PERSONAL HISTORY
Name: Gary David Grossman
Position: Professor
Address: Warnell School Forestry & Natural Resources, University Georgia
Telephone: (706) 542-1160
E-mail: grossman@uga.edu
Languages: Castillian Spanish (fluent), French (conversational)
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
B.S. in Conservation and Resource Studies; University of California, Berkeley, 8-75
Ph.D. in Animal Ecology and Limnology; University of California, Davis, 8-79.
Dissertation: Ecological and evolutionary adaptation in the bay goby (Lepidogobius lepidus): behavior, demography and feeding.
FACULTY MEMBERSHIP
Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources
Honor’s Faculty
Graduate Faculty
Ecology Faculty (courtesy faculty)
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Ecological Society of America
Society for Conservation Biology
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
American Fisheries Society
Society for Freshwater Science
Association of Southeastern Biologists (Life Member)
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Professor Emeritus, Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 9-22 to present.
Professor, Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 7-09 to present
Distinguished Research Professor, Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 7-04 to 6-09
Professor, Warnell School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 7-92 to 6-04
Associate Professor, Warnell School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 7-87 to 6-92
Assistant Professor, Warnell School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 7-81 to 6-87
Lecturer, 9-77 to 2-78, Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Sacramento
Post Doctoral Researcher, 7-79 to 6-81, University of California, Davis
Lecturer, 1-80 to 6-80, Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Sacramento
Curator of Fish Collection, 10-75 to 8-76, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
HONORS
1979
Honorable Mention, Best Student Paper Award Ecological Research Society, Sacramento, CA.
1981
George Wise Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Tel Aviv (declined in order to accept position at University of Georgia).
1984
Best Student Paper (co-author with Joe Hightower) at Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society.
1986
Honorable Mention, Best Student Paper Award (co-author with Douglas Facey) at Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society.
1995 – Present (haven’t checked this lately)
Listed in Who’s Who in America.
1996 – Present (?)
Listed in A Directory of Poets and Writers,
1997
Honorable Mention, Best Student Paper Award (co-author) at Annual Meeting of Association of Southeastern Biologists.
2001
University Georgia Disability Services Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year
2003
International Visitor for Undergraduate/Graduate Education at Karlstad University, Sweden
2004-2009
Distinguished Research Professorship, University Georgia
2009
Honorable Mention, Best Student Paper Award (co-author with Duncan Elkins) at Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society.
2010
Member, Center for Independent Experts, NOAA
2011
William Evans Fellow, University of Otago, New Zealand
2014
Carl Sullivan Fishery Conservation award of the American Fisheries Society.
2015
Elected to the first class of Fellows, American Fisheries Society
2017
Faculty Fellowship for the Summer Institute in Israel (Jewish National Fund/Media Watch).
Elected as a Fellow to the Linnean Society of London (oldest active scientific society in the world).
2018
Schusterman Fellow in Jewish Studies.
Marquis Who’s Who, Lifetime Achievement Award.
2021
Meritorious Teaching Award in Ichthyology, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
CONGRESSIONAL EXPERT TESTIMONY
Provided expert testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources, hearing on ““The Costly Impacts of Predation and Conflicting Federal Statutes on Native and Endangered Fish Species.”” 10 February 2016 video @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEB3dnDmsBc .
CITATIONS & H-INDEX
Google Scholar (12-20-23) indicates my work has been cited over 9454 times and my H-index is 49.
COURSES INSTRUCTED
Biological Conservation (Undergrad.), Community Ecology (Grad.), Ecology (Undergrad.), Fish Ecology (Undergrad/Grad.), Fisheries Management (Undergrad.), Graduate Seminar in Fish Ecology, Graduate Seminar in Community Ecology, Graduate Seminar in Stream Ecology, Population Ecology (Grad.), Quantitative Approaches to Conservation Biology (Grad.),
TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES PRIOR TO RETIREMENT
Natural History of Georgia (undergraduate non-major, 3 units, taught annually)
Undergraduate Honors Theses Supervised
Geoff Chilcote, 1998
James Roberts, 2001 (thesis published)
Carol Guy, 2002 (thesis published)
Matthew Slafkofsky, 2005
Sara Smiley, 2007
Zach Anglin 2010
Amos Tuck 2011
Rachel Hawes 2015
Bryson Hilburn, 2021
Nicholas Troyer, 2021
Creative Non-Fiction
2022 – Digging Deep. Tamarind Literary Magazine, V4: 19-27.
2023 – A Young Man Begins College. Meat for Tea, The Valley Review, v. 17(4):43-48.
2024 – Will the Rivers Still Run. Salvation South, 3 March 2024 (online)
2024 – College Continues. Meat for Tea, The Valley Review, v. 18(1): 84-90.
2024 – Sustenance. Bookends Review, May 22, 2024.
2024 – A Humble Beginning. Meat for Tea, The Valley Review, v. 18(2)
2024 – Window Splat. Salvation South, 29 June 2024 (online)
2025 – The Trauma of LA, Empyrean Literary Magazine
POETRY Published poems can be found at https://garydavidgrossman.medium.com/
1995 – Tomatoes in late August. Mobius 9:25
1995 – Winter clouds. The Old Red Kimono: 24:45
1995 – Haiku. Brussels Sprout: 12:42
1995 – A Poem. In Your Face: 11:36
1995 – Uncried tears. Poetry Motel Wallpaper (1 page broadside)
1995 – Crab Apples. Midwest Poetry Review October 1995:11
1995 – Salt Marsh Congregations. Opus Literary Review Fall 1995:7
1995 – Dining on Tybee. Feh 19:23
1995 – Northern Sierra. The Acorn 11:35
1995 – Dancing in January. The Acorn 11:24
1996 – Personal Values. Feh 20: 52, reprinted in Jour. Radical Wonder 3-24-23
1996 – Cabin Fever. Feh 20: 50
1996 – Chimney Swifts at Dusk. The Acorn 12:14
1996 – Beach Bugs. Feh 21: 3
1996 – Carpel Tunnel Syndrome. Feh: 21: 37
1997 – Kudzu in Clarke County. Night Roses: 15: 4
1997 – Georgia Rain. Cotton Gin: Spring 1997: 6
1997 – October Rill. Cotton Gin: Spring 1997: 7
1997 – While Clouds Linger Over Dreams. Acorn 16:41
1998 – I Have Always Wondered. Pearl: Winter 1998:96
1998 – Athenian Tragedy. Lilliput Review: 90:13
2000 – Carnivory. Blood and Fire Review: 1:4, reprinted in Jour. Radical Wonder 3-10-23
2005 – A Cardinal in January. Blood and Fire Review 5:20.
