Faculty:
Dr. Julia Perdrial, PI
Contact me with any questions about collaborations, internships, available instrumentation and analyses. |
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Graduate students:
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)epscor.w3.uvm.edu/epscor/").
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)epscor.w3.uvm.edu/epscor/").
Thomas Adler, MS
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").
Caitlin Bristol, MS
Caitlin investigates 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 investigates 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”).
Manya Ruckhaus, MS
Manya joins out team this fall to work on our newly funded CZ network cluster “Using Big Data approaches to assess ecohydrological resilience across scales”).
Manya joins out team this fall to work on our newly funded CZ network cluster “Using Big Data approaches to assess ecohydrological resilience across scales”).
Undergraduate Researchers:
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").
Ellie Sovic: Ellie is working on the EPSCoR project and investigates carbon and nutrient dynamics in the Lake Champlain 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”). |
Alumni:
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. |
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. |
Jesse Armfield,
MS (2018) Jesse successfully defended his MS project on weathering in acid impacted environments in 2018 and is off to new adventures |
Ari Libenson:
Ari used laser diffraction to determine changes in aggregate size in soils from Sleepers River during simulated recovery from acidification. |
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.
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Carli Beisel:
Carli determines changes in fluorescence spectroscopic properties of DOC during incubation of leaf litter extracts |
Alex Gagnon: Alex investigates soil composition and mineralogy by landscape position in the Sleepers River Watershed.
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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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Morgan Schwartz: Morgan used experiments to determine how swelling clay minerals impact microbial carbon processing.
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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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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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Mae Kemsley, Intern
Mae worked on sampling and processing soils from the Mad River Valley during her second summer internship (2014 and 2015). |
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”. |
David Jaeger: David tested the importance of moist vs. dry soil sampling on DOM quality in the lab in 2015. |
Pat Sullivan: Pat assisted with aqueous soil extracts and analysis over the summer 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 2013/2014. |
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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. |