My research interests center on aquatic-terrestrial coupling, including lakeshore dynamics, food web interactions and energy subsidies between riparian and aquatic ecosystems. Current projects include the impacts of reduced terrestrial invertebrates in urban lake fish diets, effects of urbanization on sediment characteristics and processing, and the consequences for littoral invertebrate communities of lakeshore development and loss of woody debris. I am also an IGERT fellow in the UW's Urban Ecology program, where I am researching how local governments use "best available science" in developing policy to protect critical areas.
Francis TB, DE Schindler, JM Fox and E Seminet-Reneau. 2007. Effects of urbanization on the dynamics of organic sediments in temperate lakes. Ecosystems Online First ISSN 1435-0629.
Francis TB and DE Schindler. 2006. Degradation of littoral habitats by residential development: woody debris in lakes of the Pacific Northwest and Midwest, USA. Ambio 35: 274-280.
Francis TB, DE Schindler and JW Moore. 2006. Aquatic insects play a minor role in dispersingsalmon nutrients into riparian forests in southwestern Alaska. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 63: 2543-2552.
Francis TB, KA Whittaker, V Shandas, A Mills, and J Graybill. 2005. Incorporating science into the environmental policy process: A case study from Washington State. Ecology and Society 10 (1): 35 [online]. URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol10/iss1/art35
Schindler DE, MD Scheuerell, JW Moore, SM Gende, TB Francis and WJ Palen. 2003. Pacific salmon and the ecology of coastal ecosystems. Frontiers of Ecology and the Environment 1(1).
Mills A, TB Francis, JK Graybill, V Shandas and KA Whittaker. Using Best Available Science to protect critical areas in Washington State: Challengers and Barriers. Urban Ecosystems (in review).
Environmental Protection Agency STAR Fellowship (2007-2009)
National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship (2004-2007)
National Science Foundation IGERT Fellowship (2002-2004)
Budweiser Conservation Scholarship (2001-2002)