Teaching involves general aquatic and stream/river ecology. Research interests include ecology of rivers and lakes, watershed management, community dynamics and population regulation, trout stream food webs, behavioral adaptations of aquatic insects, fish invertebrate interactions, and fisheries management.

Awards:
PITE Teaching Award 2004
Rooselvelt Professor of Ecosystem Management 2008-2010

Research Interests:
My interests revolve around understanding ecological processes in aquatic systems of all types; and the application ecological knowledge to practical problems of resource management.

• Watershed management
• Community dynamics and population regulation
• Trout stream food webs
• Modeling complex systems
• Fisheries management

Current/Recent Research:

• Modeling-based approaches to ecological asessment and ecosystem management
• Ecological classification of rivers and riparian wetlands
• Comparative ecology of rivers and river food web dynamics
• Ecology and management of rivers in SE Asia
• Groundwater influences on river temperature and fish productivity [MDNR]
• River restoration planning
• Extent and affects of large-scaleland use and climate change

Teaching Interests:
Aquatic ecology & management, Quantitative Methods

Current/Recent Teaching:
PITE311/EEB320 Rivers, Lakes and Wetlands;  NR520 Fluvial Ecosystems; NR 516 Aquatic Entomology;  NR639 Graduate Seminar on Modeling Riverine Habitat

Selected Publications:

• Riseng, C., M.J. Wiley, and R.J. Stevenson. 2004. Hydrologic disturbance and nutrient effects on the structure of benthic stream communities: A covariance structure analysis. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 23(2):309–326.
• Baker, M.E. and M.J. Wiley. 2004. Characterization of woody species distribution in riparian forests of Lower Michigan using map-based models. Wetlands: 24(3):550-561.
• D. M. Infante, M. J. Wiley, P. W. Seelbach 2006. Relationships Among Channel Shape, Catchment Characteristics, and Fish in Lower Michigan Streams. In: Landscape influences on stream habitats and biological communities. American Fisheries Society Symposium 48: 339-357, 2006.Bethesda, Maryland.
• T. G. Zorn, M. J. Wiley. 2006. Influence of Landscape Characteristics on Local Habitat and Fish Biomass in Streams of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. Landscape influences on stream habitats and biological communities. American Fisheries Society Symposium 48: 375-393, 2006. Bethesda, Maryland.
• Paul W. Seelbach, Michael J. Wiley, Matthew E. Baker, Kevin E. Werhly. 2006. Initial Classification of River Valley Segments across Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. In: Landscape influences on stream habitats and biological communities. American Fisheries Society Symposium 48:25-48,2006. Bethesda, Maryland.
• Wiley, Michael, Bryan Pijanowski, R. Jan Stevenson , Paul Seelbach, Paul Richards, Catherine Riseng, David Hynman and John Koches. 2008.  Integrated Modeling of the Muskegon River: Tools for Ecological Risk Assessment in a Great Lakes Watershed. Chapter 20 in: W. Ji, editor, Wetland and Water Resource Modeling and Assessment: A Watershed Perspective, Taylor & Francis, London.
• S. Gourdi, C.Knowlton, K.Platt, M.J. Wiley. 2008.  Modeling the Interlinking of the Ganges River: Simulated Changes in Flow.  Chap. 7 in  M. Mirza, A. Ahmed and Q. Ahmad (eds). Inter-Linking Rivers in India: Issues and Concerns. Taylor & Francis, London.
• C. Knowlton, S.Gourdi, K.Platt, M.J. Wiley. 2008.  Potential Public Health Implications of Interlinking of Rivers in India.  Chap. 9 in  M. Mirza, A. Ahmed and Q. Ahmad (eds). Inter-Linking Rivers in India: Issues and Concerns. Taylor & Francis, London. (
• T. Brenden , L. Wang, P.W. Seelbach, R.D. Clark Jr., M.J. Wiley, B.L. Sparks-Jackson. 2008. A spatially constrained clustering program for river valley segment delineation from GIS digital river networks. Environmental Modeling & Software 23(5):638-649.
• Lizhu Wang, Travis Brenden, Paul Seelbach, Arthur Cooper,  David Allan,  Richard Clark Jr. and Michael Wiley. 2008. Landscape based Identification of Human Disturbance Gradients and Reference Conditions for Michigan Streams. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment  141:1-17.
• Baker, M.E., and M.J. Wiley. 2009. Multiscale control of flooding and riparian-forest composition in Lower Michigan, USA.  Ecology 90(1): 145-159.
• Stevenson, R. Jan, Lucie Novoveska, Catherine M. Riseng3 and Michael J. Wiley. 2009. Comparing responses of diatom species composition to natural and anthropogenic factors in streams of glaciated ecoregions. Nova Hedwigia, Beiheft 135, p. 000–000
• Kurt P. Kowalski, Douglas A. Wilcox , and Michael J. Wiley. 2009. Stimulating a Great Lakes coastal wetland seed bank using portable cofferdams: Implications for habitat rehabilitation. Journal of Great Lakes Research
• Zorn, T.G. and M.J. Wiley. In Press. Influence of sampling extent on the relative importance of biotic and abiotic factors in explaining variations in stream fish density . In: Community Ecology of Stream Fishes.  American Fisheries Society Symposium XX:XXX, 2009. Bethesda, Maryland.