2002 – 6:35 am. Athens Parent Magazine: Dec. 2002, reprinted in Jour. Radical Wonder 3-17-23
2003 – Anna, Age Three & One-Half Takes an Interest in Fashion. Athens Parent Magazine: Jan. 2003, reprinted in The Family anthology. V.2, 2022
2003 – Reflections on Painting the Kitchen. Athens Parent Magazine: Aug. 2003, reprinted 2022 in The Poet Magazine, https://www.thepoetmagazine.org/
2005 Nightnoises. Athens Parent Magazine
2013 – Chimney swifts in Athens, GA. Truck http://halvard-johnson.blogspot.com/2013/10/chimney-swifts-in-athens-georgia-gary-d.html 2013
2014 – Rolodex, Truck http://halvard-johnson.blogspot.com/2014/12/gary-d-grossman.html 2014
2021 – Budbreak, Last Stanza Poetry Journal # 5 reprinted in “Suicide”, 2023, Poetry for Mental Health,
2021 – Bullies Will Be Bullies, Verse Virtual, June
2021 – Hand Sanitizer, Verse Virtual, June
2021 – Cicadas, Brood X, Verse Virtual August
2021 – Moderation, Last Stanza Poetry Journal #6 ,
2021 – Rainbow, Brown, and Brookie, Last Stanza Poetry Journal #6
2021 – The Losses of COVID-19, Verse Virtual, October
2021 – Babe Ruth Struck Out 1326 Times, Verse Virtual, October
2021 – Unexpected Disturbances, Poetry Life and Times, October
2021 – Flotsam and Jetsam, Trouvaille Review, October
2021 – Snake Handlers, Verse Virtual, December
2021 – The Dishwasher, Verse Virtual, December
2021 – Stealing a Line From Proust, Black Poppy Review, December
2021 – Chalk, Trouvaille Review, December
2022 – Hummingbirds at the Feeder in August, Trouvaille Review, January
2022 – Figs, July 19th, 2021, Last Stanza Poetry Journal #7
2022 – Carpel Tunnel Syndrome, Verse Virtual, February
2022 – Stealing Two Queries From Proust Poetry Superhighway February 12
2022 – Cherry Bombs, MacQueen’s Quinterly v. 12, March
2022 – American Sycamore, Trouvaille Review, April, Reprinted in Our Changing World, 2023
2022 – Transformations, Verse Virtual, April
2022 – Voice Lessons, Verse Virtual, April
2022 – My Night Stand Drawer, Verse Virtual, April
2022 – Pacific Coast Highway 1, Muddy River Poetry Review
2022 – A Glimmer, Verse Virtual, Verse Virtual, June
2022 – Grandpa’s Tackle Box, Verse Virtual, June, reprinted by Silver Birch Press October
2022 – The Girl in the Orange Tank Top at Sarah’s Creek Camp Ground, Verse Virtual, June
2022 – Popping Shrimp Heads, Delta Poetry Review 4 #11
2022 – Poetry on the Listserve, Knot Magazine, Fall
2022 – The minute I realized I was old, Knot Magazine, Fall
2022 – On getting a tattoo, Knot Magazine, Fall
2022 – Jetlag, Knot Magazine, Fall
2022 – Cleaning Out My Office After Four Decades, Knot Magazine, Fall
2022 – Gramma’s Strudel, Your Daily Poem, September 17
2022 – Leftover Kugel, Poetica, reprinted by Silver Birch Press 1 September, 2023
2022 – Mindfulness (short fiction) , MacQueen’s Quinterly 14, August
2022 – Daylilies, MacQueen’s Quinterly 14, August
2022 – Neighborhood Kites, Verse Virtual, August
2022 – Anguish, Verse Virtual, August
2022 – Beach Lots, St. George Island, June, Verse Virtual, August
2022 – The Joys of Gardening, MacQueen’s Quinterly 15, September
2022 – Picking Figs, MacQueen’s Quinterly 15, September
2022 – Oh You Rascal, Billy Collins, MacQueen’s Quinterly 15, September
2022 – First Cicada, MacQueen’s Quinterly 15, September
2022 – Picking Carrots, Last Stanza Poetry Journal #10
2022 – Rhododendrons Blooming in the Smokies, Poetry Life and Times, October 19
2022 – Black-Shouldered Kite, Rust and Moth, Winter
2022 – California Bay Laurel, Verse Virtual, November
2022 – The Next Cast, The Journal of Radical Wonder, December 23
2022 – Great Blue Heron, The Journal of Radical Wonder, December 22
2022 – Chinese Mustard, The Journal of Radical Wonder, December 21
2022 – Lauds, The Journal of Radical Wonder, December 20
2022 – CAPTCHA, Defenestration, December 20
2023 – Heart Cracked Not Broken, MacQueen’s Quinterly 16, January
2023 – The Seven Sisters, MacQueen’s Quinterly 16, January
2023 – Do We Really Need Another Poem About the Ocean, Verse Virtual, January
2023 – Longleaf Pine Bark, Verse Virtual, January
2023 – Communalities, One Sentence Poems, January 4
2023 – Sketchy Old Man, Moss Piglet January p.57
2023 – When You Stood There, The Journal of Radical Wonder, January 15
2023 – Ambivalent About Crows, Medusa’s Kitchen, January 25
2023 – Colonoscopy, Medusa’s Kitchen, January 25
2023 – Clicking on the Heart, Medusa’s Kitchen, January 25
2023 – Lessons From the Zen Poet, Medusa’s Kitchen, January 25
2023 – Off Blue Sky, Medusa’s Kitchen, January 25
2023 – The Couch, Medusa’s Kitchen, January 25
2023 – Fountain Pens Will Improve Your Life, The Journal of Radical Wonder, February 2
2023 – Trout Fishing Warwoman Creek, Georgia, The Journal of Radical Wonder, February 9
2023 – Beech Trees Dancing in Winter, Your Daily Poem, February 15
2023 – Make the Barbies Talk, Daddy. Verse Virtual, March
2023 – Cause Unknown, Verse Virtual, March
2023 – Fish Market, Verse Virtual, March
2023 – The Emotions of Trees, Wild Roof Journal #19, reprinted 2024 in Poets & Authors at Pasaquan,
2023 – Bomb Cyclone in Georgia, Salvation South, March 9, 2023
2023 – Paying Attention on the Baldwin Grade, Salvation South, March 9, 2023
2023 – Quartering an Apple, Salvation South, March 9, 2023
2023 – To the Careworn Live Oak Trunk Washed Up on Morro Strand, Song of Eretz, Spring
2023 – Learning How to Sing, Last Stanza Poetry Journal #11
2023 – Hours of Prayer, Sheila-Na-Gig, March 2023
2023 – Snow Melt, Last Stanza Poetry Journal #12, April 2023
2023 – Color Fields, First Literary Review-East, May 2023
2023 – The Gravity of Impulse, MacQueen’s Quinterly #18
2023 – Wakefulness, MacQueen’s Quinterly #18
2023 – The Sisters, Verse Virtual, September
2023 – Dead Spot, Verse Virtual, September
2023 – Targeted Advertising, MacQueen’s Quinterly #20, September
2023 – Tante Sophie’s Schnapps Glasses, MacQueen’s Quinterly #20, September
2023 – Barred Owls, MacQueen’s Quinterly #20, reprinted 2024 in Poets & Authors at Pasaquan,
2023 – For the Girl at the Athens Comic Book Fair With the Crematorium Tote, MacQueen’s Quinterly #20 September
2023 – Cumulus Clouds in Athens, GA, Delta Poetry Review 5 #15
2023 – Driving Rachel to Sleep, 1994, Last Stanza Poetry Journal #14, October
2023 – Growing Up Poor, Poetry Breakfast, October 18
2023 – Cloacal Kiss, Medusa’s Kitchen, October 18
2023 – Seminole Pumpkin, Medusa’s Kitchen, October 18
2023 – The Constellations, Medusa’s Kitchen, October 18
2023 – Missed Opportunities, Medusa’s Kitchen, October 18
2023 – DeKaye’s Brown Snake, Medusa’s Kitchen, October 18
2023 – Bare Bones, Salvation South, October 21
2023 – The Quiet, Poetry Breakfast, October 23
2023 – Impulse Control, One Sentence Poems, November
2023 – Blessings, Blue Heron Review, Fall 2023
2023 – The Mockingbird and the Worm, Full House Literary, Winter
2023 – Bloodroot in March, Streetlight Magazine, 17 November
2024 – These Days, Verse Virtual, January
2024 – Chicken Truck, Verse Virtual, January
2024 – One Degree of Separation, MacQueen’s Quinterly #21, January
2024 – Covering the Beds, MacQueen’s Quinterly #22, February
2024 – Recollections, Poetry Breakfast, March 18
2024 – Truth Matters, The Prose Poem #6, March
2024 – Leaf Out, Salvation South, March 24
2024 – The Gift, Verse Virtual, April
2024 – Picking Rattlesnake Beans, Verse Virtual, April
2024 – The Anger of a Slapped Sky, The Prose Poem #9, April
2024 – Eleven Ways of Participating With Zoom, Defenestration, April
2024 – She Reads in Front of a Fake Zoom Background, MacQueen’s Quinterly #23, April
2024 – Folklore, MacQueen’s Quinterly #23, April
2024 – Polar Vortex, The Prose Poem #10, May
2024 – Ars Poetica, Medusa’s Kitchen, June 2
2024 – Underwater, Medusa’s Kitchen, June 2
2024 – Self Examination, Medusa’s Kitchen, June 2
2024 – Flipping the Switch, Streetlight Magazine, June
2024 – The Funeral, The Beatnik Cowboy, June 22
2024 – Will You Buy My Book, The Beatnik Cowboy, June 22
2024 – Alfalfa Hay, Delta Poetry Review, June, v 6 (#17)
2024 – Trauma, Verse Virtual, August
2024 – Sprouting Onions, Verse Virtual, August
2024 – The Wind is Lovely on August 31st, Salvation South, 31 August
2024 – A Backflip of Language, MacQueen’s Quinterly #24, August
2024 – How to Crush a Car, MacQueen’s Quinterly #24, August
2024 – Rising at 5:47am, MacQueen’s Quinterly #24, August
2024 – Haiku, Cold Moon Journal, 5 September
2024 – White Oak, MacQueen’s Quinterly #25
2024 – Frog Shrouded, Panoplyzine, September
2024 – Just Fallen Leaves, Last Stanza Poetry Journal #18 October
2024 – Missing, Verse Virtual, November
2024 – Osmosis, Verse Virtual, November
2024 – A Poem. Witcraft, 2 Nov. Orig. published in In Your Face 1995
2024 – Personal Values. Witcraft, 2 Nov. Originally published in Feh 1996, reprinted Jour. Radical Wonder 2023
2024 – Babe Ruth Struck Out 1326 Times. Witcraft, 2 Nov. Orig. published in Verse Virtual 2021.
