Faculty:
Dr. Julia Perdrial, PI
Contact me with any questions about collaborations, internships, available instrumentation and analyses. |
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Graduate students:
Bren Cable, MS works on the CZ network cluster “Using Big Data approaches to assess ecohydrological resilience across scales” on the effect of soil mineralogy on carbon and nutrient retention.
Niara Hicks, MS works on the CZ network cluster “Using Big Data approaches to assess ecohydrological resilience across scales” on the connection between hydrology and biogeochemistry.
Undergraduate Researchers:
Dina Cordes, is working on her honor thesis on winter dynamics under snow on the CZ network cluster “Using Big Data approaches to assess ecohydrological resilience across scales”.
Elliott Bloom, works as lab assistant on on the CZ network cluster “Using Big Data approaches to assess ecohydrological resilience across scales” and analyzes a variety of data and manages data upload to Hydroshare.
Alumni:
Manya Ruckhaus, MS (2022)
Manya worked on the CZ network cluster “Using Big Data approaches to assess ecohydrological resilience across scales” on carbon and nutrient dynamics using long-term data and experiments.
Manya worked on the CZ network cluster “Using Big Data approaches to assess ecohydrological resilience across scales” on carbon and nutrient dynamics using long-term data and experiments.
Caitlin Bristol, MS (2021)
Caitlin investigated how soil aggregates sequester carbon in subnival soils in a combined lab and field study (Project: "Combining Complex Systems Tools, Process-Based Modelling and Experiments to Bridge Scales in Low Temperature Geochemistry" and “Using Big Data approaches to assess ecohydrological resilience across scales”).
Caitlin investigated how soil aggregates sequester carbon in subnival soils in a combined lab and field study (Project: "Combining Complex Systems Tools, Process-Based Modelling and Experiments to Bridge Scales in Low Temperature Geochemistry" and “Using Big Data approaches to assess ecohydrological resilience across scales”).
Brittany Lancellotti, PhD (2021)
Brittany investigated nutrient cycling in riparian zones using a newly installed sensor network and experiments (Project: "VT EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII). “Basin Resilience to Extreme Events (BREE)epscor.w3.uvm.edu/epscor/").
Brittany investigated nutrient cycling in riparian zones using a newly installed sensor network and experiments (Project: "VT EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII). “Basin Resilience to Extreme Events (BREE)epscor.w3.uvm.edu/epscor/").
Thomas Adler, MS (2020)
Thomas successfully complete his thesis “Drivers of Dissolved Organic Carbon Mobilization From Forested Headwater Catchments: A Multi Scaled Approach” for which he combined statistical analyses of long term datasets with targeted experiments (Project:"Combining Complex Systems Tools, Process-Based Modelling and Experiments to Bridge Scales in Low Temperature Geochemistry").
Thomas successfully complete his thesis “Drivers of Dissolved Organic Carbon Mobilization From Forested Headwater Catchments: A Multi Scaled Approach” for which he combined statistical analyses of long term datasets with targeted experiments (Project:"Combining Complex Systems Tools, Process-Based Modelling and Experiments to Bridge Scales in Low Temperature Geochemistry").
Max Landsman-Gerjoi, MS (2019)
Max finished investigationg fluorescence derived proxies for bioavailability in a combined lab and field study and successfully defended his thesis in 2019.
Max finished investigationg fluorescence derived proxies for bioavailability in a combined lab and field study and successfully defended his thesis in 2019.
Malaiyka Cincotta, MS (2018)
Malayika successfully defended her MS project on dissolved organic matter characteristics in soil solution at Sleepers River in 2018 and is off to new adventures.
Malayika successfully defended her MS project on dissolved organic matter characteristics in soil solution at Sleepers River in 2018 and is off to new adventures.
Jesse Armfield,
MS (2018)
Jesse successfully defended his MS project on weathering in acid impacted environments in 2018 and is off to new adventures with the USGS.
MS (2018)
Jesse successfully defended his MS project on weathering in acid impacted environments in 2018 and is off to new adventures with the USGS.
Alyson Hampsch, MS (2017)
Allison successfully defended her MS thesis “Using aqueous soil extracts to study organic matter leaching from soils of different river corridor land cover in Vermont”.
Allison successfully defended her MS thesis “Using aqueous soil extracts to study organic matter leaching from soils of different river corridor land cover in Vermont”.
Lindsey Stinson: Lindsey conducts batch experiments on soils to determine the role of solution chemistry and minerals in DOC release.(Project:"Combining Complex Systems Tools, Process-Based Modelling and Experiments to Bridge Scales in Low Temperature Geochemistry").
Ari Libenson:
Ari used laser diffraction to determine changes in aggregate size in soils from Sleepers River during simulated recovery from acidification. |
Ellie Sovic: Ellie is working on the EPSCoR project and investigates carbon and nutrient dynamics in the Lake Champlain Watershed.
Alex Gagnon: Alex investigates soil composition and mineralogy by landscape position in the Sleepers River Watershed.
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Bryan Stolzenburg
Bryan is working with Caitlin on DOC mobilized from subnival soils, he presented preliminary results during the student research conference (Project: "Combining Complex Systems Tools, Process-Based Modelling and Experiments to Bridge Scales in Low Temperature Geochemistry" and “Using Big Data approaches to assess ecohydrological resilience across scales”). |
Aaron Shaviz: Aaron is working on his Honors thesis "Mechanisms of carbon and nutrient release from acid impacted soils: Investigating competitive sorption and aggregate dispersion" where he focuses on carbon and P release.
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Sara Mecca: Sara uses aqueous extracts from soils of the EPSCoR wetland sites to determine the impact of solution chemistry on DOC release to streams.
Morgan Schwartz: Morgan used experiments to determine how swelling clay minerals impact microbial carbon processing.
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Carli Beisel:
Carli determines changes in fluorescence spectroscopic properties of DOC during incubation of leaf litter extracts 
Brandon Follansbee: Brandon analyzes ground water samples from seepage samples for major cations and P to determine nutrient delivery to lakes through ground water inputs.
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Jack Ehrenkranz: Jack combined a field project with lab based work and contributed the project “Do soil organo-mineral aggregates drive stream water carbon fluxes?” Jack also assisted with the installation of sensors and samplers for the EPSCoR project on “Basin Resilience against Extreme Events”.
David Jaeger: David tested the importance of moist vs. dry soil sampling on DOM quality in the lab in 2015.
Christine Loughlin
Christine determined carbon and metal content as well as water extractable organic matter characteristics on wetland soils in 2013/2014. 
Mae Kemsley, Intern
Mae worked on sampling and processing soils from the Mad River Valley during her second summer internship (2014 and 2015). |
Ingrid Evans: Ingrid finished her project "The impact of solution composition of the fluorescence properties of dissolved organic matter extracted from stream bank soils" .
Pat Sullivan: Pat assisted with aqueous soil extracts and analysis over the summer 2015.
Aundrea Dolan, Lab Assistant
Aundrea kept the lab running in 2013: she prepared sampling vessels for field campaigns, processed samples and helped with a variety of analyses. |
