
Duke University
Department of Biology
Durham, NC 27708
Phone:
919-660-7318
Email:
emily.bernhardt@duke.edu
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Emily Bernhardt is a biogeochemist who has long been interested in the role that stream ecosystems play within watersheds in altering the form, timing and magnitude of nutrient exports. She conducted her dissertation research at HBEF in the 1990's, exploring the impacts of forest age, ice storms and carbon supply on stream nitrogen cycling. In the 2010's Emily began working at HBEF again. Bernhardt is now collaborating with Gene Likens, Emma Rosi, John Campbell and Lindsey Rustad in the maintenance of the long-term rain and stream chemistry record. New field research is exploring the impact of acid rain legacies and acid rain mitigation on watershed C and N cycling and the effect of warmer springs on the productivity of stream ecosystems.
Hubbard Brook Publications by this Author
“Give And Take: A Watershed Acid Rain Mitigation Experiment Increases Baseflow Nitrogen Retention But Increases Stormflow Nitrogen Export”. Environmental Science & Technology 52(22): 13155 - 13165. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.8b03553.
. 2018. “Acid Rain Mitigation Experiment Shifts A Forested Watershed From A Net Sink To A Net Source Of Nitrogen”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113(27): 7580 - 7583. http://www.pnas.org/lookup/doi/10.1073/pnas.1607287113.
. 2016. “Nitrate In Watersheds: Straight From Soils To Streams?”. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 118(1): 291 - 302. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jgrg.20030/abstract.
. 2013. “Twenty Years Apart: Comparisons Of Dom Uptake During Leaf Leachate Releases To Hubbard Brook Valley Streams In 1979 Versus 2000”. J. Geophys. Res.-Biogeosciences 113(G3): GO3032.
. 2008. “Environmental Controls On The Landscape-Scale Biogeography Of Stream Bacterial Communities”. Ecology 9: 2162-2173.
. 2007. “Forest Age, Wood And Nutrient Dynamics In Headwater Streams Of The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest”. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 32: 1154-1163.
. 2007. “Can’T See The Forest For The Stream? In-Stream Processing And Terrestrial Nitrogen Exports”. BioScience 55(3): 219-230.
. 2005. “Factors Influencing Stream Nutrient Dynamics: Woody Debris And Forest Age”. ESA/INTECOL Meeting, August 2005.
. 2005. “Buffering An Acidic Stream In New Hampshire With A Silicate Mineral”. Restoration Ecology 12(3): 419-428.
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“Controls On Periphyton Biomass In Heterotrophic Streams”. Freshwater Biology 49(1): 14-27.
. 2004. “In-Stream Update Dampens Effects Of Major Forest Disturbance On Watershed Nitrogen Export”. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences 100(18): 10304-10308.
. 2003. “Nitrogen Dynamics In Ice Storm-Damaged Forest Ecosystems: Implications For Nitrogen Limitation Theory”. Ecosystems 6(5): 431-443.
. 2003. “Changes In Streamwater Doc, Don And Din During Leaf Leachate Releases”. North Amer. Benthological Soc. 2002 Annual Meeting.
. 2002. “A Comparison Of Open-Channel And Chamber Methods For Estimating Whole Stream Metabolism In A North Temperate Stream”. Abstract, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Annual Meeting.
. 2002. “Dissolved Organic Carbon Enrichment Alters Nitrogen Dynamics In A Forest Stream”. Ecology 83(6): 1689-1700.
. 2002. “Lessons From Kinetic Releases Of Ammonium In Streams Of The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest”. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 28(1): 429-433.
. 2002. “Relating Nutrient Uptake With Transient Storage In Forested Mountain Streams”. Limnol. Oceanogr. 47(1): 255-265.
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“Biogeochemical Responses Of Two Forest Streams To A Two-Month Calcium Addition”. Freshwater Biology 46(3): 291-302.
. 2001. “Evaluating The Relationship Between Transient Storage And Nutrient Uptake In Streams”. Aquatic Sciences Meeting, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Feb. 2001.
. 2001. “Lessons From Kinetic Releases Of Ammonium In Streams Of The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (Hbef)”. Abstract for Societas Internationalis Limnologiae: 57.
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. 2001.
“Effects Of A Doc Addition On Stream Nitrogen Dynamics At The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (Hbef)”. Abstract for North American Benthological Society.
. 2000. “Effects Of A Two-Month Addition On Stream Nitrogen Dynamics At The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (Hbef)”. Abstract for Ecological Society of America.
. 2000. “Experimental Alkalinization Of A Stream Ecosystem At The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (Hbef)”. Abstract for LTER All Scientists Meeting.
. 2000. “Instream Nitrification: Can It Explain (No3) In Stream Of The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest?”. Abstract for Ecological Society of America.
. 2000. “Stream Nutrient Limitation Across A Range Of Forest Age In The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (Hbef), New Hampshire”. Abstracts for Ecological Society of America, 84th Annual Meeting: 228.
. 1999. “Transient Storage And Nutrient Transport In Streams At The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest”. Abstract for The North American Benthological Society.
. 1999. “Algal Assemblage Response To A Two-Month, Whole Stream Ph And Calcium Manipulation At The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest”. Abstract for 46th Annual Meeting, Bull. North Amer. Benthol. Soc. 15(1):150.
. 1998. “Calcium Transport And Storage During A Two-Month Calcium Addition To Two Forest Streams”. Abstracts, ASLO/ESA Meeting [Jointly sponsored, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography/Ecological Society of America], June 1998: A3.
. 1998. “The Hubbard Brook Linx Project: Nitrogen Transformations In A Northern Hardwood Forest Stream”. Bull. North Amer. Benthol. Soc. 15(1):126. Abstract for 46th Annual Meeting.
. 1998. “Reduction In Emergence Of An Acid Tolerant Stonefly In Response To Elevated Ph And Calcium”. Bull. North Amer. Benthol. Soc. 15(1): 115.
. 1998.