Wilton Burns (she/her/hers) was a researcher in the lab. She uses long-term monitoring, high-frequency water quality sensors, and satellite images to evaluate the drivers of nutrient and cyanobacteria blooms in freshwater and coastal aquatic ecosystems.
Prior to starting at UNH, Wilton was a research assistant at the University of Vermont. She studied nutrient and cyanobacteria bloom dynamics two eutrophic bays in Lake Champlain. In 2017, she obtained a Master’s in Oceanography in the Ocean Process Analysis Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire. She investigated the metabolic response of marine phytoplankton and bacteria to increases in fine-scale turbulence in the photic zone. She received a B.S. in Environmental Sciences and Minor in Marine Science from the University of North Carolina.
- Burns, W. G., Marchetti, A., and Ziervogel, K. 2019. Enhanced formation of transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) under turbulence during phytoplankton growth. Journal of Plankton Research. 41(3): 349 – 361.
- Cohen, N. R., Ellis, K. A., Burns, W. G., Lampe, R. H., Schuback, N., Johnson, Z., Sañudo-Wilhelmy, S., Marchetti, A. 2017. Iron and vitamin interactions in marine diatom isolates and natural assemblages of the Northeast Pacific Ocean. Limnology and Oceanography. 62: 2076–2096.
- Fenton, T., Riedle, L., Burns, W.G., Love, E., McKenzie, M.K., Kamens, R., and Gheewala, S. 2014. Transportation Fuels from Algae: Addressing Bangkok’s Petroleum Needs. Journal of Sustainable Energy & Environment. 5: 53-60.