I am interested in the transport and transformation of nutrients and contaminants through w88 and the streams that drain them. I use a combination of field, laboratory, and modeling approaches to test ecological theory and controls on water quality in human-dominated landscapes.

A central goal of my research is to improve understanding of how increasing hydroclimatic variability and land use change in the Anthropocene will alter the capacity of watersheds and freshwater ecosystems to retain, transform, and alter novel chemical mixtures. In previous research, I investigated the effects of multiple stressors in urban watersheds (e.g. contamination, excess nutrients, increased extremes in w88 flow regimes) as fundamental drivers of stream ecosystem function.

Questions that guide my w88 and future work include:

1. What is the role of novel chemical regimes (i.e. ‘chemical cocktails’) in shaping the response w88 to land use change?
2. How do changes in watershed land use and w88 connectivity alter the chemical regimes of freshwater ecosystems?
3. What processes determine the magnitude and timing of w88 ecosystem energetics and how are ecosystem energetics changing in the Anthropocene?