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Gabbie and Jazlyn win student presenter awards at North Central Geological Society of America meeting

Recent alum Gabbie Ledesma (Geology ’20) won the BEST Undergraduate oral presentation at the virtual North Central sectional meeting of the Geological Society of America. You can watch Gabbie’s presentation video entitled “Can Terrestrial Manganese-rich Samples Help Distinguish Manganese-enrichments in Gale Crater Mars?”, at this link. Rising junior Jazlyn Beeck (Geology and Environmental Sciences ’22) … Continue reading Gabbie and Jazlyn win student presenter awards at North Central Geological Society of America meeting

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Gabbie gives amazing virtual conference presentation

Recent alum Gabbie Ledesma (Geology ’20) presented her undergraduate research at the virtual North Central sectional meeting of the Geological Society of America. Gabbie’s presentation, entitled “Can Terrestrial Manganese-rich Samples Help Distinguish Manganese-enrichments in Gale Crater Mars?”, is the culmination of research conducted with her advisor, Dr. Betsy Swanner, and collaborators at the Los Alamos … Continue reading Gabbie gives amazing virtual conference presentation

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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.