Kathryn L. Cottingham
Cottingham studies the activities of lake plankton communities and relationships between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. She joined the teaching staffs at Dartmouth College in 1998. She has studied the reasons that cyanobacteria bloom occur. She also studied about the results of the algal blooming in low nutrient clear-water lakes. She has studied many ways to manage the growth of these blooms and control the negative effects of them on ecosystems. Cottingham showed that cyanobacterial blooms create their own favourable environments. It is driving nitrogen and phosphorus cycling. Else, the results are low nutrient lakes. She has started work with computer scientists to use big information and artificial intelligence. It is to know about the cyanobacteria across the East Coast. The information will be collected using robotic boats, buoys and drones along with cameras.