Member Since 2015
Dorothy Merritts
Professor, Franklin and Marshall College
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Surface Water Temperature Reductions Following Legacy Sediment Removal and Natural Floodplain Wetland Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration
AGU 2024
hydrology | 12 december 2024
Robert C. Walter, Dorothy Merritts, Mia Aaronson, ...
Here we present a study of the impact of a natural floodplain-wetland valley bottom restoration on surface water temperature along Big Spring Run (BSR...
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Anthropogenic Choke Points Amplify Biogeochemical Hotspots Along Terrestrial-Aquatic Interfaces
AGU 2024
biogeosciences | 11 december 2024
Shreeram P. Inamdar, Matthew G. Sena, Bisesh Joshi...
Human activities and their legacies have significantly modified our landscapes and ecosystems and imprints and effects of these activities persist for...
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Early Holocene wetland initiation and paleoecological history of Mid Atlantic periglacial landscapes following late Pleistocene permafrost thaw
AGU 2024
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 10 december 2024
Adam J. Benfield, Christopher J. Williams, Robert ...
As high northern latitudes warm, and permafrost thaws over the coming century and beyond, wetlands are expanding northward. A useful analogue for this...
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Late Pleistocene to Middle Holocene Ecological Succession of the Mid-Atlantic Piedmont Lowlands, Little Conestoga Creek, PA.
AGU 2024
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 10 december 2024
Douglas Rosa, Adam Benfield, Dorothy Merritts, Rob...
The Piedmont Province of the Mid-Atlantic region (MAR) underwent dramatic ecological and landscape changes during the last deglaciation and early Holo...
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The Anthropocene Is More Than a Time Interval
EARTH'S FUTURE
18 july 2024
Matt Edgeworth, Andrew Bauer, Erle C. Ellis, Stan ...

Following the recent rejection of a formal Anthropocene series/epoch by the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (SQS) of the International Com...

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Restoration synthesis: A meta-analysis of low-head, in-stream restoration project outcomes
ADVANCES IN APPLIED WATERSHED SCIENCE: INTEGRATION OF WATERSHED PROCESSES, ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS, AND SOCIETAL SYSTEMS I POSTER
earth and planetary surface processes | 15 december 2023
Sam Stein, Laurel Larsen, Dorothy Merritts
In recent decades, there has been increasing interest in using low-head, in-stream structures to restore and manage degraded streams; these include na...
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Building Geoscientists With Hands-On, Place-Based Experience: A Chesapeake Bay Watershed Hydrogeology Field Camp for High School Students in Lancaster And Cumberland Counties, Pennsylvania
CREATING AUTHENTIC STEM EXPERIENCES IN SCHOOLS TO MEET THE CHALLENGES FACING OUR PLANET II POSTER
education | 15 december 2022
Stacey Daniels, Robert C. Walter, Dorothy Merritts...
Geoscience is becoming an increasingly important factor in solving worldwide problems from climate change to global water issues to disaster preparedn...
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Saturated, Suffocated, and Salty: Human Legacies Produce Hot Spots of Nitrogen in Riparian Zones
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: BIOGEOSCIENCES
09 december 2022
Shreeram P. Inamdar, Erin Peck, Marc Peipoch, Arth...

The compounding effects of anthropogenic legacies for environmental pollution are significant, but not well understood. Here, we show that centenni...

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