Member Since 2015
Dorothy Merritts
Professor, Franklin and Marshall College
AGU member since 1989. Professor, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA. Volunteer experience: five National Academy of Sciences (NAS) committees; multiple NSF steering committees, panels, and workshops; currently AGU EPSP Canvassing Committee. Chair F&M Department of Earth and Environment, 2013–2016. AGU EPSP President and President-Elect, 2016-2019. Elected to NAS 2022. Recipient of AGU G. K. Gilbert award and GSA QG&G Distinguished Career award. Elected AGU and GSA Fellow.
Professional Experience
Franklin and Marshall College
Professor
1987 - Present
Education
University of Arizona
Doctorate
1987
Stanford University
Masters
1983
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Main Campus
Bachelors
1980
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Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2024
G.K. Gilbert Award in Surface Processes
Received December 2024
Publications
The Anthropocene Is More Than a Time Interval
July 18, 2024
Saturated, Suffocated, and Salty: Human Legacies Produce Hot...
December 09, 2022
Draining the Landscape: How Do Nitrogen Concentrations in Ri...
August 24, 2021
AGU Abstracts
Surface Water Temperature Reductions Following Legacy Sediment Removal and Natural Floodplain Wetland Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration
FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE ESTUARY: WATER QUALITY PATTERNS, TRENDS, AND DRIVERS IN THE CHESAPEAKE BAY AND ITS WATERSHED I ORAL
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
NUTRIENT CYCLES UNDER GLOBAL CHANGE: MICROBIAL DIVERSITY AND BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING I POSTER
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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Late Pleistocene to Middle Holocene Ecological Succession of the Mid-Atlantic Piedmont Lowlands, Little Conestoga Creek, PA.
SEDIMENTARY RECORDS OF HOLOCENE CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE II POSTER
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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Volunteer Experience
2023 - 2025
Chair
Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Canvassing Committee
2023 - 2025
Member
Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Executive Committee
2021 - 2022
Immediate Past President
Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Executive Committee
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