Les Kaufman

Current Research

Our laboratory is devoted to understanding the processes that create, maintain, extinguish, and conserve aquatic biodiversity. Our work is broad, encompassing marine, freshwater, and watershed ecosystems in both temperate and tropical environments.

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The lab is continuously engaged in aquatic conservation policy and innovation. We are highly collaborative, working with several labs at BU (e.g., Gopal, Finnerty, Lobel, Gilmore, Woodcock) as well as close working relationships with conservation organizations (chiefly Conservation International, and the Massachusetts Audubon Society) and state and federal agencies both in the US and abroad. Our students are encouraged to join the PIs in the invention of conservation solutions, especially for the precarious New England coastal ecosystem and its fisheries.

Selected Publications

• Kaufman LS (2019) Climate Change: Final arbiter of the mass extinction of freshwater fishes. Pp,. 237-245 In: Lovejoy, T. and L. Hannah (Eds). Climate change And Biodiversity. Yale University Press. 416pp.
• Precht WF, Vollmer SV, Modys AB, Kaufman L (2019) Fossil Acropora prolifera (Lamarck, 1816) reveals coral hybridization is not only a recent phenomenon. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 132 (1): 40-55.
• Glaser SM, Hendrix CS, Franck B, Wedig K, Kaufman L (2019) Armed conflict and fisheries in the Lake Victoria basin. Ecology and Society 24 (1): 25.
• Lapointe D, Cooperman MS, Chapman LJ, Clark TD, Val AL, Ferreira MS, Balirwa JS, Mbabazi D, Mwanja M, Chhom L, Hannah L, Kaufman L, Farrell AP, Cooke SJ (2018) Predicted impacts of climate warming on aerobic performance and upper thermal tolerance of six tropical freshwater fishes spanning three continents. Conservation Physiology 6 (1): coy056.
• Burmester EM, Finnerty JR, Kaufman L (2019) Temperature and symbiosis affect lesion recovery in experimentally wounded, facultatively symbiotic temperate corals. Marine Ecology Progress Series 570: 87-99.
• Klein ES, Glaser SM, Jordaan A, Kaufman L, Rosenberg AA (2016) A complex past: historical and contemporary fisheries demonstrate nonlinear dynamics and a loss of determinism. Marine Ecology Progress Series 557: 237-246.
• Pasquarella VJ, Holden C, Kaufman L, Woodcock CE (2016) From imagery to ecology: Leveraging time series of all available Landsat observations to map and monitor ecosystem state and dynamics. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation 2 (3): 152-170.
• Boumans R, Roman J, Altman I, Kaufman L (2015) The Multiscale Integrated Model of Ecosystem Services (MIMES): Simulating the interactions of coupled human and natural systems. Ecosystem Services 12:30-41.

Courses Taught:

• KHC 301 Climate Change (a large team-taught course for the Kilachand Honors College)
• BI 546 Marine Megafaunal Ecology of Stellwagen Bank and Adjacent Waters
• BI 539 Coral Reef Dynamics
• BI 541 Coral Reef Resilience and Restoration