Recent
Lab News
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01.06.22
Chao accepts a faculty position at Lanzhou University
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08.17.21
Ford returns to UGA after serving as a Program Officer in the Division of Environmental Biology at The National Science Foundation
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04.01.19
Ford will serve as a Program Officer in the Ecosystems Cluster in the Division of Environmental Biology at The National Science Foundation
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07.06.18
Elise defends her thesis
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05.06.18
Alyson and Luke graduate
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04.20.18
Chao defends his dissertation
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04.12.18
Chao's Nature Geoscience manuscript from the SCALER project is accepted |
03.24.18
Chao publishes a paper, "Convergence in temperature sensitivity of soil respiration: evidence from the Tibetan alpine grasslands," in Soil Biology and Biochemistry |
03.06.18-03.09.18
Ford attends a LTER working group at NCEAS focusing on long term SOM data |
10.01.17
Chao advances to candidacy |
06.01.17
Chao is offered a
postdoc with Jim Bence at Michigan State to develop statistical methods
for meta-analysis |
04.17.17
Liz defends her
master's thesis |
04.03.17-04.04.17
Alyson and Luke
present the results of their CURO projects at the CURO Symposium
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03.29.17
Kyungjin defends her
dissertation |
03.24.17
Luke is offered a
summer research position to work with Jill Anderson at RMBL |
03.10.17
Alyson is awarded an
Ambassador Scholarship and a UGA honors international scholarship to
attend the Innsbruck Summer School in Austria |
12.26.16
Kyungjin's C
availability paper is published
Her
paper published in Frontiers in
Microbiology shows that C availability influences the
temperature response of microbial respiration rate, which is associated
with different responses of C uptake affinity. |
12.06.16
Alyson and Luke have
their CURO projects funded |
11.28.16
Chao defends his statistics MS thesis. Now
he's MS2 |
11.11.16-11.12.16
Chao and Ford attend a SCALER meeting at the Konza LTER
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10.26.16
Luke Gamblin joins the lab
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05.13.16
Doug and Katelyn graduate
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05.09.16
Former postdoc Christoph Lehmeier has Biogeosciences manuscript accepted
This
paper uses an elegant experimental setup to quantify how mass
specific respiration rate, carbon use efficiency (CUE) and C
stable isotope fractionation vary with temperature for a ubiquitous
soil microbe. |
04.28.16
Liz is awarded a summer internship in Quito from CI
Liz
will spend most of the summer in Ecuador helping to synthesize research
on mangrove ecosystem services in an effort to identify critical
konwledge gaps for effective conservation. |
04.18.16
Elise advances to candidacy |
04.12.16
Chao's L&O Methods manuscript is accepted
This
paper shows how different methods for computing stream metabolism give
rise to different estimates of GPP, ER, and of the underlying
parameters of the functions for GPP and ER. |
03.31.16
Liz recieves a Fullbright award to go to Costa Rica
She
will use the award to continue her studies of perceptions of Blue
Carbon Community
projects in different geographical regions with different land use
histories. |
01.16.16
Alyson Wright joins the lab
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12.14.15--12.18.15
Chao and Ford Present at AGU |
12.11.15
The lab goes ice skating
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11.06.15-11.07.15
Chao and Ford travel to KONZA for a SCALER synthesis meeting |
08.31.15
Luquillo LTER proposal funded
Ford
and a future postdoc (please contact me if you're interested) will work
with the Stream Team and climate modelers to develop models of trophic
interactions and biogeochemical fluxes to predict the consequences of
drought in tropical riparian ecosystems. |
08.09.15-06.14.2015
Elise, Chao and Ford present at ESA in Baltimore
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07.07.15-07.25.15
Liz travels to Costa Rica to study perceptions of mangrove conservation
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06.05.15
Liz receives funding from the MK Pentecost Ecology Fund
She
will use the award to fund work on the coast this summer aiming to
quantify C accretion and green house gas loss in salt marshes. |
06.01.15-06.02.2015
Elise attends the Elements, Genomes and Ecosystems Conference in the UK
She
presented a poster describing how Daphnia
predation on Chlamydomonas anatomy,
physiology and nutrient cycling. |
05.18.15-05.22.15
Chao and Ford attend the annual SFS meeting
Chao
gave a talk about computational considerations for whole stream
metabolism, and Ford gave a talk about the net influence of salmon on
periphyton during spawning. No trip to Milwaukee is complete
without a trip to Kopp's.
