Maddie Tomczak

Food Web Laboratory Analyst

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

mtomcza@umich.edu

Maddie Tomczak is the CIGLR Food Web Laboratory Analyst working under the supervision of Casey Godwin, PhD and collaborating with Ed Rutherford (PhD, NOAA GLERL) and Doran Mason (PhD, NOAA GLERL) on larval fish and food web dynamics, as well as processing fisheries acoustic data. Maddie works closely with the NOAA GLERL Spatial Studies team, specializing in larval fish identification and analysis, including otolith and diet analyses. She is also working on designing and maintaining databases for lower food web and other data collected as part of long-term and short-term monitoring projects. Maddie recently completed her Masters of Science in Biology at Western Illinois University in 2020 where she investigated the hatch timing and growth of larval fishes in the Mississippi River. Before CIGLR, Maddie worked for the US Geological Survey on the early life history of fish in the St. Clair Detroit River System.

Education:
    • M.S. in Biology, Western Illinois University, July 2020
    • B.S. in Environmental Science, University of Toledo, May 2018
Research Interest/Area of Expertise:
    • Larval Fish 
    • Great Lakes Food Web Dynamics

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