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Department of
Natural Resources and
Environmental Management Departmental Chair: |
Greg Bruland |
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Assistant Professor |
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| Education: | Ph.D. Nicholas School of the Environment & Earth Sciences,
Duke University |
| Courses Taught (last 5 years): | NREM 612 Degradation of Human-Dominated Ecosystems |
| Research/Extension Interests: | My research interests include soil and water conservation, watershed management, land-based threats to coastal ecosystems, wetland ecology, and biogeochemistry. I am interested in finding ways to better manage tropical watersheds and to protect costal zones from the effects of agricultural activity, urbanization, and road construction. I believe that the best environmental solutions will be found through using integrated, spatially-explicit research which takes advantage of the latest developments in global positioning systems (GPS), geographic information systems (GIS), geostatistics, and diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS). These technologies allow for research over larger scales and with greater resolution than has been previously possible. Thus, they will help us characterize the status and degradation of soil and water quality at the watershed scale, while also giving growers, landowners, managers, environmental economists, and scientists powerful methods to identify critical source areas of nutrient, pesticide, and sediment loss as well as optimal sites for best management practice implementation, remediation, and restoration. |