Curriculum Vitae


CURRENT PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

Assistant Professor
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Department of Forest and Natural Resources Management, Syracuse, New York, Spring 2006 to present

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Syracuse University, Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse, New York, Spring 2008 to present

Hydrogeology Field Camp Faculty
University of Missouri-Columbia, Branson Geology Field Camp, Lander, Wyoming, Summer 2003 to present

EDUCATION

PhD, Hydrogeology
Syracuse University, Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse, New York, awarded December 2005

Master of Education
Harvard University, Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts, awarded June 1999

Bachelor of Science
Lafayette College, Environmental Geosciences, Easton, Pennsylvania, awarded May 1998, Magna Cum Laude

AWARDS

Syracuse University Fellowship, Syracuse University, Fall 2002 to Spring 2006
John James Prucha Field Research Award, Syracuse University, May 2004
Honors in Geology, Lafayette College, May 1998
James L. Dyson Award for excellence in academics and character, Lafayette College, Spring 1997
Massachusetts, New York, & California Teaching Credentials, awarded Spring 1999

GRANTS

CAREER: Integrating Research and Education to Advance the Use of Heat as a Tracer of Surface-Ground Water Interaction at Multiple Spatial and Temporal Scales, National Science Foundation, $531,909, March 2008 - February 2013. (PI)

The Impact of Changing Climate on Winter Nitrogen Export from a Forested Watershed of the Adirondack Mountains, USDA McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research Program, $81,230, August 2007 - July 2010. (PI)

Water Flux and Nitrogen Cycling in the Hyporheic Zones of a Semi-Arid Watershed: Hydrologic and Geomorphic Driving Forces in a Transitional Climate, Water Cycle Research Program, EAR - Hydrologic Sciences, National Science Foundation, $750,000, May 2005 - April 2008. (co-PI)

Heat and Chemical Tracing of Contaminant Fluxes to Ninemile Creek, SUNY ESF Seed Grant, $7,685, October 2007 - September 2008. (PI)

Evaluation and Protection of Adirondack Ecosystems: Impacts of Acid and Mercury, NYS Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), May 2008 - April 2011, $378,568. (co-PI)

Establishing, Maintaining and Monitoring the Willow Phytoremediation System at Fort Drum's Old Sanitary Landfill, Malcolm Pirnie, Inc, $205,705, May 2007 - April 2008. (co-PI)

Assessing the Ecosystem Services of Open Space for Water Resource Protection in the Moodna Watershed, NY, Water Resources Research Grant Program (Administered by the USGS, DOI and NYS DEC), $28,064. (co-PI)

PUBLICATIONS

*denotes graduate student author

LK Lautz, RM Fanelli*. 2008. Seasonal multivariate analysis of streambed biogeochemical hotspots around stream restoration structures. Biogeochemistry, in review.

Jin, Li*, DI Siegel, LK Lautz, MJ Mitchell, D Dahms, and B Mayer. 2008. The influence of source water mixing on the geochemistry of a semi-arid rocky mountain stream: non-reactive behavior and equilibrium controls. Geological Society of America Bulletin, in review.

Fanelli, RM*, LK Lautz. 2008. Water, heat and solute fluxes through the hyporheic zone of small dams. Ground Water, in press and available online. [abstract]

Lautz, LK. 2008. Estimating groundwater evapotranspiration rates using diurnal water table fluctuations in a semi-arid riparian zone. Hydrogeology Journal, 16(3):483-497. [abstract]

Lautz, LK, DI Siegel, RL Bauer. 2007. Dye tracing through Sinks Canyon: incorporating advanced hydrogeology into the University of Missouri's geology field camp. Journal of Geoscience Education, 55(3): 197-202. [abstract]

Lautz, LK, DI Siegel. 2007. The effect of transient storage on nitrate uptake lengths in streams: an inter-site comparison. Hydrological Processes, 21(26):3533-3548. [abstract]

Lautz, LK, DI Siegel. 2006. Modeling surface and ground water mixing in the hyporheic zone using MODFLOW and MT3D. Advances in Water Resources, 29: 1618-1633. [abstract]

