Title: Associate Professor of Environmental Science Dickinson College
Institution: Dickinson College
Address: 28 N College Streeet, Carlisle, Pennsylvania 17013
Email: strockk@dickinson.edu
Phone: (717) 254-8008
Visit Kristin’s Research Website
Research Interests: Freshwater and ecosystem ecology and paleoecology, ecosystem response to changes in climate and atmospheric deposition, watershed biogeochemistry, carbon chemistry and methane cycling, algal ecology, food-web interactions, freshwater resource management
Biographical Sketch:
Kristin Strock is an associate professor in the Environmental Science Department at Dickinson College. She has served as the Faculty Resident Director of the Dickinson in England study abroad program at the University of East Anglia and is visiting in the School of Environmental Sciences. Her research interests include freshwater ecology and ecosystem response to climate change with specific expertise in algal ecology and carbon biogeochemistry. She has a B.S. in Biology from James Madison University, and both a M.S. and Ph.D. in Ecology and Environmental Science from the University of Maine where she was affiliated with the Climate Change Institute. She uses both modern- and paleo-limnology, to explore issues that are critical to effectively managing freshwater resources. Her work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the US Geological Survey, the US National Parks Service and National Geographic. She has published over 20 peer-reviewed publications, nearing 1,000 citations, on a range of topics including the effects of extreme weather on dissolved carbon, the effects of climate change on algae in arctic lakes, and recovery from acid rain in the northeastern United States. Her current scholarship focuses on the sustainable use of water resources in the face of increasing human pressure and global environmental change. As an “Explorer” with National Geographic, she is studying methane cycling in the ice, rivers, and lakes of Arctic environments, such as Iceland and Greenland and how that is changing with a warming atmosphere. In the United States, she is leading an effort to better understand toxic algae as an emerging threat in Pennsylvania waterways. This work is a collaboration with local, state, and federal partners to develop data-driven methods that allow us to better manage our freshwater resources to prevent a human health concern. Her work specifically links communities, resource managers and policy makers with the necessary ecological and biogeochemical information to effectively manage water resources to address both human and environmental needs.
Education:
B.S. in Biology from James Madison University (Harrisonburg, VA), granted 2006.
M.S. in Ecology and Environmental Science from University of Maine (Orono, ME), granted in 2010.
Ph.D. in Ecology and Environmental Science from University of Maine (Orono, ME), granted in 2013.