Mary Bryan Barksdale is the winner of the inaugural Iris C. Anderson Research Award in recognition of an outstanding first-authored paper that contributes to VCR LTER science and to the broader field of coastal science. Her paper, co-authored with Kendall Valentine, Chris Hein, and Matt Kirwan is entitled: Tradeoffs Between Vertical and Lateral Resilience in a Salt Marsh Restoration Model and was published in JGR Biosciences in December 2025.
Barksdale, M. B., Valentine, K., Hein, C. J., & Kirwan, M. L. (2025). Tradeoffs between vertical and lateral resilience in a salt marsh restoration model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 130, e2025JG009145. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JG009145