News

August 23

We will also be welcoming a new German undergraduate researcher supported by the DAAD-RISE program -Susie Wittenzeller.

August 14, 2021

Congratulations to Angelea Belfiore for completing her MS degree and moving onto an exciting career counting phytoplankton samples at BSA Environmental Services.

August 2, 2021

The lab has been publishing a bunch of interesting papers.  Congrats to all of the authors on these publications, especially the student authors!  Buley, R. P., A. Kelly, L. Roy, E. G. Fernandez-FigueroaM. GladfelterA. Belfiore, and A. E. Wilson. In press. Controlling Microcystis blooms in Alabama catfish aquaculture. Alabama Cooperative Extension Fact Sheet ANR-2757. 5pp. (Website)

Fernandez-Figueroa, E. G.A. P. Belfiore, and A. E. Wilson. 2021. Drones for monitoring “blue-greens” in catfish aquaculture ponds. Fish Farming News 2021(1):16-17. (PDF);

 Odom, S., H. Boso, S. Bowling, S. Cotner, C. Creech, A. G. Drake, S. Eddy, S. Fagbodun, S. Hebert, A. James, J. Just, J. R. St. Juliana, M. Shuster, S. Thompson, R. Whittington, B. Wills, A. Wilson, K. R. Zamudio, M. Zhong, and C. J. Ballen. In press. Meta-analysis of gender performance gaps in undergraduate natural science courses. CBE-Life Sciences Education (PDF)

Clark, A.B. Howell, A. E. Wilson, and T. Schwartz. In press. Draft genomes for one Microcystis-resistant and one Microcystis-sensitive strain of the water flea, Daphnia pulicariaG3 (PDF)

Buley, R. P.H. E. Correia, A. Abebe, T. B. Issa, and A. E. Wilson. 2021. Predicting microcystin occurrence in freshwater lakes and reservoirs: assessing environmental variables. Inland Waters 11(3):430-444. (PDF); Valle-Pombrol, A. A. Comas-Gonzalez, D. Castro-Rodriguez, A. Garcia-Moya, and A. E Wilson. 2021. Planktonic cyanobacteria from the Abreus Reservoir, Cienfuegos, Cuba. Pan-American Journal of Aquatic Sciences 16(1):20-29. (PDF)

Hyman, M., Q. Wang, A. E. Wilson, S. Adhikari, and B. T. Higgins. 2021. Production of Daphnia zooplankton on wastewater-grown algae for sustainable conversion of waste nutrients to fish feed. Journal of Cleaner Production  310:127501. (PDF)

June 17, 2021

Our remote high school researcher, Saranya, has found her way to Auburn to spend the summer with us to continue her research.  Research super star!

June 4, 2021

I had a great time sharing information about water quality and algal blooms with several Alabama Extension agents who regularly have to deal with these events.  Thanks to Rusty and Bencer for making this event possible.

May 17, 2021

We have added two new undergraduate researchers – Jake Delaney and Jessica Chan.  Welcome! 

May 9, 2021

Despite covid, Luke Roy and I held a needed water quality workshop with dozens of catfish farmers to share our new research related to controlling algal blooms in aquaculture. 

May 19, 2021

One of our past REU students, Aaliyah Wright from Tuskegee University, was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to pursue her MS at Grand Valley State University!