***WE ARE SEEKING A FULL-TIME FIELD/LAB MANAGER TO HELP COORDINATE THE DAMS DISES PROJECT; SEE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT FOR MORE INFORMATION. THERE IS NO ‘INSIDE TRACK HERE.’ IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO WORK IN BEAUTIFUL PLACES AND DO INTERESTING WORK AND THINK YOU ARE QUALIFIED, PLEASE APPLY! WE WILL EVALUATE APPLICATIONS STARTING […]
***WE ARE CURRENTLY SEEKING STUDENTS (GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE) TO PARTICIPATE IN A RECENTLY-FUNDED, 4-YEAR NSF DYNAMICS OF INTEGRATED SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS (DISES) PROJECT FOCUSED ON RECIPROCAL INTERACTIONS BETWEEN RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT AND AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS, AND OTHER PROJECTS *** The project website is here. Interested students may also want to view the recently funded NSF National Research Traineeship […]
Our group has recently published a few exciting papers characterizing methane emissions from reservoirs, at scales ranging from meters to the globe. Here are the papers: D’Ambrosio*, S.L., S.M. Henderson, J.R. Nielson, and J.A. Harrison, (2022) In situ flux estimates reveal large variations in methane flux across the bottom boundary layer of a eutrophic lake, […]
We have recently started a new, interdisciplinary, NSF-funded, 4-year, $1.6M project aimed at achieving an integrated understanding of the dynamic, reciprocal relationship between environmental and social (institutions and values) systems by examining dam and reservoir operations, the decision-making process governing those operations, and feedbacks between this decision-making process and the environment. We are looking for […]
Terrific participation all around from BLAB graduate students(!), and congratulations to Corey Ruder, who was awarded runner-up for her talk comparing her work on internal waves in lakes to a hunt for “Nessie.”
Sarah Kintner (co-advised by Harrison and Moffett) and Phil Steenstra (co-advised by Harrison and Strigul) both successfully defended their MS theses last Friday (4/5; Big Day!) and were celebrated with now customary “thesis cakes.” A hearty congratulations, thanks, and best wishes to both Sarah and Phil as they move on to new challenges and adventures!!!
In the past few months, our group has published several papers, including: a novel demonstration of how redox dynamics and reservoir water level management can interact to affect water quality (See: Deemer and Harrison, 2019, Ecosystems) a letter to the editor at Nature, written with IPCC colleagues, responding to a Nature Commentary suggesting that dams […]
Congratulations to Sofia, who has been awarded a Nancy Weller Scholarship from the Washington State Lake Protection Association (WALPA)! The funds will help support Sofia’s planned work on methane dynamics in lakes and reservoirs.
Methane is an important greenhouse gas, and lakes and reservoirs account for roughly 10% of methane flux to the atmosphere globally. The contribution of aquatic sediments to atmospheric methane would be much greater if it were not for methane oxidation, the microbial process whereby methane is converted to CO2, a much more soluble, less potent […]
PhD student Sofia D’Ambrosio won an award for her poster on methane emissions from reservoirs at the WSU Vancouver Research Showcase. Congratulations Sofia!