BIG DATAI’m a watershed biogeochemist. My research focuses on understanding how watersheds and streams transport and transform nutrients and carbon, and how human activities modify these processes. I gravitate towards thinking about questions at the watershed to regional scale and often use a combination of observational field data and long-term datasets to answer my research questions. My role in our CZ cluster is focused on understanding how stream ecosystems in the northeastern United States have responded to multiple, interacting disturbances (acid deposition and recovery, and increasing frequency of extreme precipitation events), and to determine how the critical zone structure may mediate how resilient watersheds are to these disturbances.
I love working collaboratively in teams, and especially with students. I am also really excited to be part of the education team working with new collaborators at JSU, and am passionate about finding ways to increase diversity, equity and inclusion in the earth sciences.
University of Kansas
