NSF Graduate Student Fellow (Geosciences-Geochemistry)A new trip for early July!
Posted by admin on Jun 28, 2008
My travel plans for July ‘08 are really piling up! Before my trip to California for two weeks in mid-July, I’ll be heading to British Columbia, to the meromictic Lake Mahoney near Penticton, Canada for four days of field sampling with a group of researchers led by Tim Lyons of UC Riverside, also including scientists from U British Columbia, CalTech, Harvard and ASU. Lake Mahoney has ~250x the amount of molybdenum of Castle Lake, so I’ll try not to contaminate my next field site!
New Research and Upcoming Travels
Posted by admin on May 23, 2008
I’ve started a new collaboration with Dr. Jens Appel, a faculty in the School of Life Sciences and am creating cyanobacterial knock-out mutants. The experience of working in a new laboratory is really exciting and keeps me on my toes. I’m learning a lot!
I’m looking forward to travelling to Portland, Maine in June for my cousin Benjamin Shapiro’s bar mitzvah. Congrats, Ben!
From Portland, I will travel west into the mountains of New Hampshire to the Waterville Valley Resort for June 15-20, 2008 for my first Gordon conference, Environmental Bioinorganic Chemistry. This will be my first Gordon conference and looking forward to meeting many of the prominent scientists in my field.
In the second half of July, I’ll be heading to Castle Lake, in northern California for field work at one of the most beautiful spots on Earth, just south of Mt. Shasta. This lake has incredibly low levels of molybdenum (abbreviated Mo), the trace metal that I study. This element is essential for microorganisms living in the lake, so I’m interested in how they cope with such low Mo. I’ll be sure to post lots of pictures of this experience.
Vote for Ivan’s Webb Center
Posted by admin on Mar 16, 2008
Ivan’s Webb Center in Wickenburg is up for an award for the best regional arts center in the Phoenix metropolitan area. They won last year, let’s help them win again this year!
Please vote by going to: http://www.azcentral.com/ent/best/2008/polls/
Click “Arts and Entertainment” under Polls.
Then, enter the code as directed by the website.
Choose “Best Regional Arts Center” and vote for the Del Webb Center for the Performing Arts, Wickenburg.
You can vote once a day from any computer!!
Upcoming Travels: California in March and April!
Posted by admin on Feb 24, 2008
I am very excited to be heading off to the California Coast during spring week for the Applied Phylogenetics Workshop at the Bodega Marine Laboratory, March 8-15, 2008.
I plan to attend the 5th Annual Southern California Geobiology Symposium at the University of Southern California on April 12th and the 5th Annual AbSciCon Conference at the SETI Institute in Santa Clara from April 14-17, 2008.
Welcome to my new web page!
Posted by admin on Feb 24, 2008
Thanks for visiting my site — I am so thankful to Valerie Heritage for the wonderful web design.