2024 – Eleven Ways of Participating With Zoom, Witcraft, 2 Nov. Orig. published in Defenestration, 2024
2024 – When the Spring Winds Are Strong, Wolf Spiders Balloon, Streetlight Magazine, November, 8
2024 – Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, Red Wolf Wondrous Leaflets #2, November
2024 – Self-Portrait in Numbers, Red Wolf Wondrous Leaflets #2, November
2024 – Toxicity, Red Wolf Wondrous Leaflets #2, November
2024 – Torso, Eunoia Review, November 22
2024 – Orphan, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, November 23
2024 – Impulse Control II, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, November 23
2024 – The Price of Eggs, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, November 23
2024 – Twelve Ounce Dark Roast, One Sentence Poems, December
2024 – Sir Isaac Newton’s First Law of Metaphor, Mid-Atlantic Review, December 6th
2024 – Debits and Credits, Mid-Atlantic Review, December 6th
2024 – A Tuesday, Late Summer, in the Blue Ridge, Sheila-Na-Gig, December
2025 – History Lesson, Athens GA, Salvation South, January
2025 – Guy in a Thin Blue Parka Doing Tai Chi in the Last Available Parking Spot in the Restaurant
Lot, Chiron Review, March
2025 – Artifact, The Prose Poem, forthcoming.
FEATURED READER
Chewing the Gristle (2020)
Wordland, Georgia Public Broadcasting (2021),
Classic City Vibes, Athens Regional Library System, (2023),
Athens Word of Mouth (2023),
Mind Gravy, Columbia, SC (2023),
Winterville GA Library (2023),
Little Five Poetry Bash (Atlanta, 2023),
Dire Literary Series (virtual, Oct. 12, 2023),
J. Radical Wonder (virtual, Dec. 17, 2023),
Sheila-na-Gig Reading series (virtual, Jan. 11, 2024),
Black Dog Reading Series, (virtual, Jan 16, 2024),
Congregation Children of Israel Poetry Havdalah (March 2, 2024}
Pasaquan Poets and Writers (May 11, 2024)
Words With You Reading Series (virtual, May 14, 2024),
Eastern Shore Writers Assoc. Coffee and Poets (virtual, May 19, 2024)
Kelsay Authors Reading (virtual, July 20, 2024)w
Well-Versed Words (virtual, August 11, 2024)
Storyteller Review, Love Stories (virtual, November 17, 2024) (virtual, June 11, 2024)
PAPERS PRESENTED AT SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
(Invited papers are marked with an *, 127 total.)
1978
Grossman, G. D. Demographic characteristics of an intertidal bay goby population. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, Tempe, AR.
1979
Grossman, G. D. The adaptive significance of intraspecific aggression in the bay goby. Ecological Research Society, Sacramento, CA.
1981
*Grossman, G. D. The deterministic regulation of community structure in a rocky intertidal fish community. Symposium on the ecology and physiology of intertidal fishes. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, Corvallis, OR.
Grossman, G. D., Moyle, P. B., and J. O. Whitaker, Jr. Community regulation and patterns of resources partitioning. Third Pacific Technical Workshop in Fish Food Habit Studies. Asilomar, CA.
1982
Grossman, G. D. Non-equilibrium community structure in stream fishes. Georgia Fishery Workers Assoc., Annual Meeting, Athens, GA.
Grossman, G. D. and M. C. Freeman. Reproductive ecology of an intertidal sculpin Oligocottus synderi. Western Society of Naturalists, Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA.
Grossman, G. D., Moyle, P. B., and J. O. Whitaker, Jr. Stochasticity in structural and functional organization of an Indiana stream fish assemblage.American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, DeKalb, Ill.
1983
Grossman, G. D. Deterministic regulation of an intertidal fish assemblage: effects of differential food resource utilization.American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual meeting, Tallahassee, FL.
*Grossman, G. D. Microhabitat utilization in a southeastern United States stream fish assemblage. 2nd Congress on Iberian Ichthyology, Barcelona, Spain.
*Grossman, G. D. The detection of regulatory processes in fish assemblages: an empirical and philosophical examination of the concordance methodology. 2nd Congress on Iberian Ichthyology, Barcelona, Spain.
Grossman, G. D. and M. C. Freeman. Food resource partitioning: the mechanism of deterministic regulation in a rocky intertidal fish assemblage. Western Society of Naturalists, Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Floyd, S., Grossman, G. D., and M. C. Freeman. Patterns of microhabitat utilization in a southeastern stream fish assemblage. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, Tallahassee, FL.
Harris, M., Grossman, G. D., and M. Rawson. Tilefish catch rates and bottom sediment size composition in the South Atlantic Bight. Georgia Fishery Workers Assoc., Annual Meeting, Macon, GA.
1984
Grossman, G. D. Deterministic regulation of an intertidal fish assemblage: effects of differential food resource utilization. Fourth Technical Workshop in Fish Food Habit Studies, Asilomar, CA.
Freeman, M. C. and G. D. Grossman. Life history aspects of Oligocottus snyderi at Dillon Beach, CA. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, Norman, OK.
Hightower, J. and G. D. Grossman, Effect of environmental variability on harvest policies for multi-aged fish stocks. American Fisheries Society, Annual Meeting, Cornell, NY.
Hill, J. and G. D. Grossman. Home range estimates for several stream fishes. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, Norman, OK.
Erickson, D., Harris, M., and G. D. Grossman. Aspects of the reproductive biology of tilefish from the Georgia continental slope. Georgia Fishery Workers Assoc., Annual Meeting, St. Simons Island, CA.
Erickson, D. L., Harris, M., and G. D. Grossman. Ovarian cycling of tilefish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps) from the South Atlantic Bight, USA. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, Norman, OK.
Harris, M., Hightower, J., Erickson, D., and G. D. Grossman. A preliminary analysis of age structure sex
ratios, and catch rates for a developing tilefish fishery off Georgia. Ga. Fishery Workers Assoc., Annual Meeting, St. Simons Island, GA.
1985
Grossman, G. D., Freeman, M. C., de Sostoa, A., Lobón-Cerviá, J., Viñolas, D., and M-A. Puig. A multivariate analysis of nest site selection in Blennius fluviatilis (Pisces: Blennidae) from the Rio Matarraña, Spain. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, Knoxville, TN.
Grossman, G. D., de Sostoa, A., Freeman, M., and J. Lobón-Cerviá. Microhabitat selection in Spanish riverine fishes. Fifth Congress of European Ichthyologists, Stockholm, Sweden.
Grossman, G. D., Freeman, M. C., Hill, J., Stouder, D., Facey, D., Barrett, J., and M. Flood. Organization of a southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage: a summary of current work. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, Knoxville, TN.
Hill, J. and G. D. Grossman. Home range estimates for several stream fishes. Georgia Fishery Workers Assoc. Annual Meeting, Savannah, GA.
Erickson, D., Hightower, J., and G. D. Grossman. The relative gonadal index: an alternative index for quantification of reproductive condition. Am. Fish. Soc., Annual Meeting, Sun Valley, ID.
1986
Grossman, G. D., de Sostoa, A., Freeman, M. and J. Lobón-Cerviá. Microhabitat selection in Spanish riverine fishes. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, Victoria, British Columbia.
Barrett, J. and G. D. Grossman. Effects of exposure to direct current electricity on the survivorship of some non-game stream fishes. Georgia Fishery Workers, Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
Barrett, J. and G. D. Grossman. Direct-current electricity, a suitable method for long-term population analysis of stream fishes. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, Victoria, British Columbia.
Facey, D., Grossman, G. D. and G. S. Helfman. Seasonal comparisons of oxygen consumption of four stream fishes at different water velocities. American Fisheries Society, Annual Meeting, Providence, R.I.
Hill, J. and G. D. Grossman. A model of current velocity use for two southern Appalachian stream fishes.American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, Victoria, British Columbia.
