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JoAnn Burkholder

Professor, Botany ; Adj. Prof., MEAS

Area(s) of Expertise

  • Eutrophication (Nutrient Pollution) Impacts on Aquatic Ecosystems
  • Quantifying Land Use Influences on Water Quality
  • Nutritional Ecology of Harmful Algae and Seagrasses
  • Impacts and Mitigation of Harmful Algal Blooms
  • Automated Remote Acquisition of Water Quality Data in Real Time
  • Long-Term Trends in Pollutant Loads

Research Summary

My research over the past 35 years has emphasized the effects of nutrient over-enrichment, related pollutants, and changing nutrient stoichiometry on aquatic ecosystems spanning from freshwaters to estuaries and marine coasts.  I especially have focused on harmful algae such as toxigenic cyanobacteria and dinoflagellates, and on beneficial seagrasses. I have also studied chronic effects of eutrophication on higher trophic levels such as finfish and shellfish.  My most recent work has been in Falls Lake, a major potable water supply reservoir in the North Carolina Piedmont.

Publications

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