Courses Taught

• General Parasitology, BIOL 4000/5000 

• Invertebrate Zoology, BIOL 4610/5610

• Fisheries Management, WFS 4710/5710

• Fish Culture, WFS 4760/5760

• Environmental Approaches to Fish Management, EVSB 7110

Research Projects

• Biological and Chemical Water Quality Monitoring, State Route 840, Dickson County, Tennessee.  2002 - 2004.

• Assessment of stream habitat and biological communities associated with bridges and culverts in Tennessee.  1996 - 2004.

• Evaluation of Habitat, Macroinvertebrates, and Water Quality Associated With Brook Trout Restoration Efforts in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.  1998 - 2003.

• Water Quality Monitoring of Drainages Associated with Construction of the Foothills Parkway.  2000 - 2002.

• Distribution and Status of Introduced Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in Warren and DeKalb Counties, Tennessee.  1998 - 1999.

• Monitoring and Sampling Accuracy Comparisons of Fish and Benthic Macroinvertebrate Populations in the Gulf Fork Watershed.  1995 - 1997.

• Follow-Up Study of a Floodplain Mitigation Project.  1995 - 1996.

• Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Monitoring, Cherokee National Forest.  1995 - 1996.

• Food Conversion of Redear Sunfish Fed Three Nutritionally-Complete Formulated Diets.  1995 - 1996.

• Application of an Index of Biotic Integrity on Spring Creek, Tennessee.  1994 - 1995.

Selected Publications

• Wymer, D.A. and S.B. Cook.  2002.  Effects of Chironomidae (Diptera) taxonomic resolution on multivariate analyses of aquatic insect communities.  Journal of Freshwater Ecology.  (In Press) 

• Wymer, D.A. and S.B. Cook.  2002.  Within reach variation in a Great Smoky Mountains National Park stream: Implications for ecological studies.  American Midland Naturalist. (In Review)

• Wellman, J.C., D.L. Combs, and S.B. Cook.  2000.  Long-term impacts of bridge and culvert construction or replacement on fish communities and sediment characteristics of streams. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 15(3):317-328.

• Scurlock, G.D. Jr., S.B. Cook, and C.A. Scurlock. 1999.  An inexpensive recirculating aquaculture system with multiple use capabilities.  The American Biology Teacher 61(2):126-127.

• Cook, S.B. and G.D. Scurlock, Jr. 1998.  Potential feed conversion of redear sunfish fed nutritionally-complete formulated diets.  Progressive Fish-Culturist 60(1):55-58.

• Ferrara, A. and S.B. Cook. 1998.  Comparison of black-spot disease metapopulations in the central stonerollers of two warm-water streams.  Journal of Freshwater Ecology 13(3):299-305.

Selected Presentations

• American Fisheries Society 132^nd Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland.   Community Based Assessment of Short-term Impacts from Bridge/Culvert Construction on Tennessee Stream Fish Communities.  2002.

• Southern Division of the American Fisheries Society, Little Rock, Arkansas.   Assessment of Short-term Impacts to Warmwater Streams in Tennessee Associated with Bridge/Culvert Construction. Tennessee Chapter of the American Fisheries Society.  2002.

• Spawning New Ideas Colloquium, Blacksburg, Virginia.   Habitat Changes and Their Influence on Select Fish Species Due to Bridge and Culvert Construction in Tennessee Stream Ecosystems.  2001.

• Tennessee Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Paris, Tennessee.  Assessment of Short-term Impacts to Stream Fish Communities and Habitat Associated with Culvert and Bridge Construction in Tennessee.  2001.

• Tennessee Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Paris, Tennessee.  Short-term Impacts of Bridge/Culvert Construction Activities on Benthic Macroinvertebrate Communities in Seven Tennessee Streams.  2001.

• Tennessee Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Paris, Tennessee.  Comparison of Two Electrofishing Methods Utilized in Surveying Fish Assemblages in Warmwater Streams in Central Tennessee.  2001.

• Southern Division of the American Fisheries Society, Jacksonville, Florida.   Comparison of Two Electrofishing Methods Utilized in Surveying Fish Assemblages in Warmwater Streams in Central Tennessee.  2001.
• North American Benthological Society, LaCrosse, Wisconsin.  Long-term Impacts of Bridge and Culvert Replacement on Chironomid Populations.  2001.

• North American Benthological Society, LaCrosse, Wisconsin.  Distinct Upstream/Downstream Variation in a Great Smoky Mountains National Park Stream. Natural or Anthropogenic?  2001.