Natalie Nelson, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, North Carolina State University

Join us for the livestream January 28th, 11:45am ET: https://youtube.com/live/ERhOySElIdU?feature=share

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ABSTRACT

In this presentation, I will share our team’s work using diverse hydrologic data to disentangle the effects of distinct water and nutrient sources on downstream water quality. Focusing on Lake Okeechobee as an illustrative case study, I will highlight our use of satellite imagery (Sentinel-3 OLCI) to track algal bloom export to the St. Lucie estuary, and analysis of hydrologic data to parse out the effects of engineered water releases on nutrient concentrations in the Caloosahatchee River estuary. I will then zoom out to the national scale and summarize gaps in existing water quality monitoring infrastructure and the ways in which these gaps may affect our understanding of nutrient fluxes at the landscape scale. 

BIO

Natalie Nelson, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department and faculty fellow in the Center for Geospatial Analytics at North Carolina State University. She leads the Coastal and Watershed Analytics Lab, studies from which focus on characterizing when, where, and why nonpoint source pollution occurs in coastal and inland waters. She received her BS and PhD in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at UF.

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