Lautz, LK, DI Siegel, RL Bauer. 2006. Impact of debris dams on hyporheic interaction along a semi-arid stream. Hydrological Processes, 20(1):183-196. [abstract]

Heberlig, LK, I Valiela, BJ Roberts, and LA Soucy. 1997. Field verification of predictions of the Waquoit Bay Nitrogen Loading Model. Biological Bulletin, 193: 294-295. [pdf]

Lautz, LK. 2005. Seeing hydrology through an ecological scope: making hydrology concepts relevant for ecology students. Review of Stream Hydrology: An Introduction for Ecologists, 2nd Ed., by ND Gordon, TA McMahon, BL Finlayson, CJ Gippel and RJ Nathan. Hydrological Processes, 19: 2455-2458. [abstract]

ABSTRACTS

*denotes graduate student author; **denotes undergraduate student author

LK Lautz, *RM Fanelli. 2007. The influence of small dams on streambed morphology, sediment distribution and fluxes of water, heat and solutes between surface and ground water (INVITED). Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, December 10-14, 2007: San Francisco, California: Recent Advances in Streambed Research.

*L Jin, *J L Meeks, *K A Hubbard, *L M Kurian, D I Siegel, L K Lautz, M H Otz. Using Multiple Watershed-scale Dye Tracing Tests to Study Water and Solute Transport in Naturally Obstructed Stream Channels. Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, December 10-14, 2007: San Francisco, California: Advances in Ecohydrology: Landscape-Scale Patterns and Processes (Posters).

LK Lautz, *RM Fanelli, *NT Kranes, DI Siegel. 2007. Sediment distribution around debris dams: Impacts on streambed hydrology, biogeochemistry and temperature dynamics in small streams (INVITED). Proceedings of the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, October 28-31, 2007: Denver, Colorado: The Role of Sediments in Hydrology and Hydrogeology: Streams, Springs, Karst Systems, and Hyporheic Zones (Posters).

LK Lautz. 2006. Temporal variability of transpiration-induced groundwater recharge in a semi-arid riparian wetland. Proceedings of the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, October 22-25, 2006: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Spatial and Temporal Variability of Ground Water Recharge.

Fanelli, RM*, LK Lautz. 2006. Coupling streambed temperature and geochemistry to understand the influence of in-stream obstructions on hyporeic exchange in a semi-arid watershed. Proceedings of the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, October 22-25, 2006: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Stream-hyporheic Iinteractions: Hydrology, Geochemistry, and Biology.

Kranes, NT*, LK Lautz, DI Siegel, L Jin*. 2006. The application of heat as a natural tracer of hyporheic flow in Red Canyon Creek. Proceedings of the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, October 22-25, 2006: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Heat as a Natural Tracer in Hydrologic Systems: Current Understanding, Innovation and Application.

Baum, CS**, BP Williams**, M Allaire**, LA Parra**, N Ferree**, C Story**, LK Lautz, DI Siegel. 2006 A vanishing act: understanding the path of the Popo Agie River through the Sinks Canyon Cave. Proceedings of the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, October 22-25, 2006: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Teaching Hydrogeology in the 21st Century.

Jin, L*, DI Siegel, LK Lautz, NT Kranes*. 2006. The relationship between source waters and geochemical processes on the chemistry of Red Canyon Creek, a 2nd order stream in Wind River Range, Wyoming. Proceedings of the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, October 22-25, 2006: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Detecting and Characterizing Fluxes of Water and Dissolved Constituents Across the Groundwater Surface-water Interface II.

Lautz, LK, DI Siegel. 2006. Does rapid exchange of surface and ground water play a key role in reducing nitrate loading in streams?: drawing conclusions from inter-site comparisons. Proceedings of the Northeastern Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, March 20-22, 2006, Camp Hill-Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Applied Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology for the 21st Century.

