Biography

Ward studies the transport of nutrient, pollutants, energy, and water through landscapes, and the human and ecological consequences of their storage, fluxes, and transformations. Connections between streams, their landscapes, and their aquifers ultimately control the ecosystem functions and services that are realized. Our group uses a combination of field-based experiments, environmental observation, and numerical modeling to quantify couplings between physical, biological, and chemical systems, and apply this knowledge to predict water quantity, water quality, and ecosystem responses to changes in key drivers including land use change, land management activities, and climate change.