Annie Caires
Adjunct Instructor
Contact
- Office
- JRH 201
- annie.caires@umt.edu
- Office Hours
Tues. 11:00 am – 12:45 pm, Thurs. 11:00 am – 12:45 pm, or by appointment
Personal Summary
Annie Caires is an educator and aquatic ecologist. She enjoys implementing evidence-based teaching practices in the classroom, and has helped facilitate the Summer Teaching Institute at UM. Prior to teaching, she studied invertebrates in lake and stream systems, including Lake Tahoe, Lake Mead, Lake Atitlán (Guatemala), Crater Lake, and the North Fork of the Virgin River. She focused primarily on the effects of system changes such as eutrophication and introductions of non-native species on aquatic invertebrate communities. She also has experinece with high school science education and research.
Education
M.S., Ecology, Department of Watershed Science, Utah State University, 2007
B.S., Conservation Biology, Department of Environmental and Resource Science, University of Nevada, Reno, 2004
Courses Taught
ENSC 105: Environmental Science
ENSC 360: Applied Ecology
Selected Publications
Caires, A.M., S. Chandra, and C.R. Nelson. 2016. Unique reproductive characteristics of Lake Tahoe’s Capnia lacustra (Plecoptera: Capniidae), a stonefly in decline. Freshwater Science 35:1291-1299.
Hayford, B.L., A.M. Caires, S. Chandra, and S.F. Girdner. 2015. Patterns in benthic biodiversity link lake trophic status to structure and potential function of three large, deep lakes. PLoS One 10:e0117024.
Caldwell, T.J., M.R. Rosen, S. Chandra, K. Acharya, A.M. Caires, C.J. Davis, M. Thaw, and D. Webster. 2015. Temporal and basin-specific population trends of quagga mussels on soft sediment of a multibasin reservoir. Pages 33-53 in W.H. Wong and S.L. Gerstenberger (editors). Biology and management of invasive quagga and zebra mussels in the western United States. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.
Caires, A.M., S. Chandra, B.L. Hayford, and M.E. Wittmann. 2013. Four decades of change: dramatic loss of zoobenthos in an oligotrophic lake exhibiting eutrophication. Freshwater Science 32:692-705.
Wittmann, M.E., S. Chandra, J.E. Reuter, A. Caires, S.G. Schladow, and M. Denton. 2012. Harvesting an invasive bivalve in a large natural lake: species recovery and impacts on native benthic macroinvertebrate community structure in Lake Tahoe, USA. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 22:588-597.
Caires, A.M., and S. Chandra. 2012. Conversion factors as determined by relative macroinvertebrate sampling efficiencies of four common benthic grab samplers. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 27:97-109.
Caires, A.M., M.R. Vinson, and A.M.D. Brasher. 2010. Impacts of hikers on aquatic invertebrates in the North Fork of the Virgin River, Utah. Southwestern Naturalist 55:551-557.
Wittmann, M.E., S. Chandra, A. Caires, M. Denton, M.R. Rosen, W.H. Wong, T. Tietjen, K. Turner, P. Roefer, and C. Holdren. 2010. Early invasion population structure of quagga mussel and associated benthic invertebrate community composition on soft sediment in a large reservoir. Lake and Reservoir Management 26:316-327.
Hobbies
In her free time, Annie likes fiddling for square dances with friends at Lake Missoula Old Time, hiking, or trying to find a beautiful fish.