Livingstone

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Professional Experience

Date

1987-present

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, Paul Smith's College.

Biology 141 & 142, Forest Soils 231, Stream Ecology lab, Evolution 332, Guided Research, Paleoecology 442

2003

Summer Faculty, The Nyanza Project, NSF and University of Arizona, Tucson.

Paleolimnology course and undergraduate student research on Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania.

2000-present

Adjunct Research Faculty, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono.

Paleoclimate research on African lakes.

1998-1999

Acting Assistant Dean, Natural Resources Division, Paul Smith's College.

Teaching, managing 30 faculty, budgeting, staffing, recruitment, and program development in 4 A.A.S. & B.S. programs.

1996-1999

Adjunct Research Faculty, Climate Change Research Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham.

Paleoclimate research on African lakes.

1994, 1995

Marine Biology Instructor, National Audubon Society, Summer Adult Ecology Camp, Hog Island, ME.

1992

Summer Faculty, School for Field Studies, Coral Reef Management, Turks & Caicos Islands.

1989, 1990

Aquatic Biology Instructor, University of North Carolina, Wilmington.

Summer Ventures Program, field research for gifted high school youths.

1985-1986

Instructor, University of North Carolina, Wilmington.

Marine Biology 362, Graduate Seminar in Quaternary Studies.

1985

Postdoctoral Associate, Duke University.

Limnological survey and sediment coring of Cameroon crater lakes.

1980-1984

Teaching Assistant, Duke University.

Ecology, Biological Oceanography, Cell Biology, Organization of Life, Vertebrate Anatomy, Introductory Biology.

Contact Information | Education | Professional Experience | Selected Publications | Awards, Honors, Grants | Other Actvities

Peer-reviewed Publications

(* designates undergraduate student coauthor)

Date

1984 Stager, J.C. The diatom record of Lake Victoria (East Africa): the last 17,000 years. pp. 455-476, In: D.G. Mann, (ed.), Proc. Seventh Int. Symp. on Living and Fossil Diatoms, Phila. Koeltz, Koenigstein.

1985
Lundberg, J.G., and J.C. Stager. Microgeographic diversity in the neotropical knife-fish Eigenmannia macrops (Gymnotiformes, Sternopygidae). Envir. Biol. Fish. 13:173-181.

1986 Stager, J.C., P.R. Reinthal, and D.A. Livingstone. A 25,000 year history for Lake Victoria, East Africa, and some comments on its significance for the evolution of cichlid fishes. Freshwater Biology 16:15-19.

1987 Stager, J.C., and L.B. Cahoon. The age and trophic history of Lake Waccamaw, N.C. Jour. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 103:1-13.

1988 Stager, J.C. Environmental changes at Lake Cheshi, Zambia, since 40,000 years B.P. Quat. Res. 29:54-65. (doctoral dissertation)

1990
Maley, J., ... Stager, J.C.,... Zogning, A. (13 authors). Lithostratigraphy, volcanism, paleomagnetism, and palynology of Quaternary deposits from Barombi Mbo (West Cameroon): preliminary results. Jour. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res. 42: 319-335.

Cahoon, L.B., J.R. Kucklick, and J.C. Stager. A natural phosphate source for Lake Waccamaw, North Carolina, USA. Int. Rev. ges Hydrobiol. 75:339-351.

1991 Maley, J., ... J.C. Stager ... and A. Zogning (13 authors). West Cameroon quaternary lacustrine deposits: Preliminary results. Special Volume on African Continental Sediments, Vol. II. Jour. African Earth Sciences 12: 147-157.

1992
Stager, J.C., and L.B. Cahoon. Distribution of benthic microalgae, pigments, and phosphate in Lake Waccamaw, North Carolina. Jour. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 108:117-126.

Stager, J.C. Simple gravity corer suitable for educators. Jour. Paleolimnol. 7:253-255.

1994 Martin, M.R., and J.C. Stager. Assessing the human impact on lakes using sediment analyses. Lake Reserv. Mgmt. 9:95-96.

