Overview

Ryan McClure grew up in Michigan and spent a lot of time on the water. He moved to Montana in 2008, worked in a Freshwater Ecology lab with Dr. Wyatt Cross, and graduated with a degree in Ecology from Montana State University. Afterward, he worked on the Guppy Project in Trinidad and Tobago. In summer 2015, he joined the Carey Lab at Virginia Tech as a research intern and was a graduate student in the Carey Lab until fall 2020. He was then a dual appointed postdoc with Virginia Tech and the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in New York. Until recently, he was a postdoc at Washington State University and a NEON Ambassador and is now a postdoc in the lab of BSE Deputy Directory Stephanie Hampton.

Broadly, his research explores how carbon cycling in freshwater lakes and reservoirs are changing as a result of changes in land use and climate. More specifically, I integrate whole ecosystem experiments, modeling, and ecological forecasting to better understand water quality and greenhouse gas emissions from the water surface. A lot of the data from my work is published in the Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) or the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON). When he am not in the lab or field he is trail running, biking, and or kayaking.

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Recent Publications