Joseph Connolly
Research Support Specialist, Natural Resources and the Environment

My research concerns the ecology of Great Lakes crustacean and rotiferan zooplankton with a particular interest in exotic species introductions. My studies also include research of invertebrate meiofauna and fish parasites of the Great Lakes drainage. Additionally, my research interests include crustacean taxonomy with Copepoda being of primary focus.
Supervisor: James Watkins
Education
2022 Master of Science in Natural Resources, Cornell University
2013 Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Science, SUNY Plattsburgh
Recent Research
Recent Research:
Fanberg, L.M., Connolly, J.K., 2023. Cyclops divergens Lindberg, 1936 (Cyclopoida: Cyclopidae): first record of its occurrence in Lake Superior, USA. Zootaxa 5323, 443-445.
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5323.3.10
Connolly, J.K., Marshall, C.C., Hudson, P.L., Watkins, J.M., Scofield, A.E., Rudstam, L.G., 2022. Reevaluation of the genus Cyclops Müller, 1776 (Cyclopoida: Cyclopidae) in the Laurentian Great Lakes basin: first report of the Palearctic species Cyclops divergens Lindberg, 1936 from Lake Erie and documentation of Cyclops sibiricus Lindberg, 1949 in the St. Marys River. Zootaxa 5182, 183-195
https://doi.org/10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5182.2.5
Connolly, J.K., Watkins, J.M., Rudstam, L.G., Reid, J.W., 2022. First records of Gulcamptus huronensis Reid, 1996 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Canthocamptidae) from Lake Superior, with morphological notes on the male. Check List 18, 435-440
https://doi.org/10.15560/18.2.435
Connolly, J.K., O’Malley, B.P., Hudson, P.L., Watkins, J.M., Burlakova, L.E., Rudstam, L.G., 2022. Importance of nonindigenous harpacticoids (Crustacea: Copepoda) decrease with depth in Lake Ontario. Journal of Great Lakes Research 48, 412-427
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2021.11.011
Whitmore, E.A., Connolly, J.K., Watkins, J.M., Rudstam, L.G., 2022. An exploration of Lake Ontario’s offshore epibenthic cladoceran community. Journal of Great Lakes Research 48, 428-433.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2022.01.020
Connolly, J.K., Watkins, J.M., Hinchey, E.K., Rudstam, L.G., Reid, J.W., 2019. The Asian cyclopoid copepod Mesocyclops pehpeiensis Hu, 1943 reported from the western basin of Lake Erie. Journal of Great Lakes Research 45, 196-201.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2018.11.005
Marshall, C.C., Hudson, P.L., Jackson, J.R., Connolly, J.K., Watkins, J.M., Rudstam, L.G., 2019. First record of the non-indigenous parasitic copepod Neoergasilus japonicus (Harada, 1930) in the Lake Ontario Watershed: Oneida Lake, New York. Journal of Great Lakes Research 45, 1348-1353.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2019.09.017
Whitmore, E.A., Connolly, J.K., Van Damme, K., Watkins, J.M., Hinchey, E.K., Rudstam, L.G., 2019. First record of the Neotropical cladoceran Diaphanosoma fluviatile in the Great Lakes basin. Journal of Bioinvasion Records 8, 614-622.
https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2019.8.3.18
Connolly, J.K., Watkins, J.M., Marshall, C.C., Adams, J.M., Rudstam, L.G., Błędzki, L.A., 2018. Brachionus leydigii (Monogononta: Ploima) reported from the Western basin of Lake Erie. Journal of Great Lakes Research 44, 1123-1126.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2018.07.010
Connolly, J.K., Watkins, J.M., Hinchey, E.K., Rudstam, L.G., Reid, J.W., 2017. New cyclopoid copepod (Thermocyclops crassus) reported in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Journal of Great Lakes Research 43, 198-203.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2017.03.020
Contact Information
Cornell Biological Field Station
900 Shackelton Point Rd
Bridgeport, NY 13030
jkc238 [at] cornell.edu
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