See the bottom of the page for recent publications (2017 - present).
In 2022 I published a long paper on the distribution, ecology, and status of the Inyo Mountains salamander in the Western North American Naturalist: Norment, C. J. 2022. Distribution, Ecology, Status, and Morphology of the Inyo Mountains Salamander (Batrachoseps campi). Western North American Naturalist 82: 460-478. More recently, I (along with several coauthors) gave three presentations on Inyo Mountains salamanders at the 2023 Desert Fishes Council annual meeting in Bishop, California. These wonderful creatures continue to fascinate me and I hope to continue working on them for years to come.
In November 2018 I received notification that Elizabeth Jockusch at the University of Connecticut, Steve Parmenter of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife) and I received a $46,000 grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to study the conservation genetics of the Inyo Mountains salamander. Although the funds were supposed to be administered through SUNY Brockport, bureaucratic challenges meant that they went to the University of Connecticut. No worries, as the grant has allowed Nick Van Gilder, a PhD student in Elizabeth Jockusch's lab, to unravel important parts of the species' story, including connectivity among its isolated populations. The analyses are ongoing.
Most recent scientific publications (* indicates former student): Howe, R. W., plus additional coauthors including C. J. Norment. 2023. An index of biotic condition (IBC) using birds as indicators of coastal wetland quality in North America’s Laurentian Great Lakes. Ecological Indicators 156: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.111174. Elliott, L. H., plus additional coauthors including C. J. Norment. 2023. Application of habitat models across regions: Useful explanatory power retained in wetland bird case study. Ecosphere 14:e4499. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4499. Norment, C. J. 2022. Distribution, ecology, morphology, and status of the Inyo Mountains salamander (Batrachoseps campi). Western North American Naturalist 82: 460-473. De Zwaan, D. R., plus additional coauthors including C. J. Norment. 2022. GABB: A global dataset of alpine breeding birds and their ecological traits. Scientific Data 9:627. Podoliak, J.*, C. J. Norment, and K. L. Amatangelo. 2021. Increasing number of point counts influences estimates of bird and anuran species richness at the wetland scale. Wetlands Ecology and Management: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11273-021-09837-1 Hendricks, D. P., C. J. Norment, and J. L. Weaver. 2021. Cedar Waxwings (Bombycilla cedrorum) feeding on birch sap at Red-naped Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus nuchalis) sap wells. Northwestern Naturalist 102: 136-139. Norment, C. J. 2021. Politics, imagination, Ideology, and the Realms of Our Possible Futures. 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. Grand, J, plus 16 additional authors, including C. J. Norment. 2020. Prioritizing coastal wetlands for marsh bird conservation in the U. S. Great Lakes. Biological Conservation 249. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320720307667? via%3Dihub Berend, K.*, K. Amatangelo, D. Weihrauch, and C. J. Norment. Effects of snow and temperature on the phenology of alpine snowbank plants on Mt. Washington, NH. Rhodora (in press). 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., C. M. Falconer, A. M. Bracey, E. E. Gnass Giese, G. J. Niemi, R. W. Howe, T. M. Gehring, and C. J. Norment. 2017. Influence of call broadcast timing within point counts and survey duration on detection probability of marsh breeding birds. Avian Conservation and Ecology 12(2):8. (published online: https://doi.org/10.5751/ACE-01063-120208.). 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 (published online; doi10.1007/s13157-017-0881-9.) Uzarski, D. G., plus additional authors, including Norment, C. J. 2017. Standardized measures of coastal wetlands condition: Implementation on a Laurentian Great Lakes Basin scale. Wetlands 37: 15-32 (published online; doi: 10.1007/s13157-016-08357.)