Dr. David D. Osgood
Associate Professor of Biology

Education

B.S. Biology - University of North Carolina-Wilmington, 1988
M.S. Environmental Sciences - University of Virginia, 1991
Ph.D. Environmental Sciences - University of Virginia, 1996

Courses Taught

• Introduction to Environmental Issues
• Ecology; Wetlands Ecology
• Watershed Hydrology
• Conservation Biology
• Environmental Capstone Seminar

Research Area s

Wetland restoration
Watershed hydrology & ecology
Invasive plants
Tropical ecology
Latin American studies

Recent Publications

Osgood, D.T., Yozzo, D.J., Chambers, R.M., Pianka, S., Lewis, J., and LePage, C.  (In press).  Patterns of habitat utilization by resident nekton is Phragmites and Typha marshes of the Hudson River Estuary, New York.  Special Volume of the American Fisheries Society Journal. Invited Paper.

Osgood, D.T., Yozzo, D.J., Chambers, R.M., Jacobsen, D. Hoffman, T. and Wnek, J.  2003.  Tidal Hydrology and habitat utilization by resident nekton in Phragmites and non-Phragmites marshes.  Estuaries 26(2B): 523-534.  Invited Paper.

Chambers, R.M., Osgood, D.T., Bart, D. and Montalto, F. 2003.  Phragmites invasion and expansion in tidal wetlands:  Interactions among salinity, sulfide and hydrology.  Estuaries 26(2B): 398-406.  Invited Paper.

Harms, L., Salak, E., and Osgood, D.T.  2003.  Effects of Phragmites australis on the early life history stages of Fundulus heteroclitus at Iona Island Marsh, Hudson River, New York.  Section IV: 35 pp. In J.R. Waldman & W.C. Nieder (eds.), Final Reports of the Tibor T. Polgar Fellowship Program, 2002.  Hudson River Foundation.

Chambers, R.M. and Osgood, D.T., and Kalapasev, N. 2002. Hydrologic and chemical control of  Phragmites growth in tidal marshes. Marine Ecology Progress Series 239:83-91.

Hanson, S., Osgood, D.T., and Yozzo, D.J. 2002. Utilization of Phragmites australis habitat by marsh-resident nekton at Piermont Marsh in the lower Hudson River Estuary. Wetlands 22:326-337.

Osgood, D.T.  2000.  Subsurface hydrology and nutrient export from barrier island marshes at different tidal ranges.  Wetlands Ecology and Management 8:133-146.

Hanson, S. and Osgood, D.T. 1998. Utilization of Phragmites australis habitat by marsh-resident nekton at  Piermont Marsh in the lower Hudson River Estuary.  in J.R. Waldman and C. Nieder, editors.  Final reports of the T. Polgar Fellowship Program, 1998.  Hudson River Foundation, New York, NY.

Osgood, D.T. and J.C. Zieman 1998. The influence of subsurface hydrology on nutrient supply and smooth Cordgrass (S. alterniflora) production in a developing barrier island marsh. Estuaries 21:767-783.

Osgood, D.T., M.C.F.V. Santos, and J.C. Zieman.  1995.  Sediment physico-chemistry associated with natural marsh development on a storm-deposited sand flat. Marine Ecology Progress Series 120:271-283.

Osgood, D.T. and J.C. Zieman.  1993.  Factors controlling aboveground Spartina alterniflora  (smooth cordgrass) tissue element composition and production in different-age barrier island marshes.  Estuaries  16(4):815-826.