1996
Stager, J.C., and V. Chen*. Fossil evidence of shell length decline in Queen Conch (Strombus gigas L.) at Middleton Cay, Turks and Caicos Islands, British West Indies. Caribb. Jour. Sci. 32:14-20.

1997
Stager, J.C., and P.A. Mayewski. Abrupt early midHolocene climatic transition registered at the equator and the poles. Science 276:1834-1836.

Stager, J.C., B. Cumming, and L.D Meeker. An 11,400-year, high-resolution diatom record from Lake Victoria, East Africa. Quat. Res. 47: 81-89.

Stager, J.C., P.R. Leavitt, and S. Dixit. Assessing impacts of past human activity on water quality in Upper Saranac Lake, NY. Lake Res. Mgmt. 13:175-184.

1998
Stager, J.C. Ancient analogues for recent environmental changes at Lake Victoria, East Africa. pp. 37-46 in Environmental change and response in East African Lakes. Kluwer.

Beuning, K.R.M., K. Kelts, and J.C. Stager. Abrupt climatic changes associated with the arid Younger Dryas Interval in Africa. pp. 147-156 in Environmental change and response in East African Lakes. Kluwer.

1999 Stager, J.C., and R. Anfang*. Preliminary evidence of environmental changes at Lake Bambili (Cameroon, West Africa) since 24000 BP. Jour. Paleolimnol. 22: 319-330.

2000
Stager, J.C., and T. Johnson. A 12,400 year offshore diatom record from Lake Victoria, East Africa. Jour. Paleolimnol. 23: 373-383.

2001
Stager, J.C. Climatic change and African rain forests in the 21st century. Chapter in African Rain Forest Ecology and Conservation, Yale University Press.

Stager, J.C. Did reclamation pollute Black Pond? Adirondack Jour. Envir. Stud. 8: 22-27.

2002

Stager, J.C., Mayewski, P.A., and Meeker, L.D. Cooling cycles, Heinrich event 1, and the desiccation of Lake Victoria. Palaeogeo., Palaeoclim., Palaeoecol. 183: 169-178.

2003 Stager, J.C., B. Cumming, and L.D. Meeker. A 10,000 year high-resolution diatom record from Pilkington Bay, Lake Victoria, East Africa. Quat. Res. 59: 172-181.

Scholz, C.A., King, J.W., Ellis, G.S., Swart, P.K., Stager, J.C., and S.M. Colman, Paleolimnology of Lake Tanganyika, East Africa, over the past 100 kyr. Jour. Paleolimnol.30: 139-150.

2004

Stager, J.C., J.J. Day, and S. Santini. Comment on "Origin of the superflock of cichlid fishes from Lake Victoria, East Africa." Science 304: 963.

Mayewski, P.A., E. Rohling, J.C. Stager, and 13 others. Holocene climate variability. Quat. Res. 62: 243-255.

2005
Stager, J.C., D. Ryves, B.F. Cumming, L.D. Meeker, and J. Beer. Solar variability and the levels of Lake Victoria, East Africa, during the last millenium. Jour. Paleolimnol. 33: 243-251.

Stager, J.C., J. Westwood*, D. Grzesik*, and B.F. Cumming. A 5500 year environmental history of Lake Nabugabo, Uganda. Palaeo-3 218: 347-354.

In press, 2005
Maasch, K.A., P.A. Mayewski, E.J. Rohling, J.C. Stager, W. Karl�n, L.D. Meeker, and E.A. Meyerson. A 2000 year context for modern climate change. Geografiska Annaler

In prep., 2005 Stager, J.C., .D Grzesik*, R.E. Hecky, and B. Cumming. Climate change and the eutrophication of Lake Victoria, East Africa. (for Jour. Paleolimnol.)

Stager, J.C., B.F. Cumming, and T. Langden. Paleolimnological records of road salt impacts on three Adirondack lakes. (for Lake Res. Mgmt.)

