Old Lab News
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10.22.2013
Ford gives a talk in
E3B at Columbia University |
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09.17.2013
Doug Hart joins
the lab as a technician
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08.21.2013
Jason Heckler joins
the lab as a technician
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08.20.2013
Picarro G-2131i
isotopic CO2 analyzer arrives
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08.16.2013
Chao's manuscript
from his M. S. is
accepted by Biogeochemistry
The
paper describes the effets of elevated CO2 and
varying N and P availability on C flux through planktonic communities. |
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08.12.2013
Liz Guinessey joins
the lab as a PhD student
Liz is
participating in the Integrative Conservation program (ICON) that
brings together students and faculty from Ecology, Forestry,
Anthropology and Geography. |
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06.07.2013
The lab Mascot is born
Elise
brought "Ballenmyer" (best name so far, courtesy of Chao) to life and
brought it to its new home.
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05.22.2013
Chao gives a talk at
the annual SFS meeting
His
talk, "Modeling Carbon Dynamics in a Hypothetical Uniform Stream," used
data from Coweeta to simulate annual carbon flux and transport across
reaches. |
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03.15.2013-04.23.2013
Coweeta SCALER
successfully completed
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04.16.2013
Elise receives an
Odum School small grant
She
will use the award to help fund her dissertation research studying
aquatic biogeochemistry and eco-evo dynamics |
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01.28.2013-02.05.2013
Chao and Ford travel
to Puerto Rico to help set up the initial SCALER experiment
We
managed to find some pastries along the way and Chao discovered his
alter ego, Peter Venkman.
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09.27.2012
Lab renovation is
complete
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09.09.2012-09.11.2012
Chao and Ford attend
the LTER all scientists meeting in Estes Park, CO. |
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08.10.2012
Lab has moved to the
Odum School at UGA
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07.08.2012-07.21.2012
Kyungjin attends the
Summer Soil Institute at CSU. |
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07.18.2012
Chao and Kyungjin
receive awards
Chao won the Michael S. Gaines
Award for excellence in teaching undergraduate biology labs.
Kyungjin won the Ida Hyde scholoarship to pursue study outside
KU. |
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07.10.2012
Jarad
presents at
ASLO meeting in Osaka, Japan
His
talk focuses on the influence
of nutrients on plankton community structure and ecosystem resilience. |
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07.09.2012
Chao
and Ford help
install SCALER consumer exclosures in Kings Creek at Konza Prairie
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05.20.2012-05.24.2012
Ford
attends annual
Society of Freshwater Science Meeting, breaks a finger and gives a talk
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05.01.2012
The
lab will be
moving to The University of Georgia
Ford
accepts a position at The
Odum School of Ecology. The lab will move this August, but
will
remain connected to KU. |
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02.29.2012-03.03.2012
Ford,
Andres Lira,
Jorge Soberon and Donald Worster travel to the Santa Rita Experimental
Range
The
trip was
associated with a seed grant to study the spatial distribution of
Mesquites.
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02.05.2012
Jarad
accepts a
postdoc with Michel Loreau at CNRS in Moulis, France
He
will
continue theoretical work in an effort to understand the controls of
biodiversity.
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12.12.2011
Picarro
CO2
isotopic analyzer arrives
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11.03.2011
Jarad's
Ecological
Monograph is accepted
His
paper,
"Experimental test of phytoplankton competition for nutrients and light
in poorly-mixed water columns," describes elegant experiments testing
predictions for how phytoplankton should be vertically distributed.
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10.26.2011
Fisherman's
breakfast
To
commemorate
the end of the field season, we realized Christoph's dream of having a
fisherman's breakfast.
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10.15.2011
Pilgrimage
to see
Thierry Henry at Sporting KC
Although
he
got a red card in the 28th minute, we still had fun.
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09.25.2011
Lab
picnic
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09.20.2011
Kyungjin
publishes in
Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Her
paper,
"Effects of ammonium and nitrate additions on carbon mineralization in
wetland soils," shows how N mediates soil respiration in wetland soils.
