Bre Waterman is a postdoctoral researcher at the Kansas Geological Survey working on the USDA-funded SAFEKAW project, where she is developing an integrated modeling framework to evaluate trade-offs among agricultural production and water resources under a changing climate in the U.S. Great Plains region. In Fall 2026, she will join the University of Oklahoma as an Assistant Professor of Hydrogeosciences. She recently completed her Ph.D. in Water Resources and Environmental Science at the University of Kansas, where her research focused on nitrate transport, export, and removal across agricultural landscapes, from mesocosm experiments to watershed and regional scale analyses. Her broader research integrates hydrology and biogeochemistry to understand how environmental change influences aquatic ecosystem processes, particularly nitrogen and carbon cycling, and downstream water quality.