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= Erin R. Hotchkiss = Erin R. Hotchkiss is a stream ecologist and biogeochemist who studies the interactions between land and water and how it affects an ecosystem through nutrient cycles, especially carbon, in freshwater ecosystems. Erin Hotchkiss is currently an Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech in the  Department of Biological Sciences.

Education
Erin Hotchkiss has attended Universities and received degrees around the world, they include: B.S. in Environmental Studies at Emory University, M.S. and Ph.d. at University of Wyoming, Postdoctoral research fellow at Umeå University in Sweden and Université du Québec à Montréal in Canada.

Career
After receiving her Ph.d. at University of Wyoming Erin Hotchkiss went on to be a Postdoctoral research fellow in Sweden at Umeå University where she worked for Jan Karlsson. Afterwards she continued to work internationally at the Université du Québec à Montréal in Canada for Paul del Giorgio also asa Postdoctoral research fellow. Erin Hotchkiss now currently works at Virginia Tech University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences.

Research
Erin Hotchkiss is an ecosystem ecologist who specializes in nutrient cycles in freshwater ecosystems. As a Postdoctoral research fellow she studied the controls of carbon exports and emissions in river systems and emissions from northern aquatic ecosystems specifically. She currently studies the relationship between land and water nutrient cycles and how they effect one another. She uses a variety of techniques including statistical models to help her see how these nutrient cycles are formed. One of her more popular publications titled, Linking calcification by exotic snails to stream inorganic carbon cycling studied the effect of introduced non-native snails to a freshwater stream and how they affected the carbon cycle.

Awards & Honors
Erin Hotchkiss received a Hynes Award for New Investigators in 2016 from from the Society for Freshwater Science. She received this award due to an outstanding primary publication she wrote on how photosynthetically fixed carbon effects stream ecosystems. This paper was the first to definitively state what happens during this process. The Hynes Award for New Investigators is awarded to a freshwater scientist who has recently finished a terminal-post graduate degree. Erin Hotchkiss was also awarded the Lindeman Award for her paper on daytime restoration within streams.

Notable Publications
Erin Hotchkiss received rewards for both of the following publications.


 * Linking calcification by exotic snails to stream inorganic carbon cycling, 2010


 * High rates of daytime respiration in three streams: Use of δ18OO2and O2 to model diel ecosystem metabolism, 2014