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Recruiting Students for Fall 2023 (or earlier)

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. See the DISES project website for more information. Interested students may also want to view the recently funded NSF National […]

Three new-ish papers on reservoir methane emissions

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: The first paper, led by former GCWB Lab PhD student Sofia D’Ambrosio, shows the first ever results of a non-invasive “flux gradient” method for characterizing benthic fluxes in lakes […]

New 4-year, $1.6M NSF DISES project will focus on interactions between reservoir management and ecosystems

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 […]

Sarah Kintner and Phil Steenstra Successfully Defend Their MS Theses; CONGRATULATIONS AND WELL-DONE!!

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!!!

New Paper Highlights “Mystery Electron Acceptors”

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 […]