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Research Interests and Opportunities:  Click subheadings for more info…

 

Great Lakes Nutrient Cycling and Algal Ecology

- organic P use, algal blooms, viral lysis…

 

 

 

 

Wetland Plant Ecology

- vegetation and landscape change, invasive species, carnivorous pitcher plants

 

 

 

Algal Photosynthesis and Stress

- chlorophyll a fluorescence, nutrient limitation, nutrient acquisition…

 

 

 

Intertidal macroalgal nutrient ecology

- inorganic nitrogen uptake, assimilation and partitioning…

 

 

 

Research opportunities

 

I am currently accepting new graduate students interested in research in these or related areas within the Dept Biological Sciences Graduate Program.  Please contact me to discuss ideas, funding options and the application process.

 

There are always opportunities for undergraduate research projects in all the areas listed above.  This can be done as independent study courses through Biological Sciences or Conservation and Environmental Sciences programs, or through UROP or McNair scholars programs - contact me for more details!

 

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