Date	Other Publications
1983	Livingstone, D.A., ... J.C. Stager....and J. Chorowicz (23 authors). Potential sites for a long core in the East African Rift. Soc. Nat. Elf Aquitaine, BCREOP 7: 443-448.
1986	Stager, J.C. The origin of feces. Journal of Irreproducible Results. pp. 20-21.
1987	Stager, J.C. Silent Death From Cameroon's Killer Lake. National Geographic 172:404-420.
1990	Stager, J.C. Africa's Great Rift Valley. National Geographic 177:2-41.
	Maley, J., P. ... J.C. Stager, ... and A. Zogning (15 authors). West Cameroon Quaternary lacustrine deposits from Barombi Mbo: Sedimentology, volcanism, paleomagnetism and palynology. A Nyos type event ca. 21,000 years B.P.? International Working Group on Crater Lakes Newsletter No. 3. 2.
	Maley, J, .... J.C. Stager, ... et A. Zogning (13 authors). Paleoenvironments de l'Ouest-Cameroun au Quaternaire recent : resultats preliminaires. p. 228-247 in D. Schwartz et R. Lanfranchi, eds., Paysages Quaternaires de l'Afrique Centrale Atlantique. Comite des Editions de l'ORSTOM, Paris.
1994	Martin, M.R. and J.C. Stager. 1994. The limnological condition of Upper Saranac Lake: final report of the 1993 monitoring program. Adirondack Aquatic Institute. Paul Smiths, NY.
	Stager, J.C. Just do it! A research-based approach to introductory biology laboratory. Jour. Coll. Sci. Tchg. 24:91-93.
	Stager, J.C. Investigating Adirondack lakes. Adirondack Jour. Environ. Stud. 1:30-34.
1996	Stager, J.C. Update on the ecological condition of Adirondack lakes. Wild Earth Spring:29-33.
1998	Stager, J.C. Field Notes from the Northern Forest. Syracuse University Press.
	Stager, J.C., M. DeAngelo, and J. Swartz. A paleolimnological investigation of Black Pond, Franklin County, NY. A.C. Walker Foundation Research Series.*
	Stager, J.C., J. Hunter, and J. van Benschoten. A paleolimnological history of Long Pond, Franklin, County, NY. A.C. Walker Foundation Research Series.
	Martin, M.R., ... and J.C. Stager (11 authors). The carrying capacity of Blue Mountain Lake. Final Report, Adirondack Aquatic Institute.
2000	Stager, J.C. Two chapters in Rooted in Rock: New Adirondack Writing. (J. Gould, Ed.) . Syracuse University Press.
2002	Stager, J.C. and M.R. Martin. Global climate change and the Adirondacks. Adirondack Jour. Envir. Stud. 9: 1-10.
	Stager, J.C. Book review: North African Lakes. Jour. Paleolimnol. 28: 491-492. (invited)
2003	Stager, J.C., and T. Sanger.* An Adirondack "Heritage Lake." Adirondack Jour. Envir. Stud. 10: 6-10.
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Awards, Honors, Grants

Date

1982
Excellence in Teaching Award, Duke University.

1994
Adirondack North Country Association Award for Field Notes radio program.

1996 A.C. Walker Foundation ($2,000).
Sediment coring studies of recent disturbances in Black and Long Ponds, Adirondack Park, New York. (w/students)

Paul Smith's College Faculty Research Grant ($1,120).
Radiocarbon dating of a core from Lake Bambili, Cameroon (with student).

1997 Distinguished Service Award, Paul Smith's College;
Awarded annually by the student body to an outstanding faculty/staff member.

A.C. Walker Foundation ($2,000).
Sediment coring studies of recent disturbances in Black and Long Ponds, Adirondack Park, New York. (w/students)

Paul Smith's College Faculty Research Grant ($600).
Radiocarbon dating of a core from Lake Victoria, East Africa

1998 National Science Foundation, ESH ($60,000; ATM- 9808972).
A 9,000 year diatom record of climate fluctuations from Lake Victoria, East Africa, with decade-scale resolution.

A.C. Walker Foundation ($1,200).
Lead-210 dating of a sediment core from Wolf Lake, Adirondack Park, New York. (w/student)

1999 National Science Foundation, ESH, Supplement ($15,040).
Sediment coring and geological sampling at Lake Victoria, Uganda.

National Science Foundation, ESH, R.E.U.Supplement ($17,000).
Student research at Lake Victoria, Uganda.

