Thanks Society of Wetland Scientists for the opportunity to give my first talk, and to visit Spokane! In about an hour I’ll present research on using recycled glass sand in coastal restorations.

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Thank you to Dr. Sunshine Van Bael, Elizabeth MacDougal, and Bek Markel for all the help this week harvesting and prepping roots from the Practical Inoculation Experiment (PIE) for staining and bacterial re-isolation. 🌱🍄

Pictures from last week building two islands🏝️: one with recycled glass sediment and one using only river sand dredge. We hope to learn how to reduce erosion and restore Louisiana coastlines.

The total solar #eclipse is now sweeping across Indianapolis. This is the first time in more than 800 years that the city is experiencing this celestial event!

Eastern's Double Corpse Flower Live! youtube.com/live/qGfMC7c-e… via YouTube

A Special Collection is coming out soon with research on using recycled glass for coastal restoration! See the call for papers here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1…

An open lab manager position at University of Hawaii at Manoa with Anthony Amend and hynsonlab.com.  Knowledge of fungi, microbiology, molecular methods and sterile technique would serve this individual well. Nov. 4th app deadline: schooljobs.com/careers/hawaii… Start date negotiable PLS RT!

In undergraduate, I spent hours looking at slides of sediment cores from East African lakes, identifying the pollen there. Based on the core depth, we could determine how old the pollen was, and thus, what plants were in the area at the time. Now a paper! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…