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Dr. Anne Lightbody

Dr. Anne Lightbody is a Research Associate at the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory at the University of Minnesota. She received her PhD in Environmental Engineering in 2007 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Dr. Lightbody also obtained an MS in Environmental Fluid Mechanics at MIT in 2004 and received both a BS and an MS in Biology from Yale University in 1999.

Dr. Lightbody’s doctoral work addressed the hydraulic performance of constructed treatment wetlands using a combination of field experiments, laboratory physical models, and mathematical models to understand and compensate for the effects of short-circuiting channels.

Her current research is focused on flow and transport in surface water systems, in particular freshwater and coastal streams and wetlands. She is the research director for the new Outdoor StreamLab, a field-scale experimental facility that investigates the underlying physical, biological, and chemical mechanisms that govern stream processes and response to natural and human disturbances .

Dr. Lightbody’s research has been supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation Fellowship, a Martin Family Society Fellowship for Sustainability, the National Science Foundation through via the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics under agreement number EAR-0120914, and the United States Geologic Survey. She is a 2007 CUAHSI Early Career Fellow and a member of the Hydrologic Synthesis Team.

For more about Dr. Lightbody, including contact information, visit her web site.