Mary Watzin

Bio

Mary Watzin is the former director of NC State’s interdisciplinary campus-wide Coastal Resilience and Sustainability Initiative, which she started after serving for seven years as Dean of the College of Natural Resources. She came to North Carolina State University after 22 years in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont, as Professor, and from 2009-2012, as Dean. She holds a Ph.D. in Marine Sciences from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a B.S. in Marine Science from the University of South Carolina. She has received numerous awards and other recognitions for her teaching, research, and engagement, including the Kroepsch-Maurice award for teaching excellence at the University of Vermont, the Teddy Roosevelt Conservation award, and the Ibakari- Kasumigaura Prize recognizing her work with colleagues in Macedonia and Albania on transboundary water management. Watzin specializes in aquatic ecology and watershed management, with a wide-ranging history of research focused on understanding how human activities influence ecosystem health and how adaptive management can be used to improve environmental outcomes.

SHORT DESCRIPTION OF INTERESTS:
I am interested in any interdisciplinary collaboration that would help move our Initiative forward, and interdisciplinary team research to address the challenges of climate change, equity, resilience, and sustainability in coastal ecosystems.

coastalresilience.ncsu.edu
https://cnr.ncsu.edu/directory/mwatzin/

Publications

• Riparian forest structure and stream geomorphic condition: Implications for flood resilience , Canadian Journal of Forest Research (2017)
• Unraveling Associations between Cyanobacteria Blooms and In-Lake Environmental Conditions in Missisquoi Bay, Lake Champlain, USA, Using a Modified Self-Organizing Map , Environmental Science & Technology (2013)
• Conservation, Science and Peace Building in South-eastern Europe , Environmental security: approaches and issues (2012)
• Identifying and controlling critical sources of farm phosphorus imbalances for Vermont dairy farms , Agricultural Systems (2011)
• Relating sediment phosphorus mobility to seasonal and diel redox fluctuations at the sediment-water interface in a eutrophic freshwater lake , Limnology and Oceanography (2011)
• A MULTITAXONOMIC APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING LOCAL- VERSUS WATERSHED-SCALE INFLUENCES ON STREAM BIOTA IN THE LAKE CHAMPLAIN BASIN, VERMONT, USA , River Research and Applications (2010)
• Determination of Critical Source Areas for Phosphorus Loss: Lake Champlain Basin, Vermont , Transactions of the ASABE (2010)
• Pitfalls and Successes of Developing an Interdisciplinary Watershed Field Science Course , Journal of Geoscience Education (2010)
• Monitoring and evaluation of cyanobacteria in Lake Champlain: Summer 2008 , (2009)
• Stream-floodplain connectivity and fish assemblage diversity in the Champlain Valley, Vermont, U.S.A. , Journal of Fish Biology (2009)