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Nate Jones

Postdoctoral Fellow

njones@sesync.org

540-553-1182

Luna Leopold, one of the early pioneers of watershed science, said “the health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land.” His statement highlights the importance of connectivity between the landscape and riverine systems, suggesting that water quality is the summation of hydrologic transport processes across a watershed. My research program embraces this idea by examining hydrologic connectivity and associated biogeochemical processing. Working collaboratively with several different interdisciplinary teams, this work has been conducted along a continuum of hydrologic connectivity (e.g., upland wetlands, headwater riparian zones, and large-river floodplains) and at multiple scales (e.g., individual wetland, reach, and watershed). The overarching theme of our work has been to identify management variables to improve downstream water quality, and ultimately, enable the larger scientific and management communities to better address complex problems at interfase of social and environmental systems.

 

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Cohort: 2017

CV: 

jones_cv.pdf

Resources
Featured Collection Introduction: The Emerging Science of Aquatic System Connectivity II	May 24, 2019 Article published in Journal of the American Water Resources Association.
Featured Collection Introduction: The Emerging Science of Aquatic System Connectivity I	Mar 21, 2019 Article published in Journal of the American Water Resources Association.
Modeling Connectivity of Non‐floodplain Wetlands: Insights, Approaches, and Recommendations	Mar 05, 2019 Article published in Journal of American Water Resources Association.
Short- and long-term hydrologic controls on smouldering fire in wetland soils	Feb 21, 2019 Article published in International Journal of Wildland Fire.
Linking ecosystem function and hydrologic regime to inform restoration of a forested peatland	Dec 31, 2018 Article published in Journal of Environmental Management.
A watershed-scale model for depressional wetland-rich landscapes	Dec 05, 2018 Article published in Journal of Hydrology.
Impact of road salt on drinking water quality and infrastructure corrosion in private wells	Nov 08, 2018 Article published in Environmental Science and Technology.
Effects of large wood on floodplain connectivity in a headwater Mid-Atlantic stream	May 08, 2018 Article published in Ecological Engineering.
From salamanders to greenhouse gases: does upland management affect wetland functions?	Jan 10, 2018 Article published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
Estimating restorable wetland water storage at landscape scales	Nov 21, 2017 Article published in Hydrological Processes.

Research Interest: 

Hydrology and Water Quality, Ecological Engineering, Watershed Management

Audience: 

Researcher