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Anthony Aufdenkampe, Ph.D.

200 200 Stroud Water Research Center

Adjunct Research Scientist

Senior Research Scientist, LimnoTech

Interests and Expertise

  • Investigating the processes of organic matter cycling throughout watersheds — from soils to rivers to estuaries.
  • Elucidating the interplay between degradation and sorption processes in determining the composition and ultimate fate of organic matter within river systems.
  • Employing diverse analytical and experimental techniques to answer hypothesis-driven questions.
  • Synthesizing observation and theory into quantitative models of various types in order to guide new experiments and theory.

Education

  • Ph.D., Chemical Oceanography, University of Washington.
  • M.S., Chemical Oceanography, University of Washington.
  • B.A., Chemistry, Dartmouth College.

Professional Experience

  • Senior Research Scientist, LimnoTech, Oakdale, Minnesota.
  • Associate Research Scientist, Stroud Water Research Center, 2003–2016.
  • National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Fellow, NSF International Research Fellowship Program, 2002.

Publications

Impact of exotic earthworms on organic carbon sorption on mineral surfaces and soil carbon inventories in a northern hardwood forest

Lyttle, A., K. Yoo, C. Hale, A.K. Aufdenkampe, S.D. Sebestyen, K. Resner, and A. Blum. 2015. Ecosystems 18(1):16–29.

Invasive earthworms deplete key soil inorganic nutrients (Ca, Mg, K, and P) in a northern hardwood forest

Resner, K., K. Yoo, C. Hale, A.K. Aufdenkampe, S.D. Sebestyen, A. Lyttle, and A. Blum. 2015. Ecosystems 18(1):89–102.

The delivery of dissolved organic carbon from a forested hillslope to a headwater stream in southeastern Pennsylvania, USA

Mei, Y., G.M. Hornberger, L.A. Kaplan, J.D. Newbold, and A.K. Aufdenkampe. 2014. Water Resources Research 50(7):5774–5796.

Community-developed geoscience cyberinfrastructure

Richard, S. M., G. Pearthree, A.K. Aufdenkampe, J. Cutcher-Gershenfeld, M. Daniels, B. Gomez, D. Kinkade, and G. Percivall. 2014 . Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 95(20):165–166.

A variable source area for groundwater evapotranspiration: impacts on modeling stream flow

Tsang, Y.P., G. Hornberger, L.A. KaplanJ.D. Newbold, and A.K. Aufdenkampe. 2014. Hydrological Processes 28(4):2439–2450.

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