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Lydia Kifner joined the vernal pool team in August 2015 as a Masters student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. Her research focused on the biogeochemistry of nutrient and contaminant and their fluxes within the pools. She investigated the impacts that humans have on the water chemistry of the vernal pools.

What Lydia is Doing Now!

Lydia graduated with her MS in Civil Engineering with a focus on Water Resource Engineering from the University of Maine in December 2017. She defended her master’s thesis in November 2017. A paper titled “Methane and carbon dioxide dynamics in four vernal pools in Maine, USA” was published by Lydia and other CNH team members in the journal Biogeochemisty in July 2018. She is now working for Weston & Sampson Engineers, an interdisciplinary design, engineering, and environmental services firm in Massachusetts. She works primarily with drinking water management and quality in MA.