current projects
Headwater stream network connectivity: biogeochemical consequences and carbon fate
Headwater stream networks in a warming world: predicting heterotrophic ecosystem function using theory, multi-scale temperature manipulations and modeling
- PhD thesis project
Headwater stream networks in a warming world: predicting heterotrophic ecosystem function using theory, multi-scale temperature manipulations and modeling
- PIs: E Hotchkiss (VT), JP Benstead (University of Alabama), V Gulis (Coastal Carolina University), AM Helton (UConn), AD Rosemond (UGA)
- RA: Summer 2019
- REU fellow mentor: Summer 2019
past projects
Interfaces of Global Change @VT
Methane consumption and production in arctic Alaskan lakes
Iowa State University Center for Food Security and Public Health/USDA Veterinary Services
BioResources, NC State University
Kenai Watershed Forum/US FWS
- interdisciplinary project on salt runoff to Stroubles Creek
- Lakoba, V., Wind, L., DeVilbiss, S., Lofton, M., Bretz, K., Weinheimer, A., Moore, C., Baciocco, C., Hotchkiss, E., and Hession, W.C. 2020 Salt Dilution and Flushing Dynamics of an Impaired Agricultural–Urban Stream. ACS ES&T Water. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.0c00160
Methane consumption and production in arctic Alaskan lakes
- MS thesis project with Steve Whalen at UNC Chapel Hill
- publication DOI: 10.5268/IW-4.1.637
Iowa State University Center for Food Security and Public Health/USDA Veterinary Services
BioResources, NC State University
Kenai Watershed Forum/US FWS