Melrose Resident Kristin Burkholder Named Fellow at Stonehill College

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Kristin Burkholder

EASTON, MA (09/25/2012)(readMedia)-- Melrose resident Kristin Burkholder, Ph.D. has been named a fellow in environmental studies at Stonehill College this year. Last spring, she worked as an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Natural and Applied Sciences at Bentley University and as a visiting lecturer in the Environmental Studies Program at Wellesley College.

While working towards her Ph.D. at Duke from 2006 to 2011, she was also a research and teaching assistant in the Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences. Her dissertation was on subtropical to subpolar lagrangian pathways in the North Atlantic and their impact on high latitude property fields.

Her research has been published in the Journal of Geophysical Research and Deep Sea Research.

Burkholder's research and professional interests include large-scale ocean circulation, meridional overturning circulation and its variability, environmental education, interface of science and policy, women in science and climate change.