About me

I’m interested in how streams and lakes respond to multiple stressors. My work has involved a combination of high-frequency sensor deployments in streams and lakes, benthic stream and lake surveys, as well as time series, causal, and statistical modeling. See my personal web page :https://kellyloria.github.io/

Research interests

• Ecological modeling
• Limnology
• Hydroclimate variability
• Fire disturbance

Education

• 2020 – 2025: University of Nevada, Reno, Ph.D., Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, NSF GRFP
• 2014 – 2017: University of Colorado, Boulder, B.A., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, Honors distinction in research

Publications

2025

Loria K, Lowman H, Krause J, Katona L, Naranjo R, Scordo F, Harpold A, Chandra S, and Blaszczak J (2025). The influence of mountain streamflow on nearshore ecosystem metabolism in a large, oligotrophic lake across drought and wet years. Limnology and Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.70157

2024-Older

Scamardo J, Munger W, Loria K, Nauman B, Wang J, Leopold S, Heggli A, Huntly N, Baker M, and Meadow A (2024). Restoring Endangered Streams: The Science, Practice, and Law of Instream Process-Based Restoration Amid Climate Change. Journal of Rangeland Ecology & Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2024.08.032

Blaszczak J, Loria K,KrauseJ, Lowman H, Chandra S (2024). Making the smart watershed-to-lake connection: using high-frequency sensors and process-based aquatic ecosystem models to predict nearshore greening in Lake Tahoe. Water Quality Report to Nevada Division of State Lands.

Christianson K, Loria K, Blanken, D, Caine N, and Johnson P (2021). On thin ice: Linking elevation and longterm losses of lake ice cover. Limnology and Oceanography Letters. https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10181

Loria K, McKnight D, Ragar D, and Johnson P (2020) The life aquatic in high relief: shifts in the physical and biological characteristics of alpine lakes along an elevation gradient in the Rocky Mountains, USA. Aquatic Sciences, 82(1), 11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00027-019-0684-6

Loria K, Christianson K, and Johnson P (2020). Phenology of alpine zooplankton populations and the importance of lake ice-out. Journal of Plankton Research, 42(6), 727-741. https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbaa050

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