Lab Updates: 
May 2025: What is time? The past 8 months have flown, and there's so much to report! Stay tuned, keep an eye on lab members' Google Scholar updates, and get ready to help us welcome some new lab members this summer!

September 2024: March Me really thought these updates would be more frequent, but such is life (and work!). The Stauffer Lab was busy over the summer, with two new papers out: 1) led by Ph.D. student Jen Raabe on operationalizing nutrient sensors and 2) led by lab alum Dr. Andrea Jaegge documenting microcystins in the south-central estuaries of Louisiana. Beth finally saw the HARRNESS update come to fruition (after 3+ years of collaboration with HAB experts around the country!). We also have some new lab members, including Em Mulcahy a Masters student who joins us from Virginia Tech! Oh, and the LO-SPAT fun continues, including the first hurricane impacting our water quality monitoring sites and oysters from a fully genomically selected spawn in the water!

March 2024: Times have been busier than ever, as evidenced by our last update being from 17 months ago! We have some new lab personnel supporting the GOM Nutrient Sensor Network and ongoing LO-SPAT project, while former grad student Dr. Gulce Kurtay has moved onto a fabulous postdoc at University of Washington! The LO-SPAT estuarine monitoring network is streaming real-time data, we're getting close to the first full genomically-selected oyster spawn with LO-SPAT, and we're all just hanging on (or maybe that's just me). I'll be updating the website more often this year, so check back for more exciting news.

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