Bruce A. Menge

Bruce A. Menge is an American ocean ecologist. He has spent over forty years studying the processes that drive the dynamics of natural communities. His fields of interest include: structure and dynamics of marine meta-ecosystems, responses of coastal ecosystems to climate change, linking benthic and inner shelf pelagic communities, the relationship between scale and ecosystem dynamics, bottom-up and top-down control of community structure, recruitment dynamics, ecophysiology and sub-organismal mechanisms in environmental stress models, larval transport and connectivity, impact of ocean acidification on marine ecosystems, controls of productivity, population, community, and geographical ecology. He settled on two career goals: carrying out experiment-based field research to investigate the dynamics of rocky intertidal communities, focusing on species interactions and environmental context and how this might shape a community, and using the resulting data to test and modify theories on how communities were organized.

Menge was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and grew up mostly in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota, 1961-1965. He then received his PhD from the Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, 1965–1970, working under guidance of Robert T. Paine. Menge met Jane Lubchenco and they were married in 1971. Menge worked on his Postdoc between 1970-1971 at the University of California at Santa Barbara with Joe Connell and Bill Murdoch. Menge then accepted a position as Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston in August 1971, where he remained until 1976. Menge then moved to Oregon and took a job at Oregon State University (OSU) in September 1976, where he has worked as an assistant, associate, and full professor.

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