Dr Taylor Maavara
- Position: NERC Independent Research Fellow
- Areas of expertise: river biogeochemistry, watershed modelling, global biogeochemical cycles, greenhouse gases, river damming, mountain watersheds
- Email: T.Maavara@leeds.ac.uk
- Location: 10.01 Garstang
- Website: Googlescholar | ORCID
Profile
I am a freshwater biogeochemist with an expertise in quantifying the large-scale impacts that humans have on nutrient and carbon cycles in river networks worldwide. My work focuses on understanding the global impacts that climate change, river damming, and land cover changes have on phosphorus, nitrogen, carbon and silicon cycles in watersheds globally, including associated greenhouse gas cycles, as well as the ecological implications of these changes.
I use a combination of large-scale (watershed to global) modelling techniques and field methods to develop novel scaling approaches to address whole-hydrological-system questions across space and time.
I joined the School of Geography in September 2022 as a NERC Independent Research Fellow.
Prior to arriving at Leeds, I was a G. Evelyn Hutchinson Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University (2019-2022) in the School of the Environment, where I worked predominantly on modelling the controls on dissolved organic carbon fluxes and nitrous oxide emissions from inland waters.
Before Yale, I was the NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2017-2019) in California, where I studied the impacts of climate change on high altitude riverine nitrogen cycling, through the lens of a watershed in the Colorado Rockies.
I received both my PhD and BSc at the University of Waterloo in Canada.
** Please note that I am leaving my position at the University of Leeds at the end of October 2024 and beginning a new position at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in the United States in March 2025. I will be primarily reachable there, but will maintain a Leeds affiliation. The Cary Institute is not a degree granting institution so I will not be taking on primary supervision of new PhD students. **
Responsibilities
- NERC Independent Research Fellow
Qualifications
- PhD, Earth Sciences (Water), University of Waterloo
- BSc (Hon), Earth & Environmental Science, University of Waterloo
Professional memberships
- American Geophysical Union