Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2016-2017

Ph.D. Student, Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability

Research Summary: Over the last several decades, lakes show a warming trend globally due to changes in temperature and reduced cloud cover. Even the most remote lakes, such as mountain lakes in the Rocky Mountains, are not immune to stressors caused by humans. I am interested in how atmospheric deposition of pollutants (nitrogen and phosphorus) coupled with warming is changing the way that alpine lakes cycle nutrients internally, as well as how these food webs are changing. Since alpine lakes are situated at the very beginnings of catchments, how they react to a changing climate can have downstream implications.