Current Lab Members (listed in order of duration in the lab group)
Emily Bernhardt, PI
Emily received her PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Cornell University in 2001 and has been a member of the Duke faculty since 2004. The core of Emily's interests are in watershed biogeochemistry, with most of her current effort invested in understanding how the ways in which people live on and use the landscape alters the structure, function and chemistry of receiving streams and wetlands. Emily teaches courses in General Ecology, Field Ecology and Biogeochemistry.
[Click here for Emily's professional CV and here for her bio]
ORCID page /ResearcherID / Google Scholar
Twitter account @DrBioGC
Brooke Hassett, River Center Lab Manager
Audrey Thellman, PhD student
Mike Vlah, Data Scientist
https://github.com/vlahm
Jonny Behrens, PhD student
Jonny’s website.
Spencer Rhea, PhD student (and former lab Data Scientist)
Spencer joined the lab initially in 2020 after finishing his bachelor's degree at Colorado State University. For two years, Spencer worked closely with Mike Vlah in the development and maintenance of our StreamPULSE and Macrosheds portals.
Wes Slaughter, Data Scientist
Prior to joining DukeBGC, Wes earned his undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley where he worked in Dr. Mary Power's lab. In between his undergraduate degree and his current job, he was a river scientist with the Sierra Streams Institute and an ORISE fellow at the Environmental Protection Agency.
Nick Marzolf, Postdoctoral Scholar
Nick earned his PhD in 2021 from NCSU working with Dr. Marcelo Ardón studying carbon fluxes, disturbances, and spatiotemporal variability in Neotropical headwater streams. His interests are in the movement of carbon in freshwater ecosystems, from greenhouse gas evasion to uptake and assimilation in food webs.
Github
@NickMarzolf
Nick's website
Kiera O'Donnell, Postdoctoral Scholar
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Kiera joined the lab in June 2022. Here at Duke she will be coordinating the Saltwater Intrusion and Sea Level Rise (SWISLR) Research Coordination Network (www.swislr.org/).
Kiera earned her PhD in 2022 from Northeastern where she worked with Dr. Steven Scyphers and was a member of his Social-Ecological Sustainability lab. Her dissertation research focused on the landscape and social outcomes of Hurricane Irma in the lower Florida Keys and Hurricane Michael in the Florida Panhandle. Kiera holds a BS degree in Oceanography from the University of New England and previously worked at NOAA as a data analyst for sea level and storms. Kiera's Google Scholar Profile |
Adam Rok, Lab Manager
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Adam joined the lab in May 2023. Here at Duke he is charged with keeping the lab humming and supporting all of the group's projects.
Adam earned a MS in Marine Science in 2019 and his undergraduate degree in Environmental Science with a minor in Marine Science in 2016 from UNC Chapel Hill. His masters research explored oxygen dynamics and modeling in the open ocean. In between his MS and joining DukeBGC he learned to raise hellbenders and to work with a wide variety of environmental sensors and samples in labs at Virginia Tech and NCSU. Adam's LinkedIn Profile |
Wündergrad Researchers
Jessee Steele
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Jessee Steele is an undergraduate studying environmental sciences and bioinformatics. He joined the lab in early 2022 to conduct his honors thesis research on how mineral weathering may be affected by changes in climate and vegetation distribution. More generally, he is interested in how biogeochemical cycles can inform sustainable relationships with the environment. Before joining the Bernhardt lab, he worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab researching enhanced weathering carbon sequestration and alongside Dr. Jenny Tung improving viral bioinformatics pipelines. As a Benjamin N. Duke and Questbridge scholar, Jessee is committed to supporting his communities by answering unknown and salient questions that underpin our ways of being.
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LAB ALUMNIFormer PhD Students
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Alice Carter & Emily at the start of a synoptic sampling campaign in New Hope Creek
Jackie Gerson demonstrating the clean hands dirty hands methods for mercury sampling
Emily Ury measuring salinity in a coastal ghost forest
Jess Brandt sampling fish in NC lakes
Richard Marinos gets his soil loving feet wet in Hubbard Brook
Joanna Blaszczak proves that sensing streams is cool
Christina Bergeman collecting water samples in a cypress swamp on the NC coastal plain.
Matt Ross collecting storm samples in a WV stream
Ethan Baruch and a cricket frog from one of our urban streams
Joanna Blaszczak, Megan Fork, Emily Bernhardt, Kris Voss, Kayleigh Somers and Ashley Helton at the 2014 Urban Streams Meeting (after our Lorax play @ southeastern cities and streams)
Tim Covino installing sensors in New Hope Creek
Alison and Emily celebrate at the 2012 PhD hooding ceremony.
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