Hill, J. and G. D. Grossman. A model of current velocity utilization for rainbow trout and rosyside dace. Georgia Fishery Workers, Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
Welch, T. and G. D. Grossman. Trends in catch-per-unit-effort, length composition, and reproduction in the tilefish fishery off Georgia 1982-1985. Georgia Fishery Workers, Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
1987
Barrett, J. C. and G. D. Grossman. Methoxychlor induced food limitation and its effects on microhabitat selection in two species of stream fishes. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, Albany, NY.
Crawford, M., Freeman, M., and G. D. Grossman. Drought effects on a southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, Albany, NY.
Facey, D., Grossman, G. D. and G. Helfman. Is the cost of holding position important in microhabitat selection by stream fishes? Assoc. Southeastern Biologists, Annual Meeting, Athens, GA.
Grossman, G. D., de Sostoa, A., Freeman, M., and J. Lobón-Cerviá. Effects of the introduction of rainbow trout on microhabitat use in a Spanish riverine fish assemblage. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, Albany, NY.
Welch, T. J. and G. D. Grossman. Effects of increasing exploitation on the reproductive demography of female tilefish. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, Albany, NY.
1988
Grossman, G. D. and A. de Sostoa. Microhabitat use in a Spanish riverine fish assemblage: effects of rainbow trout. Sixth Congress of European Ichthyologists, Budapest, Hungary.
1989
Barrett, J. A. and G. D. Grossman. The effects of suspended sediment on the reactive distance of rainbow trout from a southern Appalachian stream. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Boule, V. and G. D. Grossman. The effects of rosyside dace (Clinostomus funduloides) on microhabitat use by rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Freeman, M. C. and G. D. Grossman. Foraging behavior of a stream cyprinid: shoals or aggregations? American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
1990
Grossman, G. D., Crawford, M. C. and R. Ratajczak. The effects of a drought on assemblage structure and microhabitat use in a southern Appalachia stream fish assemblage (poster). Long Term Ecological Research Program (N.S.F.) – All Scientists Meeting, Estes Park, CO.
Freeman, M. C., and G. D. Grossman. Habitat characteristics and aggregation of a stream cyprinid. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, Charleston, SC.
1991
Grossman, G. D., Ratacjzak, R. and M. C. Crawford. Effects of a drought on fish assemblage stability and microhabitat use in Coweeta Creek, N.C. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, New York, NY.
Barrett, J. C., Grossman, G. D. and J. Rosenfeld. Reactive distance and prey pursuit speeds in rainbow trout at three turbidity levels. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, New York, NY.
Grossman, G. D. and J. Hill. A mechanistic approach to the study of microhabitat selection in drift-feeding fish. American Fisheries Society, Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX.
1992
*Grossman, G. D. An ethical and ecological perspective on the introduction of species for sportfishing. American Fisheries Society, Annual Meeting, Rapid City, SD.
1993
Grossman, G. D. and J. Todd Petty. Microhabitat selection by mottled sculpin: the effects of spatial variation in invertebrate abundance. Southern Division of the American Fisheries Society, Student Symposium, Nashville, TN.
1994
Grossman, G. D. and J. Todd Petty. Patch selection by a predatory benthic stream fish. North American Benthological Society, Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL.
Grossman, G. D. Some thoughts on the relationship between habitat structure in lotic environments and the conservation of evolutionarily significant units. Evolution and the Aquatic Ecosystem, American Fisheries Society Special Meeting, Monterey, CA.
Petty, J. T. and G. D. Grossman. Patch selection by mottled sculpin. American Fisheries Society Georgia Chapter, Annual Meeting, Columbus GA.
1995
Grossman, G. D. and J. Todd Petty. Variation in the microdistribution of lotic invertebrates and its implications for applied and basic studies of benthic fishes. American Fisheries Society Georgia Chapter, Annual Meeting, Athens, GA.
Grossman, G. D. and J. Todd Petty. A riffle is not a riffle: understanding the functional characteristics of habitat use by stream fishes. Southern Division of the American Fisheries Society, Annual Meeting, Virginia Beach, VA.
Grossman, G. D. The adequacy of ecological evidence for increased production at artificial reefs. American Fisheries Society, Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL.
Seaman, W.J., and G. D. Grossman. Future artificial reefs in the North American coastal ocean: can science resolve the biological enhancement question? 30th European Marine Biological Symposium. Northern Ireland.
1996
Grossman, G. D. and J. Todd Petty. A model of patch selection for predicting the distribution of mottled sculpin across spatial scales. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
1997
Grossman, G. D. Effects of environmental variation and interspecific interactions on assemblage structure and microhabitat use by stream fishes. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA.
Petty, J. T. and G. D. Grossman. Prey dynamics, competitive interactions and space use by a predatory benthic stream fish. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA.
Petty, J. T. and G. D. Grossman. Patch selection by mottled sculpin in a southern Appalachian stream. Association of Southeastern Biologists, Annual Meeting, Greenville, SC.
Thompson, A. R. and G. D. Grossman. The influence of prey availability and physical habitat characteristics on distribution patterns of longnose dace, Rhinichthys cataractae. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA.
1998
Petty J.T. & G.D. Grossman. Identifying mechanisms of patch selection and space use by mottled sculpin in a dynamic landscape. Ecology of Stream Fishes: State of the Art, Luarca. Spain
Petty, J.T, and G.D. Grossman. The effects of prey patch dynamics and size dependent competitive interactions on the space use behaviors of mottled sculpin. Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting. Baltimore, MD
Thompson, A.R., & G.D. Grossman. Habitat use by longnose dace Rhinichthys cataractae in a complex environment. Ecology of Stream Fishes: State of the Art, Luarca, Spain
Thompson, A.R., Petty, J.T., & G.D. Grossman. Effects of spatial and temporal heterogeneity on habitat use by longnose dace, Rhinichthys cataractae. Association of Southeastern Biologists, Annual Meeting, Monroe LA.
Thompson, A.R., Petty, J.T., & G. Grossman. Foraging patch choice by longnose dace, Rhinichthys cataractae, in a complex landscape: effects of spatial and temporal variation. Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Baltimore MD.
1999
Grossman, G.D., Petty, J.T., Ratajczak, R.E. & M.D. Hunter. A multifactorial study of population regulation in the mottled sculpin (Cottus bairdi). American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, State College, PA.
Petty, J.T. and G. D. Grossman. The ideal despotic distribution and regulation of mottled sculpin populations in a southern Appalachian stream. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, State College, PA.
Fausch, K. Nakano, S., Taniguchi, Y. & G. D. Grossman. 1999. Context-dependent rainbow trout invasions in Japan: an hypothesis on the roles of hydrology and biotic interactions. Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Snowbird UT.
2000
Petty, J. T. & G. D. Grossman. Habitat selection by mottled sculpin: behavioral mechanisms underlying sculpin population dynamics. Ecology, Ethology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology of Fishes, Athens, GA.
Rashleigh, B. & G. D. Grossman. An individual-based model of Cottus population dynamics. Ecology, Ethology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology of Fishes, Athens, GA.
Rincon, P., & G. D. Grossman. Aggressive behavior in rosyside dace: a group-foraging, drift-feeding stream cyprinid. Ecology, Ethology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology of Fishes, Athens, GA.
2001
*Grossman, G.D. Long-term studies of fish assemblage organization and resource use in the Coweeta Creek drainage. Invited Keynote Address at the 2nd Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences, Toulouse, France.
Grossman, G. D., Rincon, P. & M. Farr, M. & R.E. Ratajczak. Optimal foraging theory predicts habitat use by threatened and non-threatened stream fishes. Georgia Chapter, American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting. Athens, GA.
Coombs, S. & G. D. Grossman. Mechanosensory-based rheotactic behaviors in fluvial and lacustrine populations of mottled sculpin (Cottus bairdi). Sixth International Congress of Neuroethology, Bonn Germany.
Smith, S. N. & G. D. Grossman. Microhabitat use by stream salamanders in the southern Piedmont (poster). Society for the Study of Amphibians & Reptiles, Annual Meeting, Indianapolis IN.
2002
Wagner, C. & G. D. Grossman. Interrelationships between social rank, aggression, foraging success in
two drift-feeding fishes. American Society of Ichthyologists & Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, Lawrence KS.
