Charles Andrew Cole
Associate Director,
Center for Watershed Stewardhip

227 East Calder Way • State College, PA •
ph: 814.865.3334 • Email: cac13@psu.edu
full CV

Education
Ph.D. Zoology (Wetland Ecology), Southern Illinois University 1988
M.S.Wildlife Management, West Virginia University 1983
B.S. Wildlife Biology, University of Massachusetts 1981

Andrew Cole co-teaches the first year graduate seminar in Watershed Stewardship and the second year practicum in Watershed Stewardship. He has spent 17 years working on a variety of aspects of wetlands ecology. He is a member of the Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Ecology. His current interests include the ecology of created wetlands, wetland hydrology, and the design and management of created ecosystems. He has co-taught a Continuing Education class with Ken Tamminga on ÏPrinciples of Wetland DesignÓ. He has been involved with the Spring Creek Watershed Community since its inception in 1996 and currently works with that groups water monitoring subcommittee.

Current projects include an assessment of the requirements of Section 404 wetland permits in Pennsylvania, and their definitions of success; a long-term assessment of created wetlands at Fort Drum, NY; the relationship of surface roughness in created wetlands to function; the patterns of wetland hydrology in the Ridge and Valley Province of Pennsylvania.

Select Publications
Campbell, D. A., C. A. Cole, and R. P. Brooks. 2001. A comparison of created and natural wetlands in Pennsylvania, USA. In press - Wetlands Ecology and Management.

Cole, C. A., and R. P. Brooks. 2000. Patterns of wetland hydrology in the Ridge and Valley Province,Ü Pennsylvania, USA. Wetlands 20(3):438-447.

Shaffer, P. W., C. A. Cole, M. E. Kentula, and R. P. Brooks. 2000. Effects of measurementÜ frequency on water level summary statistics. Wetlands 20(1) :148-161.

Cole, C. A., and R. P. Brooks. 2000. A comparison of the hydrologic characteristics of natural and created mainstem floodplain wetlands in Pennsylvania. Ecological Engineering 14(3):221-231.

Reinhardt, C.H., C.A. Cole, and R. P. Brooks. 1998. Assessing historical wetland seed banks using Cs137: A pilot study. Journal of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science: 71(3): 125 -134.

Cole, C.A., R. P. Brooks, and D.H. Wardrop. 1997. Wetland hydrology and water quality as a function of hydrogeomorphic subclass. Wetlands 17(4):456-467.

Babb, J. S., C.A. Cole, R. P. Brooks, and A.W. Rose.1997.Hydrogeomorphology, watershed geology, and water quality of wetlands in central Pennsylvania. Journal of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science 71(1): 21-28.