Above Photo by Dan Meyers on Unsplash
Spring 2024 News
- Nia Bartolucci, Alex Geisser, and Cat Mahoney presented their work at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in New Orleans, LA.
- Wally Fulweiler gave a plenary at the Ocean Sciences Meeting.
Fall 2023 News
- We welcomed a Postdoctoral fellow and three new Ph.D. students to the lab this fall: Dr. Lena Champlin, Sawyer Balint, Catherine Mahoney, and Emily Wilson - Welcome!
- Lena Champlin, Nia Bartolucci, and Sawyer Balint presented research at the 27th Biennial Coastal Estuarine Research Federation in Portland, Oregon.
- Alex Geisser successfully completed her Ph.D. qualifying exams and advanced to Ph.D. candidacy! Way to go Alex.
Spring 2023 News
- Congratulations to:
- Dr. Claudia Mazur who was officially hooded and graduated this May!
- and who published her second chapter in Limnology and Oceanography Letters - find it here.
- Nia Bartolucci has been raking in the wins this spring! She was awarded:
- The Ketchum Prize for best Graduate Student Talk at the NEERS Spring Meeting.
- A PEO Scholarship
- BU Warren McLeod Fellowship.
- Alum Dr. Mollie Yacano who defended her Ph.D at UNC this spring and is now the Research Coordinator for the Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve and Coastal Management Program.
- Alum Dr. Gabby Hillyer who successfully funded her Ph.D. this spring from UMaine!
- Alum Dr. Hollie Emery who started a new position at the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management where she is the Offshore Project Review Specialist (Offshore Wind, Offshore Sand, Telecommunications Cables, Benthic Habitat Monitoring)
- Dr. Claudia Mazur who was officially hooded and graduated this May!
- We are welcoming three new Ph.D. students to the lab this fall: Sawyer Balint, Catherine Mahoney, and Emily Wilson - Welcome!
- Wally is excited to be giving a plenary at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in February 2024!
Fall 2022 News
- Congratulations to:
- Dr. Amanda Vieillard who has started her AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship!
- Dr. Kristin Yoshimura who started as an Assistant Professor at James Madison University this fall!
- Dr. Sarah Foster who started as an Assistant Professor at Babson College this fall!
- Dr. Emily Chua who started as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Boston College this fall!
- Claudia Mazur who was awarded a Knauss Fellowship! And who set her defense date!!
- In September Wally:
- Gave a talk on the state of Narragansett Bay for RI Sea Grant Coastal State Discussion Series.
- Gave a talk with Dr. Sarah Davies on supporting mothers during covid and beyond for the Women's NeuroNetwork.
Spring/Summer 2022 News
- Welcome to Lydia Jefferson. Lydia will be starting as a Ph.D. student this summer.
- Congratulations to Tyler Chidsey and Ryan Shipley - both successfully defended their Honors thesis and graduated!
- Dr. Alia Al-Haj officially graduated!
- Alia Al-Haj successfully defended her Ph.D in January and is now a Postdoctoral Associate at SERC - working on the Salt Marsh Accretion Response to Temperature Experiment. Great job Dr. Al-Haj!! We can't wait to see what you do next.
- Emily Chua has set her defense date - June 14th! We're very excited Emily!
- Lab Alum Dr. Tim Maguire starts in April as the Head of the Environmental Biogeochemistry Section in the Patrick Center at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Yay Tim!!
- In July Wally gave a talk on for the 2022 SOST Opportunities and Actions Roundtable on Expanding Climate Change Research: Making Coastal Science Accessible to Everyone.
- In April, Wally gave a talk at Duke University (virtually) and at the 19th annual Microbial Science Symposium at Harvard University on Marine Sediment Nitrogen Fixation.
Spring 2021 News
- Welcome to Alex Geisser! Alex will be a Ph.D. student in Biology.
- Wally was promoted to Full Professor!
- Claudia was Awarded a Mt. Holyoke Alumni Fellowship - Congratulations!
Spring/Summer 2020 News
- Nick defended his Ph.D. Dr. Ray is now at Stockholm University as a postdoctoral associate. He's headed to the Arctic this fall to measure nitrous oxide fluxes!
- Nick, Alia, and Wally publish a new paper in MEPS on the impact of oyster farm age on nitrogen cycling. This work was funded by Rhode Island Sea Grant. www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v646/p13-27/
- Alia published her first, first author paper in Global Change Biology on Methane cycling in vegetated coastal ecosystems.
- This spring we had so many successful senior thesis or BA/MA thesis defenses! Congratulations to:
- Elizondo, Elani (2020): The Role of Mangroves in Tropical Estuarine Silica Cycling.
