“Organic Carbon Patterns and Budgets in the Long Island Sound Estuary” has been accepted for publication in Limnology and Oceanography
New time series for dissolved carbon dioxide & oxygen in Long Island Sound (DUCOS)
the Dominion-University of Connecticut Carbon and Oxygen time Series (DUCOS) is now up and running. Undergraduate students Jessica Hinckley (Marine Sciences) and Stephen Cangelosi (Biomedical Engineering) are spending summer 2017 starting up this pioneering time series and creating the open source interface to make data available on a continuous basis to the public.
Joseph Warren completes Masters degree
Jo
seph Warren presents & completes his Masters today! Congratulations Joe!!!!
“A Novel in Situ Sulfate Sampler for Aquatic Systems”
- manuscript in print “A Novel in Situ Sulfate Sampler for Aquatic Systems” Vlahos, Warren, Houghton and Fike in the American Chemical Society: Earth and Space Chemistry
Whitney & Vlahos Awarded new EPA-Sea Grant Project for Long Island Sound Research
The Project LISS01719: “Nutrient and Carbon Fluxes through Long Island Sound (LIS), Linking River Sources to Impacted Areas”, begins in Spring 2017 and will be coupled with ongoing studies in Eastern LIS.
Thivanka Ariyarathna Successfully Defends her Doctoral Dissertation
Congratulations to Dr. Thivanka Ariyarathna for completing her doctoral studies December 2, 2016.
Catherine Nowakowski Wins 2016 CMAS Conference Student poster competition
Catrina, our summer undergraduate research fellow (SURF) (advised by Astitha and Vlahos), was one of 3 recipients and the only undergraduate recipient of the award!!!! Way to go Catrina! She presented her summer work -“Prediction of harmful water quality parameters combining weather, air quality and ecosystem models with in-situ measurements” https://www.cmascenter.org/
SERDP project is named project of the year for 2016 (Tobias and Vlahos)
The 5 year study of tracking the fate and transport of munitions in marine coastal systems has been recognized with SERDP’s highest honor!
https://serdp-estcp.org/News-and-Events/Blog/Tracking-the-Uptake-Translocation-Cycling-and-Metabolism-of-Munitions-Compounds-in-Coastal-Marine-Ecosystems-Using-Stable-Isotopic-Tracer
Vlahos and Schensul Awarded NIH R21 Grant to study Environmental Factors related to Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown (CKDu) Etiology in Sri Lanka
This two year study will follow 300 patients with Stage 1 CKDu to evaluate correlations between disease progression, water quality in rice fields and well waters and other risk factors.
Vlahos Group gets Dominion Grant to Pioneer CO2 time series
We were just awarded a grant by the Dominion Foundation to initiate a pCO2 time series at Avery Point to trach changes in water CO2. The time series will bededicated to undergraduate education and will provide unprecedented pCO2 data for the region.