Congrats to Candice and co-authors for their work on the endophytic and rhizosphere fungi of Spartina alterniflora – published in Science of the Total Environment. They compared heavily oiled and non-oiled areas and found that fungal community shifts are still evident in the heavily oiled areas, even six years after the oil spill. More oil [...] New paper published on the Deepwater ...
Congrats to Candice and co-authors for their work on the endophytic and rhizosphere fungi of Spartina alterniflora – published in Science of the Total Environment. They compared heavily oiled and non-oiled areas and found that fungal community shifts are still evident in the heavily oiled areas, even six years after the oil spill. More oil [...] Congrats to Julia – off to Stan...
We enjoyed having Julia Simon, a Lusher high school student, working in our lab this past school year. She especially thanks Liz and Steve for their mentorship and great advice about schools and careers over the school year. Now she is off to Stanford in the fall! Congrats and best [...] Congratulations 2018 graduates!
We are saying goodbye to a large group of undergraduates who worked in the Van Bael lab. And also one master’s student. We are grateful for your help and we will miss you a lot! Best wishes in your new adventures and please keep in touch…. [...] Germination of seeds in oil
Mini marshes! Steve sets up a new experiment to study how Spartina alterniflora germination and gene expression changes with oil pollution. Stay tuned to watch the growth (or [...] Florida Coastal Everglades meeting
We visited Miami to attend the annual meeting for the Florida Coastal Everglades LTER project. We learned a lot and met a lot of new people. We visited an army of red mangroves on our way home. Field campaign planned for October. Mosquitoes, here we [...] New paper published in PNAS from Pana...
Check out our new paper – based on leaf trait data collected 18 years ago in Panama! These data have been used in several publications and continue to inform how we understand tropical [...]