Kristina M Gutchess

Kristina has been a Physical Scientist with the New York Water Science Center since 2023. Her work broadly centers on understanding processes that impact water quality in surface water and groundwater. 

Kristina’s research focuses on identifying sources of contamination in surface water and groundwater and investigating the factors that influence the movement of solutes in freshwater systems. By integrating knowledge of the processes that govern the transport, fate, and storage of inorganic solutes with computational and statistical approaches, she differentiates between natural and anthropogenic sources of contamination and the hydrogeologic controls that govern changes in freshwater environments. A significant portion of her work has centered on the intersection of energy, land management, and potable water, using chemical tracers, mathematical methods, and modeling techniques.