Assistant Professor of Water Quality, Colorado State University
I’m an ecosystem scientist interested in how people control and change the environment and how altered landscapes impact the streams and rivers that drain them. To explore how people reshape landscapes and create novel controls of ecosystem processes, I use a range of approaches from remote sensing to intensive field sampling. Current projects include: remote sensing of water quality at a national scale, using fish otoliths as way to look back in time at water quality changes in lakes and rivers, and ongoing work looking at the long water quality legacies of mining operations. This work aims to enhance our understanding of ecosystem change for scientists and society alike.
Mining powers modern life, but can leave scarred lands and polluted waters behind
Oct 04, 2019 14:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Modern society relies on metals like copper, gold and nickel for uses ranging from medicine to electronics. Most of these elements are rare in Earths crust, so mining them requires displacing vast volumes of dirt and rock....
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