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BIO

I’m a limnologist specializing in phytoplankton community ecology and carbon biogeochemistry. My research focuses on the role of disturbance in driving lake ecosystem function across space and time. I am interested in how anthropogenic disturbance (watershed land use, climate change) drives algal community assembly and cyanobacteria bloom formation, linking fine scale physiological mechanisms with ecosystem and landscape scale processes. My lab group integrates paleolimnological approaches with ecological theory, experimental manipulations, and high-frequency monitoring to understand and define community assembly rules and feedbacks across scales.

Area(s) of expertise

Environmental Sciences,  Natural Resources,  Sustainability, Ecology and Policy, Limnology, Phytoplankton ecology, Biogeochemistry, Carbon cycling, Lake ecosystem ecology