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Scott Ensign, Ph.D.

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Scott Ensign, Ph.D.

Assistant Director, Vice President

Administration and Finance Department

Research Scientist

Contact

ensign@stroudcenter.org
tel. 610-910-0041
970 Spencer Road, Avondale, PA 19311

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Interests and Expertise

Scott Ensign is an ecosystem ecologist working to discover how plants, animals, and microbes interact within rivers and how the results of those processes influence how people and society interact with rivers. In collaboration with his colleagues, he makes biogeochemical measurements, performs experiments, and interprets results using statistical models and analysis. Ensign is particularly interested in developing new measurement technologies for aquatic environments, exploring how sea level rise affects rivers, and implementing conservation techniques that improve ecological conditions and the utility people derive from freshwater ecosystems.

Education

  • Ph.D., ecology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  • M.S., ecology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  • B.A., environmental science, University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

Professional Experience

  • Assistant director, Stroud Water Research Center, 2018–present.
  • Adjunct assistant professor, Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Science Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 2013–2018.
  • Founder/CEO, Planktos Instruments, LLC, Morehead City, North Carolina, 2013–2018.
  • Founder/managing partner, Aquatic Analysis and Consulting, LLC, Wilmington, North Carolina, 2004–2017.
  • Research ecologist, National Research Program, United States Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia, 2010–2011.
  • Research technician III, Institute of Marine Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Morehead City, North Carolina, 2004–2005.
  • Research technician II, Institute of Marine Science, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1997–2002.

Publications

In-channel transient storage and associated nutrient retention: evidence from experimental manipulations

Ensign, S.H., and M.W. Doyle. 2005. Limnology and Oceanography, 50(6):1740–1751.

Response to commentary by Hardy, Reich, and Tucker

Cahoon, L.B., and S.H. Ensign. 2004. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems 70:323–324.

Photosynthetic and heterotrophic impacts of nutrient loading to blackwater streams

Mallin M.A., M.R. McIver, S.H. Ensign, and L.B. Cahoon. 2004. Ecological Applications 14(3):823–838.

Excessive soil phosphorus levels in eastern North Carolina: temporal and spatial distributions and relationships to agriculture and other land uses

Cahoon, L.B., and S.H. Ensign. 2004. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems 69:111–125.

Application of digital bathymetry data in an analysis of flushing times of two large estuaries

Ensign, S.H., J.N. Halls, and M.A. Mallin. 2004. Computers and Geosciences 30(5):501–511.
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