Wagner, C. & G. D. Grossman. An automatic feeder for the delivery of natural prey to drift feeding fishes. American Society of Ichthyologists & Herpetologists, Annual Meeting
Henry, B. & G. D. Grossman. Microhabitat use by three darters in a Piedmont stream. American Society Ichthyologists & Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, Lawrence KS.
2003
Grossman, G.D., Rincon, P., Farr, M. & R. Ratajczak. A new optimal foraging model for drift-feeding stream fishes. Poster. North American Benthological Society, Annual Meeting, Athens, GA.
Henry, B., Wagner, C.M & G. D. Grossman. Microhabitat use by three darter species in a Piedmont stream. Poster. North American Benthological Society, Annual Meeting, Athens, GA.
Wagner, C.M & G. D. Grossman Condition-specific competition among stream fishes: implications for an ongoing invasion in the Little Tennessee River, North Carolina. Poster. North American Benthological Society, Annual Meeting, Athens, GA.
Wagner, C. & G. D. Grossman. Condition-specific competition between native and introduced minnows may mitigate an ongoing invasion. Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Savannah, GA
Wagner, C. & G. D. Grossman. Behavioural interactions between native rosyside dace and introduced yellowfin shiner, implications from habitat selection theory for an ongoing invasion. Fisheries Society British Isles, Annual Meeting, Norwich, England.
2004
Grossman, G. D. Innovative approaches to habitat selection in lotic vertebrates. Texas Rivers and Reservoir Management Society.
2005
Grossman, G.& six coauthors. Interactions between stocked rainbow trout and non-game fishes in a southern Appalachian stream. American Fisheries Society, Annual Meeting, Anchorage, AK.
Grossman, G & five coauthors. Life on the edge: population processes of Cottus bairdi in a southern Appalachian stream. American Fisheries Society, Annual Meeting, Anchorage, AK.
Skyfield, J.& five coauthors. Effects of Rainbow Trout upon a native Appalachian cyprinid. American Soc. Ichthyologists & Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL.
Zamor, R. & G. D. Grossman. Effects of turbidity on reactive distance and capture success in the drift feeding stream minnow, Rosyside Dace (Clinostomus funduloides). American Soc. Ichthyologists & Herpetologists, Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL.
2006
Grossman, G, Ratajczak, Rl, Farr, M., Petty, J.., & M. Wagner. Drought and biodiversity in a southern Appalachian stream, or why are there more fishes downstream. Ecology of Stream Fish: State of the Aart and Future Prospects II. Leon Spain.
Hazelton, P. & G. D. Grossman. Effects of turbidity on competitive interactions between native and invasive stream minnows (Cyprinidae). Georgia Chapter – American Fisheries Society, Annual Meeting, Gainesville, GA.
Hazelton, P. & G. D. Grossman. Effects of turbidity on competitive interactions between native and invasive stream minnows (Cyprinidae). American Fisheries Society, Annual Meeting, Lake Placid, NY.
Hill, M. & G.D. Grossman. An ongoing investigation into the effects of rainbow trout on a native fish assemblage, Betty’s Creek, GA. American Fisheries Society, Annual Meeting, Lake Placid, NY.
2007
Grossman, G. D., et al. Population Dynamics of Brook Trout in Ball Creek, NC. Georgia Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Annual Meeting, Tybee Island, GA.. Poster.
Grossman, G.D., et al. Effects of stocked rainbow trout on non-game fish in Betty’s Creek, GA.. Georgia Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Annual Meeting, Tybee Island, GA.. Poster.
2008
Grossman, G. D., et al. Why there are more fish downstream. North American Benthological Society, Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT.
Grossman, G. D., et al. Why there are more fish downstream. Society for Conservation Biology, Annual Meeting, Chattanooga, TN.
Grossman, G.D. & J.L. Sabo. Incorporating environmental variation into models of community stability: examples from stream fish assemblages. Annual meeting of the American Fisheries Society, Ottawa, Canada
Grossman, G.D., Petty, J.T., & Ratacjzak, R. Optimal patch selection models for some southeastern benthic and water-column fishes. Southeastern Environmental Flows Partnership Meeting, Athens, GA
Grossman, G.D. Elkins, D. & R. Ratajczak Jr. The effects of rainbow trout on native fishes in a southern Appalachian stream. Georgia Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Annual Meeting, Lake Oconee, GA.
Elkins, D., Ratacjzak, R., Sundin, G. & G. Grossman. Effects of rainbow trout (Onchorhynchus mykiss) introductions on a native Appalachian cyprinid in an experimental stream. Georgia Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Annual Meeting, Lake Oconee, GA.
Elkins, D., Grossman, G.D., Sundin, G., Ratacjzak, R. The Effects of Rainbow Trout on Native Fishes in a Southern Appalachian Stream. Annual Meeting Southeastern Fishes Council, Chattanooga, TN.
Hazelton, P. & G. Grossman. Effects of turbidity, velocity and interspecific interactions on foraging behavior of native and introduced stream minnows. Georgia Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Annual Meeting, Lake Oconee, GA.
2009
Grossman, G.D. & 3 co-authors. Long-term population dynamics of a southern brook trout population. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Nashville TN
Grossman, G.D. & 3 co-authors. Demographic regulation of a southern brook trout population. North American Benthological Society Annual Meeting, Grand Rapids MI
Grossman, G.D. Southern brook trout, habitat, population dynamics and a potential fishery. Oconee River Chapter, Trout Unlimited. Athens, GA
Elkins, D. & G.D. Grossman. The effects of rainbow trout introductions on native fishes in a southern Appalachian stream. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Nashville TN.
Hazelton, P. & G.D. Grossman. Turbidity, velocity and competition affect foraging success in rosyside dace and yellowfin shiner. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Nashville TN
Martelo, J., Grossman, G.D. & Maegalhaes, M. Habitat use by fish in Mediterranean streams: responses to fine scale habitat heterogeneity. 13th European Congress of Ichthyology, Klaipeda, Lithuania
2010
Grossman, G.D.. Habitat selection in southern stream fishes. Southern Division, American Fisheries Society, Annual Meeting, Asheville, NC.
Grossman, G.D. & 3 co-authors Long-term population dynamics of a southern brook trout population. Southern Division, American Fisheries Society, Annual Meeting, Asheville, NC.
Grossman, G.D. & Ratajczak, R. Macorinvertebrate diversity in a southern Appalachian stream, a test of the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis. North American Benthological Society Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, NM
Grossman, G.D. & Ratajczak, R. Population regulation in some southern Appalachian stream fishes. Southeastern Fishes Council, Annual Meeting, Athens, GA.
Elkins, D. Nibbelink, N & G. Grossman. LOCOH in an artificial stream: using a GIS to map the effects of rainbow trout on native minnows. Southeastern Fishes Council, Annual Meeting, Athens, GA.
Gotelli, N. Dorazio, R, Ellison, A. & G. D. Grossman Measuring temporal change in community structure. Biological Diversity in a Changing World, Royal Society London, London, England
2011
Grossman, G.D. & Ratajczak, R. Population regulation in some southern Appalachian stream fishes. North American Benthological Society Annual Meeting, Providence, RI
Grossman, G.D. Not all drift feeders are trout, American Fisheries Society, Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA American Fisheries Society, Annual Meeting
2012
Anglin, Z & Grossman, G.D.. Microhabitat use and movements of southern brook trout in a southern Appalachian stream. Association Southeastern Biologists, Annual Meeting, Athens, GA.
Grossman, G.D. & Ratajczak, R. Population regulation in several southern Appalachian
mountain stream fishes. .Association Southeastern Biologists, Annual Meeting, Athens, GA.
2013
Grossman, G.D. Consequences of flow and habitat alterations for stream fishes. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Annual Meeting. Albuquerque, NM
Grossman, G.D. Climate change and disturbance mediated stream fish assemblages in the southeast. Southeastern Fishes Council, Guntersville, AL
2014
Grossman, G.D. The use of music videos as teaching aids for a course in natural history. Association Southeastern Biologists, Annual Meeting, Spartanburg, SC.
Grossman, G.D. Climate change and a disturbance-mediated stream fish assemblage in the southestern US. Society for Freshwater Sciences, Annual meeting, Portland, OR.
Martelo, J., Grossman, G.D., Porto, M. & Maegalhaes, M. Habitat patchiness affects distribution and microhabitat use of endangered Mira chub Squalius torgalensis. V Iberian Congress of Ichthyology, Lisbon, Portugal.
