Faculty:
Dr. Julia Perdrial, PI
Contact me with any questions about collaborations, internships, available instrumentation and analyses. |
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Graduate students:
Malaiyka Cincotta, MS
Malayika is finalizing her MS project on dissolved organic matter characteristics in soil solution at Sleepers River (Project: “Soil Aggregates: What role do they play in the generation of dissolved organic carbon?”). |
Jesse Armfield,
MS Jesse is finalizing his MS project on weathering in acid impacted environments (Project: “Expanding the concept of the Critical Zone from Terrestrial to Planetary Systems: What can we learn about weathering on Mars?”). |
Brittany Lancellotti, PhD
Brittany investigates 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)"). |
Max Landsman-Gerjoi, MS
Max investigates fluorescence derived proxies for bioavailability in a combined lab and field study. He uses samples from various sites in Vermont (including EPSCoR BREE sites) and the Reynolds Creek CZO in Idaho. |
Undergraduate Researchers:
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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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.
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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Thomas Adler: Thomas develops a user friendly MATLAB script for DOM PARAFAC analyses as part of his EPSCoR internship.
Alex Gagnon: Alex investigates soil composition and mineralogy by landscape position in the Sleepers River Watershed.
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Alumni:
Ari Libenson:
Ari used laser diffraction to determine changes in aggregate size in soils from Sleepers River during simulated recovery from acidification. |
Morgan Schwartz: Morgan used experiments to determine how swelling clay minerals impact microbial carbon processing.
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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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Alyson Hampsch, Grad Student
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”. |
Pat Sullivan: Pat assisted with aqueous soil extracts and analysis over the summer 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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David Jaeger: David tested the importance of moist vs. dry soil sampling on DOM quality in the lab in 2015.
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Mae Kemsley, Intern
Mae worked on sampling and processing soils from the Mad River Valley during her second summer internship (2014 and 2015). |
Christine Loughlin
Christine determined carbon and metal content as well as water extractable organic matter characteristics on wetland soils in 2013/2014. |
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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. |