Margaret Palmer

Portrait of Margaret Palmer

Margaret Palmer

Distinguished University Professor
Director, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC)
301 405 3795
mpalmer@umd.edu 4126 Plant Sciences Building

Teaching

ENTM699G: Socio-Envrnmntl Systems
ENTM699P: Biogeochemistry
HNUH229T: Climate In Crisis 

Graduate Program Affiliations

Biological Sciences (BISI): Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics (BEES)
Entomology

Research

Research and engagement in the Palmer Lab focuses on the sustainability of natural systems and the development of solutions to difficult problems at the interface of humans and the environment including: restoring the processes that support healthy aquatic ecosystems; understanding how hydrologic flows and linkages influence the flux and fate of carbon in wetlands; and accelerating actionable research by inter- and trans-disciplinary teams. 

Education

Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1983
M.S., University of South Carolina, 1979
B.S., Emory University, 1977

Latest Papers

A stepwise process for actionable environmental science research

| Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Author(s): Margaret A Palmer, James W Boyd


Successes and failures of conservation actions to halt global river biodiversity loss

| Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Author(s): Peter Haase, Daniela Cortés-Guzmán, Fengzhi He, Jonathan F. Jupke, Tinotenda Mangadze, Fernando M. Pelicice, Margaret A. Palmer, Robert J. Rolls, Ralf B. Schäfer, Ellen A. R. Welti, et. al


Linking the multiple types of monitoring to the adaptive management cycle to support environmental flows

| Journal of Environmental Management
Author(s): Dai, X., Webb, J.A., Horne, A.C., Rumpff, L., Palmer, M.A.


Diel Greenhouse Gas Emissions Demonstrate a Strong Response to Vegetation Patch Types in a Freshwater Wetland

| Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
Author(s): Aileen K. Taylor, Sean J. Sharp, Graham A. Stewart, Michael R. Williams, Greg W. McCarty, Margaret A. Palmer


High spatial variability in wetland methane fluxes is tied to vegetation patch types

| Biogeochemistry
Author(s): Stewart, G.A., Sharp, S.J., Taylor, A.K., Williams, M.R., Palmer, M.A.


Net Methane Production Predicted by Patch Characteristics in a Freshwater Wetland

| Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
Author(s): Sean J. Sharp, Christine E. Maietta, Graham A. Stewart, Aileen K. Taylor, Michael R. Williams, Margaret A. Palmer


CO2 and CH4 Concentrations in Headwater Wetlands Influenced by Morphology and Changing Hydro-Biogeochemical Conditions

| Ecosystems
Author(s): López Lloreda, C., Hotchkiss, E.R., Maze, J., Palmer, M., Wardinski, K., Scott, D., Corline, N., McLaughlin, D., Jones, C.N.


Linking the Multiple Roles of Monitoring to the Adaptive Management Cycle to Support Environmental Flows

| Ssrn
Author(s): Dai, X., Angus, J.W., Horne, A.C., Rumpff, L., Palmer, M.A.


Setting a reference for wetland carbon: the importance of accounting for hydrology, topography, and natural variability

| Environmental Research Letters
Author(s): Graham A Stewart, Anna I Kottkamp, Michael R Williams, Margaret A Palmer


Ecosystem‐level effects of re‐oligotrophication and N:P imbalances in rivers and estuaries on a global scale

| Global Change Biology
Author(s): Carles Ibáñez, Nuno Caiola, José Barquín, Oscar Belmar, Xavier Benito‐Granell, Frederic Casals, Siobhan Fennessy, Jocelyne Hughes, Margaret Palmer, Josep Peñuelas, et. al