Monson, N., Grossman, G.D, Miller, J., Essington, T., Johnson, B. and Pearsons, T. Making the Connection between Fish Predation Hot Spots and Regional Hydrodynamics. Bay-Delta Science Conference. Sacramento, CA
2015
Grossman, G.D. The Use of Original Music Videos as Innovative Instructional Resources for Fisheries and Ecology. Southern Division Annual Meeting, American Fisheries Soc. Savannah, GA
Grossman, G.D. Density dependence in brook trout populations – implications for conservation & management. Trout Committee Meeting, Southern Division, American Fisheries Soc. Helen, GA
Grossman, G.D. Effects of Predation on Fishes of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Delta Science Council Meeting, Sacramento, CA
Grossman, G.D. Original Music Videos As Innovative Instructional Resources for Fisheries. Am. Fisheries Society, Annual meeting, Portland, OR.
Neuswanger, J. and Grossman, G.D. A new mechanistic model of drift feeding based on cognitive limits on visual information processing. Advances in the Population Ecology of Stream Salmonids IV (Girona, Spain.
Neuswanger, J. and Grossman, G.D. A new mechanistic model of drift feeding based on cognitive limits on visual information processing. Am. Fisheries Society, Annual meeting, Portland, OR.
Neuswanger, J. and Grossman, G.D. A new mechanistic model of drift feeding based on cognitive limits on visual information processing. Alaska Chapter Am. Fisheries Society, Annual Meeting.
2016
Grossman, G.D. Long-term persistence, density-dependence and effects of climate change on Rosyside Dace (cyprinidae). Association Southeastern Biologists, Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC.
Grossman, G.D. Innovative approaches to fisheries education. Association Southeastern Biologists, Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC.
Grossman, G.D. Long-term data in a changing world: lessons from stream fishes. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Grossman, G.D. Communicating scientific information to managers and decision-makers. Annual Bay-Delta Science Meeting
2017
Grossman, G.D. Lessons from long-term studies of trout population dynamics. Wild Trout X11, West Yellowstone, MT.
Bozeman, B. and Grossman, G.D. Velocity, Prey-Capture, and Microhabitat Selection in Arctic Grayling (Thymallus arcticus). Annual meeting Soc. Freshwater Sci. Raleigh NC.
Donofrio, E., Simon, T. Neuswanger, J., and Grossman, G.D. Velocity and Dominance Affect Prey-Capture and Microhabitat Selection in Juvenile Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). Am. Fisheries Society, Annual meeting, Tampa, FL.
Neuswanger, J., Hughes, N., Dill, L. and Grossman, G.D. Testing a new model of optimal prey capture maneuvers and their role in the time and energy budgets of drift-feeding fish. Alaska Chapter Am. Fisheries Society, Annual Meeting.
2018
Grossman, G.D. Use of original music videos and student karaoke exercises to teach ecology/evolution. SEER Center, UGA.
Grossman, G.D. Music and karaoke videos: teaching tools for biology/ecology/evolution. Association of Southeastern Biologists, Annual Meeting, Myrtle Beach, SC.
Grossman, G.D. Use of Fitness-Based Habitat Selection Studies for Drift-Feeding Stream Fishes. Association of Southeastern Biologists, Annual Meeting, Myrtle Beach, SC.
Grossman, G.D. Use of original music videos and student karaoke exercises to teach ecology/evolution. Am. Fisheries Society, Annual meeting, Atlantic City, NJ.
Grossman, G.D. Fitness-Based Habitat Selection Models for Drift-Feeding Stream Fishes. Am. Fisheries Society, Annual meeting, Atlantic City, NJ.
Grossman, G.D. Use of original music videos and student karaoke exercises to teach conservation biology. Integrative Conservation Conference, Athens, GA.
Grossman, G.D. Karaoke as a form of active learning in STEM. Voices 2018. Web Conference
Grossman, G.D. & Doemel, S. The first population. Loop 10 Composers Presentations, Integrative Conservation Conference Athens, GA.
2019
*Grossman, G.D. & Simon, T. Density-dependences in salmonid populations. Advances in the Population Ecology of Stream Salmonids V, Granada, Spain.
*Grossman, G.D. Innovative approaches to natural resource education, active learning and rocking out. Am. Fisheries Society, Annual meeting, Reno NV.
2020
Grossman, G.D. Active learning in the conservation and biology classroom. Integrative Conservation Conference, Athens, GA.
*Grossman, G.D. Innovation in Fisheries Education: Facilitation or Folly. Am. Fisheries Society, Annual meeting, Columbus, OH
2021
Sliger, R. and Grossman, G.D. 2021. A test of a generalized, optimal habitat selection model for drift-feeding fishes: brook charr. American Fisheries Society National Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland.
2022
Sliger, R. and Grossman, G.D A test of a generalized, optimal habitat selection model for drift-feeding fishes: brook charr. Wild Trout Xlll, West Yellowstone, MT.
INVITED LECTURES (53 total)
1983
The detection of regulatory processes in ecological communities. Zoological Institute of University of Salzburg, Austria.
Microhabitat utilization in a guild of southeastern USA stream fishes. Limnological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Mondsee, Austria.
The detection of regulatory processes in ecological communities. Zoological Institute of the Universitat Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
1984
The detection of organization in animal assemblages: an empirical and philosophical examination of the concordance technique. Department of General Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
Food resource partitioning: the mechanism of deterministic organization in a rocky intertidal fish assemblage. Department of General Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
1985
Assemblage structure and resource utilization in an Appalachian stream fish assemblage. Department of Wildlife & Fisheries Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
Population dynamics of a lightly exploited tilefish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps) substock off Georgia.
Department of Wildlife & Fisheries Science. Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
Assemblage organization in a southeastern U.S.A. stream fish assemblage. Institute of Limnology, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden.
Microhabitat selection in a Spanish riverine fish assemblage. Institute of Limnology, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden.
1987
Assemblage organization in a southeastern stream fish assemblage. Department Biological Sciences, University Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS.
Assemblage organization in a southeastern stream fish assemblage. Department Biological Sciences, University California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA.
Dynamics of a southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. Appalachian Environmental Lab, University of Maryland, Frostburg, MD.
1988
Structure and function in a Southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
Structure and function in a Southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. Department of Zoology, University of Maine, Orono, ME.
Structure and function in a Southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. Department of Biology, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC.
Structure and function in a Southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. Institute of Zoology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Population variability in North American stream fish assemblages. Environmental Protection Agency Research laboratory, Duluth, MN.
1991
The regulation of assemblage structure in a stream fish assemblage. U.S.D.A. Forest Service. Redwood Sciences Lab, Arcata, CA.
Structure and function in a southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. Department of Wildlife & Fisheries Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
1992
Structure and function in a southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. Department of Biology, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC.
1993
Regulation of a southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.
Function and structure of a southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. Department of Biology, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA.
Structure of a southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN.
1994
Organization of a southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. Department of Biologie, Université de Quebec, Trois Rivierés, Quebec.
1999
Structure and function in a southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. Department of Fisheries, Auburn University, Auburn, AL.
2000
Structure and function in a southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. USEPA Research Laboratory, Athens, GA
2001
Environmental variation and fish assemblage structure in a southern Appalachian stream. Department of Biology, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC.
Author or Acknowledgement? Smith Fellows Post-Doctoral Program, Nature Conservancy Workshop, Lake Tahoe, CA.
2002
Drought, finding a home and nasty neighbors: dynamics of a southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC.
Dynamics of a southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. Laboratoire de Ecologie des Hydrosystemes fluviaux. University Lyon, Lyon, France
Lessons from 20 years of habitat selection research. Department of Biology, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC.
2003
Determining authorship for scientific publications. Smith Fellows Post-Doctoral Program, Nature Conservancy Workshop, Jackson Hole, WY
International Visitor for Undergraduate/Graduate Education at Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden. This entailed presenting three lectures over a one-week period, and critiquing 11 graduate student research presentations.
2004
Habitat selection by lotic vertebrates – linking basic ecology and conservation biology. Dept. of Biology,
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
Why I divorced community ecology and married population ecology. Laboratoire Dynamique de la
Biodiversite, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Effects of turbidity on Georgia streams. Master Timber Harvesters Program, Georgia Pacific Corporation.
Reintroduction of native species: behavioral considerations. Georgia Dept. Natural Resources Fisheries Biologists Annual Meeting
2005
Why I divorced community ecology and married population ecology. School Biological Sciences, Kansas State University, Manhattan KS.
Why I divorced community ecology and married population ecology. School Biological Sciences, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC.
