News – WilsonLab

September 6, 2024

Matt learned that the North American Lake Association (NALMS) has provided travel support to attend the upcoming meeting at Lake Tahoe. We are excited to share our research at the meeting.

Jess Choi, one of our superstar undergrad researchers, just reported that she has successfully completed her PhD at Cornell University and will start a postdoc at a USDA lab in Ithaca, NY, this fall. Congrats, Jess! We are very proud of you.

September 4, 2024

The lab is growing again. Big welcome to our new research assistant, Megan Wesche, and undergraduate researchers, Emily Branch and Caden Nalewaja.

September 2, 2024

Edna has successfully published her fourth and final dissertation chapter in Harmful Algae. This is an incredible story that shows that lakes are shifting towards eutrophication over time and space. Good job, Edna.

Fernandez-Figueroa, E. G., S. R. Rogers, M. N. Water, and A. E. Wilson. 2024. The green convergence: United States lakes are collectively moving toward a eutrophic state. Harmful Algae

August 22, 2024

The summer has flown by. We have been very busy. Aftab just got his meta-analysis class published. Congrats! 62nd paper from my class. Amazing.

Siddique, A., M. T. Black, B. W. Alvarado, L. Garner, T.-S. Huang, A. Gupta, A. E. Wilson, J. T. Sawyer, and A. Morey. 2024. Effect of age, deboning time of carcass, and different cooking conditions on the woody breast myopathies in chicken: a meta-analysis. Foods 13(16):2632.

August 21, 2024

I am blessed to have had a chance to visit Yellowstone with my family. It was hot but the large critters were out and the cutthroat trout were biting. I also got to use my Holga medium format film camera.

August 15, 2024

The lab has a new shirt thanks to Kate. We are Secchi, and we know it.

June 24, 2024

Summer is getting busy, and we found time to get four new papers published!

Bagherian, K, E. G. Fernández-Figueroa, S. R. Rogers, A. E. Wilson, and Y. Bao. 2024. Predicting chlorophyll-a concentration and harmful algal blooms in Lake Okeechobee using time-series MODIS satellite imagery and long short-term memory. Journal of the ASABE.

Higgins, B. T., M. Thomas, P. Goodling, and A. E. Wilson. 2024. Development of a new primer tool for quantification and identification of geosmin-producing cyanobacteria in drinking water reservoirs. Limnologica:126183.

Wang, D., A. K. Hamid, I. M. Radwan, A. E. Wilson, H. A. Torbert, and B. H. Beck. 2024. Understanding how phosphorus could be removed in aquaculture ponds by gypsum. Alabama Fish Farming Center 1:12-13.

Gladfelter, M. F., A. V. Hennessey, M. B. McDonald, S. S. Ganegoda, D. Wang, and A. E. Wilson. 2024. Are heavy metals a concern in catfish aquaculture? Alabama Fish Farming Center 1:10-12.