2001
National Science Foundation, ESH ($147,400; ATM-0117170): Sediment records of environmental changes at Lake Victoria, East Africa, during the past millenium, with decade-scale resolution.

Paul Smith's College Faculty Research Grant ($1,200).
Radiocarbon dating of a core from Lake Nabugabo, Uganda. (with students)

2004
Paul Smith's College Faculty Research Grant ($1,000).
lead-210 dating of a core from Upper Cascade Lake, NY. (with students)

National Science Foundation, ESH ($299,964; ATM-0401845): Late Holocene geo-biologic records of climate changes at Lake Tanganyika, East Africa, with seasonal to decadal resolution.

2005
Distinguished Faculty Award, Paul Smith's College; Awarded annually by the student body to an outstanding faculty/staff member.

Alumni Association Outstanding Faculty Award, Paul Smith's College; Awarded annually by the alumni association to an outstanding faculty member.

Contact Information | Education | Professional Experience | Selected Publications | Awards, Honors, Grants | Other Actvities

Other Activities

1993 - 1999
Advisory Board Member, Research Staff, Interim Director: Adirondack Aquatic Institute

1996
Steering Committee Member: International Decade for the East African Lakes

1990 - Present
Co-host and co-writer of weekly, internationally broadcast natural science program, Natural Selections, with North Country Public Radio (www.ncpr.org)

1997-2003
Natural History columnist for Adirondack Explorer (quarterly news magazine)

	Student Research
Catharine Christie	Paleoecological reconstruction of lake trophic status: the effect of human activity on lake conditions in southeastern Ontario in the recent (ca. 200 years) past. (Ph.D. committee, Queen�s University, Kingston, Ontario).


Jay Swartz	A paleolimnological investigation of Black Pond, NY. (Guided Research in Science, SUNY-Plattsburgh; 1993).
Daun Dahlen	The paleolimnology of Rat Pond, NY. (M.Sc. committee, SUNY-Plattsburgh; 1996).
John Hunter & John van Benschoten	A paleolimnological history of Long Pond, Franklin, County, NY. (Guided Research in Science, PSC; 1997; published in A.C. Walker Foundation Research Series).
Thom Sanger	An unusually pristine Adirondack lake. (Guided Research in Science, PSC; 1998).
Rebecca Anfang	Preliminary evidence of environmental changes at Lake Bambili (Cameroon, West Africa) since 24,000 BP. (Guided Research in Science, PSC; 1997. Published in JOPL, 1999).
Matthew Hazzard	Late Holocene trends in diatom abundance in Lake Victoria, East Africa. (Guided Research in Science, PSC; 2000).
Dustin Grzesik, Kristen Przywara, Scott Haddam, & Carlene Heimiller	Sediment coring at Lake Victoria, East Africa. (Guided Research in Science, PSC; NSF-funded expedition, June, 2000, manuscript in prep.).
Nicole Cook & Jeff Dowd	The diatom record of Bear Pond, NY. (Senior Capstone, PSC; 2002).
MacKenzie Hall	Assessing human impact on Lake Bonaparte. (Senior Capstone, PSC; 2002).
Sara Mochamer	Sediment coring in Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria, East Africa. (field research funded by NSF and by International Center for Research in Agroforestry, Kenya; 2002).
Jason Fitzpatrick	Sediment coring at Lake Sibayi, South Africa. (field research funded by NSF, with S.A.Council for Geosciences; 2003)
Tammy Karst-Riddoch	Sedimentary diatoms from sensitive alpine (Northwest Canada) and subarctic (Iceland) lakes as indicators of environmental and climatic conditions. (Ph.D. committee, Queen�s University, Kingston, Ontario; 2004).
Matthew Hazzard	Diatom record of lake level fluctuations at Lake Sibaya, South Africa, over the last 400 years. (Senior Capstone, PSC; 2004)
	Sediment coring at Lakes Sibaya and Fundudzi, South Africa. (field research funded by NSF, with S.A.Council for Geosciences; 2004)
Jerome Madson	Sediment coring at Lakes Sibaya and Fundudzi, South Africa. (field research funded by NSF, with S.A.Council for Geosciences; 2004); Senior capstone project, Spring, 2005.

