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Emily S. Bernhardt

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Biology
Biology
Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708-0000
FFSC 3313, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Grants


Duke University Program in Environmental Health

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2029

LTREB: Streams to Screens: Bringing the Hubbard Brook Watershed Ecosystem Record (HB-WatER) into the 21st Century

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies · 2019 - 2029

LTER: Long Term Ecological Research at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest.

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies · 2023 - 2029

MRA: Continental-scale controls on instream and catchment contributions to greenhouse gas fluxes from rivers

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2021 - 2026

THELORACS: Tree Health Evaluated using LiDAR, Optical, and Radar Applications across Coastal Systems

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by University of Virginia - Charlottesville · 2022 - 2025

Collaborative Research: MRA: MACRO-Sheds: Comparative Ecosystem Biogeochemistry at Continental Scales

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2019 - 2025

Ecosystem Function Model Analysis on the Roanoke River

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Army Corps of Engineers · 2021 - 2023

River Ecosystem Phenology in an Increasingly Ice-free World

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2020 - 2023

Macrosystems, Collaborative Research: Defining Stream Biomes Beyond the Steady State

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2015 - 2023

Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2008 - 2021

Community Coalescence: Disentangling Assembly Processes using Aquatic Microbial Communities

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2018 - 2021

Mountain top mining effects on watershed hydrology and biogeochemistry

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2014 - 2019

DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Will Ecosystem Recovery From Acid Precipitation Jeopardize Soil Carbon Storage?

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2017 - 2019

RCN: Smart Civic Engagement in Rapidly Urbanizing Regions

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina State University · 2018 - 2018

REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2014 - 2018

Streams in urbanizing landscapes: from syndrome diagnosis to watershed prescription

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2013 - 2018

Legacy impacts of coal combustion residues on freshwater ecosystems in North Carolina

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by Water Resources Research Institute · 2015 - 2016

Duke Forest FACE Experiment: Forest-Atmosphere Carbon Transfer and Storage

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Energy · 2001 - 2015

Bernhardt Sabbatical Research Agreement

Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. · 2014 - 2015

Nitrogen Losses: A Meta-analysis of 4R Nutrient Management in U.S. Corn-Based Systems

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by Foundation for Agronomic Research · 2014 - 2015

REU: Research Experience for Undergraudates on Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2010 - 2014

Collaborative Research: Coupled Element Cycles of C, N and S in Southeastern Coastal Plain and Wetland Ecosystems

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2010 - 2013

DISSERTATION RESEARCH:Impact of watershed urbanization and climate change on stream denitrifier community structure and function

Inst. Training Prgm or CMECo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2010 - 2012

Quantifying the Impact of Floodplain Trees on River-Borne Nitrogen Removal

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Environmental Protection Agency · 2008 - 2011

Career: Potential for the recovery of biogeochemical function in degraded stream ecosystems

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2006 - 2011

The National River Restoration Science Synthesis Project

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Environmental Protection Agency · 2005 - 2005

External Relationships


  • Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) Foundation
  • Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
  • Elsevier Inc.
  • US Department of Interior, USGS
  • US Department of Justice
  • US Office of Management and Budget

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