Rosalynn Y. Lee
Post-doctoral Associate
Seitzinger Nutrient Biogeochemistry Group

Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Phone:	732-932-6555 x234
Fax:	732-932-1792
Email:	rlee AT marine.rutgers.edu

Research Interest

To examine transformations and transport of reactive nitrogen in watersheds to coastal ecosystems through advanced measurements and global modeling.

Current Projects

• Development and application of membrane inlet mass spectrometry methodology for measuring denitrification in soils.

• Management of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Denitrification Research Coordination Network (RCN) to bring together denitrification scientists across a broad range of disciplines, including both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, to advance: the quantification of denitrification rates, quantitative relationships between denitrification rates and controlling factors, and process-based models that can be used to scale-up site specific measurements to ecosystem, regional and global scales.

• Analysis of spatially explicit, global models of nutrient (nitrogen, phosphorus and carbon) transport by rivers to coastal systems developed by the UNESCO-Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) workgroup Global Nutrient Export from Water(S)heds (Global NEWS) with respect to Large Marine Ecosystems. Development of watershed nutrient export model training workshops to promote ecosystem-based approaches to fisheries conservation and Large Marine Ecosystems through the UNEP Global Environment Facility.

• Synthesis of current assessments to identify hotspots where excesses of reactive nitrogen are contributing to eutrophication and oxygen depletion in coastal waters and marine systems in relation to an International Nitrogen Initiative (INI) and UNEP-Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities (GPA) workshop on Policies and Partnerships to Address Excess Reactive Nitrogen in the Environment.