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
Brooke has been taking care of our analytical lab and running field campaigns for Duke river folks since 2005. Currently Brooke is the lab manager for the entire Duke River Center.
Before beginning work at Duke, Brooke completed a MS degree at the University of Maryland where she studied the impacts of river restoration in the Chesapeake Bay with Margaret Palmer. |
Steve Anderson, Field and Lab Technician
Steve joined the lab in the fall of 2014 after three years of running the Wright lab at Duke. Since receiving a B.S. in environmental biology from SUNY-ESF, Steve has studied species and community response to disturbance (e.g. fire and salinity). He is most interested in studying anthropogenic threats to biodiversity and ecosystem function in just about any context.
Steve will bring his expertise in plant ecology to bear in our ongoing nanomaterials and coastal plain research efforts. @smkanderson, Steve's Website, Research Gate |
Jenny Rocca, Postdoctoral Associate |
Phil Savoy, Postdoctoral Scientist |
Jenny earned her PhD in 2015 from Colorado State University where she worked with Matt Wallenstein. She is now hanging out at Duke forcing microbial communities to have show downs in order to understand who wins when chemical regimes collide.
Jenny's website |
Phil Savoy earned his PhD in 2016 from SUNY Buffalo where he worked with Scott Mackay. Phil is bringing his expertise in modeling terrestrial ecosystem phenology into our new efforts to develop dynamic, mechanistic models of aquatic ecosystem metabolism. Ask him about the HaboobNados that regularly strike rivers.
[Phil's website] |
Alice Carter, PhD student |
Jackie Gerson, PhD student |
Alice joined the lab in August 2016. Alice comes to Duke from two years of work as a research assistant at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole. She has been focused on deep ocean trace element cycling, but will now be turning her attention to studying the metabolism of rivers as part of our StreamPULSE project. Alice is co-advised by Jim Heffernan.
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Jackie joined the lab in August 2016. She completed her Masters at Syracuse University where she worked with Charley Driscoll studying mercury dynamics and nutrient cycling in the Adirondacks. Here at Duke, Jackie is interested in the biogeochemistry of trace metals and metalloids generated from both coal and hard rock mining. She studies mercury and selenium interactions from mountaintop mining of coal in West Virginia, and mercury fate and transport from artisanal gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon.
Jackie's website. |
Emily Ury, PhD student |
Laura Naslund, Wündergrad researcher |
Emily joined the lab in August 2016. She received her Masters at the Yale School of Forestry where she worked with Peter Raymond to study the use of oxygen isotopes of phosphate to trace fertilizer runoff in heavily farmed watersheds. She is curious about nutrient cycling and the impacts of various land uses on ecological communities and biogeochemical processes. Emily will begin her doctoral research in conjunction with our Coastal SEES project. Emily is co-advised with Justin Wright.
Emily's website. |
Laura began working as an undergraduate researcher in our lab in 2016, as part of Duke's Huang Fellows program. Laura is a Biology major who is interested in the impacts of land use change on aquatic biodiversity. In summer 2017 she and Jackie will be catching crayfish and spiders and tracking the movement of mercury and selenium down rivers and up food webs downstream of mountaintop removal coal mines. In her first summer Laura was a guest blogger for the Nicholas School, you can read about her first dive into field research here.
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Audrey Thellman, PhD student |
Claire Thomas, Wündergrad researcher |
Audrey is our newest PhD student, joining in August of 2018. She recently graduated from the University of Notre Dame where she worked with Jennifer Tank studying the role of groundwater and the hyporheic zone in agricultural ditch nutrient cycling. At Duke, she is excited to dive in to the Hubbard Brook dataset to piece together the different biogeochemical stories of the historic field site.
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Duke Bass Connections Team
Environmental Epidemiology in Latin America: Identifying the Impacts of Artisanal Gold Mining on Forest Reserves and Native Populations in the Peruvian Amazon
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Kelsey Lansdale
Class of '19 Environmental Science |
Christopher Lara
MS International Development Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy |
Melissa Marchese
Class of '21 Undeclared |
Tatiana Manidis
MEM '19 Nicholas School of the Enviroment |
Check out our project website to learn more https://peruviangold.weebly.com/
You could be next!
LAB ALUMNIFormer PhD Students
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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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