Bridger

Ruyle

Bridger Ruyle is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Michalak Lab. He researches the impacts of climate change on nitrogen cycling in the Arctic by integrating in situ measurements of nitrogen in rivers and remote sensing products of their watersheds and receiving estuaries. He aims to better understand the risks of eutrophication for various climate scenarios as well as the broader influence of subsurface biogeochemistry on the distribution of aquatic contaminants. Prior to joining the Michalak lab, Bridger received his BS in Environmental Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder and his SM in Applied Mathematics and PhD in Environmental Science and Engineering from Harvard University. During his PhD, Bridger researched the biogeochemistry of PFAS, a class of highly fluorinated anthropogenic contaminants, by combining analytical chemistry, field sampling, experimental work, and statistical and watershed-scale box modeling. His focus was to better understand the role of abundant, yet difficult to measure precursors PFAS on downstream exposures to PFAS of known health concern.