Dr. Emma J. Rosi

Aquatic Ecologist | PhD, University of Georgia

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freshwater, invasive species, human impacts

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Emma Rosi is advancing our understanding of how land use, urbanization, and climate change shape freshwater ecosystems, with projects exploring environmental contaminants such as pharmaceutical and personal care products, aging wastewater infrastructure, environmental implications of agricultural GMOs, and the effects of dams.

Rosi directs the Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES), a National Science Foundation Long Term Ecological Research site. As part of BES, Rosi is exploring the role that failing wastewater infrastructure plays in polluting streams and creating antibiotic-resistant ‘superbugs’. She is also revealing how prescription and illicit drugs that enter our waterways impact freshwater quality and aquatic life.

In addition to her work on human-driven threats to freshwaters, Rosi co-leads a long-term project, in collaboration with Yale University, investigating how wildebeest and hippos shape the food web in the Kenyan reach of Africa’s Mara River.

Rosi is a leader in the field of freshwater science and has conducted research on the role of  emerging contaminants shaping these systems.  Rosi serves on the  US Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board and her research has implications for our understanding of anthropogenic stressors on freshwater ecosystems. 
 
PHARMACEUTICAL TRANSPORT AND TRANSFORMATION IN TRAPA NATANS BEDS
Plum, Cami, Stephen K. Hamilton, Rebekah Henry, David McCarthy, Emma J. Rosi, and Michael Grace. (2019) 2021. “PHARMACEUTICAL TRANSPORT AND TRANSFORMATION IN TRAPA NATANS BEDS”. Final Reports of the Tibor T. Polgar Fellowship Program, 2019. https://www.hudsonriver.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/polgar-plum-tp-06-19.pdf.
The meta-gut: community coalescence of animal gut and environmental microbiomes
Dutton, Christopher L., Amanda L. Subalusky, Alvaro Sanchez, Sylvie Estrela, Nanxi Lu, Stephen K. Hamilton, Laban Njoroge, Emma J. Rosi, and David M. Post. 2021. “The Meta-Gut: Community Coalescence of Animal Gut and Environmental Microbiomes”. Scientific Reports 11 (1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-02349-1.
Animal legacies lost and found in river ecosystems
Frauendorf, TC, Amanda L. Subalusky, CL Dutton, Stephen K. Hamilton, FO Masese, Emma J. Rosi, GA Singer, and DM Post. (2024) 2021. “Animal Legacies Lost and Found in River Ecosystems”. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS 16 (11). doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ac2cb0.
Urban ecology as an integrative science and practice.
Pickett, Steward T. A., Morgan Grove, Shannon L. LaDeau, Emma J. Rosi, and Mary L. Cadenasso. 2020. “Urban Ecology As an Integrative Science and Practice”. In Urban Ecology: Its Nature and Challenges, 122-43. CABI. doi:10.1079/9781789242607.0122.
A River of Bones: Wildebeest Skeletons Leave a Legacy of Mass Mortality in the Mara River, Kenya
Subalusky, Amanda L., Christopher L. Dutton, Emma J. Rosi, Linda M. Puth, and David M. Post. 2020. “A River of Bones: Wildebeest Skeletons Leave a Legacy of Mass Mortality in the Mara River, Kenya”. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8. Frontiers Media SA. doi:10.3389/fevo.2020.00031.
Food web controls on mercury fluxes and fate in the Colorado River, Grand Canyon
Walters, D. M., W.F. Cross, T.A. Kennedy, C.V. Baxter, R.O. Hall, and Emma J. Rosi. 2020. “Food Web Controls on Mercury Fluxes and Fate in the Colorado River, Grand Canyon”. Science Advances 6 (20). American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): eaaz4880. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aaz4880.
Parasite and pathogen effects on ecosystem processes: A quantitative review
Fischhoff, Ilya R., Tao Huang, Stephen K. Hamilton, Barbara A. Han, Shannon L. LaDeau, Richard S. Ostfeld, Emma J. Rosi, and Christopher T. Solomon. 2020. “Parasite and Pathogen Effects on Ecosystem Processes: A Quantitative Review”. Ecosphere 11 (5). Wiley. doi:10.1002/ecs2.3057.
Alternative Biogeochemical States of River Pools Mediated by Hippo Use and Flow Variability
Dutton, Christopher L., Amanda L. Subalusky, Stephen K. Hamilton, Ella C. Bayer, Laban Njoroge, Emma J. Rosi, and David M. Post. 2020. “Alternative Biogeochemical States of River Pools Mediated by Hippo Use and Flow Variability”. Ecosystems. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi:10.1007/s10021-020-00518-3.
Environmental concentrations of pharmaceuticals alter metabolism, denitrification, and diatom assemblages in artificial streams
Robson, Stephanie V., Emma J. Rosi, Erinn K. Richmond, and Michael Grace. 2020. “Environmental Concentrations of Pharmaceuticals Alter Metabolism, Denitrification, and Diatom Assemblages in Artificial Streams”. Freshwater Science 39 (2). University of Chicago Press: 256-67. doi:10.1086/708893.
Hydropeaking Operations of Two Run-of-River Mega-Dams Alter Downstream Hydrology of the Largest Amazon Tributary
Almeida, R. M., Stephen K. Hamilton, Emma J. Rosi, N. Barros, C. R. C. Doria, A. S. Flecker, A. S. Fleischmann, A. J. Reisinger, and F. Roland. (2024) 2020. “Hydropeaking Operations of Two Run-of-River Mega-Dams Alter Downstream Hydrology of the Largest Amazon Tributary”. Frontiers in Environmental Science 8.

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