	Recent Seminars
2000	High resolution paleoclimate records from Lake Victoria, East Africa. BGR, Hannover, FRG; Aarhus University, Denmark; Climate Change Research Center, Durham, NH, USA.

2001	High resolution paleoclimate records from Lake Victoria, East Africa. International Center for Agroforestry, Nairobi, Kenya; University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Solar variability and East African paleoclimates. DMU, Silkeborg, Denmark.
2003	Solar variability and East African climates of the late Quaternary. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; Sunspots, droughts, and disease in tropical Africa. Micropaleontology Department, Aarhus University, Denmark.
2004	Solar variability and paleoclimates at Lake Victoria, East Africa. Queen's University, Kingston, ONT.
2005	Keynote speaker (In Search of Adirondack Heritage Lakes); Adirondack Research Consortium Conference, Lake Placid, NY. Paleo studies of Adirondack Heritage Lakes: Clarkson University, Biology Department seminar.
	Solar variability and paleoclimates at Lake Victoria, East Africa. SUNY Potsdam, Biology Department seminar.



	Contact Information \| Education \| Professional Experience \| Selected Publications \| Awards, Honors, Grants \| Other Actvities

	Education
	Professional Experience
	Selected Publications
	Awards, Honors, Grants
	Other Recent Activities

	Education
B.A.	1979. Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME; magna cum laude, biology/geology
Ph.D	1985. Duke University, Durham, NC; zoology/geology. Advisor: D.A. Livingstone

	Contact Information \| Education \| Professional Experience \| Selected Publications \| Awards, Honors, Grants \| Other Actvities

	Professional Experience
Date
1987-present	Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, Paul Smith's College. Biology 141 & 142, Forest Soils 231, Stream Ecology lab, Evolution 332, Guided Research, Paleoecology 442
2003	Summer Faculty, The Nyanza Project, NSF and University of Arizona, Tucson. Paleolimnology course and undergraduate student research on Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania.

2000-present	Adjunct Research Faculty, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono. Paleoclimate research on African lakes.
1998-1999	Acting Assistant Dean, Natural Resources Division, Paul Smith's College. Teaching, managing 30 faculty, budgeting, staffing, recruitment, and program development in 4 A.A.S. & B.S. programs.

1996-1999	Adjunct Research Faculty, Climate Change Research Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham. Paleoclimate research on African lakes.

1994, 1995	Marine Biology Instructor, National Audubon Society, Summer Adult Ecology Camp, Hog Island, ME.

1992	Summer Faculty, School for Field Studies, Coral Reef Management, Turks & Caicos Islands.

1989, 1990	Aquatic Biology Instructor, University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Summer Ventures Program, field research for gifted high school youths.

1985-1986	Instructor, University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Marine Biology 362, Graduate Seminar in Quaternary Studies.

1985	Postdoctoral Associate, Duke University. Limnological survey and sediment coring of Cameroon crater lakes.

1980-1984	Teaching Assistant, Duke University. Ecology, Biological Oceanography, Cell Biology, Organization of Life, Vertebrate Anatomy, Introductory Biology.


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	Peer-reviewed Publications (* designates undergraduate student coauthor)
Date
1984	Stager, J.C. The diatom record of Lake Victoria (East Africa): the last 17,000 years. pp. 455-476, In: D.G. Mann, (ed.), Proc. Seventh Int. Symp. on Living and Fossil Diatoms, Phila. Koeltz, Koenigstein.

1985	Lundberg, J.G., and J.C. Stager. Microgeographic diversity in the neotropical knife-fish Eigenmannia macrops (Gymnotiformes, Sternopygidae). Envir. Biol. Fish. 13:173-181.

1986	Stager, J.C., P.R. Reinthal, and D.A. Livingstone. A 25,000 year history for Lake Victoria, East Africa, and some comments on its significance for the evolution of cichlid fishes. Freshwater Biology 16:15-19.

1987	Stager, J.C., and L.B. Cahoon. The age and trophic history of Lake Waccamaw, N.C. Jour. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 103:1-13.

