Anne Lightbody
Research Associate
St. Anthony Falls Laboratory
University of Minnesota
2 Third Ave. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Voice: 612-624-4679
Fax: 612-624-4398
Email: "ann" concatenated with "el@umn.edu"
I am currently
a Research Associate at the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory
at the University of Minnesota, where I am planning a research program for our new Outdoor Stream Lab facility, part of the
National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics. My research is focused on flow and transport in surface water systems, in particular freshwater and
coastal streams and wetlands.
My doctoral research was in environmental fluid mechanics,
working with Heidi Nepf in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at
MIT. Specifically, my thesis addressed the hydraulic
performance of constructed treatment using a combination of field
experiments, laboratory physical models, and mathematical models to
understand and compensate for the effects of short-circuiting
channels. The eventual goal of this project was to produce design
criteria that could be used by designers of constructed wetlands.
My research has been supported by a National Science Foundation
Graduate Research Fellowship, a National Defense Science and
Engineering Graduate Fellowship, Robert and Patricia Switzer
Foundation Fellowship, and a Martin Family
Society Fellowship for Sustainability.
Research
Journal Articles:
- Lightbody, A. F., M. E. Avener, and H. M. Nepf. 2008. Observations of short-circuiting flow paths within a free-surface wetland in Augusta, Georgia, U.S.A. Limnology and Oceanography 53: 1040-1053. [PDF]
- Lightbody, A. F., H. M. Nepf, and J. S. Bays. 2007. Mixing in deep zones within constructed treatment wetlands. Ecological Engineering 29: 209-220.
[PDF] [Link to journal article]
- Lightbody, A. F., and H. M. Nepf. 2006. Prediction of
velocity profiles and longitudinal dispersion in emergent salt marsh
vegetation. Limnology and Oceanography 51(1): 218-228. [PDF]
- Lightbody, A. F., and H. M. Nepf. 2006.
Prediction of near-field shear dispersion in an emergent canopy with
heterogeneous morphology.
Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 6(5): 477-488, DOI
10.1007/s10652-006-9002-7. [PDF] [Link to journal article]
Book Chapters:
- Nepf, H., B. White, A. Lightbody, and M. Ghisalberti. 2007. Transport
in Aquatic Canopies. In: Flow and Transport Processes with Complex
Obstructions. NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and
Chemistry. Vol. 236. Eds. Y. Gayev and J. Hunt. Springer. ISBN-10:
1-4020-5383-5. pp. 225-254.
Conference Proceedings:
- Lightbody, A. F., and H. M. Nepf. Measurements of short-circuiting
within emergent marshes. Proceedings of the American Society
of Civil Engineers Hydraulic Measurements & Experimental Methods Conference.
September 10-12, 2007. Lake Placid, NY. [PDF]
- Nepf, H., B. White, A. Lightbody, and
M. Ghisalberti. 2004. Transport in Aquatic Canopies. Proceedings
of the NATO Advanced Study Institute: Flow and Transport Processes in
Complex Obstructed Geometries. pp. 38-40. May 4 - 15, 2004. Kyiv,
Ukraine.
Thesis:
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Lightbody, Anne F. 2007. The physical role of transverse deep zones in improving constructed
treatment wetland performance. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
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Teaching
Teaching assistant for MIT course 1.061,
Transport Processes in the Environment, Fall 2005 and Fall 2006.
Education
- Massachusetts Insitute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, 2007
- Massachusetts Insitute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, M.S. in Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 2004
- Yale University, Biology Department, B.S./M.S. in Plant Ecology, 1999
Last update: 12 March 2008