User:Fluvialbenthos

ERIN R. HOTCHKISS, Ph.D.
I am an ecologist who uses empirical data and statistical models to understand how land-water interactions and ecosystem processes shape the transport, transformation, and fate of carbon and nutrients in freshwater ecosystems. Questions of interest include: How, when, and where do in-stream processes regulate carbon and nutrient export and emission fluxes? In what ways do climate and landscape changes alter freshwater biogeochemistry, metabolism, and food webs? What is the function and fate of algal and terrestrial organic matter in river networks? I use a combination of monitoring (chemistry, hydrology, biology), experimental (manipulating carbon and nutrients, stable isotope tracers), and quantitative (Bayesian, inverse modeling) approaches to study freshwater ecosystem processes.

CURRENT POSITION: Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Science, Virginia Tech (VA, USA)

WEBSITE: http://www.hotchkisslab.com

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:
B.Sc., Environmental Studies, Emory University (GA, USA), 2003
M.Sc., Zoology & Physiology, University of Wyoming (WY, USA), 2007
Ph.D., Ecology, University of Wyoming (WY, USA), 2013
Postdoctoral Fellow, Freshwater Biogeochemistry, Umeå University (Sweden), 2013-2015
Postdoctoral Fellow, Freshwater Biogeochemistry, Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada), 2015-2016

This user is a professional
ecologist.

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