Achievement

NSPIRE Trainee Bridget Deemer and faculty members John Harrison and Steve Henderson have been working on a NSF project entitled “Interacting hydrological and biogeochemical controls on nitrogen transformation hot spots and hot moments in a eutrophic reservoir”. This work has involved collaboration between two labs to better understand the influence of water level drawdown regimes on greenhouse gas fluxes and microbial nitrogen removal. Henderson and Deemer have co-authored a paper discussing the internal wave dynamics within Lacamas. The group is exploring the implications of these wave dynamics on N transformations by focusing work on the reservoir’s internal shoreline. Deemer and Harrison are also working with an undergraduate student, Maria Glavin, to write a manuscript describing the large greenhouse gas ebullition that occurs during a reservoir drawdown.