PSIEE People

Denice Wardrop

• PSIEE Assistant Director - Environment
• Associate Professor of Geography and Ecology
• Associate Director, Riparia
• 216 Walker Building
• University Park
• Telephone: (814) 863-1005
• FAX: (814) 863-7193
• E-mail: dhw110@psu.edu
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• Department faculty webpage
• Riparia

Keywords:

• Constructed Wetlands
• Ecology
• Hydrogeology
• Hydrology
• Land Use Change
• Landscape Ecology
• Modeling/Simulation
• Plant Ecology
• Resource Inventory and Monitoring
• Riparian Ecosystems
• Sediment Transport
• Sustainability-Related
• Water Resources Management or Planning
• Water Science
• Wetlands

Active Research Projects:

• Forecasting Critical Ecosystem Services from Measures of Wetland Condition at the Watershed Scale in Freshwater Wetlands of Pennsylvania and Ohio
• MA08 Predicting Impacts of Stressors at the Land-Water Interface
• Mid-Atlantic States Regional Wetland Assessment
• Mid-Atlantic States Regional Wetlands Assessment
• Mid-Atlantic Wetlands Work Group (MAWWG)
• Using Data from Reference Wetlands to Enhance Assessment and Restoration in the Mid-Atlantic States

Completed Research Projects:

• Assessing an HGM-Based Wetland Classification & Assessment Scheme Along a 1000 KM Gradient of the Appalachian Mountains: Hydrology, Soils and Wetland Function
• Constructing Probability Surfaces of Ecological Changes in Coastal Aquatic Systems Through Retrospective Analysis of Phragmites Australis Invasion and Expansion
• Development & Application of Assessment Protocols for Determining the Ecological Condition of Wetlands in the Juniata River Watershed
• Development of an HGM Regional Guidebook for Wetlands of the Ridge and Valley Province of the Central Appalachian Mountains
• Ecological and Socioeconomic Indicators for Integrated Assessment of Aquatic Ecosystems of the Atlantic Slope
• Hydrologic Forecasting for Characterization of Non-linear Response of Freshwater Wetlands to Climatic and Land Use Change in the Susquehanna River Basin
• Mid-Atlantic Regional Wetlands Workgroup I
• Mid-Atlantic Wetlands Working Group Meeting