It has taken ten months (we are blaming covid), but we have a new lab shirt that incorporates War Algae! Thanks to our friends at Stamp for helping finalize the design and print us some shirts. If you want a shirt, send me your size and a good shipping address.
Lab News
Lab News
News
December 7
Gwendolyn just published her second meta-analysis! This one focuses on two important threats to honey bees. Nice job, Gwendolyn. Bird, G., A. E. Wilson, G. R. Williams, and N. B. Hardy. In press. Parasites and pesticides act antagonistically on honey bee health. Journal of Applied Ecology.
December 1
Nine faculty in the School of Fisheries, including me, were honored by the College of Agriculture for our grantsmanship. Congratulations, everyone!
November 20, 2020
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.
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.