Despite covid, my students had an opportunity to run a fun water quality outreach event at a school where we taught the students how to build Secchi disks and brought a bunch of microscopes to excite the students about phytoplankton and zooplankton.
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October 20, 2020
Kameron just shared the exciting news that his meta-analysis class project was published. Nice job, Kameron! Suire, K. B., J. Kavookjian, R. Feiss, R., and D. D. Wadsworth. 2020. Motivational interviewing for weight management among Women: a meta-analysis and systematic review of RCTs. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine 2020:1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12529-020-09934-0
October 10, 2020
Matt and Riley were honored with first place poster awards for the best MS and PhD student poster, respectively, presented at the 2020 Auburn University College of Agriculture Virtual Graduate Student Research Poster Showcase. Congrats!
September 28, 2020
Mario has done it again! He has recently published a new index focused on cyanobacteria in drinking water reservoirs. Barros, M. U.G., J. I.R. Leitão, T. R.B.T. Aranha, S. Simsek, R. P. Buley, E. G. Fernandez-Figueroa, M. F. Gladfelter, A. E. Wilson, and J. Capelo-Neto. 2020. Icyano: A cyanobacterial bloom vulnerability index for drinking water treatment plants. Water Supply 20(8):3517-3530.
September 20, 2020
Despite COVID-19’s efforts to get in the way, I had the opportunity to share some of our research focused on hypereutrophic aquaculture ponds with students and faculty at Columbus State University via a virtual seminar.
August 20, 2020
Very excited to see our undergrads back in the lab 🙂 They have been gone since spring break because of the pandemic, and we missed them. We have some returning undergrad superstars (Madison, Isabel, and Carter) and have added some new ones (Jameela, Tiffany, and JaKayla). Welcome back to Auburn!
August 10, 2020
The lab is growing again. We welcome two new MS students, Niki and Bridget, and a research technician, Callie. The lab is finally going to get caught up with ongoing research projects…I hope.
July 2020
Where did July go??? This summer was crazy busy despite cancelling our NSF REU Site.
April 10, 2020
We have also learned that we will be starting a new, ambitious USDA project with our ARS colleague, Benjamin Beck, to expand our algal bloom management efforts in west Alabama. I am super excited to get this project started.
April 5, 2020
I am sad to report that our NSF REU Site in warm-water aquatic ecology has decided to cancel our 2020 program. We are hoping to have a few of the 2020 REU students conduct research in Auburn this summer if the coronavirus pandemic subsides and campus returns to normal. Fingers crossed! We will begin recruiting for our summer 2021 program this fall.