Projects
Here, you’ll find a series of projects that I’ve been focusing on during my PhD! These projects will summarize the chapters of my dissertation (as I write them), while also highlighting the analytical methods I’ve learned over the course of my PhD.
The Northeastern United States has broadly been seeing a decrease in snowfall, with an increase in rainfall since about the 1980s. The Finger Lakes, which hold water for relatively short time periods, are uniquely positioned to show how this change in preciptiation regimes affect not just water quality, but also how sensitive Central New York is to a ever evolving hydraulic regime. My work here focuses on how we can detect these changes using chemical and physical analyses.
Understanding controls on chemistry in streams has been a key focus of research in Critical Zone science for some time now. While a growing understanding has emerged pointing towards water-rock interactions as a primary control on stream water chemistry, both the fields of hydrology and low temperature geochemistry have different reasons as to why. Here, we are attempting to look at geochemical tracers and groundwater ages to see how well both correlate with regards to controlling observable stream chemistry
