News

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 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 17, 2021

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

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!

April 21, 2021

Madison and I had a chance to share our experiences related to undergraduate research with faculty and students in the College of Agriculture.

April 10, 2021

Our superstar undergraduate researcher, Tiffany Ramsey, was awarded an Auburn University Undergraduate Research Fellowship to conduct independent research during the next academic year.  Congrats, Tiffany!

May 24, 2021

Congratulations to Matt Gladfelter, Edna Fernandez-Figueroa, and Riley Buley for completing their graduate degrees.  Matt is sticking around to start his PhD, Edna is starting a remote sensing focused postdoc with Stephanie Rogers, and Riley is starting his new job as Senior Water Program Lead position with the Meskwaki Nation in Iowa.