Principal Investigators & Staff

Principal Investigators

Peter Berg

Research Professor
Research Interests:
Applied modeling and aquatic eddy correlation technique for measuring fluxes in the benthic environment.

Phone: (434)-924-1318
Email: pb8n@virginia.edu
Website
Twitter: @BergLabUVA

Max Castorani

Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Population and community ecology

Phone: (34)-243-4949
Email: castorani@virginia.edu
Website
Twitter: @MaxCastorani

Scott Doney

Joe D. and Helen J. Kington Professor in Environmental Change​
Research Interests:
Oceanography, climate and biogeochemistry, with an emphasis on numerical models, remote sensing, and data analysis.

Phone: (434)-924-0570
Email: scd5c@virginia.edu
Twitter: @ScottDoney1

Karen McGlathery

Lead PI for the VCR LTER, Professor
Research Interests:
Dynamics of ecosystem change in shallow coastal systems, and the roles of climate, nutrient over-enrichment and species invasions on driving these changes

Phone: (434)-924-0558 ext 636
Email: kjm4k@virginia.edu
Website
Twitter: @Karen_McG2

Matthew Reidenbach

Professor
Research Interests:
Fluid dynamics, with an emphasis on physical-biological interactions in coastal environments

Phone: (434)-243-4937
Email: reidenbach@virginia.edu
Website

Lab Managers

Wil Atencio

Castorani Group Lab Manager & Lead Research Technician
Email: ata4bu@virginia.edu

Meg Miller

Lab Specialist
Email: mtm3hq@virginia.edu

Emeritus Professors

Michael L. Pace

Professor
Research Interests:
Lake, river, and estuarine ecosystems

Phone: (434)-924-6541
Email: pacem@virginia.edu
Website
Twitter: @PaceLabUVA

Patricia L. Wiberg

Professor
Research Interests:
Sediment erosion, transport, and deposition in river, coastal, and wetland environments

Phone: (434)-924-7546
Email: pw3c@virginia.edu