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What Causes Brown Tides?
Harmful algal blooms (HABs)—often brown or red—are increasing worldwide, spurred by global warming, industrial development, and agriculture. HABs pose a serious threat to fish and aquatic plants, depleting drinking water…
Benjamin Johnson (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Ben Johnson is a Ph.D. candidate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, working in the labs of Jeremy Searle and Jed Sparks. His research combines evolutionary genetics and physiological ecology to…
Alyssa Kaganer (Natural Resources & the Environment)
There’s Something in the Water! Improving Emerging Infectious Disease Surveillance With Environmental RNA Alyssa Kaganer is a postdoctoral associate working with Dr. Krysten Schuler at the Cornell Wildlife Health Lab…
Katherine Cornett ’23
…Climate Change. She is currently working in the Soil and Water Lab studying glyphosate herbicide transport and is a valued member of Cornell’s Varsity Polo team. This past summer, she…
A Lethal Legacy
…are still feeding toxic algae today? This project will quantify how these legacy effects influence HABs in shallow lakes, where waves stir bottom nutrients into the water. Working with managers…
Montana Airey (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
…is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. She is working to understand how climate change shapes aquatic communities and their food webs. In temperate regions,…
Increasing Milk Production and Reducing Greenhouse Gas by Feeding Cows Hydroponic Sprouts
…approach is expected to produce more and better fodder in a shorter time, using less land, water, pesticides, and fossil fuels. It should also release less nitrogen into the environment….
Augustus Pendleton (Microbiology)
High-resolution Genomics to Assess the Assembly of Bacterial Populations and Communities in a Freshwater Estuary Advisor: Marian Schmidt Freshwater estuaries are essential habitats where rivers flow into large lakes. Once…