Knights Hydrology Lab
Welcome!
Research
Our current work focuses on understanding the hydrologic and ecologic processes controlling nutrient exchange, flow, and delivery within complicated hydrologic environments. The cycling of solutes controls the nature of nutrient delivery to larger bodies of water and oceans which has far reaching environmental and societal consequences, including the health of local fisheries, global primary production, and more.
Lab Group News
October 2024
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​New Website! October break proved to be an excellent time to create our new lab site ​
- New TOC! We just received and installed our new Total Organic Carbon Analyzer.
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September 2024
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New lab group members! We welcomed Elinor Kops and Sebastian Montañez to the lab to begin work on their senior theses.
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Groundwater well installed! Prof. Knights installed a shallow groundwater well for monitoring groundwater chemistry and flow on the Preserve at Vassar. We hope to install more soon!
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August 2024
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Goodbye summer! Lab group members Jilly and Kyra wrapped up field work and data collection for their project on biogeochemistry in beaver ponds
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Latest Publications
The effects of seasonality and nutrient loading on nutrient uptake in an urban beaver wetland (poster)
Kyra Hoffman and Dr. Deon Knights
2023
Objectives: to understand the role of beaver wetlands in urban settings to nitrate and phosphate removal, and how seasonality and nutrient load affect removal function. Methods include nitrate and phosphate additions monitored with benthic chambers over a six-month period.
Presented at AGU conference in December 2023
