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Brownie Lake on Wikipedia !
Collaborators on our work on Brownie Lake helped to draft a Wikipedia entry for Brownie Lake, which has now been approved! Take a moment to read about this fascinating little lake.
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Gabbie Ledesma awarded an Iowa Space Grant Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Gabbie Ledesma (’20), a geology major, has been awarded an Iowa Space Grant Consortium undergraduate research fellowship for 2019-2020. This will provide her will a stipend to do independent research with Dr. Elizabeth Swanner. She will continue her investigations of Manganese enrichments in lake sediments in order to better understand Manganese enrichments in the former … Continue reading Gabbie Ledesma awarded an Iowa Space Grant Undergraduate Research Fellowship
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Nick Lambrecht defends his dissertation
Nick Lambrecht successfully defended his PhD! He is the first graduate student to graduate from the Geochemistry & Geobiology laboratory. His research investigated two meromictic ferruginous lakes in the Midwest, U.S.A. Specifically, he documented their potential as biogeochemical analogues to Precambrian ferruginous oceans, and the microbial iron and methane cycles within them. Nick’s PhD is … Continue reading Nick Lambrecht defends his dissertation
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Tania Leung receives Iowa Water Center grant
Tania Leung has been awarded a graduate student award from the Iowa Water Center. Read more about Tania’s project: Leung Selected as a Recipient for the Iowa Water Center’s Institute Research Grant Competition
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What makes harmful algal blooms so colorful?
Dr. Elizabeth Swanner reports for the Iowa Water Center, answering the question: What makes harmful algal blooms so colorful? Find out more about the Iowa Water Center at https://iawatercenter.wordpress.com/
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Red Planet Adventures
Everyone knows Mars is called the Red Planet. But maybe its other nickname should be the Cardinal and Gold Planet. After all, with important research being conducted by Iowa State students like Gabrielle Ledesma (’20 geology) and team, conditions on Mars that led to its red surface are becoming clearer by the day.
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New Ferruginous Lakes YouTube Channel
Check out our new YouTube Channel: “Ferruginous Lakes“. The first video describes Nick Lambrecht’s recently published paper documenting two ferruginous, meromictic lakes in the Midwest, U.S.A.
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Nick Lambrecht’s first paper on Midwestern ferruginous lakes published
The first student paper in our research group has been published! Check out Lambrecht et al., 2018 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. (https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JG004587) This study documents two midwestern lakes as ferruginous and meromictic, properties that make them useful analogs to past ferruginous oceans.
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Experiment sheds new light on prehistoric ocean conditions
New work published in the journal Scientific Reports by Dr. Elizabeth Swanner and colleagues simulates the iron cycle in an ancient ocean – with surprising results. Read the story here, and link to the publication here.
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EPA grant to study Harmful Algal Blooms in Iowa Lakes
An Iowa State team receives funding from the Environmental Protection Agency to study Harmful Algal Blooms in Iowa lakes in partnership with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. Find out more at https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2018/01/08/epaalgaegrant