Stephanie’s research focuses on the dynamic local, regional, and global factors that shape freshwater ecosystems. Her research includes analyzing long-term ecological data collected from lakes as globally diverse as Lake Baikal in Siberia and Lake Washington in Seattle, as well as carrying out global scale analysis and synthesis, with an emphasis on understanding the effects of climate change and other anthropogenic stressors on water quality and food webs.

She is currently the President of the Ecological Society of America, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography. Previous positions included director of the Division of Environmental Biology at the National Science Foundation, Professor and Director of an interdisciplinary environmental research center at Washington State University, and Deputy Director of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Research Interests & Expertise

• Ecology
• Aquatic and Wetland Ecology
• Population and Community Ecology
• Conservation Ecology
• Global Change
• Water Policy
• Conservation Policy