It's been a hot minute since we had updates on here! Lots of exciting news and things to celebrate -
-Many of us are headed to the SFS meeting in Australia (Sarah, Matt, Ben, Angela, Linnea) and the ASLO meeting in Spain (Ashleigh, Bella, Casey) to present results of our research next month. Excited to see friends and collaborators and hear about cool new science.
-We have two bittersweet goodbyes ahead for postdocs Bella and Carol, who will both head off to Colorado for sweet new faculty jobs this August. Bella starts as an Assistant Professor at CU Boulder and Carol as an Instructor at Colorado State.
-The postdoc crew (Bella, Carol, Matt and Ben) taught an awesome aquatic ecology short course for UW grad students in April.
-The WYACT project (https://wyact.wyoepscor.org/) project is just finishing its first year and we have new folks joining the lab to contribute to our efforts. Sean will be a MS student working on WYACT starting this summer and Kevin joined over the winter as a research technician working with the aquatic group on the project (our group as well as Annika Walters, and Willie Fetzer's groups). We're finally getting our water quality buoy network launched this summer and will be deploying sensors on Jackson Lake, Boysen Reservoir, and Brooks Lake.
-We have a new Wyoming Water Research project starting this summer to continue our work on harmful cyanobacterial blooms, with a focus on cyanotoxins. Elise (a familiar face from the STOICH crew in Nebraska) joined us as a technician for the summer to pilot some of our cyanotoxin field methods for the project and continue assisting with STOICH database development.
-In other STOICH news, we're very excited that Casey officially started as an MS student over the winter and will be completing a graduate degree in addition to continuing with her work as a Research Associate for the STOICH project. She's has developed a project about seasonal stoichiometry in alpine lakes that will be her thesis research.
-Ashleigh completed her prelims this spring and is officially a PhD candidate!!
-Angela graduated this semester and completed her Honors Capstone about beaver pond food webs near Laramie. We are super proud that she's off to graduate school at the University of Michigan this fall.
-We have a fun crew of undergrads and recent grads who are helping out with projects around the lab this summer: Trevor continues as zooplankton master for Ashleigh's samples and will be joined by Foss. Hannah and Alyssa are helping with Casey's sample processing. STOICH undergraduate Harrison graduated and is moving over to our lab to lead the STOICH database crew this summer, which continues to benefit from remote contributions from Mariah and Danielle.
-Keep your eyes peeled for some cool papers in the coming months: Linnea led a recently submitted review paper that was authored by group of students from our ecosystem ecology grad course last year and is also wrapping up a thesis chapter that uses EPA NLA data to examine trends in nutrient limitation across US lakes. Ben is submitting a cool analysis using NEON data that shows how food quantity and quality can differentially affect stream invert diversity. Bella is wrapping up a project about how wildfires influence lake water quality across the Western US. Recently defended MS students Sam, Karen, and Kelsey all have thesis papers that have been moving forward.
-Many of us are headed to the SFS meeting in Australia (Sarah, Matt, Ben, Angela, Linnea) and the ASLO meeting in Spain (Ashleigh, Bella, Casey) to present results of our research next month. Excited to see friends and collaborators and hear about cool new science.
-We have two bittersweet goodbyes ahead for postdocs Bella and Carol, who will both head off to Colorado for sweet new faculty jobs this August. Bella starts as an Assistant Professor at CU Boulder and Carol as an Instructor at Colorado State.
-The postdoc crew (Bella, Carol, Matt and Ben) taught an awesome aquatic ecology short course for UW grad students in April.
-The WYACT project (https://wyact.wyoepscor.org/) project is just finishing its first year and we have new folks joining the lab to contribute to our efforts. Sean will be a MS student working on WYACT starting this summer and Kevin joined over the winter as a research technician working with the aquatic group on the project (our group as well as Annika Walters, and Willie Fetzer's groups). We're finally getting our water quality buoy network launched this summer and will be deploying sensors on Jackson Lake, Boysen Reservoir, and Brooks Lake.
-We have a new Wyoming Water Research project starting this summer to continue our work on harmful cyanobacterial blooms, with a focus on cyanotoxins. Elise (a familiar face from the STOICH crew in Nebraska) joined us as a technician for the summer to pilot some of our cyanotoxin field methods for the project and continue assisting with STOICH database development.
-In other STOICH news, we're very excited that Casey officially started as an MS student over the winter and will be completing a graduate degree in addition to continuing with her work as a Research Associate for the STOICH project. She's has developed a project about seasonal stoichiometry in alpine lakes that will be her thesis research.
-Ashleigh completed her prelims this spring and is officially a PhD candidate!!
-Angela graduated this semester and completed her Honors Capstone about beaver pond food webs near Laramie. We are super proud that she's off to graduate school at the University of Michigan this fall.
-We have a fun crew of undergrads and recent grads who are helping out with projects around the lab this summer: Trevor continues as zooplankton master for Ashleigh's samples and will be joined by Foss. Hannah and Alyssa are helping with Casey's sample processing. STOICH undergraduate Harrison graduated and is moving over to our lab to lead the STOICH database crew this summer, which continues to benefit from remote contributions from Mariah and Danielle.
-Keep your eyes peeled for some cool papers in the coming months: Linnea led a recently submitted review paper that was authored by group of students from our ecosystem ecology grad course last year and is also wrapping up a thesis chapter that uses EPA NLA data to examine trends in nutrient limitation across US lakes. Ben is submitting a cool analysis using NEON data that shows how food quantity and quality can differentially affect stream invert diversity. Bella is wrapping up a project about how wildfires influence lake water quality across the Western US. Recently defended MS students Sam, Karen, and Kelsey all have thesis papers that have been moving forward.