Evin is all done with high school and heading to Johns Hopkins in the fall! Incredible! Keep working hard, Evin.

Summer has officially started! Our Dauphin Island Sea Lab friend, Alison Robertson, and her student, Elyssa, stopped by to learn more about our SPME GC-MS analyses. Of course, we had to eat at Little Italy.

Mattie has graduated! She has been a wonderful, hard-working member of our team and will be missed. Good luck to you, Mattie! War algae!

Matt Gladfelter was the recipient of the Best Presentation Award at the American Fisheries Society and US Aquaculture Society Symposium held at the E.W. Shell Fisheries Center in Auburn. Matt’s talk was part of his dissertation focused on the importance of heavy metal cycling in subtropical ponds. Congrats, Matt!

Harsha Galkanda-Arachchige, Allen Davis and I were recently awarded the 2025 College of Agriculture Outstanding Publication Award for Harsha’s past meta-analysis class project. This paper has been collecting citations. Congrats, Harsha!

Galkanda-Arachchige, H., A. E. Wilson, and D. A. Davis. 2020. Success of fishmeal replacement through poultry by-product meal in aquaculture feed formulations: a meta-analysis. Reviews in Aquaculture 12(3):1624-1636.

The Robotics team got through Super Regionals and made it to the First Lego League State championship at Georgia Tech where they placed 2nd (out of 24 teams!) in core values. Incredible group of future engineers and scientists. I am very happy to support them along their journey.

Chuck Hemard, chair of Art and Art History and collaborator on our catfish pond project, is showcasing his beautiful photography at the Jule Collins Smith Museum as part of their AU Faculty Showcase. His pond pictures are spectacular. They are printed on metal so they glisten like water and reflect what is in front of them.

Auburn is finally thawing after the big winter storm. We actually got about 3″ of snow, which shut down the city schools the whole week!

Just got back from my first college tour trip ever. Wonderful time in California with my daughter. As a special bonus, we got to see a friend from college who took Lily surfing in Santa Cruz!