Christopher Dutton
2019 - PhD from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University.
2012 - Master’s of Environmental Studies degree from the the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
1999 - Bachelor’s degree in saxophone performance / music / criminal justice from the presigious School of Music at Indiana University (Bloomington).
Postdoctoral Associates
Dr. Audrey Goeckner
Audrey joined the Dutton lab as a postdoctoral research associate in August 2024. She received her B.S. in environmental science from the University of South Florida in 2017 and her M.S in soil and water sciences from the University of Florida in 2020 working on carbon burial and greenhouse gas fluxes in stormwater ponds. Audrey received her PhD in soil, water, and ecosystem sciences in 2024 from the University of Florida working on the biogeochemistry and microbial ecology of stormwater ponds and their effects on streams that receive pond discharge. In the Dutton lab, Audrey focuses on environmental genomics, contributing to a variety of projects that explore the structure and function of microbial communities at terrestrial-aquatic interfaces, along river continua, and within lake ecosystems. As a freshwater ecosystem and microbial ecologist, Audrey wants to explore what microbial metabolic functions are associated to ecosystem scale fluxes and pools of carbon and nitrogen.
Dr. Emily (Lee) Nonnamaker
PhD Students
Dawson Houghtaling
Undergrads
Alesha Wallen
Faith Dunlap
Meg Morrow
Serena Huberty
Sierra Mulholland
Katelyn Lancaster
Cameron Teal
Tavis Goldwire
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