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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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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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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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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Or how to get through when you’re tired, hungry, and sweat is pooling in crevices you didn’t even know you had.
Hello blogosphere! Over the last couple of days we have begun our continental U.S. sampling of denitrification and N2 fixation in streams. Our first site was the Arikaree River in Colorado and it was a test of perseverance.…
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Last week we attended the annual meeting of the Society for Freshwater Science in Raleigh NC. I have been a member of this society since I was in grad school (when it was still named NABS), and this meeting has…
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Hey guys! This coming week the lab is attending the Society for Freshwater Science annual meeting in Raleigh, NC. Those of us working on the CAREER project (nitrogen cycling in streams) left on Thursday to start our continental scale sampling…
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Hi blogosphere! It’s been awhile since my last post, but in that time I successfully defended and completed my Masters Thesis! It was a long process and is already starting to seem so long ago now. The days leading up…
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It was a busy and exciting spring in the Marcarelli lab! As the students are starting to share their reflections on the spring and preparations for field season, I wanted to brag a bit about all the great things that they…
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