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Christopher Craft

Janet Duey Professor of Rural Land Policy Emeritus

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Phone:
(812) 856-1837
Email:
ccraft@iu.edu
Research areas:
Biogeochemistry and Environmental Microbiology
Ecology and Conservation
Hydrology and Water Resources
Areas of Interest:
Wetland restoration and ecosystem development
Wetlands and water quality
Wetlands and climate change, including carbon sequestration and peat accretion
Urban wetlands and wetland restoration
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Education

  • Ph.D., Soil Science, North Carolina State University, 1987
  • M.S., Ecology, University of Tennessee, 1983
  • B.A., Biology, University of North Carolina-Asheville, 1980

Courses

  • Applied Ecology
  • Environment & People
  • Restoration Ecology
  • Wetlands Ecology

Biography

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Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Christopher Craft, a professional wetland scientist, has been with O'Neill since 1999 and is the Duey Professor of Rural Land Policy. For the past 30 years, Craft has studied the effects of climate change, eutrophication, and other human activities on estuarine and freshwater wetlands and the restoration of those ecosystems. In 2012, he received the National Wetlands Award for Science Research. Craft has been a visiting professor with senior international scientists of the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2010.

Craft's research projects span North America, Europe, and China. He focuses his work on the linkages between vegetation, soils, and soil fauna and the effects of human activities on these linkages. Craft also studies the effects of climate change on U.S. wetlands, the natural carbon sequestering capabilities of wetlands, and the ability and importance of wetlands restoration for maintenance and enhancement of water quality.

Craft's current work on carbon storage rates in wetlands has made an important contribution to the study of the global carbon cycle, while many of his long-term restoration studies in salt marshes are considered some of the best research to date in the field of restoration science.

Dr. Craft is not currently accepting Ph.D. students.



Highlights

  • Research grant from the Ecosystem Studies Program at the National Science Foundation (2000-present)
  • Society of Wetland Scientists Fellow (2015)
  • National Wetlands Award for Science Research (2012), sponsored by the Environmental Law Institute
  • Professional Wetland Scientist
  • Visiting Professor, Senior International Scientists of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • President, Society of Wetland Scientists (2008-2009)
  • Hugh Hammond Bennett Award in Soil Conservation and Environmental Quality, North Carolina Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts, 1987

Selected Works

  • Creating and Restoring Wetlands: From Theory to Practice, Second Edition, Elsevier (2022)
  • “Urban-soil pedogenesis drives contrasting legacies of lead from pain and gasoline in city soil,” (with A. Wade, D. Richter, N. Bao, P. Heine, M. Ostein, and K. Tan), Environmental Science and Technology, 55:7981-7989 (2021)
  • “Microbial community composition is affected by press, but not pulse, seawater intrusion,” (with C. Mobilian, N.I. Wisnoski, J.T. Lennon, M. Alber, S. Widney), Limnology and Oceanography Letters, (2020)
  • “Declines in plant productivity drive loss of soil elevation in a tidal freshwater marsh exposed to saltwater intrusion,” (with E. Solohin, S. Widney), Ecology (2020)
  • “Sea level rise and the emergence of a keystone grazer drive rapid ecological change and geomorphic evolution of southeast US salt marshes,” (with S.M. Crotty, C. Ortals, T.M. Pettengill, E. Morrison, T.S. Bianchi, M.D. Bertness, A.H. Altieri, and C. Angelini), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, (2020)
  • “Effects of ten years of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization in tidal freshwater marshes,” (with E.R. Herbert, J. Schubauer-berigan), Limnology and Oceanography (2020)
  • “A comparison of coastal habitat restoration projects in China and the United States,” (with S. Li, T. Xie, S.C. Pennings, Y. Wang, and M Hu), Scientific Reports, 9:14388, (2019)
  • “Chronic but not acute saltwater intrusion leads to large release of inorganic N in a tidal freshwater marsh,” (with S. Widney, D. Smith, E. Herbert, J. Schubauer-berigan, F. Li, S.C. Pennings), Science of the Total Environment, (2019)
  • “Differential effects of chronic and acute seawater intrusion on tidal freshwater marsh carbon cycling,” (with E.R. Herbert, J. Schubauer-berigan), Biogeochemistry 138:137-154 (2018)
  • Wetland Soils: Genesis, Hydrology, Landscapes, and Classification, Second Edition, 2016. ed. (with Michael J. Vepraskas), CRC Press
  • “Differential effects of chronic and acute seawater intrusion on tidal freshwater marsh carbon cycling,” (with E.R. Herbert, J. Schubauer-berigan), Biogeochemistry 138:137-154 (2018)

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