A blog highlighting undergraduate research in the LeRoy Lab at Evergreen
Check out our latest paper “Plant sex influences aquatic-terrestrial interactions” featuring undergraduate co-authors!!
Learn more about the awesome collaborative work NSF funded student-faculty scientists are working on how sex of dioecious Sitka willows influences aquatic-terrestrial interactions in early successional headwater streams of Mount St. Helens.
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecs2.2994
Congratulations to one of our L3 labbers Iris Garthwaite on all her hard work during Fall Quarter! So exciting to see her research put into a phenomenal presentation, she absolutely rocked it.
Stay tuned for more of her amazing work she’s been doing Winter Quarter!
This is Iris and she studies imperfect flowers. And we love it!!
Emily Wolfe (Evergreen grad ’16) just published research that she started in the Evergreen program “Environmental Analysis, 2014-15” in the journal Oikos. The research shows that a fungal endophyte, Rhytisma punctatum, which infects bigleaf maple leaves as big black “tarspots” can influence the rate at which the leaf decomposes and can alter the in-stream microbial (bacterial and fungal) communities. Emily learned leaf litter methodology and then went on to do amplicon sequencing of the microbial community growing on the leaves. She is now enrolled as a PhD candidate at Portland State University and is doing her dissertation on endophytes more broadly. She credits her time in EA and as a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow (SURF) while at Evergreen with giving her the tools to succeed in graduate school.
You can find the paper at the publisher’s website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/oik.05619
You can request a .pdf of the paper by writing to leroyc [at] evergreen [dot] edu.
This is our new blog site for highlighting undergraduate research experiences at Evergreen! Many of the students posting here have been involved in a large-scale research project at Mount St. Helens funded by the National Science Foundation (DEB #1836387). https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1836387
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