- McCarthy, Gretchen (2020): Oyster Controls on Sediment Nutrient Recycling and Water Column Phytoplankton Composition.
- Momyer, Victoria (2020): Methane Concentrations and Microbial Community Structure in Boston Groundwater Wells. (BA/MA)
- Pham, Tony (2020): Black Carbon as a Nitrogen Transporter to Marine Systems. (BA/MA)
- Wally co-authored a paper in Nature on Rebuilding Marine Life. It's been widely read and reported on in the media.
- Lab Alum Dr. Sarah Foster recently accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at Babson College.
- Claudia Mazur was awarded a summer Warren McLeod Fellowship from the BU Marine Program.
- Gretchen McCarthy recieved the Lara Vincent Award for excellence in research during the BUMP Marine Semester.
- Victoria Momyer received the BMB Outstanding Achievement in Research and Scholarship Award. The BMB Program gives out this award at graduation to a few seniors to honor their work in research as well as their academic achievements.
Summer 2019 News
- Sarah Foster Defends her Ph.D.! Way to go Sarah!
- Nick Ray is lead author on two oyster focused publications - which include other lab member co-authors including Alia Al-Haj and now graduated Dr. Tim Maguire and Maria Henning. Check out the MEPS paper and the ES&T.
- Wally Fulweiler receives the BU Metcalf Cup and Prize - Boston University’s highest teaching and mentor prize.
Spring 2019 News
- Nia Bartolucci was awarded the prestigious Clare Boothe Luce Fellowship from BU. Congratulations Nia!
- Tony Pham was awarded a UROP Supplies Award for Summer 2019, Congratulations Tony!
- The Fulweiler Lab is headed to NEERS! Undergradaute students Ellen Laaker, Julia Masterman, & Gretchen McCarthy as well as Ph.D. students Alia Al-Haj, Claudia Mazur, and Nick Ray will be presenting their research! Tony Pham and Nia Bartolucci will be attending too to soak up the local science!
- Nia Bartolucci is joining our lab as a Ph.D. student! She's getting started early (this March) and is headed to the Unisense workshop in Denmark.
- Emily Chua was awarded the year long Warren Mcleod fellowship and Claudia Mazur the summer fellowship!
- Sarah Foster has a new paper in press in JGR: Biogeoscienes. And it was covered in a Research Spotlight in EOS!
- Julia Mastermann presented a poster at MIT Water Night on Canadian Geese the Water quality of the Charles River.
Spring/Summer 2018 News
- Our new laboratory technician, Brendan Kelly, joined us from LUMCON. Welcome Brendan!
- Wally Fulweiler was an invited speaker at EUTRO2018 in Nyborg, Denmark.
- Claudia Mazur received research support from Sigma Xi. Way to go Claudia!
- Carly Langan and Gretchen McCarthy both received UROP funding for research this summer. Carly is studying microplastic distributions in the Charles River and Gretchen is studying greenhouse gas emissions in oysters.
- Jenn Soukup and Emma Chamberlain rocked their honor's thesis defenses and graduation! This summer Jenn is working for the National Rachel Carson Wildlife Refuge before starting her MS at the University of Rhode Island. Emma is taking time off this summer and then starting her Ph.D. at Scripps.
Spring/Summer/Fall 2017 News
- Spencer Showalter and Mollie Yacano graduated and are now in graduate school at the University of Washington and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, respectively.
- Jenn Soukup was awarded a summer UROP to work on Si cycling in invasive vs. native salt marsh plants.
- Tim Maguire - now Dr. Maguire (defended in July) published two papers and is now a postdoc at the Great Lakes Institute of Environmental Research.
- Alia Al-Haj moved from our research technician to Ph.D. student in the lab and was awarded the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellowship.
- Claudia Mazur joined our lab as a new Ph.D. student this summer.
- Emily Chua was awarded the student travel award to attend and present her research at the Harsh Environment Mass Spectrometry Workshop in Oxnard, California.
- Alia Al-Haj was the awarded the Nickerson Fellowship to study gaseous C emissions from seagrass beds.
- Seth Berger joined our lab as a new research technician this fall.
- Wally co-chaired the 24th Biennial Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation conference in Providence, RI.
- Emily Chua, Hollie Emery, Sarah Foster, Tim Maguire, Nick Ray, and Mollie Yacano presented their research at the CERF conference.
- Our lab hosted Unisense for their workshop before CERF.
- Hollie Emery's second paper is now in press in Ecological Applications - look for it soon.
- Want more details? Check out our lab newsletter.
