Building Partnerships
Protecting Indiana's Aquatic Resources

Dana M. Infante
MSU

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University (MSU). My research area, broadly described as “Fisheries-Landscape Ecology” integrates my interests in effects of landscape factors on aquatic systems, including influences on hydrology, habitat characteristics, and fish and macroinvertebrates. I am currently working on a collaborative effort to assess the status of fish habitat throughout the Nation as part of the National Fish Habitat Action Plan and another project to evaluate the suitability of physical habitat conditions of Michigan river systems for Arctic grayling. I teach two classes at MSU, Hydrology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management; both classes emphasize the importance of performing science in support of management and conservation of natural resources. I am a member of the Society for Conservation Biology, the North American Benthological Society, and the American Fisheries Society, parent society and Michigan chapter. Before joining MSU, I worked at the Institute of Fisheries Research, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, in Ann Arbor to consider relationships between physical habitat and fish assemblages in Michigan’s nonwadeable rivers. I received my BS from the University of Michigan (U of M) in 1994 and my MS and PhD from the School of Natural Resources and Environment, U of M, in 2001 and 2005, respectively.