Lecturer-Environmental Science Undergraduate Advisor
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Dr. Whittinghill's research
focuses on how soil and sediment processes in terrestrial and aquatic
ecosystems affect watershed carbon and nutrient cycling. A mechanistic
understanding of how changing climate and nutrient availability will alter
watershed carbon and nitrogen cycling is essential for predicting feedbacks to
global climate and predicting nutrient inputs to inland and coastal
waters. Towards that end, she uses biogeochemical models supported by laboratory
and field work to examine how global environmental change alters
biogeochemistry at plot, local and regional scales.