Dr. Taylor Maavara

Taylor Maavara is a freshwater biogeochemist with an expertise in quantifying the large-scale impacts that humans have on nutrient and carbon cycles in river networks worldwide. Her work focuses on the global consequences of impacts like climate change, river damming, and land cover changes on carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and silicon cycles in watersheds globally, and the implications of these changes to freshwater and coastal ecosystems. She also researches the role that freshwater systems play as sources or sinks for greenhouse gases, including nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide, and methane, and seeks to understand how ecosystem metabolism or photochemical processes can contribute to greenhouse gas cycling. 

Maavara uses a combination of large-scale (watershed to global) modeling techniques and field methods, and develops scaling approaches to address whole-hydrological-system questions across space and time.