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My name is Danielle M. Andrews. I am originally from the beautiful twin island republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Presently, I'm a PhD candidate in the Crop and Soil Sciences Department at The Pennsylvania State University. I obtained my B.Sc. in Biology at South Carolina State University in 2004. Throughout my undergraduate profession, I spent summers working on projects that were being used to assess the extent of wetland restoration at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, South Carolina. My graduate career at the University of Kentucky was focused on a stream restoration project, which was aimed in part, on the rate and extent to which the hyporheic zone (saturated subsurface sediment on the sides and below the stream) develops and I earned my M.Sc. in Plant and Soil Sciences in 2006.
At present, my PhD career at Penn State is focused on using multiple methods to understand how hydropedological processes control nutrients dynamics (inorganic and organic nitrogen and carbon) along hillslopes and near-stream areas. Integrated measurements of water table fluctuations, redox dynamics, soil moisture, as well as stable isotope concentrations (O-18 and D) and nutrient concentrations in precipitation, soil water, streamwater and groundwater, will be used to quantify the interaction between water and nutrient fluxes over space and through time. This research is geared towards improving our understanding of the coupling of nutrient dynamics and water movement so to advance our ability to produce better models and enable us to address some of the most important societal problems, including land management and its impact on surface water quality.
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