Busy week for the Heffernan Lab and the Duke River Center at the Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting

Members of the Heffernan Lab and our colleagues in the Duke River Center made the trek to Portland last week to participate in the first ever Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, which convened members of the four largest freshwater scientific societies.  Jim Heffernan demonstrated that the Everglades has alternative stable landscape states and (filling in for Martin Doyle) discussed the timescales of reservoir management.  Anna Braswell presented evidence that local feedbacks influence continental scale distribution of salt marshes.  Chelsea Clifford presented her research on artificial streams in California.  Megan Fork used an interactive poster to show how DOC concentrations and fluxes are changing across the US.  Heffernan Lab Alumni were out in force as well: Ewan Isherwood talked about vegetation distinctness in the Everglades, Alison Appling talked about greenhouse gas concentrations in Northeastern Lakes, and Meredith Steele somehow wove together urban hydrography and Mermaids.  Work from the Heffernan lab was also mentioned in two of the Plenary sessions, via presentations by Laurel Larsen and Pat Soranno.  We capped off a succesful meeting by having lunch with members of the Sponseller lab.  Now, back to work!