Marine Science undergraduates can apply for the Mystic Aquarium Research Experience for Undergraduates, a program designed to promote independent research with real world application.
More info can be found here: http://www.mysticaquarium.org/reu/.
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Uconn Student is Outstanding Student Paper Award Recipient
Danielle Boshers, a graduate student with Julie Granger, received an Outstanding Student Paper Award (OSPA) for her talk at the American Geophysical Union 2016 Fall Meeting. OSPAs are awarded to promote, recognize, and reward the top 3-5% of student presenters for quality research in the geophysical sciences. The topic of her presentation was Oxygen Isotope Composition of Nitrate Produced by Freshwater Nitrification.
Link to the OSPA winner circle: https://membership.agu.org/ospawinner/danielle-boshers/
Uconn Researcher Work Featured in BBC Article
Sofi Jonsson’s paper about how terrestrial discharges of organic matter increase the accumulation of methylmercury in estuary environments was featured in a BBC article.
CUSH 2016 Annual Meeting
MARN 4001 students attended the annual meeting of the local group Clean Up Sound and Harbors (CUSH), presenting posters on their findings on the ecosystem of Wequetequock Cove.
You can find their posters here.
SERDP 2016 Project-of-the-Year Award goes to two MSD faculty
Craig Tobias and Penny Vlahos win the SERDP 2016 Project-of-the-Year award for their work in studying the impact of munitions compounds in marine and estuarine ecosystems.
Read more about the project and the award here: https://serdp-estcp.org/News-and-Events/Blog/Tracking-the-Uptake-Translocation-Cycling-and-Metabolism-of-Munitions-Compounds-in-Coastal-Marine-Ecosystems-Using-Stable-Isotopic-Tracer.
Cryptophyte farming by symbiotic ciliate host detected in situ
New research by MSD faculty.
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Open in new tab Emily Seelen spending nine months in Sweden to study the bioavailability of methylmercury using a molecular approach
Emily Seelen, a graduate student with Robert Mason who has a NSF Graduate Fellowship, was recently awarded a GROW (Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide) fellowship to spend nine months working with Dr. Erik Björn at the University of Umeå in Sweden. Emily left in October to begin her study: “A molecular approach to understanding the bioavailability of methylmercury associated with various sources of natural dissolved organic matter (DOM)”. The focus is on coastal and oceanic DOM interaction with methylmercury, which has been studied very little relative to its interaction with other DOM pools. Emily’s research will involve the use of high resolution instrumentation to characterize the DOM and it’s methylmercury binding capacity including x-ray near edge adsorption structure spectroscopy, Orbitrap LC-MS, and other related approaches. Emily has been a NSF Graduate Fellow since July 2013.
Image: Emily extracting organic matter from water samples for her studies in Sweden.
DMS M.S. student Kayla Flynn received an Honorable Mention (top 25%) for her NSF Graduate Research Fellowship application!
Evolving to Cope with Climate Change
Read the full article here.
Prof. Pieter Visscher publishes evidence of Arsenic-based life from 2.72 billion years ago in Nature Geosciences
An article by Prof. Visscher and colleagues was recently published in Nature Geosciences. The group assessed the chemistry and nature of cell-like globules found in 2.72-billion-year-old fossil stromatolites from Western Australia. The globules were composed of organic carbon and arsenic and their investigation suggests that life existed as a result of arsenic cycling before the Earth’s atmosphere and ocean were oxygenated. Details about this important finding can be found at:
http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v7/n11/full/ngeo2276.html