Fall 2016 News
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Spring/Summer 2016 News
- Congratulations to Nick Ray for receiving a Fluid Imaging Technologies Aquatic Research Student Grant. This will help Nick study the impacts of oysters on estuarine ecology and biogeochemistry.
- Isabel Sanchez-Viruet joined the lab as a new research technician.
- Emily Chua was awarded a National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Scholarship.
- Maria Henning and Halina Malinowksi successfully defended and completed their senior theses!
Winter 2016 News
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Field work in Ninigret Pond. Photo by Sarabeth Buckley
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Fall 2015 News
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Lots of good news to report:
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Summer 2015 News
So much news to report! We're going to use bullets:
- Hollie Emery was awarded an NSF DDIG award!
- Sarabeth Buckley was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
- Sarabeth Buckley one the Department of Earth and Environment Teaching Fellow Award.
- Tim Maguire was awarded a Warren McLeod Fellowship through the BU Biology Department!
- Sarah Foster won the Ketchum Prize for the best Graduate Student talk at the NEERS Spring meeting!
- Sarah Foster won the Boston University Women's Guild Scholarship!
- Sarah Foster was awarded a research grant from the Geological Society of America!
- Tim Maguire and Sarah Foster were awarded research grants from the BU Biogeosciences Program!
- Rob Lauto received a BU UROP award for his summer research!
- Wally Fulweiler was awarded a Bullard Fellowship for Sabbatical next year!
- Wally Fulweiler was re-elected to serve as a Member-at-Large for ASLO!
- We also welcome two new Ph.D. students into the lab: Emily Chua and Nick Ray.
- Emily Chua won a Fulbright from Canada to come work with us.
Spring 2015 News
We published several new papers at the end of 2014. Be sure to check out:
Foster and Fulweiler's paper on Nitrogen Cycling in Waquoit Bay - here we examine long-term changes in benthic nutrient cycling. We found similar changes over the last three decades as has been observed in nearby Narragansett Bay.
We took to the woods to examine the potential impacts of elevated CO2 on the Terrestrial Silica Pump in a recent Frontiers paper. Here we discuss how changes on land could have important and thus far unexplored impacts to Si availability in downstream receiving waters.
Holly Emery and Tim Maguire presented their research at the BU Biogeosciences Research Symposium. The event was a first for the program and a great success overall.
We welcome a new postdoctoral associate to the lab, Dr. Priya Chowdhury. Priya has been busy processing samples and applying for funding!
Foster and Fulweiler's paper on Nitrogen Cycling in Waquoit Bay - here we examine long-term changes in benthic nutrient cycling. We found similar changes over the last three decades as has been observed in nearby Narragansett Bay.
We took to the woods to examine the potential impacts of elevated CO2 on the Terrestrial Silica Pump in a recent Frontiers paper. Here we discuss how changes on land could have important and thus far unexplored impacts to Si availability in downstream receiving waters.
Holly Emery and Tim Maguire presented their research at the BU Biogeosciences Research Symposium. The event was a first for the program and a great success overall.
We welcome a new postdoctoral associate to the lab, Dr. Priya Chowdhury. Priya has been busy processing samples and applying for funding!
Fall 2014 News
Hollie Emery's exciting research on salt marshes was featured in BU Today.
We are looking for a new Ph.D. student. Check out the description here. And contact Wally Fulweiler if you are interested.
We are looking for a new Ph.D. student. Check out the description here. And contact Wally Fulweiler if you are interested.
Spring/Summer 2014 News
Lots happened this spring!
1. Elise Heiss successfully defended her Ph.D.
2. Dr. Silvia Newell got a tenure track Assistant Professor position at Wright State University.
3. Sarah Foster was awarded the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship.
4. Wally Fulweiler was awarded tenure and is now officially an Associate Professor!
1. Elise Heiss successfully defended her Ph.D.
2. Dr. Silvia Newell got a tenure track Assistant Professor position at Wright State University.
3. Sarah Foster was awarded the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship.
4. Wally Fulweiler was awarded tenure and is now officially an Associate Professor!
Fall 2013 News
BU marine science majors did a great job creating messages about our N footprint (see left as an example). Click here for more information on reducing our N footprints.
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The Fulweiler Lab welcomed a bunch of new lab volunteers. Check out our people page to see who!
Kristin Yoshimura, a BU marine science major, presented a portion of her senior thesis research at the UROP symposium. Kristin's research is using a coupled biogeochemical-approach to estimating greenhouse gas emissions from fiddler crabs.
