Jasmine Mancuso

Aquatic Ecology Research Analyst

CIGLR UM-SEAS
4840 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48108

mancusoj@umich.edu

Jasmine Mancuso is a CIGLR Aquatic Ecology Research Analyst working with Casey Godwin, PhD, and the Harmful Algal Bloom team. In this position, Jasmine will aid efforts to understand the ecology of algal blooms in Western Lake Erie and Saginaw Bay by helping to organize and implement field cruises, sample processing, and data analysis. For her Master’s thesis, Jasmine studied the long-term trends of harmful algal blooms in Muskegon Lake (Muskegon, MI) and has more recently held a position as a lab manager for the Aquatic Ecology Lab at Oakland University, where she studied carbon cycling in Michigan freshwater systems and the effects of an invasive species on the Au Sable River ecosystem.
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Education:
  • M.S. Biology with an Aquatic Science Emphasis, Grand Valley State University, 2020
  • B.S. Environmental Sustainability and Resource Management, Biology Minor, Oakland University, 2018
Research Interest/Area of Expertise:
  • Harmful Algal Bloom Ecology
  • Lake and Stream Ecosystem Processes
  • Aquatic Invasive Species
  • Aquatic Carbon Cycling

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

Biddanda, B. Dila, D. Weinke, A., Mancuso, J., Villar-Argaiz, M., Medina-Sánchez, González-Olalla, J.M., & Carrillo, P. 2021. Housekeeping in the hydrosphere: Microbial cooking, cleaning, and control under stress. Life. 11:152. (DOI:10.3390/life11020152). [Altmetric Score]

Mancuso, J., Weinke, A., Stone, I., Hamsher, S., Woller-Skar, M., Snyder E., and Biddanda, B. 2021. Bloom and bust: Historical trends of harmful algal blooms in Muskegon Lake, Michigan, a Great Lakes estuary. Freshwater Science. 40:463–477. (DOI:10.1086/716236). [Altmetric Score]

Mancuso, J., Weinke, A., Stone, I., Hamsher, S., Villar-Argaiz, M., Biddanda, B., 2021. Cold and wet: diatoms dominate the phytoplankton community during a year of anomalous weather in a Great Lakes estuary. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 47:1305–1315. (DOI:10.1016/j.jglr.2021.07.003). [Altmetric Score]

Geist, J., Mancuso, J., Morin, M., Bommarito, K., Bovee, E., Wendell, D., Burroughs, B., Luttenton, M., Strayer, D., and Tiegs, S. 2021. The New Zealand Mud Snail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum): Autecology and management of a global invader. Biological Invasions. 24:904–938. (DOI:10.1007/s10530-021-02681-7). [Altmetric Score]

Mancuso, J., Messick, E., and Tiegs, S. D. 2022. Parsing spatial and temporal variation in stream ecosystem functioning. Ecosphere. 13:e4202. (DOI:10.1002/ecs2.4202). [Altmetric Score]

Non-Peer-Reviewed Educational and STEM Outreach Publications:

Biddanda, B.A., Mancuso, J., Ratliff, R., Knapp, K., Wienke, A., and Villar-Argaiz, M. 2019. Anthropocene: The Uncertain Age of Humans. A book review of Anthropocene: A very Short Introduction by Earle C. Ellis (2018). InterChange – Connections for the STEM Classroom, Newsletter of Regional Math and Science Center, GVSU. February 2019. https://www.gvsu.edu/rmsc/interchange/connections-for-the-stem-classroom-299.htm

Stone, I., Mancuso, J., Knapp, K., Weinke, A., Ratliff, R., and Biddanda, B.A. 2019. Human Civilization: Shaped by the Ever-Changing Earth. A book review of Origins: How the Earth Made Us by Lewis Dartnell (2019). InterChange – Connections for the STEM Classroom, Newsletter of Regional Math and Science Center, GVSU. February 2019. https://www.gvsu.edu/rmsc/interchange/connections-forthe-stem-classroom-299.htm

 Stone, I., Mancuso, J., Dugener, N., Weinke, A., and Biddanda, B. A. 2020. Future Choice – Now! A book review of The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac (2020). InterChange – Connections for the STEM Classroom, Newsletter of Regional Math and Science Center, GVSU. September 2020. https://www.gvsu.edu/rmsc/interchange/2020-september-connections-1601.htm

Biddanda, B., Weinke, A., Mancuso, J., Villar-Argaiz, M., Medina-Sánchez, J., González-Olalla, J., Carrillo, P. 2021. Small things considered: how very tiny housekeepers run our very big hydrosphere. InterChange – Connections for the STEM Classroom, Newsletter of Regional Math and Science Center, GVSU. March 2021.

Presentations

2018 Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters conference, Central Michigan University, oral presentation

2019 Michigan Space Grant Fall Consortium, University of Michigan, poster presentation

2020 Michigan Inland Lakes Convention, Virtual, oral presentation, workshop attendance

2020 Michigan Space Grant Fall Consortium, Virtual, video presentation and oral presentation

2022 Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Grand Rapids, Michigan, oral presentation