Talking Streams in Switzerland
This was written 3-weeks ago at 2 in the morning during a fit of Jet lag I forgot about it until now but figured I would still like to post about this amazing experience. So this past week I had…
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Marcarelli Lab Blog
Flood on the Pilgrim River
Early morning June 17, Houghton was hit by a series of thunderstorm that dropped a quick 6″ of rain in a few hours, leading to flash flooding in town and much destruction of property and infrastructure that even made the…
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Part II: Gunter’s Folly
Sweet cheese and rice! Has it only been a week since we returned from our biogeochemical adventure? So much has happened since then but we’ll get to that another time. My last post ended with Erin and I eating cookies…
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2018 Society for Freshwater Science meeting
From MTU’s Tech Today: Michigan Tech was well represented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society for Freshwater Science (SFS) in Detroit, MI May 20-24 by the Huckarelli lab in the Department of Biological Sciences, including Drs. Casey Huckins…
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It’s been a While
It has been a busy few weeks. We had the SFS conference in Detroit to prepare for, but first, we had to do some pretty extensive sampling for my dissertation and prep/packing for continental sampling which we planned on starting…
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Fundamentals of Ecosystem Ecology at the Cary Institute
Erin and I had the amazing experience of taking the Fundamentals of Ecosystem ecology class at the Cary Institute. The class started on January 1st but Erin and I decided to start it off with a bang So we headed…
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cold and alone in a river
Since the last sampling went so well I decided to try to sample both rock and sed today. It is colder with air temperatures of 0C and water temperature at 3C but I went out prepared. I had running leggings…
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Introducing Eve
We recently welcomed the newest member to our lab. Eve is a Discrete Multi-Chemistry Analyzer AQ2 from SEAL Analytical, and hopefully, she will help us rock through our water chemistry and clean out our freezers. Johann, from SEAL, visited for 3…
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Exploring Utah and Idaho
Hot-lanta it’s been a busy two weeks. It started on July 27th with a 6am flight t to Salt Lake City, Utah and we’re still going strong today. First off we sampled the lower Knowlton Fork of Red Butte Creek. The site…
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Exploring the Nitrogen Cycle With Young Minds
We’re lucky to have Tyler (a high school intern) join our lab for a week. We put him straight to work processing ammonium samples, making and deploying nutrient diffusing substrate, and helping out in the field. We enjoyed having him around and…
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