Fanelli, RM*, LK Lautz. 2006. Applying physical measurements of hyporheic exchange to understand geochemical variability of hyporheic waters. Proceedings of the Northeastern Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, March 20-22, 2006, Camp Hill-Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Applied Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology for the 21st Century.

Kranes, NT*, LK Lautz, L Jin* and DI Siegel . 2006. Temperature variations in the hyporheic zone of Red Canyon Creek, Wind River Range, Wyoming. Proceedings of the Northeastern Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, March 20-22, 2006, Camp Hill-Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Applied Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology for the 21st Century.

Lautz, LK, DI Siegel. 2005. Does Transient Storage in Streams Enhance Nutrient Uptake Rates?: Selecting the Best Metric for Analysis. Proceedings of the Northeastern Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, March 14-16, 2005, Saratoga Springs, New York: Hydrology: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Hydrological Problems.

Lautz, LK, DI Siegel. 2004. Modeling Hyporheic Flux Along a Second Order Semi-arid Stream: Red Canyon Creek, Wyoming. Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 13-17, 2004, San Francisco, California: Flow and Solute Transport in Coupled Surface-Water/Groundwater Systems III: Riverine Systems.

Lautz, LK, DI Siegel, RL Bauer. 2003. Hyporheic Interaction Along a Semi-Arid Second Order Stream, Wind River Range (WY). Proceedings of the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, November 2-5, 2003, Seattle, Washington: Exploring the Linkages Between the Geochemistry, Biology, and Hydrology of the Hyporheic Zones (Posters).

Bauer, RL, DI Siegel, LK Lautz, DE Dahms, E Sandvol, J Luepke, and L Payne. 2003. Investigating Arid Zone Hydrologic Systems at the Local Riparian to Regional Bedrock Scale: Multidisciplinary Instruction through Data Analysis at the University of Missouri's Branson Geology Field Camp . Proceedings of the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, November 2-5, 2003, Seattle, Washington: Using Data to Teach Earth Processes: An Illustrated Community Discussion (Posters).

Heberlig, LK and I Valiela. 1997. A Field Verification of Predictions of the Waquoit Bay Nitrogen Loading Model. Proceedings of the 14th Biennial Estuarine Research Federation International Conference, October 12-16, 1997, Providence, Rhode Island.

PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

Instructor, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Department of Forest and Natural Resources Management, Syracuse, New York, Fall 2004 to Fall 2005

Research Assistant in Hydrology, Syracuse University, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Advisor: Don Siegel, Syracuse, New York, Fall 2002 to Fall 2005

Teaching Assistant, Syracuse University, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Syracuse, New York, Fall 2003 to Spring 2004

Introduction to Geology Lab (GOL 101)
Environmental Geology Recitation (GOL 242)

Education & Public Outreach Coordinator, NASA's Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) Mission, Department of Astronomy, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Summer 2001 to Fall 2002

In the news:
NASA's comet tour challenges teachers and students to enter contest
Cornell University Press Release, February 5, 2002
NASA's comet tour and CU create a challenge for teachers and students
Cornell Chronicle, February 14, 2002
From Cottonbelt Festival to children's book, winning entries to NASA comet mission contest are submitted by four U.S. schools
Cornell University Press Release, May 21, 2002
Winning entries chosen for NASA/Cornell comet mission competition
Cornell Chronicle, June 6, 2002
CONTOUR mission has its sights set on comets and public education
Cornell University News Service, July 11, 2002
CONTOUR Outreach Highlights
NASA's Discovery Dispatch, April 2002
Launch Photographs and CONTOUR EPO Highlights
NASA's Discovery Dispatch, July 2002

Geology Teacher, Henry M. Gunn Senior High School, Palo Alto, California, Fall 1999 to Spring 2001

Junior and Senior level Geology
Freshmen level Physical Science (department lead instructor)

Earth Science Teacher, Arlington High School, Arlington, Massachusetts, Fall 1998 to Spring 1999

Research Intern, Marine Biological Lab, Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), Boston University Marine rogram, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Summer 1997

Teaching Assistant, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, Spring 1996, Fall 1997

Introduction to Mineralogy
Introduction to Geology