Water, Wetlands, & Watersheds Seminar: Characterizing stream CO2 regimes across different ecoregions of the US

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Dr. Erin R. Hotchkiss is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and a Faculty Affiliate of the Global Change Center at Virginia Tech. She received her Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of Wyoming in 2013, where she was advised by Dr. Robert O. Hall, Jr. Hotchkiss also completed a M.Sc. at the University of Wyoming and received her B.Sc. from Emory University. Prior to joining Virginia Tech, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Umeå University, Sweden and Université du Québec à Montréal in Canada. Hotchkiss was the 2016 recipient of the Society for Freshwater Science’s (SFS) Hynes Award for New Investigators as well as the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography’s (ASLO) Raymond L. Lindeman Award. She is currently Vice President of SFS and became an ASLO Fellow in 2023. Ongoing research in the Hotchkiss Lab (www.hotchkisslab.com) is exploring how environmental change, land-water interactions, & ecosystem processes shape the transport, transformation, and fate of carbon, nutrients, and pollutants in freshwaters.