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James Brendan Heffernan

Associate Professor of Ecosystem Ecology and Ecohydrology
Environmental Natural Science
90328, Durham, NC 27708
9 Circuit Drive, Box 90328, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Grants


Landscape Pattern: Ridge, Slough, and Tree Island Mosaics

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Florida International University · 2013 - 2024

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

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2015 - 2023

Collaborative Proposal: MSB-FRA: Alternative Ecological Futures for the American Residential Macrosystem.

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2017 - 2020

Workshop: Respiration Regimes in River Networks: A cross-biome perspective

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2018 - 2019

Collaborative Research: Watershed, estuarine, and local drivers of coastal marsh establishment and resilience

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2015 - 2018

The Ecological Drill Hypothesis: Biotic Control on Carbonate Dissolution in a Low-Relief Patterned Landscape

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2014 - 2018

The pulse of a river across fluvial-tidal transitions

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina State University · 2016 - 2017

Enriching the Spatial and Temporal Resolution of Water Quality Sensor Networks in Urban Environments

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Oak Ridge National Laboratory · 2015 - 2016

Collaborative Research: Ecological Homogenization of Urban America

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2012 - 2016

Understanding Broad Scale Drivers of Coastal Wetland Extent

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by NC Sea Grant · 2015 - 2016

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

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

Reallocation of Reservoir Storage Under Changing Conditions: Climate, Sedimentation and Environmental Flows

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Army Corps of Engineers · 2014 - 2014

Livestock Ecosystem Services Evaluation and Assessment of Existing Water Quality Metrics, Tools and Methods

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by Department of Agriculture · 2012 - 2014

External Relationships


  • William Bingham Foundation

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