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05.01.15
Doug is accepted to
the Coweeta RUE program |
04.23.15
Ford gives a talk at
the Rubenstein School of the Environment at UVM |
04.10.15
Elise wins Odum
School Outstanding TA Award |
04.02.15
Elise passes her
comprehensive exam |
03.26.15
Middle schoolers from
Houston County, GA visit the lab
Science
fair participants visit labs in the Odum School and in other
departments on campus.
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03.23.15
Liz is awarded a
Tinker Foundation Travel Award
She
will use the award to conduct a pilot study on Blue Carbon Community
projects in Costa Rica this summer. |
01.26.15
Katelyn Esters joins
the lab
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10.08.14-10.09.14
Ford attends annual
AERC meeting in Washington, DC |
09.18.14
Coweeta
SCALER is completed
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08.25.14-08.29.14
Former postdoc Jarad
(Daryl) Mellard visits the lab
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08.01.14
Liz completes field
work on Jekyll Island
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07.20.14-07.31.14
Chao and Ford travel
to Alaska for SCALER fieldwork
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05.19.14-05.21.14
Chao and Ford attend
JASM in Portland, OR
Chao
gave a talk titled "Linking stream ecosystem rates across scales." |
05.16.14
Kyungjin's pH-enzyme
activity paper is accepted
Her
paper, "Differential effects of pH on temperature sensitivity of
organic carbon and nitrogen decay," extends previous work in the lab by
quantifying the influence of pH on specific enzyme activities and C and
N flow from SOM substrates. It will appear in Soil Biology and Biochemistry. |
04.28.2014-05.02.14
Ford attends EGU in
Vienna
He
co-convened a session focusing on SOM decomposition and presented two
posters. |
04.23.2014
Chao and Liz are
awarded Odum School small grants
Chao
will use his grant to study the effects of temperature and moisture
availability on specific enzyme activities and respiration rates in
soils. LIz will use her grant to study greenhouse gas flux in
salt marshes along the Georgia Coast this summer. |
04.05.2014-04.06.2014
Chao and Elise
present at Southeast Biogeochemistry Symposium at Georgia Tech
Chao's
poster titled "Temperature sensitivity of recalcitrant SOM
decomposition" described how warming influences temperature
sensitivity of soil respiration. Elise's poster titled "Initial
conditions affect ecosystem CO2 flux in an experimental system,"
demonstrated how temperature and resource availabilty influence CO2
flux in aquatic multitrophic microcosms. |
04.04.2014
Doug Hart receives
the Thelma Richardson and Frank Golley Undergraduate Support Award
He will
use the funds associated with the award to help fund his participation
in the Tropical Ecology Program in Costa Rica in May |
03.25.14
Kyungjin advances to
candidacy |
01.22.2014
Isaac Han joins
the lab as a technician
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01.01.2014
NSF Grant awarded to
study microbial DOC transformations
Mary
Ann Moran (PI), Patricia Medieros, Jon Amster, Barney Whitman and Ford
(co-PIs) receive funding to study how particular genes are
expressed by marine bacterioplankton to
transform and metabolize complex DOC substrates. |
12.24.2013
'Twas the night
before Christmas, and Jarad Mellard's eco-evo paper was accepted
Former
postdoc Jarad Mellard's paper showing how trait evolution in the
context of a consumer-resource interaction does not lead to maximum
ecosystem resilience was accepted by Theroretical
Ecology. |
12.10.2013
Ford gives a talk at
AGU
The talk, "Linking microbial
exo-enzyme production to biomass stoichiometry, resource availability
and soil respiration," showed how C and N allocation to different
exoenzymes set limits for homeostatic C:N regulation in different SOM
landscapes. |
11.06.2013-11.10.2013
Ford and Chao travel
to the Konza Praire LTER to attend a SCALER meeting
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