Why I divorced community ecology and married population ecology. School Biological Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
2006
Why I divorced community ecology and married population ecology. Dept. Watershed Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, UT
Streams in Eastern forests – Down the rapids in 30 minutes. Eastern Forest Wildlife Summit, Asheville NC
2007
Why I divorced community ecology and married population ecology. Ecology Graduate Program, University California Davis, Davis CA.
Habitat and population regulation in southern stream fishes. River Basin Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Habitat use and population structure in North American Cottus: conservation implications. Annual Meeting Japanese Society Ichthyologists, Sapporo, Japan.
2008
The importance of interactive versus individualistic processes in a southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. Dept. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
The importance of interactive versus individualistic processes in a southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. Dept. Animal Biology, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
The importance of interactive versus individualistic processes in a southern Appalachian stream fish assemblage. Dept. Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
2010
Grossman, G.D. Effects of flow variation on fish assemblage structure and microhabitat use. Hydronet Networking Workshop, Montreal, Canada
2011
A 30 year look at southern Appalachian (USA) stream fishes or why I divorced community ecology for stream ecology. Dept. Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Parallels and contrasts in sculpture and science: a practitioner’s view. Distinguished Communicator Lecture Series, Centre for Science Communication, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Innovative approaches to habitat selection and biodiversity regulation in southeastern fishes. University Georgia Fisheries Society, Athens, GA
2012
Stream biodiversity in the Southern Appalachians with thoughts about Mississippi applications, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS.
2018
Climate change, Appalachian stream fishes, STEM instruction and avoiding Multiple Personality Disorder. Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA.
Climate change, Appalachian stream fishes, STEM instruction and avoiding Multiple Personality Disorder. Auburn University, Auburn, AL
Sustainability, Climate Change, Habitat Selection & Population Regulation. Department of Biological Sciences, Universidad de Complutense, Madrid, Spain.
2020
Climate change, Appalachian stream fishes, STEM instruction and avoiding Multiple Personality Disorder. Clemson University, Clemson, SC
PUBLIC LECTURES
2007
From tulip trees to Tricoptera to trout: how streams work in the southern Appalachians. Tailwater Chapter Trout Unlimited, Clarkesville, GA
From tulip trees to Tricoptera to trout: how streams work in the southern Appalachians. Cohutta Chapter Trout Unlimited, Marietta GA
From tulip trees to Tricoptera to trout: how streams work in the southern Appalachians. Southeastern Chapter Conclave, Federation Fly Fishers, Calloway Gardens, GA
A different view of trout: how streams work in the southern Appalachians. RabunChapter, Trout Unlimited, Clayton, GA
2009
Southern brook trout, habitat, population dynamics and a potential fishery. Oconee River Chapter, Trout Unlimited. Athens, GA
2013
Density dependence in brook trout populations – implications for conservation & management. Foothills GA chapter of Trout Unlimited.
2016
Population regulation in brook charr populations – implications for conservation & management. Oconee River GA chapter of Trout Unlimited.
2018
The Jewfish and me. University of Georgia Hillel Assoc.
2020
BDS what you need to know. Congregation Children of Israel, Athens GA
SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED
1998
Landscape approaches to the study of stream fish assemblages (with Pedro Rincon). Ecology of Stream Fishes: State of the Art, Luarca. Spain
Community and population ecology of stream fish assemblages (with Pedro Rincon). Ecology of Stream Fishes: State of the Art, Luarca. Spain
2000
Mechanistic approaches to habitat selection in fishes (with J. T. Petty). Ecology, Ethology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology of Fishes, Athens, GA.
2006
Served on the organizing committee of Ecology of Stream Fish: State of the Art and Future Prospects II. Leon Spain.
2019
Session organizer Habitat and Population Dynamics, Advances in the population ecology of stream salmonids. Granada Spain.
RESEARCH GRANTS (only funded grants listed)
1982-1983
Population dynamics of unexploited demersal fishes off Georgia. U.S. Dept. Commerce, N.O.A.A. Sea Grant Program, $36,700.
1982-1987
Community regulation in stream fishes and its relation to forest land management. U.S.D.A., Forest Service, McIntyre-Stennis Program. $161,000.
1983-1984
Population dynamics of an unexploited tilefish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps) stock off Georgia. U.S. Dept. Commerce, N.O.A.A. Sea Grant Program, $46,000.
1984-1986
Population dynamics of an unexploited tilefish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps) stock off Georgia. U.S. Dept. Commerce, N.O.A.A. Sea Grant Program, $79,900.
1984
Microhabitat utilization in Spanish stream fishes. University of Georgia Faculty Research Grant, $7,500.
1985-1988
Ecological-environmental relationships in some Rio Matarraña fish assemblages. With J. Nadal, Universidad de Barcelona. Joint U.S.-Spanish Committee for Scientific and Technological Cooperation (U.S. State Dept.), $180,000.
1985-1990
Long-term ecological research in forested watersheds at Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, North Carolina. With 15 co-principal investigators. National Science Foundation, $1,824,937.
1987-1988
The effects of rosyside dace (Clinostomus funduloides) on microhabitat use by rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri). U.S.D.A. Forest Service, $30,000.
1987-1992
Community regulation in streams fishes and its relation to forest land management. U.S.D.A., Forest Service, McIntyre-Stennis Program. $195,000 (renewal, formula funds).
1988-1989
The effects of turbidity on foraging success of rainbow trout. U.S.D.A. Forest Service. $29,000.
Replacement of Brook trout by rainbow trout in the Southeastern USA: a problem analysis. U.S.D.A. Forest Service, $10,000.
1991-1996
Long-term studies of ecosystem response to disturbance along environmental gradients at Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory. With 17 co-principal investigators. National Science Foundation. $3,100,000.
1992-1997
Community regulations in stream fishes and its relation to forest land management. U.S.D.A., Forest Service, McIntire-Stennis program. $227,600.
1996-2001
Long-term studies of disturbances as they affect ecological processes in landscapes of the southern Appalachians. With 32 co-principal investigators. National Science Foundation, $6,030,489.
1997-2002
The regulation of stream fish populations in a forested habitat. U.S.D.A., Forest Service, McIntire-Stennis program. $275,000 (renewal, formula funds).
2002 – 2007
Effects of trout stocking on native non-game fishes in Georgia. Georgia Dept. Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Division. $138,408.
2002 – 2008
Ecological consequences of Land Use change in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. With 32 co-principal investigators. National Science Foundation, $6,600,000. (Grossman’s share $242,896 [includes indirect costs]).
2002-2007
Habitat models for management and conservation of stream fishes in southern Appalachian forests. U.S. D.A., Forest Service, McIntire-Stennis program. $379,500 (formula funds).
2002
A study on the use of hydroacoustic and biological surveying to assess fish populations in the Altamaha and MacKay Rivers. Georgia Sea Grant Program $10,000 (Co-PI- Daniela DiIorio)
2003
Effects of Turbidity on Foraging Success of Native Upland Stream Fishes. U.S.E.P.A., Athens branch, $25,000
The effects of inter- vs. intraspecific aggression on the neuroendocrine stress axis. Drs. Matt Grober & Gary Grossman Co-PI’s, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Georgia State University, $30,000.
2007-2008
Effects of trout stocking on native non-game fishes in Georgia. Georgia Dept. Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Division. $67,650.
2008
Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology – Grant to support the research of Joana Martelo. $10,000
2008-2009
National resource condition assessment for Blue Ridge Parkway, Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, Kings Mountain National Military Park, Cowpens National Battlefield, and Ninety Six National Historical Site. $205,625 Co_PI.
2009
Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology – Grant to support the research of Joana Martelo. $10,000
2009-2011
National resource condition assessment for Gulf Islands National Seashore, Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, Natches Trace Parkway, Shiloh National Military Park, and Vicksburg National Military Park. $265,000 Co_PI.
2014-2015
MultiModal Learning in Natural Resource Ecology. UGA Center for Teaching and Learning. $13,231
2014-2018
Development and testing of mechanistic fitness-based models to predict habitat choice, behavior and recruitment of Juvenile Chinook Salmon in the Arctic-Yukon, Kuskokwim Region. North Pacific Research Board, $495,282.
2016-2017
Flipped classrooms, active learning and OER’s in Natural Resource/Ecology classes. $9,480.
2018-2022
Habitat selection and population structure of Continental benthic fishes; effects of stream fragmentation. Spanish Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Competitiveness, E102,000.
2018-2020
Development of active learning open educational resources for fisheries classes. American Fisheries Society $9,500.
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
University-wide Committees
University Council, 1991-1994.
