Research

Dr. Andersen is a biogeochemist that studies how human activities have transformed the landscape and altered the biogeochemical cycles of carbon and nitrogen. He is also interested in how sustainability indicators can be used to understand progress towards sustainability at the institutional through national levels.  He conducts this research in collaboration with other members of the EES department and the Biology Department as part of the River Basins Research Initiative, and with colleagues at the University of Zadar and Institute of Political Ecology in Croatia. His current research projects, all of which involve student collaborators, include

• effect of intensive grazing practices on soil health in the Upstate of South Carolina using organic C and N concentrations as an indicator
• how soil management methods (e.g., industrial vs organic, tilled vs no-till) affect soil organic C and N in vineyards in Croatia
• the response of nitrogen and carbon cycling in streams and ponds to urbanization
• understanding how seagrass meadows store carbon in the Adriatic Sea
• modeling the intensity of land use by humans over the last half century using the human appropriation of net primary productivity method.
• developing sustinability indicators at the national level for countries in southeastern Europe and determing barriers to implementing sustainability policy

​For more information about some of his research program, please see the River Basins Research Initiative website.

Publications

• *Denotes undergraduate co-author
  

  RECENT JOURNAL ARTICLES

  • *Moloney, T., Lewis, G.P., and Andersen, C.B., 2015, Atmospheric deposition in a rapidly urbanizing area: Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, v. 226, p. 266-281.
  • Andersen, C.B., Quinn, J., and *Donovan, K., 2015, Human appropriation of net primary production in an agriculturally-dominated watershed, southeastern USA: Land, v. 4, p. 513-540.
  • Andersen, C.B., Lewis, G.P., *Pugh, J., and *Hart, M., 2014, The impact of wastewater treatment plant effluent on the biogeochemistry of the Enoree River, South Carolina, during drought conditions: Water, Soil, and Air Pollution, v. 225, DOI 10.1007/s11270-014-1955-4​, 21 pp.
  • Dripps, W.R., Lewis, G.P., *Baxter, R., and Andersen, C.B., 2013, Hydrogeochemical characterization of headwater seepages inhabited by the endangered Bunched Arrowhead (Sagittaria fasciculata) in the Upper Piedmont of South Carolina: Southeastern Naturalist, v. 12, p. 619-637.
  • Halfacre, A., Horhota, M., Kransteuber, K., DeKnight, B., Andersen, C.B., Byrne, J., Trombulak, S., and Jenks-Jay, N., 2013, Shaping sustainability at Furman and Middlebury: Emergent and adaptive curricular models, in, Johnston, L. (ed.), Higher Education for Sustainability: Cases, Challenges, and Opportunities from Across the Curriculum, p. 185-200.
  • *Williams, A. J., Andersen, C.B., and Lewis, G.P., 2009, Evaluating the effects of sample processing treatments on alkalinity measurements: Journal of Hydrology, v. 377, p. 455-464.
  • Andersen, C.B., and Dripps, W.R., 2009, Global competition for planetary resources, in, Worthen, W. B., Henderson, A. S., Rasmussen, P.R., and Benson, T.L., eds., Competition in Theory and Practice: A Multidisciplinary Analysis: Sense Publishing, Rotterdam, p. 33-43.
  • Lewis, G.P., *Mitchell, J., Andersen, C.B., Haney, D., and Liao, M.K., and Sargent, K.A., 2007, Urban influences on stream chemistry and biology in the Big Brushy Creek watershed, South Carolina: Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, v. 182, p. 303-323.
  • Muthukrishnan, S., Lewis, G.P., and Andersen, C.B., 2007, Chapter 24. Relationships between land cover, vegetation density, and nitrate concentrations in streams of the Enoree River basin, piedmont region of South Carolina, USA, in, D. Sarkar, R. Datta, and R. Hannigan (eds.), Concepts and Applications in Environmental Geochemistry, Elsevier Press, New York, p. 517-542.

  SELECTED RECENT ABSTRACTS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS:

  • Andersen, C.B., Cohen, M., Quinn, J., Quinn, C., 2016, Degrowth as a central theme for sustainability science education: 5th International Degrowth Conference, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Andersen, C.B., and Zganec, K., 2016, Impact of the Zagreb wastewater treatment plant on the water quality of the Sava River, Croatia:  Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers.
  • *Palumbo, L., Andersen, C.B., Lewis, G.P., and Brkljaca, M., 2016, Soil organic carbon and nitrogen in vineyards of the Ravni Kotari region, Zadar, Croatia: Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers.​
  • *Martin, R.L., Andersen, C.B., and Quinn, J.E., 2016, Human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) analysis of the rural to urban transition at the watershed scale in the southeastern United States:  Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers.​
  • *Mutty, T., Andersen, C.B., and Lewis, G.P., 2016, Changes in soil organic carbon and nitrogen in response to rotational grazing in the piedmont of the southeastern United States: Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers.​
  • *Schlaudt, E.A., Ullman, W., Fischer, S., Dripps, W., and Andersen, C.B., 2014, Investigating the sources and processing of nitrate in freshwater ponds of the Murderkill watershed:  Geological Society of America Programs with Abstracts, v. 46.
  • *Donovan, K., and Andersen, C.B., 2014, Human appropriation of net primary productivity in a agriculturally-dominated watershed:  Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers.​
  • *Corbett, M. and Andersen, C.B., 2014, Assessing the effectiveness of heterotrophic and autotrophic denitrification pathways as a tertiary treatment of wastewater effluent: Geological Society of America Programs with Abstracts, v. 46.​

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