Bernhardt, Emily Snow
(919) 660-7318
emily.bernhardt@duke.edu
Ffsc 3313
Durham, NC 27708
Box 90338
Durham, NC 27708-0000

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Courses

BIOLOGY 564: Biogeochemistry
BIOLOGY 361LS: Field Ecology
POE 105: Spring Breakthrough
ENERGY 795T: Bass Connections Energy & Environment Research Team
UNIV 102: Let's Talk About Climate Change

Emily S. Bernhardt

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor
Jerry G. and Patricia Crawford Hubbard Professor
Jerry G. and Patricia Crawford Hubbard Professor
Professor of Biology
Associate Professor in the Department of Biology
Associate Professor
Professor
Professor
Professor
Associate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society

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Emily Bernhardt is an ecosystem ecologist and biogeochemist whose research is principally concerned with tracking the movement of elements through ecological systems. Dr. Bernhardt's research aims to document the extent to which the structure and function of aquatic ecosystems is being altered by land use change (urbanization, agriculture, mining) global change (rising CO2, rising sea levels) and chemical pollution. Ultimately this information is necessary to determine whether and how ecosystem change can be mitigated or prevented through active ecosystem management.

Research Areas

Education

  • Ph.D., Cornell University (2001)
  • B.S., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1996)
  • B.S., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (1996)

Publications

River ecosystem metabolism and carbon biogeochemistry in a changing world. (01/2023)
Give long-term datasets World Heritage status. (12/2022)
Patterns and Drivers of Dissolved Gas Concentrations and Fluxes Along a Low Gradient Stream (11/2022)
The Nonpoint Sources and Transport of Baseflow Nitrogen Loading Across a Developed Rural-Urban Gradient (07/2022)
Coastal freshwater wetlands squeezed between migrating salt marshes and working lands. (07/2022)
Climate Change Driving Widespread Loss of Coastal Forested Wetlands Throughout the North American Coastal Plain (06/2022)
Chemistry of surface water, precipitation, throughfall, leaves, sediment, soil, and air near a gold mining region in Peru. (05/2022)
Salinity thresholds for understory plants in coastal wetlands (03/2022)
Light and flow regimes regulate the metabolism of rivers. (02/2022)
MATBOX: An Open-source Microstructure Analysis Toolbox for microstructure generation, segmentation, characterization, visualization, correlation, and meshing (01/2022)

Mailing Address

Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Box 90467
Durham, NC 27708

Street / Delivery Address

Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability
140 Science Drive
Gross Hall, Suite 101
Durham, NC 27708

919-613-1305