Old Lab News
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10.17.2010
Ford,
Patrick, Jorge Soberon, Andres Lira-Noriega and Donald Worster receive
a KU Common's Seed Grant
This project
is focused on linking human land-use history to spatial patterns of
Mesquites in the Sonoran Desert. |
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09.22.2010
New
incubator arrives
  
Already in use
for organic-inorganic N and P uptake experiments. |
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09.10.2010
Jarad
Mellard joins the lab as a postdoc
Jarad Mellard
arrives from Michigan State University where he worked with Chris
Klausmeier and Elena Litchman studying phytoplankton ecology. |
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08.17.2010
Jordan
Okie visits the lab
Jordan Okie
from the Brown Lab at UNM spent a week at KU working with Val
Smith and Ford on the scaling of metabolism in unicellular organisms. |
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08.2.2010
Chao
and Ford present at ESA in Pittsburgh
Chao presented
a poster titled, "Steady state carbon-nitrogen interaction in fresh
water phytoplankton assemblages in response to elevated atmospheric
carbon dioxide," and Ford gave a talk, "A theoretical framework for
linking extracellular enzymes to rates of SOM decomposition and CO2
production." |
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05.17.2010
Theories
in the field: spatial point processes and moment equations
Ford
Ballantyne, Mark Holder, John Kelly, Chao Song, Maria Orive, Andres
Lira, Sarah Glaser, Patrick Dermyer and Jorge Soberon |
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05.06.2010
Ryan
and Patrick have their Undergraduate Research Assistantship (UGRA)
proposals funded
Ryan will be
studying the relative utilization of inorganic and organic forms of
Phosphorus by different species of phytoplankton to achieve a deeper
understanding of nutreint limitation in aquatic ecosystems.
Patrick will be quantifying the expression of transcription
factors and enzymes associated with denitrification, and parameterizing
a systems-biology model to predict N2O flux from soils. |
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05.03.2010
Sarah
Glaser joins the lab as a postdoc
Sarah will be
incorporating diet stoichiometry into descriptions of niche breadth and
modeling the food web dynamics such descriptions entail.
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04.29.2010
Michelle
Mubarak joins the lab as a technician
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03.01.2010
Sharon
Billings and Ford have a 3 year NSF grant to study the temperature
sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition funded |
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09.07.2009-09.10.09
Ford
attends a bayesian statistics workshop in St. Andrews, Scotland
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08.12.2009
Chao
Song joins the lab as a Master's Student
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06.22.2009
Ryan
Behrens joins the lab as a technician
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06.15.2009
Patrick
Dermyer begins work as a programmer
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11.11.2008
First
KU basketball game
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11.07.2008
Trip
to the Welda Prairie
The
Kansas Biological Survey
and the Nature Conservancy work together to manage and
restore native prairie.
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Recording
data from a weather station on a plot with soil cores. The
prairie is used for teaching and basic research.
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