 2021 REU Participants after the Research Symposium. Don't worry, masks were on until this one!
Lab Updates:
Aug 2021: What a busy, crazy, awesome, and healthy summer! We hosted 13 students in the NSF-funded Healthy Streams, Healthy Coasts REU program; grad student and undergrad researchers ALL made excellent progress on their projects; got a paper accepted with new RCN-HERS colleagues on ecosystem responses to hurricanes; and kicked off the new LO-SPAT Project with colleagues. The ongoing pandemic has delayed formal announcement of the LO-SPAT project, but stay tuned on how the lab and Dr. Stauffer (Lead PI) are helping to make our Louisiana oyster populations and reefs more resilient to current and ongoing change (and we're hiring! See People page for details on open positions) May 2021: The first (and hopefully last) full academic year in a pandemic is a wrap! Lots of great lab updates, including Ph.D. student Gulce Kurtay's paper on our NSF-Funded Hurricane Harvey research coming out in L&O! Other students are presenting at conferences, conducting oyster experiments with collaborators (see Dr. Stauffer's Twitter thread on these from April), and prepping for the upcoming Gulf of Mexico-wide GOMECC-4 cruise this Fall! Oh, and Beth was recognized as an Outstanding Masters Mentor by the UL Grad School, and is being recommended for tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. Happy Summer, y'all! Jan 2021: Happy new year from the Stauffer Lab! It's been a busy few months, with lots to celebrate. Congrats to Ph.D. student Gulce Kurtay, who successfully defended her dissertation proposal this week! We are welcoming a new Masters student, Hans Prevost, back into the Stauffer Lab. Hans is a familiar face, as he conducted undergrad research with us way back when. He will likely be working on some of the ocean acidification research we are doing in collaboration with the NOAA-led GOMECC cruises. Finally, more student-led papers are getting out in the world. Former Masters student Jaylyn Babitch's paper on phytoplankton N use using a whole ecosystem isotope tracer was recently accepted at Estuaries & Coasts, and we have two other student-led papers in revision or review elsewhere. Keep up the good work, everyone! For older news, click here |
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