1988	Stager, J.C. Environmental changes at Lake Cheshi, Zambia, since 40,000 years B.P. Quat. Res. 29:54-65. (doctoral dissertation)

1990	Maley, J., ... Stager, J.C.,... Zogning, A. (13 authors). Lithostratigraphy, volcanism, paleomagnetism, and palynology of Quaternary deposits from Barombi Mbo (West Cameroon): preliminary results. Jour. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res. 42: 319-335.

	Cahoon, L.B., J.R. Kucklick, and J.C. Stager. A natural phosphate source for Lake Waccamaw, North Carolina, USA. Int. Rev. ges Hydrobiol. 75:339-351.
1991	Maley, J., ... J.C. Stager ... and A. Zogning (13 authors). West Cameroon quaternary lacustrine deposits: Preliminary results. Special Volume on African Continental Sediments, Vol. II. Jour. African Earth Sciences 12: 147-157.

1992	Stager, J.C., and L.B. Cahoon. Distribution of benthic microalgae, pigments, and phosphate in Lake Waccamaw, North Carolina. Jour. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 108:117-126.

	Stager, J.C. Simple gravity corer suitable for educators. Jour. Paleolimnol. 7:253-255.

1994	Martin, M.R., and J.C. Stager. Assessing the human impact on lakes using sediment analyses. Lake Reserv. Mgmt. 9:95-96.

1996	Stager, J.C., and V. Chen. Fossil evidence of shell length decline in Queen Conch (Strombus gigas* L.) at Middleton Cay, Turks and Caicos Islands, British West Indies. Caribb. Jour. Sci. 32:14-20.

1997	Stager, J.C., and P.A. Mayewski. Abrupt early midHolocene climatic transition registered at the equator and the poles. Science 276:1834-1836.

	Stager, J.C., B. Cumming, and L.D Meeker. An 11,400-year, high-resolution diatom record from Lake Victoria, East Africa. Quat. Res. 47: 81-89.

	Stager, J.C., P.R. Leavitt, and S. Dixit. Assessing impacts of past human activity on water quality in Upper Saranac Lake, NY. Lake Res. Mgmt. 13:175-184.

1998	Stager, J.C. Ancient analogues for recent environmental changes at Lake Victoria, East Africa. pp. 37-46 in Environmental change and response in East African Lakes. Kluwer.

	Beuning, K.R.M., K. Kelts, and J.C. Stager. Abrupt climatic changes associated with the arid Younger Dryas Interval in Africa. pp. 147-156 in Environmental change and response in East African Lakes. Kluwer.

1999	Stager, J.C., and R. Anfang. Preliminary evidence of environmental changes at Lake Bambili (Cameroon, West Africa) since 24000 BP. Jour. Paleolimnol.* 22: 319-330.

2000	Stager, J.C., and T. Johnson. A 12,400 year offshore diatom record from Lake Victoria, East Africa. Jour. Paleolimnol. 23: 373-383.