Wally Fulweiler, Sarah Foster, and Silvia Newell attend the Coastal Estuarine Research Federation Conference -Toward resilient Coasts and estuaries, Science for Sustainable Solutions, in San Diego, California. All three gave talks and Wally co-chaired a special session entitled: Synthesis Research in Estuarine and Coastal Science: A Session in Honor of Scott W. Nixon.
Wally was also awarded the Cronin Award for "the significant accomplishments of an estuarine scientist who is in the early stages of his/her career development."
Kristin Yoshimura, a BU marine science major, presented a portion of her senior thesis research at the UROP symposium. Kristin's research is using a coupled biogeochemical-approach to estimating greenhouse gas emissions from fiddler crabs.
Wally Fulweiler, Sarah Foster, and Silvia Newell attend the Coastal Estuarine Research Federation Conference -Toward resilient Coasts and estuaries, Science for Sustainable Solutions, in San Diego, California. All three gave talks and Wally co-chaired a special session entitled: Synthesis Research in Estuarine and Coastal Science: A Session in Honor of Scott W. Nixon.
Wally was also awarded the Cronin Award for "the significant accomplishments of an estuarine scientist who is in the early stages of his/her career development."
Summer 2013 News
Hollie Emery has been awarded the NPS George M. Wright Climate Change Fellowship!
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Hollie was awarded the Nickerson Fellowship! She will be working on climate change impacts on New England salt marshes - way to go Hollie!!!
Sarah Foster is currently in Hawaii participating in the CMORE class. Check out her blog.
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Hollie was awarded the Nickerson Fellowship! She will be working on climate change impacts on New England salt marshes - way to go Hollie!!!
Sarah Foster is currently in Hawaii participating in the CMORE class. Check out her blog.
Spring 2013
Sarah Donovan taking in the view of Grenada, Nicaragua.
Lots of news to report!
Sarabeth Buckley will be joining the Fulweiler lab for her Ph.D. starting this fall.
Joanna Carey is officially a Ph.D.! Dr. Carey is now an ORISE Fellow at EPA in RI.
Lindsey Fields defends her Ph.D. on May 1st and then is headed to University of Georgia for postdoctoral work with Dr. Mandy Joye.
Mary Kate Rogener is headed to the University of Georgia for her Ph.D. She'll be working with Dr. Mandy Joye. And she just received a Scholar of Excellence Fellowship for her first year.
Amanda Vieillard defends her MS on May 3rd. Then she is headed to the University of Connecticut - Avery Point for her Ph.D. and she will be working with Dr. Craig Tobias.
Kristin Yoshimura was awarded a UROP to work on methane cycling in salt marshes this summer.
Sarabeth Buckley will be joining the Fulweiler lab for her Ph.D. starting this fall.
Joanna Carey is officially a Ph.D.! Dr. Carey is now an ORISE Fellow at EPA in RI.
Lindsey Fields defends her Ph.D. on May 1st and then is headed to University of Georgia for postdoctoral work with Dr. Mandy Joye.
Mary Kate Rogener is headed to the University of Georgia for her Ph.D. She'll be working with Dr. Mandy Joye. And she just received a Scholar of Excellence Fellowship for her first year.
Amanda Vieillard defends her MS on May 3rd. Then she is headed to the University of Connecticut - Avery Point for her Ph.D. and she will be working with Dr. Craig Tobias.
Kristin Yoshimura was awarded a UROP to work on methane cycling in salt marshes this summer.
Fall 2012Hollie Emery finished collecting and analyzing all of her samples for her Masters.
The Fulweiler Lab attended the New England Estuarine Research Society Fall meeting in Block Island. Everyone did a great job! Jo Carey won the Ketchum Prize for best graduate student talk and Mary Kate Rogener won the Rankin Prize for best undergraduate talk. Way to go! |
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Happiest photo of the summer!
Boats and Biogeochemistry - the best combination.
Summer 2012
Amanda Vieillard's paper was just accepted to Marine Ecological Progress Series called, "Impacts of long-term fertilization on salt marsh tidal creek benthic nutrient and N2 gas fluxes."
Jo Carey just got another manuscript accepted in Biogeochemistry. This paper is entitled, "Watershed Land Use Alters Riverine Silica Cycling" - look for it soon!
Elise Heiss's undergraduate research was just published in Marine Chemistry. The paper is called: "The effects of dissolved organic matter on alkyl nitrate production during GOMECC and laboratory studies," and is co-authored by
Elizabeth Dahl and Kevin Murawski from Loyola College.
Jo Carey and Amanda Vieillard will both be presenting at the CERF fall meeting in Mar Del Plata, Argentina.
