Emily S. Bernhardt

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