2001	Stager, J.C. Climatic change and African rain forests in the 21st century. Chapter in African Rain Forest Ecology and Conservation, Yale University Press.
	Stager, J.C. Did reclamation pollute Black Pond? Adirondack Jour. Envir. Stud. 8: 22-27.
2002	Stager, J.C., Mayewski, P.A., and Meeker, L.D. Cooling cycles, Heinrich event 1, and the desiccation of Lake Victoria. Palaeogeo., Palaeoclim., Palaeoecol. 183: 169-178.
2003	Stager, J.C., B. Cumming, and L.D. Meeker. A 10,000 year high-resolution diatom record from Pilkington Bay, Lake Victoria, East Africa. Quat. Res. 59: 172-181.
	Scholz, C.A., King, J.W., Ellis, G.S., Swart, P.K., Stager, J.C., and S.M. Colman, Paleolimnology of Lake Tanganyika, East Africa, over the past 100 kyr. Jour. Paleolimnol.30: 139-150.
2004	Stager, J.C., J.J. Day, and S. Santini. Comment on "Origin of the superflock of cichlid fishes from Lake Victoria, East Africa." Science 304: 963.
	Mayewski, P.A., E. Rohling, J.C. Stager, and 13 others. Holocene climate variability. Quat. Res. 62: 243-255.
2005	Stager, J.C., D. Ryves, B.F. Cumming, L.D. Meeker, and J. Beer. Solar variability and the levels of Lake Victoria, East Africa, during the last millenium. Jour. Paleolimnol. 33: 243-251.
	Stager, J.C., J. Westwood, D. Grzesik, and B.F. Cumming. A 5500 year environmental history of Lake Nabugabo, Uganda. Palaeo-3 218: 347-354.
In press, 2005	Maasch, K.A., P.A. Mayewski, E.J. Rohling, J.C. Stager, W. Karl�n, L.D. Meeker, and E.A. Meyerson. A 2000 year context for modern climate change. Geografiska Annaler
In prep., 2005	Stager, J.C., .D Grzesik, R.E. Hecky, and B. Cumming. Climate change and the eutrophication of Lake Victoria, East Africa. (for* Jour. Paleolimnol.)
	Stager, J.C., B.F. Cumming, and T. Langden. Paleolimnological records of road salt impacts on three Adirondack lakes. (for Lake Res. Mgmt.)

	Awards, Honors, Grants
Date
1982	Excellence in Teaching Award, Duke University.
1994	Adirondack North Country Association Award for Field Notes radio program.
1996	A.C. Walker Foundation ($2,000). Sediment coring studies of recent disturbances in Black and Long Ponds, Adirondack Park, New York. (w/students)
	Paul Smith's College Faculty Research Grant ($1,120). Radiocarbon dating of a core from Lake Bambili, Cameroon (with student).
1997	Distinguished Service Award, Paul Smith's College; Awarded annually by the student body to an outstanding faculty/staff member.
	A.C. Walker Foundation ($2,000). Sediment coring studies of recent disturbances in Black and Long Ponds, Adirondack Park, New York. (w/students)
	Paul Smith's College Faculty Research Grant ($600). Radiocarbon dating of a core from Lake Victoria, East Africa
1998	National Science Foundation, ESH ($60,000; ATM- 9808972). A 9,000 year diatom record of climate fluctuations from Lake Victoria, East Africa, with decade-scale resolution.
	A.C. Walker Foundation ($1,200). Lead-210 dating of a sediment core from Wolf Lake, Adirondack Park, New York. (w/student)
1999	National Science Foundation, ESH, Supplement ($15,040). Sediment coring and geological sampling at Lake Victoria, Uganda.
	National Science Foundation, ESH, R.E.U.Supplement ($17,000). Student research at Lake Victoria, Uganda.
2001	National Science Foundation, ESH ($147,400; ATM-0117170): Sediment records of environmental changes at Lake Victoria, East Africa, during the past millenium, with decade-scale resolution.
	Paul Smith's College Faculty Research Grant ($1,200). Radiocarbon dating of a core from Lake Nabugabo, Uganda. (with students)
2004	Paul Smith's College Faculty Research Grant ($1,000). lead-210 dating of a core from Upper Cascade Lake, NY. (with students)
	National Science Foundation, ESH ($299,964; ATM-0401845): Late Holocene geo-biologic records of climate changes at Lake Tanganyika, East Africa, with seasonal to decadal resolution.
2005	Distinguished Faculty Award, Paul Smith's College; Awarded annually by the student body to an outstanding faculty/staff member.
	Alumni Association Outstanding Faculty Award, Paul Smith's College; Awarded annually by the alumni association to an outstanding faculty member.
	Contact Information \| Education \| Professional Experience \| Selected Publications \| Awards, Honors, Grants \| Other Actvities

	Other Activities
1993 - 1999	Advisory Board Member, Research Staff, Interim Director: Adirondack Aquatic Institute

1996	Steering Committee Member: International Decade for the East African Lakes

1990 - Present	Co-host and co-writer of weekly, internationally broadcast natural science program, *Natural Selections,* with North Country Public Radio (www.ncpr.org)

1997-2003	Natural History columnist for *Adirondack Explorer* (quarterly news magazine)