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08.22.2011
Second
muskrat caught
on Cross Reservoir
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08.17.2011
First
muskrat caught
on Cross Reservoir
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08.09.2011
Elise
Krueger and
Kyungjin Min join the lab as PhD students
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08.05.2011
NSF
Macrosystems
proposal funded
The
SCALER
project (Scaling Consumer And Lotic Ecosystem Rates) is a collaborative
project involving seven institutions over four years that will use
results from small scale experimental manipulations (consumer
exclosures on rivers from Puerto Rico to Alaska) to scale
ecosystem rates from single reaches to entire watersheds.
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06.21.2011
Arthur Ankeney
joins the lab as a technician
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06.08.2011
Tashitso
joins the lab as a technician
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06.03.2011
Limnocorrals
deployed in Cross Reservoir at the KU Field station
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05.22.2011
Jarad
presents at SIAM meeting in Snowbird, Utah |
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05.10.2011
Ryan
Felton joins the lab as a technician
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04.18.2011
Chao
defended his Master's Thesis, "Carbon dynamics in aquatic ecosystems in
response to different nutrient availability and rising atmospheric CO2." |
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03.10.2011
Christoph
Lehmeier joins the Ballantyne and Billings labs as a postdoc
Christoph
earned his PhD at the Technische Universitat Munchen where he studied
plant carbon pool dynamics. He will be studying how warming
influences microbially mediated soil organic matter decomposition. |
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02.28.2011
Sarah
Glaser accepts position at The College of William and Mary
In the fall,
Sarah will be starting a two year visiting Assistant Professor position
in the Biology Department at Wiliam and Mary, with a joint appointment
at the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences. |
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01.21.2011
Jarad
Mellard publishes a paper in JTB.
This paper
examines the influnce of opposing resource gradients and mixing on the
vertical distribution of phytoplankton. doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.09.041 |
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10.17.2010
Ford,
Patrick, Jorge Soberon, Andres Lira-Noriega and Donald Worster receive
a KU Common's Seed Grant
This project
is focused on linking human land-use history to spatial patterns of
Mesquites in the Sonoran Desert. |
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09.10.2010
Jarad
Mellard joins the lab as a postdoc
Jarad Mellard
arrives from Michigan State University where he worked with Chris
Klausmeier and Elena Litchman studying phytoplankton ecology. |
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08.17.2010
Jordan
Okie visits the lab
Jordan Okie
from the Brown Lab at UNM spent a week at KU working with Val
Smith and Ford on the scaling of metabolism in unicellular organisms. |
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08.2.2010
Chao
and Ford present at ESA in Pittsburgh
Chao presented
a poster titled, "Steady state carbon-nitrogen interaction in fresh
water phytoplankton assemblages in response to elevated atmospheric
carbon dioxide," and Ford gave a talk, "A theoretical framework for
linking extracellular enzymes to rates of SOM decomposition and CO2
production." |
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05.17.2010
Theories
in the field: spatial point processes and moment equations
Ford
Ballantyne, Mark Holder, John Kelly, Chao Song, Maria Orive, Andres
Lira, Sarah Glaser, Patrick Dermyer and Jorge Soberon |
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05.06.2010
Ryan
and Patrick have their Undergraduate Research Assistantship (UGRA)
proposals funded
Ryan will be
studying the relative utilization of inorganic and organic forms of
Phosphorus by different species of phytoplankton to achieve a deeper
understanding of nutreint limitation in aquatic ecosystems.
Patrick will be quantifying the expression of transcription
factors and enzymes associated with denitrification, and parameterizing
a systems-biology model to predict N2O flux from soils. |
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05.03.2010
Sarah
Glaser joins the lab as a postdoc
Sarah will be
incorporating diet stoichiometry into descriptions of niche breadth and
modeling the food web dynamics such descriptions entail.
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04.29.2010
Michelle
Mubarak joins the lab as a technician
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03.01.2010
Sharon
Billings and Ford have a 3 year NSF grant to study the temperature
sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition funded |
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09.07.2009-09.10.09
Ford
attends a bayesian statistics workshop in St. Andrews, Scotland
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08.12.2009
Chao
Song joins the lab as a Master's Student
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06.22.2009
Ryan
Behrens joins the lab as a technician
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06.15.2009
Patrick
Dermyer begins work as a programmer
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11.11.2008
First
KU basketball game
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11.07.2008
Trip
to the Welda Prairie
The
Kansas Biological Survey
and the Nature Conservancy work together to manage and
restore native prairie.
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Recording
data from a weather station on a plot with soil cores. The
prairie is used for teaching and basic research.
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