Melissa Reidy
Presentation
The Precilience project is a Horizon Europe project that will develop precision solutions with farmers, foresters, landowners, and other actors to increase climate resilience in the boreal regions of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Norway and Sweden. In Work Package 3, Task 3.2, we are investigating climate smart adaptations for agricultural water management.
Forskning
In Sweden, I am working with landowners in the Gotland, Kalmar and Skåne region to collect quantitative data on farm dams. Farm dams are purpose-built water storage infrastructure to supply irrigation water during periods of water shortage. Over a period of 2 years we will collected water storage and water quality data to better inform the use and design of farm dams as climate adaptative infrastructure.
Publications
2025: M. Reidy, M. Berggren, A. Lupon, H. Laudon, R.A. Sponseller (2025) Riparian zone heterogeneity influences the amount and fate of biodegradable dissolved organic carbon at the land-water interface. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences e2024JG008471 https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JG008471
2025: M.Reidy, S. Buckley, S. Jämtgård, H. Laudon, R. A. Sponseller (2025) Biogeochemical patterns vary with hydrogeomorphology in riparian soils along a boreal headwater stream. Freshwater Science 44 (1), 61-75 https://doi.org/10.1086/734546
2025: Dataset: Biodegradable dissolved organic carbon (BDOC) and associated physical and chemical measurements from a boreal first-order stream. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.5878/2nd9-fw71
Collaboration
2024-2026: Early Career Scientists representative, Hydrological Sciences division, European Geosciences Union (EGU). Read more
2025: Reviewer, Consilience Journal
Conference participation
2025: EGU General Assembly, Vienna, EGU25-1244 Talk title: ‘Riparian zone heterogeneity influences the production and fate of biodegradable dissolved organic carbon across land-water interfaces’
2025: EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Short course co-convener SC 2.13: ‘Meet the Editors 3: How to Peer Review’
2022: 19th Annual Krycklan Symposium 2022, Talk title: ‘How does local hydrology influence DOM mobilisation in riparian soils?’
2022: International Society of Limnology (SIL), Poster title: ‘Biogeochemical heterogeneity at the stream-riparian interface of boreal headwaters’
2019: Australian and New Zealand Geomorphological Group 18th Biennial Conference: Poster title, ‘Neotectonic fault displacements of shore platforms on the west Gippsland coast, Victoria
Background
2020-2024: PhD Physical Geography, Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Umeå University. Thesis title ' The influence of riparian zone heterogeneity on land-water connections in boreal headwaters'
2019: Bachelor of Environmental Geosciences (Honours), La Trobe University, Thesis title: ‘The impacts of acid sulfate soils at Yeodene Swamp, South Eastern Australia: An ecohydrological investigation’
Skills
- Field-sampling for groundwater and surface waters
- Soil and water physiochemical analyses
- Soil extracellular enzyme assays
- UV Spectrophotometry
- bDOC incubations
- Analysis in R
- Multivariate statistical analyses