Lab Updates:

​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!

May 2020: It has been a strange couple of months. Classes at UL Lafayette have been remote since mid-March, and the lab has been closed since the end of that month. But the Stauffer Lab persists! Beth had two papers come out recently: one tying algal blooms off the coast of California to local, high frequency physical processes and the other (led by Aaron Hogan, FIU) laying out a research framework for studying hurricane impacts on ecosystems. Beth also participated in the LUMCON Science Talks series, giving a talk on the storm- and flood-related research coming out of the lab. And one of our lab members working on the 2019 Flood project, Teri Lynn Lewis, is graduating! Teri started her research career as an REU participant in 2018 and has been a McNair Scholar in the Stauffer Lab for the past year. Teri will be moving onto a contractor position with the USGS Wetland and Aquatic Research Center​, and we know she will be doing great things. Congratulations, Teri!!!
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​Jan 2020: It was a busy end to 2019 in the Stauffer Lab. We hosted a technical workshop to train our partners on using continuous nitrate sensors as part of an ACT project, students presented at #CERF19 and local symposia, and we recruited and welcomed a new PhD student, Julia Sweet, to work on a newly-funded Louisiana Sea Grant project testing effects of changing phytoplankton communities on oyster filtration. Beth got a paper accepted that was a veritable albatross from her dissertation, and Gulce completed the first draft of a paper on our Hurricane Harvey Research. Stay tuned for all the fun from #OSM20 and other happenings in the semester ahead!

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