Scientific papers & Reports

Process-based forecasts of lake water temperature and dissolved oxygen outperform null models, with variability over time and depth. Ecological Informatics. Volume 83. W. Woelmer et al. 2024.

Evaluating the Impact of Land Use Changes on Water Quality in New Hampshire at Lake Sunapee - Alyssa Spencer

LSPA-VT Calhoun Fellowship Summer 2024 Report - Kathryn Hoffman & Sean Kenny

Anoxia begets anoxia: A positive feedback to the deoxygenation of temperate lakes. Global Change Biology. A. Lewis et al. 2023.

Uncertainty in projections of future lake thermal dynamics is differentially driven by lake and global climate models. Peer J. J. Wynne et al. 2023

Executive Summary of 2022 LSPA-Virginia Tech Calhoun Fellowship - Whitney Woelmer & Jacob Wynne

Coupling modeling scenarios and a forecasting framework to inform water quality management in Lake Sunapee. LSPA-Virginia Tech Calhoun Fellowship Final Report. Whitney Woelmer and Jacob Wynne. 2022.

2022 Economic Valuation of Lake Sunapee: Report and Presentation - Policy Research Shop, Dartmouth College

Anoxia decreases the magnitude of the carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus sink in freshwaters. Global Change Biology. C. Carey et al. 2022

Can interactive data visualizations promote waterfront best management practices? Lake and Reservoir Management. N. Ward et al. 2022.

Dynamics of the stream–lake transitional zone affect littoral lake metabolism. Aquatic Sciences. N. Ward et al. 2022.

Using near-term forecasts and uncertainty partitioning to inform prediction of oligotrophic lake cyanobacterial density. Ecological Applications. M. Lofton et al. 2021.

Under-ice respiration rates shift the annual carbon cycle in the mixed layer of an oligotrophic lake from autotrophy to heterotrophy. Inland Waters. J. Brentrup et al. 2020.

Predicting the effects of climate change on freshwater cyanobacterial blooms requires consideration of the complete cyanobacterial life cycle. Journal of Plankton Research. Kathryn L. Cottingham et al. 2020.

Deeper waters are changing less consistently than surface waters in a global analysis of 102 lakes. Scientific Reports. R. Pilla et al. 2020.

Whole‐ecosystem oxygenation experiments reveal substantially greater hypolimnetic methane concentrations in reservoirs during anoxia. Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography. A. Hounshell et al. 2020.

“New” cyanobacterial blooms are not new: two centuries of lake production are related to ice cover and land use. Ecosphere H. Ewing et al. 2020.

A Practical Guide for Managing Interdisciplinary Teams: Lessons Learned from Coupled Natural and Human Systems Research. Social Sciences. V.R. Henson et al. 2020.

Differential Responses of Maximum Versus Median Chlorophyll‐a to Air Temperature and Nutrient Loads in an Oligotrophic Lake Over 31 Years. Water Resources Research. N. Ward et al. 2020.

Ecosystem-scale nutrient cycling responses to increasing air temperatures vary with lake trophic state. Ecological Modelling. K.J. Farrell et al. 2020.

Granular measures of agricultural land use influence lake nitrogen and phosphorus differently at macroscales. Ecological Applications. J. Stachelek et al. 2020.

Factors Affecting MeHg bioaccumulation in stream biota: the role of dissolved organic carbon and diet. Ecotoxicology. Broadley et al. 2019.

Integrating fast and slow processes is essential for simulating human–freshwater interactions. Ambio. N. Ward et al. 2019.

Closing the Human-Nature Feedback Loop. NALMS Lakeline. V. R. Henson et al. 2019.

From Concept to Practice to Policy: Modeling Coupled Natural and Human Systems in Lake Catchments. Ecosphere. K. M. Cobourn et al. 2018.

Intra- and Inter-annual Variability in Metabolism in an Oligatrophic Lake. Aquatic Sciences. D. Richardson et al. 2017.

The cyanobacterium Gloeotrichia echinulata increases the stability and network complexity of phytoplankton communities. Ecosphere. C. C. Carey, B.L. Brown, Kathryn L. Cottingham. 2017.

Dissolved Organic Carbon Modulates Mercury Concentrations in Insect Subsidies from Streams to Terrestrial Consumers. Ecological Society of America. DOI: 10.1890/15-0025.1. R. Chaves‐Ulloa et al. 2016.

Cyanobacteria as biological drivers of lake nitrogen and phosphorus cycling. Ecosphere. K. Cottingham et al. 2015

Under-ice thermal stratification dynamics of a large, deep lake revealed by high-frequency data.
Limnology and Oceanography. Denise A. Bruesewitz, Cayelan C. Carey, David C. Richardson, Kathleen C. Weathers. 2015. 

Spatial and temporal variability in recruitment of the cyanobacterium Gloeotrichia echinulata in an oligotrophic lake. Freshwater Science. C. Carey et al. 2014. 

Trophic state mediates the effects of a large colonial cyanobacterium on phytoplankton dynamics. Fundamental and Applied Limnology. C.C. Carey, K.L. Cottingham, K.C. Weathers, and N.G Hairston, Jr.  2014. 

The Research Journey: Travels across the idiomatic and axiomatic towards a better understanding of complexity.  Ecology and Society.  K. McGowan et al. 2014. 

Facilitation in a nutrient-limited freshwater ecosystem: the cyanobacterium Gloeotrichia echinulata stimulates other phytoplankton. Journal of Phytoplankton Research. C. Carey et al. 2013.

Collaborative understanding of cyanobacteria in lake ecosystems.  College Mathematics. M.L Greer, H.A. Ewing, K.L. Cottingham, and K.C. Weathers. 2013.

The Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON): The evolution of grassroots network science. Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin. K. Weathers et al. 2013.

Ecosystem respiration: drivers of daily variability and background respiration in lakes around the globe. Limnology and Oceanography. C.T. Solomon et al. 2013. 

Occurrence and toxicity of the cyanobacterium Gloeotrichia echinulata in low-nutrient lakes in the northeastern United States. Aquatic Ecology. C. C. Carey et al. 2012.

Ecosystem effects of a tropical cyclone on a network of lakes in northeastern North America. Environmental Science and Technology.  J.L Klug et al. 2012. 

An automated method to monitor lake ice phenology. Limnology and Oceanography Methods.  D.C. Pierson et al. 2011. 

Total carbon analysis may overestimate organic carbon content of freshwaters in the presence of high dissolved inorganic carbon. Limnology and Oceanography Methods. S. Findlay et al. 2010. 

Increases in phosphorus at the  sediment-water interface may influence the initiation of cyanobacterial blooms in an oligotrophic lake. Verhandlungen des Internationalen Verein Limnologie. C.C. Carey, K.C. Weathers, and K.L. Cottingham. 2009.

Gloeotrichia echinulata in an oligotrophic lake: helpful insights from eutrophic lakes.  Journal of Plankton Research. C.C. Carey, K.L. Cottingham, and J. Haney. 2007. 

First report of microcystin-LR in the cyanobacterium Gloeotrichia echinulata.  Journal of Toxicology.  C.C Carey, K.C. Weathers, and K.L. Cottingham. 2006.