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Shelby Hayhoe Riskin - Biography
Ph.D. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, 2012Shelby Riskin is interested in the interaction of biogeochemical cycling, ecosystem functioning, and anthropogenic land use changes. For her undergraduate research in rural Iowa - an area that has seen some of the most rapid and complete land use change in the world - she looked at nutrient loading in stream and lake systems. She has also worked in Brazil, a region under immense development pressure, with Chris Neill of MBL, who was looking at nutrients and hydrologic flowpaths in small streams, comparing catchments in tropical forest and pasture. Most recently, she conducted sampling of impaired waterbodies in Minnesota and working on hazardous material clean ups as a consultant. She completed her PhD in the Brown-MBL Partnership Program with advisors Stephen Porder and Chris Neill. Her dissertation work focused on the effects of forest and pasture conversion to intensive soybean agriculture in Brazil.