Sarah Foster successfully defended her MS thesis on June 28, 2012 - Go Sarah! And....she was accepted to the Ph.D. program here at BU. Way to go Sarah!
Jo Carey submitted her third manuscript...she's on fire!
Elise Heiss has first manuscript accepted in the journal of Continental Shelf Research! Congratulations Elise.
Wally Fulweiler was elected to the board of ASLO as Member-at-Large!
Mary Kate Rogener was awarded a UROP for the summer and also won the Lara Vincent Award for excellence in research during the BUMP Marine Semester.
Ashley Banks was awarded the Ada Draper Award.
Jo Carey just got another manuscript accepted in Biogeochemistry. This paper is entitled, "Watershed Land Use Alters Riverine Silica Cycling" - look for it soon!
Elise Heiss's undergraduate research was just published in Marine Chemistry. The paper is called: "The effects of dissolved organic matter on alkyl nitrate production during GOMECC and laboratory studies," and is co-authored by
Elizabeth Dahl and Kevin Murawski from Loyola College.
Jo Carey and Amanda Vieillard will both be presenting at the CERF fall meeting in Mar Del Plata, Argentina.
Sarah Foster successfully defended her MS thesis on June 28, 2012 - Go Sarah! And....she was accepted to the Ph.D. program here at BU. Way to go Sarah!
Jo Carey submitted her third manuscript...she's on fire!
Elise Heiss has first manuscript accepted in the journal of Continental Shelf Research! Congratulations Elise.
Wally Fulweiler was elected to the board of ASLO as Member-at-Large!
Mary Kate Rogener was awarded a UROP for the summer and also won the Lara Vincent Award for excellence in research during the BUMP Marine Semester.
Ashley Banks was awarded the Ada Draper Award.
Winter/Spring 2012
Jo Carey has submitted her second manuscript!
Wally Fulweiler was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship for 2012-2014. This is the first year the Sloan Fellowship has given awards in the field of Ocean Sciences.
Wally Fulweiler was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship for 2012-2014. This is the first year the Sloan Fellowship has given awards in the field of Ocean Sciences.
Fall 2011
Jo Carey just had her first manuscript accepted in Biogeochemistry and Amanda Vieillard had her her first paper accepted in Estuarine, Coastal Shelf Science. Congratulations Jo and Amanda!
Ken Czapla is joining the lab as the new Research Associate.
The whole Fulweiler lab ventured to the Coastal Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) Meeting in Daytona Beach last week. Hollie Emery presented a clear, organized, and really intriguing poster and Jo Carey, Elise Heiss, Sarah Foster, and Amanda Vieillard gave fantastic talks.
Elise Heiss presented a poster on her offshore denitrification work at the 2011 Graduate Climate Conference in Woods Hole, MA.
Ken Czapla is joining the lab as the new Research Associate.
The whole Fulweiler lab ventured to the Coastal Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) Meeting in Daytona Beach last week. Hollie Emery presented a clear, organized, and really intriguing poster and Jo Carey, Elise Heiss, Sarah Foster, and Amanda Vieillard gave fantastic talks.
Elise Heiss presented a poster on her offshore denitrification work at the 2011 Graduate Climate Conference in Woods Hole, MA.
Summer 2011
Elise Heiss successfully passed her Ph.D. written and oral comprehensive exams!
Spring 2011
Julia Luthringer is headed to Louisiana this summer for an REU at LUMCON...and she was just awarded an Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship from NOAA. Go Julia!
Joanna Carey has successfully passed her PhD written and oral comprehensive exams. She also just gave a fantastic talk at her first international meeting, IBiS: Isotopes in Biogenic Silica, in Antwerp, Belgium.
Joanna Carey has successfully passed her PhD written and oral comprehensive exams. She also just gave a fantastic talk at her first international meeting, IBiS: Isotopes in Biogenic Silica, in Antwerp, Belgium.
Elise Heiss is awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
Elise will be measuring water column nitrification off the coast of southern Rhode Island. In addition to field observations she will also be experimentally testing the impact of ocean acidification on nitrification rates. Stay tuned for a new link on this website where you can follow her work. Congratulations Elise!!
Fall NEERS meeting - October 28 - 30, 2010
Amanda in the field at Plum Island LTER
A large group of the Fulweiler Lab traveled to Provincetown, MA to attend the Fall New England Estuarine Research Society (NEERS) meeting! Jo Carey, Elise Heiss, and Amanda Vieillard all gave talks. Amanda won the Rankin Prize for best undergraduate student talk!
EPA STAR!
May 26, 2010 - Jo Carey receives the EPA Star Fellowship! Go Jo!