• Educational Background
• Research Interests
• Current Projects
• Publications

Educational Background

• PhD, 2005, Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
  Stony Brook UniversityState University of New York
• MA, 2000, Ecology
  Stony Brook University,State University of New York
• BA, 1995
  University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

Research Interests

• I am interested in the natural, climatic, and anthropogenic processes that govern coastal systems.

Current Projects

• How Atmospheric Centers of Influence Short-Term Sea Level Change (with Stony Brook University)
• Metagenomics Dynmamics in Oil Impacted and Non-Impacted Marshes in Barataria Bay (with Tulane and Los Alamos National Laboratory).
• Impacts of Deepwater Horizon spill on the chemistry of coastal wetlands (with Texas A&M; LSU and Georgia Tech)
• Hurricane impacts on Louisiana's Coast (CREST)
• The Development of a River Dominated Coastal Wetlands Observatory (Funded by LEAG, with Collaborators at UNO and Texas A&M)

Publications

• Kolker, A.S., Kirwan, M., Goodbred, S.L. and Cochran, J.K., 2010. Global climate changes recorded in coastal wetland sediments: Empirical Observations lined to Theoretical Predictions. Geophysical Research Letters, 37(L14706, doi:10.1029/2010GL043874).
• Rahoon, D.R., Reed, D.J. Kolker, A.S., Brinson, M.M., Stevenson, J.C., Riggs, S., Christian, R., Reyes, E., Voss, C., Kunz, D., (2009). Coastal Wetland Sustainability. Chapter 4 in US Climate Change Science Program: Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.1 "Coastal Sensitivity to Sea Level Rise: A Focus on the Mid-Atlantic Region. US Environmental Protection Agency. p 189-237.
• Kolker, A.S., Goodbred, S.L., Hameed, S. and Cochran, J.K., 2009. High resolution records of coastal systems responses to short-term sea-level variability. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 84(4): 493-508.
• Kolker, A.S. and Hameed, S., 2007. Meteorologically driven trends in sea level rise. Geophysical Research Letters(L23616): DOI:2007GL021814.
• Kolker, A.S. The Impacts of Climate Variability and Anthropogenic Activities on Salt Marsh Accretion and Loss on Long Island. Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 241 p.