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 |
Eric Moore
Research Associate 
Christina Bergemann
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Postdoctoral Associates
Michael Rinderer
is interested in how groundwater connects / disconnects to the stream and causes runoff response in a watershed 
Phil Savoy (Bernhardt lab)
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Xiaoli Dong (Heffernan lab)
Aaron Berdanier (Bernhardt lab)
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PhD Students
Joanna Blaszczak
wants to understand how the ways urban watersheds are configured mitigates or exacerbates their impact on receiving surface waters. |
Megan Fork
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Anna Braswell
is a wetland enthusiast, interested in the formation and persistence of coastal wetlands. |
Chelsea Clifford
studies artificial aquatic systems- what's in your ditch? |
Richard Marinos
loves soils, streams and the flowpaths that connect them |
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John Gardner
likes thinking longitudinally about rivers. 
Cathy Chamberlin
Emily Ury
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Katy Hansen
Jacqueline Gerson
Alice Carter
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Masters of Environmental Management Students
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
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
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
