Ashley’s second MS chapter has been published! This is included a large number of other students in the lab and our USDA collaborators. Great work, team.
Category: Publication
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.

January 13, 2025
Three accepted papers in one week! This is a record for the lab. Nice job, everyone. The hard work is paying off.
Le, V. V. and A. E. Wilson. In press. A handheld fluorometer evaluates freshwater cyanobacterial blooms across a broad productivity gradient. Lake and Reservoir Management
December 7, 2024
Our new extension article about the effect of gypsum on available phosphorus and cyanobacteria has been published by our colleagues in west Alabama, Luke and Anita.
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.
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.
February 23, 2024
Zane’s new paper about toxic and stinky benthic cyanobacteria in rivers has been published in Water Research. Nice job, Zane.
December 6, 2023
Hannah has set a new record. Her second M.S. chapter was just published and she completed her M.S. last August. Nice work, Hannah, and rest of the lab. Large-scale field experiments are where it is at!
November 21, 2023
Matt’s collaboration with Morgan Steffen’s lab at James Madison just produced a nice paper in Harmful Algae. Excellent work!
October 10, 2023
Hannah’s first MS thesis chapter has been published. This project was a nice collaboration with our USDA ARS colleague, Allen Torbert, that involved many students in the lab. Exciting!
Zinnert, H. M., M. F. Gladfelter, H. Peyton Poe, K. L. Merrill, A. V. Hennessey, M. B. McDonald, D. Wang, H. A. Torbert, and A. E. Wilson. In press. Positive and negative impacts of flue gas desulfurization (FGD) gypsum on water quality. Journal of Environmental Management.