Emily Bernhardt

Emily Bernhardt
Alma materUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (B.S.), Cornell University (PhD)
Known forEcosystem ecology, Biogeochemistry
Scientific career
InstitutionsDuke University

Emily S. Bernhardt is an American ecosystem ecologist, biogeochemist, and professor at Duke University.

Bernhardt studies the effects of land use change, global change, and chemical pollution on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems and is the co-author of an award-winning text book on biogeochemistry. She also served as the president of the Society for Freshwater Science from 2016 to 2017.