Emily Snow Bernhardt

      Department of Biology - Box 90338
            Duke University
Durham, NC 27708      

Phone: (646) 825-1278
          Fax: 919-660-7293
e-mail: emily.bernhardt@duke.edu

Education:

·   Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2001
·   B.S. in Biology with honors, minor in Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1996

Professional Positions:

·   Assistant Professor, Duke University, 2004 to present
·   Visiting Scholar (courtesy appointment), Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology,
Columbia University, November 2003 to June 2004
·   Postdoctoral Associate (M. Palmer) National River Restoration Science Synthesis Effort (NCEAS working
group), University of Maryland , September 2002 to August 2004
·   Postdoctoral Associate (W.H. Schlesinger) FACTS-1 Free Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment experiment
(funded by Department of Energy), Duke University, 2001- 2002
·   Co-Instructor (with W.H. Schlesinger), Biogeochemistry, Duke University, Spring 2002
·   Instructor, Stream Ecology, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL), Jul.-Aug. 2001
·   Volunteer Lecturer and Lab Instructor, Stream Ecology, Cornell University, 1999 and 2001
·   Elderhostel Instructor (with B.W. Taylor), Human Impacts on Aquatic Systems, RMBL, 2000
·   Laboratory Instructor, Introductory Biology, Cornell University, 1997-98
·   Research Assistant (R.J. Stevenson), University of Michigan Biological Station, 1995
·   Research Assistant (R.K. Peet), UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of Biology, 1994-1996

Research Interests:  effects of global change (urbanization, N deposition, rising CO2) on the biogeochemistry of streams and soils, restoration ecology, interactions between carbon and nitrogen cycling, long-term change in stream ecosystems

Professional Memberships:
·   Ecological Society of America (ESA)
·   North American Benthological Society (NABS)
·   Societas Internationalis Limnologiae (SIL)
·   American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS)

Selected Professional Honors:
·   Hynes Award for New Investigators, North American Benthological Society, 2004
·   WILDCO Award, (best student paper), North American Benthological Society, 2000 
·   NSF Doctoral fellowship, 1996-2000
·   Mellon Research Award, Cornell Graduate School, 1996
·   NSF REU Fellowship, University of Michigan Biological Station, 1995
·   Coffey Foundation Scholarship, 1992-1996
·   NC Merit Award, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1992

Professional Service Activities:
·   Ecological Society of America Visions Committee (2002-2003) and Publications Committee (2003-2006)
·   North American Benthological Society Executive Committee (2002-2004)
·   American Association of University Women fellowships guest panelist (2003)
·   Cary Conference Assistant, 2001
·   Co-president, Cornell Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Student Association, 1998-99
·   Peer Reviewer, Biogeochemistry, Ecology, Ecological Applications, Ecology Letters, Hydrobiologia, Journal
of the American Water Resources Association, Journal of the North American Benthological Society,
Limnology and Oceanography, NSF

Publications:

In Press
·   Likens, G.E. D.C. Buso, B. Dresser, E.S. Bernhardt, R.O. Hall, Jr., K.H. Macneale, and S.W. Bailey. In
Press
.  Experimental alkalinization of a stream ecosystem.  Restoration Ecology.

Published
·   King J.S., P.J. Hanson, E.S. Bernhardt, P. DeAngelis, R.J. Norby, and K.S. Pregitzer.  2004.  A multi-year
synthesis of soil respiration responses to elevated atmospheric CO2 from four forest FACE experiments. 
Global Change Biology 10: 1027-1042.

·   Margaret A. Palmer, Emily S. Bernhardt, Elizabeth A. Chornesky, Scott L. Collins, Andrew P. Dobson,
Clifford S. Duke, Barry D. Gold, Robert. Jacobson, Sharon Kingsland, Rhonda Kranz, Michael J Mappin,
Marisa L. Martinez, Fiorenza Micheli, Jennifer L. Morse, Michael L Pace, Mercedes Pascual, Stephen
Palumbi, O.J. Reichman, Ashley L. Simons, Alan Townsend, and Monica G. Turner.  2004.  Ecology for a
crowded planet.  Science 304 (5675): 1251-1252

·   Bernhardt, E.S. and G.E. Likens.  2004.  Controls on algal biomass in heterotrophic streams.  Freshwater
Biology 49: 14-27.

