Professor
Robin Matthews is the former Director of the Institute for Watershed Studies, a Professor in Western's College of Environment at Western Washington University .
Dr. Matthews received her graduate training in aquatic ecology at Indiana University (M.S.) and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Ph.D). Her undergraduate work was done at the University of California, Riverside.
Prior to coming to Western Washington University, she worked as a full-time consultant in the areas of hazardous waste management and pollution control, and as an environmental scientist for DuPont at the Savannah River Laboratory studying the effects of heated effluents from nuclear production reactors on 150 miles of the Savannah River and adjacent swamps.
Dr. Matthews has published and presented over 100 journal articles, reports, and conference papers. Her major research areas include aquatic ecology and pattern analysis of large ecological data sets. She is the principal investigator on the Lake Whatcom monitoring program funded by the City of Bellingham.
Matthews, R. 2016. Freshwater
Algae in Northwest Washington, Volumn I. Cyanobacteria.
Matthews, R. 2016. Freshwater
Algae in Northwest Washington, Volumn I. Chlorophyta and Rhodophyta.
*Peterson, M. and R. Matthews. 2009. Retention of salmon-derived N and
P by bryophytes and microbiota in mesocosm streams. J. North Amer.
Benth. Soc. 28:352--359.
Matthews, R. and E. DeLuna*. 2008. Metalimnetic oxygen and ammonium
maxima in Lake Whatcom, Washington (USA).
Northwest Science 82:18-29.
Weiner, R. and R. Matthews. 2003. Environmental Engineering,
Fourth Edition. Elsevier Science, Burlington, MA.
Matthews, R., M. Hilles, and G. Pelletier. 2002.
Determining trophic state in Lake Whatcom, Washington (USA), a soft
water lake exhibiting seasonal nitrogen limitation.
Hydrobiologia 486:107--121
*McGrath, C. and R. Matthews. 2000. Cellulase
activity in the freshwater amphipod Gammarus
lacustris. J. North Amer.Benthol. Soc. 19:298--307
Matthews, R, G. Matthews, and W. Landis. 1998. Application of
community level toxicity testing to environmental risk assessment.
Risk Assessment, Logic and Measurement (Edited by
M. C. Newman and C. L. Strojan), Ann Arbor Press, Chelsea, MI.
Matthews, R, W. Landis, and G. Matthews. 1996. Community
conditioning: an ecological approach. Environ. Toxicol. &
Chem. 15:597-603.
*Parsons, J. and R. Matthews. 1996. Analysis of the associations
between macroinvertebrates and macrophytes in a freshwater
pond. Northwest Science 69:265-275.
*Klaver, A. and R. Matthews. 1994. Effects of oxytetracycline
on nitrification in a model aquatic system. Aquaculture
123:237-247.
Matthews, G., R. Matthews, and B. Hachmoeller*. 1991. Mathematical
analysis of temporal and spatial trends in the benthic
macroinvertebrates of a small stream. Can. J. Fish. Aq. Sci.
48:2184-2190.
Matthews, R., G. Matthews, and W. Ehinger*. 1991. Classification and
ordination of limnological data: a comparison of analytical tools.
Ecol. Modelling 53:167-187.
email: robin -dot- matthews -at- wwu -dot- edu
Institute for Watershed Studies
College of the Environment
Western Washington University
516 High Street
ES 604, MS 9069
Bellingham, WA 98225-9069
Institute for Watershed Studies
College of the Environment
Western Washington University