Recent Lab News
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12.12.2011
Picarro CO2
isotopic analyzer arrives
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11.03.2011
Jarad's Ecological
Monograph is accepted
His paper,
"Experimental test of phytoplankton competition for nutrients and light
in poorly-mixed water columns," describes elegant experiments testing
predictions for how phytoplankton should be vertically distributed. |
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10.26.2011
Fisherman's breakfast
To commemorate
the end of the field season, we realized Christoph's dream of having a
fisherman's breakfast.
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10.15.2011
Pilgrimage to see
Thierry Henry at Sporting KC
Although he
got a red card in the 28th minute, we still had fun.
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09.25.2011
Lab picnic
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09.20.2011
Kyungjin publishes in
Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Her paper,
"Effects of ammonium and nitrate additions on carbon mineralization in
wetland soils," shows how N mediates soil respiration in wetland soils. |
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08.22.2011
Second muskrat caught
on Cross Reservoir
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08.17.2011
First muskrat caught
on Cross Reservoir
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08.09.2011
Elise Krueger and
Kyungjin Min join the lab as PhD students
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08.05.2011
NSF Macrosystems
proposal funded
The SCALER
project (Scaling Consumer And Lotic Ecosystem Rates) is a collaborative
project involving seven institutions over four years that will use
results from small scale experimental manipulations (consumer
exclosures on rivers from Puerto Rico to Alaska) to scale
ecosystem rates from single reaches to entire watersheds. |
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06.21.2011
Arthur Ankeney
joins the lab as a technician
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06.08.2011
Tashitso
joins the lab as a technician
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06.03.2011
Limnocorrals
deployed in Cross Reservoir at the KU Field station
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05.22.2011
Jarad
presents at SIAM meeting in Snowbird, Utah |
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05.10.2011
Ryan
Felton joins the lab as a technician
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04.18.2011
Chao
defended his Master's Thesis, "Carbon dynamics in aquatic ecosystems in
response to different nutrient availability and rising atmospheric CO2." |
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03.10.2011
Christoph
Lehmeier joins the Ballantyne and Billings labs as a postdoc
Christoph
earned his PhD at the Technische Universitat Munchen where he studied
plant carbon pool dynamics. He will be studying how warming
influences microbially mediated soil organic matter decomposition. |
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02.28.2011
Sarah
Glaser accepts position at The College of William and Mary
In the fall,
Sarah will be starting a two year visiting Assistant Professor position
in the Biology Department at Wiliam and Mary, with a joint appointment
at the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences. |
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01.21.2011
Jarad
Mellard publishes a paper in JTB.
This paper
examines the influnce of opposing resource gradients and mixing on the
vertical distribution of phytoplankton. doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.09.041 |
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