Meet the River Center

Principal Investigators

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Emily Bernhardt
Enjoys tracking elements through ecosystems, the more degraded the better
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Ryan Emanuel
Studies water and its relationships to ecosystems and people


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Martin Doyle
Likes reading (and writing) the history of riverscapes
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Jim Heffernan
Obsessed with ecosystem change at all temporal scales

Technical Staff

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Brooke Hassett
River Center Lab Manager


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Michael Vlah
Data Scientist

Research Scientists & Post-Docs

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Kevan Minick

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Kierra O'Donnell

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Lydia Jennings

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Nick Marzolf
carbon in freshwater ecosystems, from greenhouse gas evasion to assimilation by food webs, and influences of disturbance on the variability in these fluxes

PhD Students

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​Audrey Thellman
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Jocelyn Painter
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Jonny Behrens
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Allison Pearce

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Erik Patton
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Spencer Rhea



Undergraduate Researchers

This could be you... send an email to one or more PIs if you are interested in conducting undergraduate research with one or more of us...