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
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Steve Anderson, #DukeBGC 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 came to Duke in 2011 and joined #DukeBGC in 2014. He earned his B.S. in Conservation Biology from SUNY-ESF and a M.S. in Forestry & Environmental Resources from NC State University with Dr. Marcelo Ardón. Steve has a dual appointment with Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association (Durham, NC) as the Watershed Data and Monitoring Coordinator. Recently, Steve has spent most of his time studying the diverse responses of coastal wetland plant species to elevated seawater exposure. Steve has been a lead research technician and coordinator for our work on coastal ecosystem impacts of saltwater intrusion and the effects of emerging contaminants in freshwater ecosystems.
Steve's website | ResearchGate | @smkanderson |
Audrey Thellman, PhD student
Audrey joined the lab in 2018. She did her undergraduate degree at the University of Notre Dame where she worked with Jennifer Tank. For her disseration Audrey is working at Hubbard Brook and is particularly interested in how climate change is altering the hydrologic, energetic and biogeochemical regimes of rivers. She is a NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology Fellow (2020-2023).
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Mike Vlah, Data Scientist
Mike joined the lab in 2017 after completing his MS at the University in Washington. His background in aquatic ecosystem ecology and his facility with wrangling data into beautiful and useful formats is the secret weapon that underpins the work we do in our StreamPULSE and MacroSHEDS projects. Meet Mike through his code via
https://github.com/vlahm |
Jonny Behrens, PhD student
Jonny joined the lab in August 2019. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago where he worked with Albert Colman to study microbial activity and phosphate cycling in the open ocean. Prior to joining the lab, Jonny spent 3 years working in science policy research in Washington D.C.. For his dissertation, Jonny is interested in the biogeochemistry of urban ecosystems, including the transport and fate of contaminants. Jonny is co-advised with Martin Doyle. Jonny’s website.
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Jasmine Parham, PhD student
Jasmine joined the lab in August 2019. She received her undergraduate degree from Stetson University, and conducted postgraduate studies at William & Mary studying the dietary transfer of methylmercury between aquatic and terrestrial food webs. At Duke, she studies the impact of mercury exposure on tropical birds from artisanal gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon.
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Elliott White Jr., Postdoctoral Scholar |
Spencer Rhea, Data Scientist |
Elliott is co-advised by both Emily and Xi Yang (UVA). His current research uses remote sensing to track, quantify, and predict changes in coastal wetland landcover. He received his PhD in Environmental Engineering Sciences from the University of Florida in 2019. His dissertation research examined the effects of saltwater intrusion on coastal freshwater swamps using ecology, hydrology, biogeochemistry, and remote sensing.
Elliott's website Google Scholar :: ORCiD Twitter @SwampManElliott |
Spencer joined the lab in 2020 after finishing his bachelor's degree at Colorado State University. Here at Duke, Spencer works closely with Mike Vlah in development and maintenance of our StreamPULSE and Macrosheds portals.
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Amanda DelVecchia, Postdoc
Amanda's website
Twitter: @agdelv
Wündergrad Researchers
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LAB ALUMNI
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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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