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Hire Dr. Megan F.

United States

USD 60 /hr

Ecosystem Scientist with expertise analyzing and visualizing experimental and long-term monitoring data

Profile Summary

​I am an ecosystem scientist interested, merging techniques, approaches, and ideas from ecology, biogeochemistry, and hydrology. Increasingly, I try to think about conceptual models that include feedbacks with social systems. I love collaborative research; I bring to the table a combination of experimental and observational approaches (including bioassays, high frequency sensors, optical DOM measurements, data synthesis, and others), multiple hypothesis testing, and conceptual development for ecosystem science. I especially love making sense of messy data.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Data Processing
• ☆ Data Visualization
• ☆ Biogeochemistry
• ☆ Ecology
• ☆ Aquatic Ecology
• ☆ Hypothesis
• ☆ News Writing

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing

Research Gray Literature Search, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Data Visualization

Work Experience

Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

December 2019 - Present

Postdoc

Umeå University

February 2018 - November 2019

Education

PhD

Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment

- Present

MS (Biology)

Florida International University

- Present

B.S.

University of Wisconsin Madison

August 2003 - May 2008

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Megan L. Fork, Christopher L. Osburn, James B. Heffernan(2020). Bioavailability and compositional changes of dissolved organic matter in urban headwaters . Aquatic Sciences. 82. (4). Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}

Megan L. Fork, Jan Karlsson, Ryan A. Sponseller (2020). Dissolved organic matter regulates nutrient limitation and growth of benthic algae in northern lakes through interacting effects on nutrient and light availability . Limnology and Oceanography Letters.

Megan L. Fork, Ryan A. Sponseller, Hjalmar Laudon(2020). Changing Source-Transport Dynamics Drive Differential Browning Trends in a Boreal Stream Network . Water Resources Research. 56. (2). American Geophysical Union ({AGU})

Megan L. Fork, Joanna R. Blaszczak, Joseph M. Delesantro, James B. Heffernan(2018). Engineered headwaters can act as sources of dissolved organic matter and nitrogen to urban stream networks . Limnology and Oceanography Letters. 3. (3). p. 215--224. Wiley