Carol Kendall is a hydrologist known for her research tracking nutrients and contaminants in aquatic ecosystems using isotopic tracers.
[1] Kendall is known for her research combining multiple stable isotopes to track nutrients through ecosystems.
Her early research optimized methods to convert water into hydrogen for isotopic analysis.
[8] Her large-scale survey of oxygen-18 and deuterium in water samples collected from rivers across the United States serves as a proxy for modern precipitation.
[11] Kendall's research has also used isotope fractionation to track the flow of carbon from streams to the atmosphere[12] and to differentiate between sources of nitrogen.