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Emily S. Bernhardt

Emily S. Bernhardt

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Biology
Biology
emily.bernhardt@duke.edu
Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708-0000
FFSC 3313, Durham, NC 27708

Awards & Honors

NAS Member

National National Academy of Sciences · 2023

Fellow

Scholarly Society American Geophysical Union · 2022 AGU, a nonprofit organization that supports 130,000 enthusiasts to experts worldwide in Earth and space sciences, annually recognizes a select number of individuals as part of its honors and recognition program. Since 1962, the AGU Union Fellows Committee has selected less than 0.1% of members as new fellows. More about this award

ISI Highly Cited Researcher

International Institute for Scientific Information · 2021 Recognizing the world's most influential researchers of the past decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science. More about this award

Fellow

Scholarly Society Society for Freshwater Science · 2020 The Fellows of the Society of Freshwater Science are selected based on sustained excellence in contributions to freshwater science research, policy, or management. These are the leaders, at national and international levels, of their areas of freshwater science. More about this award

Fellow

Scholarly Society Ecological Society of America · 2018

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award

International Alexander von Humboldt Foundation · 2015 The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation presents approximately 20 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Awards annually to internationally renowned academics from abroad in recognition of their outstanding accomplishments in research. The award is named for German astronomer and mathematician Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784–1846) and funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/apply/sponsorship-programmes/friedrich-wilhelm-bessel-research-award More about this award

Leopold Leadership Fellow

Scholarly Society Stanford Woods Institute · 2015 More about this award

Yentsch-Schindler Award

National Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography · February 2013

Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program

National National Science Foundation · 2006

Hynes Award for New Investigators

National Society for Freshwater Science · 2004

In the News

Published October 30, 2023
Course Widens Discourse Around Climate Change
Published October 27, 2023
Sustainability Discussions On Tap for Steelman’s Upcoming Trip to Asia
Published May 2, 2023
Three Faculty Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Published February 23, 2023
Faculty Exchange Ideas on Duke’s Climate Commitment in Academic Council
Published March 25, 2022
Let's Talk About Climate Change: Conversations to Build Climate Literacy Among Students
Published March 10, 2022
Intellectual Breakthroughs
Published February 18, 2022
Tracking the Pulse of Our Nation’s Rivers, Like a Fitbit for Streams
Published January 28, 2022
Modern Day Gold Rush Turns Pristine Rainforests into Heavily Polluted Mercury Sinks
Published January 27, 2022
As Oceans Rise, Finding the Tipping Point for Coastal Wetlands
Published September 1, 2021
Mountaintop Mining Causes 40 Percent Loss of Aquatic Biodiversity
Published April 5, 2021
Mapping North Carolina’s Ghost Forests From 430 Miles Up
Published April 6, 2020
Stream Pollution From Mountaintop Mining Doesn’t Stay Put in the Water
Published May 15, 2019
Emily Bernhardt on Hunting Down Mercury Pollution
Published May 7, 2019
Duke Adds 21 Faculty to Distinguished Faculty Rank
Published July 25, 2018
Mapping Mountaintop Coal Mining’s Yearly Spread in Appalachia
Published June 25, 2018
Nanomaterials Could Mean More Algae Outbreaks for Wetlands, Waterways
Published October 10, 2017
Students Bring Sixty Years of Data to Life on the Web
Published August 17, 2017
Lab Tests Show Molecule Appears to Spur Cell Death in Tumors, Inflammation
Published July 14, 2017
Mountaintop Coal Mining Causes Appalachian Rivers to Run 'Consistently Saltier'
Published April 18, 2017
Five Faculty Named Bass Fellows for Excellence in Teaching and Research
Published January 24, 2017
Synthetic Chemicals Understudied Drivers of Environmental Change
Published June 24, 2016
Neutralizing Acidic Forest Soils Boosts Tree Growth but Causes Spike in Nitrogen Export
Published March 22, 2016
Jedediah Purdy: The violent remaking of Appalachia
Published February 9, 2016
Almost level: Study details how mining flattens W.Va.
Published February 5, 2016
Central Appalachia Flatter Due to Mountaintop Mining
Published October 6, 2015
Nicholas Faculty Launch Five-Year Project to Research Stream Biomes
Published September 13, 2013
Area as big as Washington D.C. needs to be mined every 81 days to meet U.S. coal demand
Published September 12, 2013
Calculating the True Cost of a Ton of Mountaintop Removal Coal