Christopher Norment

Books

• Norment, C. J. 2014. Relicts of a Beautiful Sea: Survival, Extinction, and Conservation in a Desert World. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC.
• Norment, C. J. 2012. In the Memory of the Map: A Cartographic Memoir. University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, IA.
• Norment,. C. J. 2008. Return to Warden’s Grove: Science, Desire and the Lives of Sparrows. University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, IA.
• Norment, C. J. 1989. In the North of Our Lives: A Year in the Wilderness of Northern Canada. Down East Press, Camden, ME.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Berend, K., K. A. Amatangelo, D. Weirauch, C. J. Norment, and M. Penberthy. 2021. Plant traits and community metrics across a snowmelt gradient at alpine snowbank sites on Mt. Washington, NH. Rhodora (in press).
• Hohman, T. R., plus additional authors including C. J. Norment. 2021. Influence of lake-levels on water extent, interspersion, and marsh birds in Great Lakes coastal wetlands. Journal of Great Lakes Research 47: 534-545, 2021.
• Norment, C. J. Imagination, Ideology, and the Realms of Our Possible Futures. 2021. Pp. 391-406 in Standing against Extinction: Ethics and Ecology of Conserving Aquatic Species in the American Southwest (D. Probst, J. E. Williams, K. R. Bestgen, and C. W. Hoagstrom, eds.). University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2021.
• Grand, J., S. Saunders, N. Michel, L. Elliot, S. Beilke, A. Bracey, T. Gehring, E. Giese, R. Howe, B. Kasberg, N. Miller, G. Niemi, C.J. Norment, D. Tozer, J. Wu, and C. Wilsey. 2021. Prioritizing coastal wetlands for marsh bird conservation in the U.S. Great Lakes. Biological Conservation 249:108708, 2021.
• Grand, J., plus additional authors including C. J. Norment. 2020. Prioritizing coastal wetlands for marsh bird conservation in the U. S. Great Lakes. Biological Conservation 249, 2020.
• Berend, K., K. Amatangelo, D. Weihrauch, and C. Norment. 2020. Effects of snow pack and temperature on the phenology of alpine snowbank plants on Mt. Washington, New Hampshire. Rhodora 122: 1-22, 2020.

• Hoh, C*., S. S, Pagano, and C. J. Norment. 2018. Spring stopover ecology and physiology of the White-throated Sparrow (Zonotichia albicollis) in western New York. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 130: 891-901.

• Piecuch, S*. and C. J. Norment. 2017. Temporal changes in Henslow’s Sparrow (Ammodramus henslowii) song rates. Kingbird 67:81-89.

• Tozer, D. C., Bracey, A. M., Giese, E., Niemi, J. G., Howe, R. W., Gehring, T., and Norment, C. J. Influence of broadcast timing and point count duration on marsh bird survey results. Avian Conservation and Ecology 12(2): 8.

• Panci, H., Niemi, G., Regal, R., Tozer, D., Ghering, T., Howe, R., Norment, C. J. 2017. Influence of local- and landscape-scale habitat on Sedge and Marsh Wren occurrence in Great Lakes coastal wetlands. Wetlands 37: 447-459. doi 10.1007/s13157-017-0881-9.

• Uzarski, D. G., plus additional authors, including C. J. Norment. 2016. Standardized measures of coastal wetlands condition: Implementation on a Laurentian Great Lakes Basin scale. Wetlands 37: 15-32. doi: 10.1007/s13157-016-0835-7.

• Norment, C. J., J. Fischer, R. Stehn, and T. Moser. 2015. Sabine’s Gull (Xema sabini) nesting aggregations in western Alaska. Northwestern Naturalist 96: 101-106.

• Mudrzynski, B. M.* and C. J. Norment. 2014. Influence of habitat structure and fruit availability on use of a northeastern stopover site by fall songbirds. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 125: 744-754.

• Hudgins, R.*, C. J. Norment, and M. D. Schlessinger. 2012. Assessing detectability for monitoring rare species: a case study of the cobblestone tiger beetle (Cincidela marginipennis Dejean). Journal of Insect Conservation 16: 447-455.

• Hudgins, R.*, C. J. Norment, M. D. Schlessinger, and P. G. Novak. 2011. Habitat selection and dispersal of the cobblestone tiger beetle (Cincidela marginipennis Dejean) along the Genesee River, New York. American Midland Naturalist 165: 304-314.

• Norment, C. J., M. C. Runge, and M. R. Morgan*. 2010. Breeding biology of grassland birds in western New York: conservation and management implications. Avian Conservation and Ecology 5(2), 14 pages.

• Schwingel, H.* and C. J. Norment. 2010. Use of hair tubes to detect small mammal winter activity in a northern forest habitat. Northeastern Naturalist 17: 531-540.

• Norment, C. J. 2010. Killing Things. ISLE: The Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment. 17:133-148.

• Morgan, M. R.*, C. J. Norment, and M. R. Runge. 2010. Evaluation of a reproductive index for estimating reproductive success of grassland birds. Auk 127:86-93.

*indicates student author

Grants

• 2019-2021: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ($47,000 for research on conservation genetics of the Inyo Mountains salamander [Batrachoseps campi])
• 2017-2018: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ($11,500 for research on pre-construction monitoring of a Wildlife Crossing at Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge)
• 2017-2018: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ($13,888 for research on Inyo Mountains Salamander [Batrachoseps campi]: Status Assessment)
• 2015-2020: Environmental Protection Agency (Co-PI; $125,000 for research on amphibians and birds in Lake Ontario coastal wetlands)
• 2014-2017: St. Lawrence River Education and Research Fund ($33,000 for research on grassland breeding birds in island and mainland habitats along the St. Lawrence River)
• 2010-2014: Environmental Protection Agency (Co-PI; $125,000 for research on amphibians and birds in Lake Ontario coastal wetlands)

Graduate Students working with Dr. Norment

• Tiffany Clay
  
  • Thesis: Managing Refuge Dikes to Enhance Monarch Butterfly Habitat

• Josh Cronlund
  
  • Thesis: Hoary Bat (Lasiurus cinereus) Habitat Preferences in New York State: Determining a Model for Management Purposes

• Jessica DeToy
  
  • Thesis: Effects of an Exotic Invasive Plant on Terrestrial Salamander Populations

• Michelle Gianvecchio
  
  • Thesis: A Comparison of Flight Calling Responsiveness in Magnolia Warblers and American Redstarts