Assistant Professor - School of Freshwater Science at UW-Milwaukee. Contaminant and microbial biogeochemistry. Great Lakes. https://xitter.cf/t.co/o9z75gxUWG
Joined January 2016
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I'm excited to share that today was my first day as an Assistant Professor in the School of Freshwater Sciences (@waterscienceUWM) at UW - Milwaukee! I am very excited to join the great faculty at this one-of-a-kind program, especially in my home state and a city I love.
My lab will focus on contaminant and microbial biogeochemistry, with a specific emphasis on mercury and the Great Lakes region. We will be highly collaborative and use an interdisciplinary approach, with research programs in both environmental and culture-based study systems.
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As permafrost thaws, its massive stores of mercury leach into the environment. @BigMicrobeBen of @UCDavis will use advanced microbial methods to understand the effect of permafrost-derived carbon on the microbial communities that produce toxic methylmercury.
Another dissertation chapter in print! We joined a massive U.S. Geological Survey project, investigating mercury cycling in a hydroelectric reservoir along the Snake River, to identify the microbes methylating mercury under nitrate-reducing conditions.
nature.com/articles/s41396-0…
For more info on the system and the USGS project:
USGS Fact Sheet: pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2016/3051/f…
MeHg loads to and export from the Hells Canyon Complex: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.102…
Impact of biogeochemistry on Hg fate: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
More studies in prep!
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Our first seminar is tomorrow 🙂 join us
Join us for our first seminar on 24 Feb with @caitlin_gio as speaker. You can join us at [email protected] or here mersorcium.github.io/ for Zoom id. Looking forward to meet with all of you :)
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Submit an abstract to our special special "Meta-omic and geochemical approaches to linking microbial activity to biogeochemical mercury cycling" - Abstracts due Feb 28! #ICMGP2022
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Join us for our first seminar on 24 Feb with @caitlin_gio as speaker. You can join us at [email protected] or here mersorcium.github.io/ for Zoom id. Looking forward to meet with all of you :)
The world lost a great one yesterday. Gonna miss you Woodsie, I was lucky to have had the opportunity to call you "coach".
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Hey #ScienceTwitter: Is there any reason to order chemicals as an anhydrous compound vs a hydrated compound? Is there any difference in shelf life and/or how hygroscopic they are? Or is it just a matter of having to convert masses?