Research Interests: physical and chemical limnology; reservoir ecology;
arctic limnology.
COURSES TAUGHT AT MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY
- Earth Science (GSC 199)
- Earth Through Time (GSC 102)
- Introduction to Water Science (GSC 303)
- Introduction to Oceanography (GSC 200)
- Physical/Chemical Limnology (GSC 665)
- Reservoir Ecology (BIO 589)
- Environmental Chemistry (BIO/CHE 513)
- Limnological Analysis Laboratory (BIO 670)
- Topics in Biogeochemistry (BIO/CHE/GSC 450)
CURRENTLY FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS
1. "Center for Watershed
Environments at Murray State University", National Science Foundation/Kentucky
EPSCoR Program, March 2002-February 2005.
2. "The Arctic LTER Project: Terrestrial and Freshwater Research on
Ecological Controls", National Science Foundation, September
1998-September 2004.
3. "Biogeochemical and Ecological Processes within a Reservoir Littoral
Zone, National Science Foundation, October 1999-December 2004.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
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Yurista, P.M.,
D.S. White, G.W. Kipphut, K. Johnston, G. Rice, and S.P. Hendricks. 2004.
Nutrient patterns in a mainstem reservoir, Kentucky Lake, USA, over a 10-year
period. Lake and Reservoir Management 20(2):148-163.
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Yurista, P.M., K. Johnston, G. Rice, G.W. Kipphut, and D.S. White. 2001.
Particulate organic carbon patterns in a mainstem reservoir, Kentucky Lake,
USA. Lake and Reservoir Management 17(4): 330-340.
- Kling, G.W., G.W. Kipphut, M.C. Miller, and W.J. O’Brien. 2000. The
integration of lakes and streams in a landscape perspective: the importance of
material processing on spatial patterns and temporal coherence. Freshwater
Biology 43:477-498.
- O'Brien, W.J., G.W. Kipphut, and others. 1997. The limnology of Toolik
Lake, p.61-106. In: A.M. Milner and M.W. Oswood (eds.), Freshwaters of Alaska:
ecological syntheses. Springer, New York.
- Hobbie, J.E., G.W. Kipphut, and others. 1995. Long-term measurements at
the Arctic LTER site, p. 391-409. In: T.M. Powell and J.H. Steele (eds.),
Ecological Time Series. Chapman and Hall, New York.
- Peterson, B.J., G.W. Kipphut, and others. 1993. Biological responses of a
tundra river to fertilization. Ecology 74:653-672.
- Kipphut, G.W., and S.C. Whalen. 1992. Access pipes for sampling through
thick ice. Hydrobiologia 240:267-269.
- Cornwell, J.C., and G.W. Kipphut. 1992. Biogeochemistry of manganese- and
iron-rich sediments in Toolik Lake, Alaska. Hydrobiologia 240:45-59.
- Kling, G.W., G.W. Kipphut, and M.C. Miller. 1991. Arctic lakes and streams
as gas conduits to the atmosphere: implications for tundra carbon budgets.
Science 251:298-301.
- Kipphut, G.W., and S.F. Sugai. 1990. Radium concentrations in drinking
waters of the Fairbanks, Alaska region. The Northern Engineer
22(4):11-14.
- Kipphut, G. W. 1990. Glacial meltwater input to the Alaska Coastal
Current: evidence from oxygen isotope measurements. Journal of Geophysical
Research 95:5177-5181.
E-mail: george.kipphut@murraystate.edu