Macon passed his qualifying exam with flying colors! He blew away his committee and did an overall outstanding job. Way to go MACON!!
Sam was awarded a Fulbright Award to understand the environmental effects of the Fundão dam disaster of 2015. She will be headed to Brazil in 2020! For more information on the project:
https://insideucr.ucr.edu/stories/2019/04/16/fulbright-sends-ucr-soil-scientist-dam-disaster-site
Macon represented the Ying lab at the American Chemical Society's national Fall meeting in San Diego. The Geochemistry Devision of the ACS had a strong showing, with E. Elzinga presiding over the main session. Lots of great talks, with a strong showing by Fe. Next year it'll be Mn!
Summer Bridge to Research Student, Roxy, summarizes her summer research project at RISE symposium8/29/2019 Our newest member of the lab, transfer student, Roxana Ramirez, presented her research poster titled "Redox and Reaction Rates of Vanadium Oxidation by Manganese Oxides" at the Summer Bridge to Research Symposium. Over a ten week period, Roxy worked with each of the grad students and was mentored by Macon for her summer experiment. She did an outstanding job and we are excited to have her continue with the lab as she starts at UCR this fall!
Our very own Danielle was one of only 17 people in the nation to receive the 2019 Foundation Research fellowship. Way to go Danielle!
https://cnas.ucr.edu/news/2019/08/14/elite-food-and-agriculture-research-fellowship-goes-ucr-doctoral-student
The workshop was an opportunity for biogeochemistry students from a variety of countries to meet one another and some of the leading faculty from across the various disciplines of the field. They spent time getting hands-on introductions into new (bio)geochemical skillsets by some of the leading experts to better our research capabilities and that of our home lab. The trip wouldn't have been complete without beer and experiencing the schwäbisch culture and brats! With flying colors!!! Way to go Claudia (+baby)! Sam, Mike and Macon traversed international boarders, and endless miles of prairie to meet up with our friends from the Keiluweit Lab (http://umass-biogeochem.weebly.com/) at the Canadian Light Source for TWO WEEKS of nonstop synchrotron fun. Much carbon was analyzed, much fun (but not sleep) was had by all. Alison Marklein, Nate Bogie, and Daniel Rath attended this year's Russell Ranch Field Day lead by Kate Scow at UC Davis. Alison represented our UC DroCaM group with an oral presentation and Nate presented his preliminary data as part of the poster session. Great work team!! |
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