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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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After a long summer of field work it was time to slip into our lab coats and start analyzing all the samples we collected.  Gas samples, collected during acetylene block assays, were run on the Gas Chromatograph (GC) to observe changes…
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I have spent the past 10 days or so in Laramie WY, hiding and working on metabolism modeling with my colleague.  It’s been a great break, and I feel like I’m going to look back on this time as a…
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Whew this field season really flew by fast! I spent my second summer conducting research for the CAREER project in and around Pocatello, Idaho. The West is such a beautiful landscape and a great place for field research. I was…
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