Freshwater Ecosystem Science
Our work helps identify how to achieve and maintain healthy, resilient, freshwater ecosystems.
Maintaining Freshwater Ecosystems
People depend on healthy, resilient freshwater ecosystems to provide goods and services. Our work aims to identify the factors that maintain, diminish, or improve the capacity of streams and rivers to provide these services, such as clean drinking water and conservation of wildlife.
Goals
Goals of our research include determining how nutrient pollution and other stressors affect stream life and the functions of freshwater ecosystems to inform sustainable management.
In collaborative teams, we strive to find the mechanisms underlying global change effects on streams and determine conditions that need to be avoided to maintain healthy functioning ecosystems.
Teaching
We also aim to inspire the next generation of students and community members, including ecologists, farmers, entrepreneurs, policy-makers, and managers by teaching about water sustainability and river health.
Lab Philosophy
How we work is as important as what we do.
We assert that including and affirming all people, particularly from groups that have been underrepresented in the sciences, is the most critical issue for the advancement of the fields of freshwater science and ecology. We strive to make our lab and all the activities we engage in environments in which people feel valued, supported, and affirmed for who they are. We actively seek to eradicate racism and minoritization of people in science and commit to dismantling barriers of discrimination, implicit bias, personal safety, and harassment through our group and individual education and actions.