Graduate Council, 1991-1994.
University-Wide Faculty Grievance Committee, 1991-1994, Chair 1993-1994.
Graduate Council Faculty Admissions and Retention Committee, 1991-1994.
Ad-Hoc Committee to Evaluate the Director of the Georgia Museum of Art, 1996.
President’s Appeal Committee 1996-2003.
University Wide Libraries Committee 2001-2004
Best Dissertation Award Committee 2004-2005
University Program Review Committee for Marine Extension 2010-2011 (Chair)
Warnell and Ecology Graduate Group Committees.
Executive Committee (The decision-making responsibilities of this committee include: administration, policy, and graduate admissions and assistantships), Ecology Graduate Group, 1983-1992.
Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2004, 2005
Ad-Hoc Committee on Faculty Evaluations, School of Forest Resources, 1989.
Seminar Committee (chair), 1999-2005, 2010-2022
Strategic Planning Committee, School of Forest Resources, 1991.
Convocation Committee, School of Forest Resources, 1983-1992.
Research Review Committee, School of Forest Resources, 1992-1998.
Graduate Affairs Committee, 1994-1996, 2014-2015.
Curriculum Committee, School of Forest Resources, 1982-1983, 1992-1996.
Administrative Committee, School of Forest Resources, 1993-1994, 1995-1996, 2004-2006.
Staff Awards Committee, School of Forest Resources 1991-1997.
Colloquium Committee, School of Forest Resources, 2002-2012.
Ad-Hoc Committee for the Evaluation of Faculty EFT’s, School of Forest Resources 1996.
Membership on Committees of Professional Societies, Government Agencies, or Non-Governmental Organizations
Estuarine Resource Committee, Southern Division, American Fisheries Society, 1985-1987
Animal Care Committee, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 1987-1988.
Board of Governors, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 1987-1990.
Publications Policy Committee, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 1987-1990.
Chair, subcommittee on Endowments, Long Range Planning and Finance Committee American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists 1991-1992
Chair, subcommittee on Life Membersips, Long Range Planning and Finance Committee American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists 1992-1993
Board of Governors, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 1991-1995.
Long-Range Planning and Finance Committee, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 1991-1994.
Submerged Timber Committee, Georgia DNR 2000-prese
Science Advisory Committee, Smith Conservation Post-Doctoral Fellowships Program, The Nature Conservancy, 2002-2005.
Publications Overview Committee, American Fisheries Society, 2004-2006 member, 2005-6 chair
Editorial Responsibilities
Editor for ecology, ethology and environmental physiology, for Copeia (Journal of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists), August 1987 to October 1990.
Associate Editor for Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, September 1991-September 1993.
Board of Editors, Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 2002-present.
Member of the editorial board of Copeia (Journal of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists) 1985-1987, 1991-1993.
Member of the editorial board of Ecology of Freshwater Fishes, June 1992-2022.
Member of the editorial board of Freshwater Biology, August 1993-2022.
Asked to referee over 400+ articles for the following journals:
American Midland Naturalist
American Naturalist
Amphibia and Reptilia
Archiv fur Hydrobiologie
Aquatic Conservation
Aquatic Ecology
Aquatic Sciences
Biological Oceanography
Bulletin of Marine Science
Copeia
Ecography
Ecology
Ecological Applications
Ecosphere
Environmental Biology of Fishes
Fisheries
Fishery Bulletin
Fisheries Research
Functional Ecology
Great Basin Naturalist
Hydrobiologia
Japanese Journal Ichthyology
Journal of Applied Ecology
Journal of Applied Ichthyology
Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
Journal of Fish Biology
Journal of Natural History
Journal of the North American Benthological Society
Marine Biology
Marine Ecology: Progress Series
Oecologia
National Geographic Society Journal Research and Exploration
New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research
Philos. Transactions of the Royal Society of London B
Northeastern Naturalist
Proceedings Fifth Congress European Ichthyology
Proceedings Georgia Water Resources Conference
River Research & Applications
Southeastern Naturalist
Southwestern Naturalist
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
Zoologica Sinica (Chinese Journal of Zoology)
Grant Proposals Reviewed
Asked to referee an estimated 100+proposals for the following organizations:
National Geographic Society
National Science Foundation
National Sea Grant Program
National Environmental Research Council, Canada
National Environmental Research Council, United Kingdom
Cal-Fed Bay Delta Grant Program
Polish National Science Center
California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Review Teams
International
Served on the 2002 review panel by the French National Center for Scientific Research (i.e. French NSF) of the Laboratoire des hydrosystemes fluviaux at the University of Lyon, Lyon, France.
National
Served on the 1985 site review team for the Virginia Sea Grant Program
Served on the 1990, 1992 and 2001 external review panels for the Florida Sea Grant Program.
Served on the 2003 Review Panel for the Smith Post-Doctoral Fellows program, The Nature Conservancy
Served on the 2005 Technical Review Panels for the CALFED Basic Science Program
Served on the 2005 Grant Review Panel for USDI Grand Canyon Research Center
Served on the 2006 Technical Review Panel for the CALFED Ecosystem Restoration Program
Served on the 2010 SEDAR Review Panel for black grouper and red grouper.
Served on the 2010 Logic Chain Review Panel for California Delta Stewardship Council
Served on the 2011 Grant Review Panel California Delta Stewardship Council
Led the 2013 public hearing on Fish Predation on Central Valley Salmonids in the Bay-Delta Watershed for the California Dept. of Fish & Wildlife
Served 2011 to 2016 on National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), Aquatic Technical Working Group
Served on the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) team writing the fish sampling protocols for the 30+ national observatory sites.
Served on the 2017 Independent Science Panel for review of biological uncertainties of the endangered Rio Grande Silvery Minnow.
External Evaluator for Promotion/Tenure
Associate Professor
University of California Davis
Tenure
Drexel University
Associate Professor with tenure
Auburn University
Drexel University
Florida International University
Mississippi State University (3)
Purdue University
State University New York, Stony Brook
Texas A&M University
University of Alaska, Fairbanks
University of California Davis
University of Maryland
University of South Florida
University of Florida
University of Oklahoma
Universite Paul Sabatier, France (HDR 2)
Virginia Commonwealth University
Full Professor
Kansas State University
University of California Davis (2)
University of California Santa Barbara,
University of Hawaii,
University of Mississippi
Mississippi State University
University of Oklahoma (2)
University of Southern Mississippi
Texas State University
Texas Technical University
Queen Mary College University of London (Distinguished Professor)
Virginia Tech (Virginia Outstanding Professor Award)
Konstantz University Germany (evaluated four candidates for a research chair position)
Federal
U.S. Geological Survey-Coop Unit Program: Research Scientist GS 13 to GS 14
External Examiner for Foreign PhD Students
David Crook, PhD, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Nicholas Poulet, PhD, Universite Paul Sabatier, France
Eric Hansen, PhD, University of Otago, New Zealand
Shannon Crow, PhD, University of Otago, New Zealand
Craig Chargulaf, PhD, University of Queensland, Australia
Amelia Wenger, PhD, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia
Sessions Chaired at Scientific Meetings
1982
Western Society of Naturalists Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA.
1984
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Annual Meeting, Norman, Oklahoma.
1986
Georgia Fishery Workers Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Annual Meeting, Victoria, British Columbia.
1987
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Annual Meeting, Albany, NY.
1988
Sixth Congress of European Ichthyologists, Budapest, Hungary.
1989
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Animal Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
1997
Member of the steering committee for Ecology of Stream Fishes: State-of-the-Art and future prospects, Luarca Spain.
1998
Ecology of Stream Fishes: State-of-the-Art and future prospects, Luarca Spain. Ecology of Stream Fishes: State-of-the-Art and future prospects, Luarca Spain, 2 sessions (symposia organizer).
1999
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Animal Meeting, State College, PA.
2000
Ecology, Ethology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology of Fishes, Athens, GA, (symposia organizer).
2001
American Fisheries Society Georgia Chapter, Annual Meeting, Athens, GA.
2006
Ecology of Stream Fishes: State-of-the-Art and future prospects, Luarca Spain. Ecology of Stream Fishes: State-of-the-Art and future prospects, Luarca Spain, 2 sessions (symposia organizer).
2008
North American Benthological Society, Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT
Southeastern Environmental Flows Parnership, Athens, GA.
2010
Southeastern Fishes Council, Annual Meeting, Athens, GA.
2016
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
2017
American Fisheries Society, Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL.