Dr. Amanda M. Nahlik is a wetland ecologist at the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (U.S. EPA) Office of Research and Development in Corvallis, Oregon. Dr. Nahlik has advanced the understanding how anthropogenic disturbances, including climate change, affect wetland biogeochemistry across regional and national scales. She is the Technical Lead of the U.S. EPA’s National Aquatic Resource Surveys (NARS) program, under which annual, field-based condition assessments of U.S. aquatic resources are conducted in lakes, rivers and streams, coasts and estuaries, and wetlands. Some of the factors that make the NARS program unique is that it is a national-scale, probabilistic survey with publicly available data, methods, and tools (https://www.epa.gov/national-aquatic-resource-surveys).
Amanda has a Ph.D. (2009) and an M.S. (2005) from Dr. William J. Mitsch’s wetland laboratory at the The Ohio State University, and a B.A. (2002) from Kenyon College, where she worked with Dr. M. Siobhan Fennessy. Over her career, Dr. Nahlik has published extensively on different aspects of wetland and aquatic ecology – including water quality improvement, carbon storage, greenhouse gas emissions, ecosystem services, and development of indicators and metrics of wetland ecosystem condition. As an undergraduate, Amanda was awarded “Best Student Poster” at the 2002 Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS) meeting, and since then she has been an active member of SWS and serving as a member of the SWS International Awards Sub-Committee (2019-2022). She is currently the Chair of the SWS Awards Committee.