·   Aber, J., E.S. Bernhardt, F. Dijkstra, R.H. Gardner, K.H. Macneale, W.J. Parton, S.T.A. Pickett, D.L.
Urban, and K.C. Weathers.  2003. Standards of practice for review and publication of models: Summary of
Discussion.  Chapter 11 in C.D. Canham, J.J. Cole, and W.K. Lauenroth (Eds.) The Role of Models in
Ecosystem Science.  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.

·   Bernhardt, E.S., G.E. Likens, D.C. Buso, and C.T. Driscoll.  2003.  Instream uptake dampens the effect of
major disturbance on watershed nitrogen export.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 100
(18): 10304-10308
Correction published April 20 2004.  PNAS 101 (16): 6327-6327

·   Houlton, B.Z., C.T. Driscoll, T.J. Fahey, P.M. Groffman, G.E. Likens, E.S. Bernhardt and D. Buso. 2003. 
The effects of ice storm damage on the biogeochemical cycle of a northern hardwood forest ecosystem—
linking an exogenous perturbation to nutrient loss and acidification of drainage water.  Ecosystems 6 (5):
431-443

·   Bernhardt, E.S.  2002.  Lessons from kinetic releases of ammonium in streams of the Hubbard Brook
Experimental Forest (HBEF). Verhandlungen Internationale Vereingung Limnologie. 28: 429-433.

·   Bernhardt, E.S. and G.E. Likens.  2002.  DOC enrichment alters nitrogen dynamics in a forest stream. 
Ecology.  83(6): 1689-1700.

·   Bernhardt, E.S., R.O. Hall and G.E. Likens.  2002.  Whole-system estimates of nitrification and nitrate
uptake in streams of the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. Ecosystems 5: 419-430.

·   Flecker, A.S., B.W. Taylor, E.S. Bernhardt, J.Hood, W.K. Cornwell, S.H. Cassat, and M.J. Vanni. 2002. 
Interactions between herbivorous fishes and limiting nutrients in a tropical stream ecosystem. Ecology. 83(7):
1831–1844.

·   Hall, R.O. Jr., E.S. Bernhardt and G.E. Likens. 2002. The effect of transient storage zone size on nutrient
uptake efficiencies in streams of the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. Limnology and Oceanography.
47(1): 255-265.

·   Hall, Robert O., K.H. Macneale, E.S. Bernhardt, G.E. Likens and M. Field.  2000.  Stream ecosystem
response to a two-month calcium and pH manipulation.  Freshwater Biology 46: 291-302.

In Review

·   Taylor, B.W., E.S. Bernhardt and B.L. Peckarsky.  In Review.   Scale-dependent top-down and bottom-up
regulation of stream primary productivity.  Ecology Letters

·   E.S. Bernhardt, G.E. Likens, R.O. Hall, Jr., D.C. Buso, S.G. Fisher, T.M. Burton, J.L. Meyer, W.H.
McDowell, M.S. Mayer, W.B. Bowden, S.E.G. Findlay, K.H. Macneale, R.S. Stelzer, W.H. Lowe.  In
Review
.  Can’t See the Forest for the Stream?  The capacity of instream processing to modify terrestrial
nitrogen exports.  BioScience

·  M.A. Palmer, E.S. Bernhardt, J.D. Allan , P.S. Lake, G. Alexander, S. Brooks, J. Carr, S. Clayton, C.
Dahm, J. Follstad Shah, D.L. Galat, S. Gloss, P. Goodwin, D.H. Hart, B. Hassett, R. Jenkinson, G.M.
Kondolf, R. Lave, J.L. Meyer, T.K. O’Donnell, L. Pagano, P. Srivastava, E. Sudduth.  In Review.
Standards for Ecologically Successful River Restoration

Current Collaborators: Don Buso (IES), Martin Doyle (UNC-CH), Peter Groffman (IES), Robert Hall (UWY), Paul Hansen (ORNL), John King (MTU), Gene Likens (IES), Bill McDowell (UNH), Margaret Palmer (UMD), Mike Paul (Howard U.), Bobbi Peckarsky (Cornell), Jeff Pippen (Duke), Bill Schlesinger (Duke), Robert Stelzer (UW, Osh Kosh), Chris Swan (UMBC), Lina Taneva (UIL), Brad Taylor (UWY), Matt Wallenstein (Duke), Robert Wetzel (UNC-CH), National River Restoration Science Synthesis Working Group (NCEAS)







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