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!
Peyton has successfully passed her MS defense. Awesome!
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.
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.
Evin is all done with high school and heading to Johns Hopkins in the fall! Incredible! Keep working hard, Evin.
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.
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!
Nisham’s hard work has paid off! She just published her meta-analysis project in the Journal of Forestry. Nice job, Nisham!
Matt Gladfelter was the recipient of the Best Presentation Award at the American Fisheries Society and US Aquaculture Society Symposium held at the E.W. Shell Fisheries Center in Auburn. Matt’s talk was part of his dissertation focused on the importance of heavy metal cycling in subtropical ponds. Congrats, Matt!
Harsha Galkanda-Arachchige, Allen Davis and I were recently awarded the 2025 College of Agriculture Outstanding Publication Award for Harsha’s past meta-analysis class project. This paper has been collecting citations. Congrats, Harsha!