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Principal Investigator Dr. Julia Perdrial - Associate Professor of Geochemistry
​Lead PI of the CZNet Big Data Cluster, UVM Geosciences and GUND Fellow

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I'm an Associate Professor at the University of Vermont and lead the Lab for Integrative Land and Water Biogeochemistry and also direct the Geosciences Program and the CZNet "Big Data" Cluster. My work is always collaborative, working with people from different backgrounds and perspectives to tackle challenges in land and water research, STEM education, community and team science.
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Current Group Members


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Bren Cable - MS ​candidate
Bren worked at the interface of mineralogy, soil science and water geochemistry. She investigated how the presence of Ca bearing minerals might impact ecosystem resilience in acid impacted watersheds. Bren has been gaining a lot  of experience in field work and communicating science in conferences and our "cluster chats". She just successfully defended her thesis! 
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Niara Hicks - MS candidate
Niara ​worked on the connection between hydrology and biogeochemistry. She investigated patterns in water quality data in connection with catchment attributes in an iterative fashion. Niara has been honing her data analyses skills and also joined fieldwork regularly (including a trip to Yosemite with Bren). She successfully defended her thesis in Fall 2024!
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Elliott Bloom -  Undergraduate Researcher
​Elliott finished her undergraduate thesis in where she worked on a geochemical model for soil core effluents. She analyzed a variety of data and also managed data upload to Earthchem. Ultimately she will be going to grad school and talked with our project outreach coordinator Andrew about her plans. 

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Andrew Cassel​ - Outreach and Process Coordinator
Andrew is managing outreach for the CZNet Big Data cluster, including our social media presence, newsletters, and "Cluster Chats". There is no Big Data event where he is not instrumental in making it happen (and many of the pictures you see from events here and on the project homepage are taken by him)! Andrew also makes guest appearances in courses where he talks about science communication and the role of social media, and regularly covers AGU.

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Eve Foran​ - Lab Assistant
Eve is a geosciences undergraduate student, she has been assisting with a lot of tasks in the lab, including getting our data registered with SESAR and uploaded to Hydroshare. She is passionate about Geosciences, especially mineralogy and supports research in this area. Eve is also working as a teaching assistant and supports department outreach. She made this great poster showcasing CAMELS-Chem, a new database we curated. She got accepted into an amazing graduate program, congrats Eve!
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Sulemaan Bokhari - Communication Assistant
Sulemaan is an undergraduate student in geosciences and film & television studies, and has been assisting with communication, including filming and cutting videos about the Geosciences program and teacher education programming of the Big Data project. He also works on illustrations that emphasize land-water processes.
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Video on THE Geosciences program


Alumni


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Dr. Dustin Kincaid - PostDoc
Dustin worked as a postdoc on the CZNet project and used a data based approach to investigate patterns in stream and river data. Dustin also supported outreach and education activities and contributed with his knowledge and interest in community and team science to make our project and lab culture better every day.  He is off to new adventures with the USGS where he does more amazing work!
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​Jake Hogan - Communication Assistant
Jake was an undergraduate student in environmental sciences and policy, and has been assisting with communication, especially producing video content for water research and education.  He made this video about the "Waters of the United States" as well as a video on the importance of meaningful partnerships with partners at Jackson State University. 

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Manya Ruckhaus - MS (2022)
Manya worked on the 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.

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Dina Cordes, worked on winter dynamics under snow on the CZ network cluster “Using Big Data approaches to assess ecohydrological resilience across scales”. 
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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”).

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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/").

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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"). 
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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”.

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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"). ​

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Ari Libenson: Ari used laser diffraction to determine changes in  aggregate size in soils from Sleepers River during simulated recovery from acidification.


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Ellie Sovic: Ellie is working on the EPSCoR project and investigates carbon and nutrient dynamics in the Lake Champlain Watershed.

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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”).

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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.

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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

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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”.

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David Jaeger: David tested the importance of moist vs. dry soil sampling on DOM quality in the lab in 2015.

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Christine Loughlin: Christine determined carbon and metal content as well as water extractable organic matter characteristics on wetland soils in 2013 and 2014.

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Mae Kemsley: Mae worked on sampling and processing soils from the Mad River Valley during her summer internships in 2014 and 2015.

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Ingrid Evans: Ingrid finished her project "The impact of solution composition of the fluorescence properties of dissolved organic matter extracted from stream bank soils".


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Pat Sullivan: Pat assisted with aqueous soil extracts and analysis over the summer 2015.

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  1. Ben Wilkes: Ben conducted a field project  “Do soil organo-mineral aggregates drive stream water carbon fluxes?” and assisted with the installation of sensors and samplers for the EPSCoR project on “Basin Resilience against Extreme Events”.

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Aundrea Dolan: Aundrea kept the lab running in 2013: she prepared sampling vessels for field campaigns, processed samples and helped with a variety of analyses.

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