Lab Updates: 

Oct 2022: The past month has been one of the most exciting since I started this little group in 2015! The first Stauffer Lab Ph.D. student, Andrea Jaegge, successfully defended her dissertation AND had her first, first-author paper accepted into Hydrobiologia! She is wrapping up her research here at UL before moving west to start a postdoc focused on HABs with the USGS California Water Science Center. Congrats Dr. Jaegge!

We have also been thinking about and working on our lab, campus, and institution. As a lab, we wrote an Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Statement that you can read on our People page.  We'd love to hear your feedback on it, and we want to keep putting action to those words. After 2+ years of Beth bugging people and angrily tweeting and the Office of Campus Diversity taking charge in the past 6 months, Facilities finally installed some gender inclusive bathroom signs in academic buildings across campus. Jen has been active in pushing back against a speaker visiting campus later this month who is known for hate speech and disinformation. We are excited to keep working to improve our community in the months and years ahead.
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A celebratory lab photo following the successful defense of DR. Andrea Jaegge!!
​​May 2022: Academic year 2021-2022 is DONE! LO-SPAT Project Manager Ann Fairly Pandelides helped put on the first project All-Hands meeting earlier in the month, and the first salinity challenge experiments are about to kick off with our collaborators at LSU AgCenter and UMCES Horn Point. Gulce Kurtay passed her comprehensive exams and advanced to Ph.D. Candidacy, and Julia Sweet successfully defended her dissertation proposal! Congrats, ladies! Beth traveled to Grand Rapids for her final ASLO Board Meeting as a Member-at-Large and to present some of the HERS Network activities. She was joined by Andrea Jaegge, who is wrapping up her PhD and looking for next steps, and three former REU participants in the Healthy Streams Healthy Coasts program (Collin, Jake, and Vanessa) who presented their research and networked their butts off. Altogether an amazing, energizing, and exhausting week in Michigan!

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