The Helton Lab 2015 from left to right: Jason, Mary Z, April, Janet, and Ashley

    Landscape Biogeochemistry

Welcome to the Helton Lab at the University of Connecticut's  Department of Natural Resources and the Environment & the Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering. 

We are interested in how water and elemental (primarily carbon and nutrient) cycles are linked across landscapes and how human activities and global climate change alter these cycles and their interactions.  Our research focuses on a range of freshwater ecosystems - streams and rivers, floodplains, and wetlands using a variety of field and simulation modeling approaches.

Please explore the research and publications pages for more information.

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Lab News!

4/28/2016:  Congrats to MS student Jason Sauer who will be joining Nancy Grimm's lab at ASU for his PhD  in Fall 2016 & Congrats to undergrad Mary Zawatski who will be joining Nat Weston's lab at Villanova for her MS in Fall 2016!!

2/12/2016:  New article in press at Biogeochemistry: "Drought and saltwater incursion synergistically reduce dissolved organic carbon export from coastal freshwater wetlands"

2/1/2016:  New article in press at Wetlands: "The Effects of Soil Moisture and Emergent Herbaceous Vegetation on Carbon  Emissions from Constructed Wetlands"

1/27/2016: Congrats to MS student April Doroski who received a travel grant from the Wetland Foundation!  April will present her research on coastal wetland denitrification at the Society of Wetland Scientists Annual Meeting in May.


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