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• SWaMMP Champion Award - Society of Wetland Scientists (06/30/2024)
• Presidential Service Award - Society of Wetland Scientists (06/30/2023)
• Partner of the Year - Carlos M Ramirez TecH2O Center (11/01/2014-11/30/2014)
• US Delegate to IASC (International Arctic Science Committee) - National Academy of Science - Polar Research Board (10/01/2010-10/31/2010)

• Ph D in Biology, McMaster University (2001)
• BS in Biology, McMaster University (1994)

• The Long-term Development of Wetland Plant Communities with Water Deliveries in a Created Wetland in the Desert Southwest Wetlands (2025), Enrique D. Garcia, Lisa Lee, Vanessa L. Lougheed.
• CO2 emissions from low order tundra streams stimulated by subsurface carbon inputs following extreme rainfall events Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences (2025), Alina Spera, Vanessa L. Lougheed.
• Macroinvertebrate community composition in wetlands of the desert Southwest is driven by wastewater-associated nutrient loading despite differences in salinity Wetlands (2022), Anna E. Pina, Vanessa L. Lougheed.
• Arctic aquatic graminoid tundra responses to nutrient availability Biogeosciences 18 (2021), Christian Andresen, Vanessa L. Lougheed.
• What is the impact of urban development and thermokarsting on Arctic tundra pond zooplankton communities? Polar Biology 44 (2021), Mariana Vargas, Vanessa L. Lougheed.

• Wind and light attenuation as predictors for CO2 loss across an arctic estuarine gradient (2024), Volume New Orleans, LA, Alina Spera, Vanessa L. Lougheed.
• Seasonal trends of CO2 flux and metabolic status of Arctic lagoons. (2023), Volume Portland OR, Alina Spera, Vanessa L. Lougheed.
• A comparison of methods for modeling past pCO2 levels in Arctic tundra ponds (2023), Volume Spokane, WA, Bryan Yu, Alina Spera, Vanessa L. Lougheed.
• Riparian plant diversity community composition in ephemeral streams across an urban land use gradient in the Northern Chihuahuan Desert (2023), Volume Spokane, WA, Luis Miranda, Vanessa L. Lougheed.
• The Relative Contribution of Metabolism to CO Regimes in Arctic Pond Ecosystems (2023), Volume Spokane, WA, Andrea Pantoja, Alina Spera, Vanessa L. Lougheed.

• SUPPLEMENT: LTER: Beaufort Sea Lagoons: An Arctic Coastal Ecosystem in Transition.
• Society of Wetland Scientists Multicultural Mentoring Program: Undergraduate Mentoring at the Annual Meeting
• Network Cluster: Patterns and controls of CO2 fluxes, ecohydrology, and nutrient availability on the carbonate-dominated dryland Critical Zone
• Society of Wetland Scientists Diversity Program: Undergraduate Mentoring at the Annual Meeting