Matt was selected as the 2025 Swingle Award winner for PhD students in our school! Congrats, Matt!
Category: News
December 10, 2025
Another successful holiday cookie swap. Grateful for my students sharing such delicious treats with others. The candy bar fudge was my favorite. Excited about what 2026 has in store for us.
December 10, 2025
Had a chance to give a talk at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill last week. It was awesome. Thanks, Joe Brown, for the chance to return to UNC. I also was able to take my daughter for a formal campus tour with a special trip to the Dean Dome. The Word War III event was legendary. Go tar heels!
November 26, 2025
Peyton has successfully passed her MS defense. Awesome!
August 20, 2025
The lab is growing again and we finally got our new MS students out to sample some aquaculture ponds. Welcome to Auburn, Sydney, Ava, and Maddy.
June 18, 2025
I have finally gotten a journal cover photo! This is a drone picture I took of our beautiful ponds at the E.W. Shell Fisheries Center at Auburn University. Our article in this issue shows that the Turner Designs Cyanofluor can estimate cyanobacterial abundance in drinking water reservoirs and aquaculture ponds.
May 22, 2025
Evin is all done with high school and heading to Johns Hopkins in the fall! Incredible! Keep working hard, Evin.
May 15, 2025
Summer has officially started! Our Dauphin Island Sea Lab friend, Alison Robertson, and her student, Elyssa, stopped by to learn more about our SPME GC-MS analyses. Of course, we had to eat at Little Italy.
May 9, 2025
Mattie has graduated! She has been a wonderful, hard-working member of our team and will be missed. Good luck to you, Mattie! War algae!
April 1, 2025
Nisham’s hard work has paid off! She just published her meta-analysis project in the Journal of Forestry. Nice job, Nisham!