Meet the River Center
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Principal Investigators
Emily Bernhardt
Enjoys tracking elements through ecosystems, the more degraded the better |
Martin Doyle
Likes reading (and writing) the history of riverscapes |
Jim Heffernan
Obsessed with ecosystem change at all temporal scales |
Brian McGlynn
Will do anything to figure out where water comes from and where its going. |
Technical Staff
Brooke Hassett
River Center Lab Manager 
Steve Anderson
Research Associate/Bernhardt Lab Manager |
Eric Moore
Research Associate |
Postdoctoral Associates
Phil Savoy (Bernhardt lab)
Anika Bratt (Heffernan lab)
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Xiaoli Dong (Heffernan lab)
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PhD Students
John Gardner
likes thinking longitudinally about rivers. |
John Mallard
all about the hydrology of watersheds recovering from human impacts |
Cathy Chamberlin
Emily Ury (Bernhardt lab)
curious about nutrient cycling and the impacts of various land uses on ecological communities and biogeochemical processes.
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Jacqueline Gerson
is excited by trace metal movement through watersheds and their impact on people 
Alice Carter
studyng the metabolism of rivers. |
Undergraduate Researchers
Laura Naslund (Bernhardt lab)
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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...
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River Center Alumni
Chelsea Clifford- former PhD student, Heffernan lab.
Jessica Brandt- former PhD student, Bernhardt & Di Giulio labs.
Joanna Blaszczak- former PhD student, Bernhardt & Urban labs.
Richard Marinos- former PhD student, Bernhardt lab.
Anna Braswell- former PhD student, Heffernan lab.
Megan Fork- former PhD student, Heffernan lab.
Matt Ross - former PhD student, Bernhardt & Doyle labs.
Matt Fuller - former PhD student, Doyle lab.
Erin Seybold - former PhD student, McGlynn lab.
Kendra Kaiser - former PhD student, McGlynn lab.
Maggie Zimmer - former PhD student, McGlynn lab.
Alex Brooks - former MEM student
Michael Rinderer- former postdoc, McGlynn lab.
Fabian Nippgen- former PhD student, former postdoc, McGlynn lab. Currently faculty member at Wyoming
Tiffany Messer - former postdoc, Doyle lab. Currently faculty member at University of Nebraska
Joseph Delesantro - former River Center Research Associate. Currently PhD student at UNC-Chapel Hill
Raven Bier - former PhD student, Bernhardt lab. Currently postdoc at University of Uppsala.
Kelly Shen - former undergraduate researcher, Bernhardt lab
Christa Kelleher - former postdoc, McGlynn lab. Currently faculty member at Syracuse University
Benjamin Colman - former postdoc, Bernhardt lab. Currently faculty member at University of Montana
Dr. Kris Voss - first official PhD recipient in the Duke River Center. Currently faculty member, Regis University
Meredith Steele - former postdoc, Heffernan lab. Currently faculty member at Virginia Tech
Alison Appling - former PhD student (Bernhardt lab), former postdoc (Heffernan lab), currently postdoc at USGS Center for Integrated Data Analytics
Chuck Podolak - former postdoc, Doyle lab