Cecilia Howard (they/them) was one of three UM EARTH PhD students selected for a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship. The Predoctoral Fellowship is for students in the final year of their PhD programs and is awarded competitively among all of the graduate students at UM. The Fellowship will free up Cecilia from other responsibilities to finish up […]
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Rackham pre-candidate Katarina Keating received an NSF GRFP in support of her research on Paleogene paleoclimate!
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PhD candidate Cecilia Howard (they/them) was named part of the inaugural class of graduate fellows for the Institute for Global Change Biology here at UM. Their proposed research looks at the impacts of a changing climate on microbial communities in Lake Huron using a combination of 16S, GDGT, and stable isotope measurements.
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June 21-24 PhD students Cecilia Howard and Diana Velazquez went up to Alpena, MI to work with NOAA partners on sampling water, sediments, and microbial mats at Middle Island Sinkhole in Lake Huron.
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On November 6th, 2020 lab member Bekah Stein defended her PhD dissertation entitled “Carbon and Water Dynamics in Modern and Ancient Plants and Soils.” Her final thesis was accepted late last week – congratulations Dr. Stein. Bekah’s next move will be the UC-Berkeley, where she’ll take up a post-doc with Dr. Daniel Stolper. The photo
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Bianca Gallina, a recent grad from our lab, will be presenting her work with Nathan Niemi and Nikolas Midttun mapping Death Valley at GSA this fall! During her time in the Earth department, Bianca received numerous awards for being a stellar geology student and was a joy to work with in lab. She’s spending her
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Lab member Becca Dzombak was named GSA’s 2020-2021 Science Communication Fellow! This is a nationally competitive position to translate technical science both for non-specialists and the general public. Becca plans to use her platform to broaden representation for under-represented groups in the Earth Sciences. Details can be found at GSA’s website here.
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This past May, our own Katie Seguin graduated and wrapped up her senior thesis work in the midst of the COVID-19 quarantine. Although her lab plans were cut short due to the shutdown, Katie took it in stride and adjusted her thesis to focus on iron and microscale redox conditions in biological soil crusts. (She
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The views expressed below are my own and do not reflect those of my employer or my department. Over the past few days, we have seen terrible images of police brutality, of institutionalized racism, of a complete vacuum of federal leadership, and of the eruption of long pent-up and horrifically earned rage. If you don’t
Congratulations to lab member Bekah Stein (IG: @stein_science Twitter: @stein_science), whose 2019 PeerJ paper on the effects of climate change during Industrialization on C assimilation in a Thuja occidentalis (Eastern White Cedar) was among the top 5 most viewed Biogeochemistry papers at the journal in 2019! Here’s the link to the paper on Thuja and climate change.
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