Professor of Freshwater Science 
Virginia Tech

Cayelan Carey is a professor in freshwater science and the Roger Moore and Mojdeh Khatam-Moore Faculty Fellow at Virginia Tech. As co-director of the Virginia Tech Center for Ecosystem Forecasting, Dr. Carey strives to advance our predictive understanding of freshwaters in a changing world via high-frequency monitoring of lakes and reservoirs. Her work integrates ecosystem data with models and cultivates collaborative interdisciplinary teams of scientists, managers and other community members. Dr. Carey received her Ph.D. from Cornell University and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was a Future Fulbright Fellow at the University of Western Australia and an Earth Leaders Fellow through the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and Future Earth.

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