People
Jay P. Zarnetske, Principal Investigator
Bio: I am an Assistant Professor of Hydrological Sciences at Michigan State University in the Department of Geological Sciences. Previously, I was a Gaylord Donnelly Environmental Postdoctoral Fellow at the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. I received my PhD in Water Resource Science from Oregon State University. During my PhD I was an NSF IGERT - Ecosystem Informatics Fellow in the Department of Geosciences and the Water Resources Graduate Program. Prior to receiving my PhD, I received my MS in Watershed Science from Utah State University's College of Natural Resources, and my BA in Geology from Colby College. I have also served as a visiting scientist for New Zealand's National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research and a consulting groundwater hydrologist for CDM-Smith, Inc.
My passion for fresh water resource issues and my research of catchment hydroecology has enabled me to work with and assist scientists and decision makers around the world. My career has taken me from my roots in the Adirondack region of New York, to school, research, and jobs across the diverse lands of the varied regions of the United States, plus the Arctic, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
Aside from research, teaching, and service activities, I keep myself busy with gardening, cooking, zymurgy, photography, hiking, camping, and skiing...for that matter, just about any excuse to get outside is generally welcome!
Curriculum Vitae
My passion for fresh water resource issues and my research of catchment hydroecology has enabled me to work with and assist scientists and decision makers around the world. My career has taken me from my roots in the Adirondack region of New York, to school, research, and jobs across the diverse lands of the varied regions of the United States, plus the Arctic, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
Aside from research, teaching, and service activities, I keep myself busy with gardening, cooking, zymurgy, photography, hiking, camping, and skiing...for that matter, just about any excuse to get outside is generally welcome!
Curriculum Vitae
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Dr. Arial Shogren, PostDoc
Arial joined the lab as a post doc in the summer of 2018. Arial completed her PhD at the University of Notre Dame, where she worked on the fate and transport of novel materials, such as eDNA and environmental proteins, in flowing environments. During her PhD training, she gained an interest in environmental heterogeneity, hyporheic zones, and scaling issues in ecology. Moving up from reach-scale processes, she is now working on our Arctic Watershed Biogeochemistry projects
Joe Lee-Cullin, PhD Candidate
Joe joined the lab as a PhD student in August 2014. Joe finished his Geoscience M.S. thesis work at the University of Iowa. Through his M.S. thesis he developed and validated a conceptual model for predicting the transport and fate of contaminants using field solute tracer studies coupled with laboratory experiments. He also holds a B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Iowa. Joe is unravelling the complexities of watershed dissolved organic carbon in streams, specifically the fate of organic carbon at stream-groundwater interfaces.
Sinchan Roy Chowdhury, PhD Student
Sinchan joined the lab as a PhD student in August 2016. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the Bengal Engineering and Science University. He also completed his master’s degree in Water Resources Engineering and Management from the Indian Institute of Technology at Guwahati in Spring 2016. He is working on the Hyporheic Microzones project figuring out how to advance our ability to model complex microbially-mediated sediment pore water chemistry.
Tyler Hampton, MS Student
Tyler joined the lab as a MS student in June 2016. He comes to the group after finishing his BS in Hydrology from University of New Hampshire. He has work and research experience through junior scientist positions with the USGS and undergraduate research at Hubbard Brook LTER. He is working on the Hyporheic Microzone project figuring out the fate of Nitrate in stream and lake sediments through the use of novel tracer experiments.
Elizabeth Tripp, Undergraduate Researcher
Elizabeth joined the lab in 2017. Elizabeth is working on her BS in Environmental Geosciences at MSU.
Rachel Geiger, REU - Undergraduate Researcher
Rachel joined the lab in 2017 as a KBS LTER REU. Rachel is studying for her BS in Environmental Science at Western Washington University. She is interested in the interactions between water bodies and their surrounding environments, and specifically enjoys exploring how hydrology impacts aquatic ecosystems.
Chenxi Li - Undergraduate Researcher
Chenxi Li joined the lab in 2018 as an MSU MMG Environmental Microbiology student interested in microbial communities and their function in stream ecosystems, specifically focused on nitrogen cycling in stream sediments.
Kenai, Large Woody Debris and RElaxation specialist
Kenai spent over 14 years pursuing the wonders of aquatic environments through his special interest in large woody debris. In this time, he sampled over 100,000 forms of large woody debris from all over the United States. In his late career, he transitioned into retirement and spent most of his time practicing and demonstrating relaxation methods. He was a founding member of the lab.
Lab Alumni
Dr. Ben Abbott, PostDoc
Ben was a postdoc in our lab and is now faculty at Brigham Young University.
Ben is an ecosystem ecologist working on dissolved organic matter production and transport across the terrestrial-aquatic gradient. He joined the lab from Rennes France, where he was working as a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Rennes (OSUR). He did his Ph.D. at the University of Alaska Fairbanks on the effects of permafrost collapse on carbon and nitrogen cycling and got his B.S. in Watershed and Earth Systems Science from Utah State University.
When he's doing "big science", you're likely to find Ben biking, playing with his family, hiking, making music, blogging about the intersection of science, society, and religion, or . . . biking? Details at benabbott.org.
Ben is an ecosystem ecologist working on dissolved organic matter production and transport across the terrestrial-aquatic gradient. He joined the lab from Rennes France, where he was working as a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Rennes (OSUR). He did his Ph.D. at the University of Alaska Fairbanks on the effects of permafrost collapse on carbon and nitrogen cycling and got his B.S. in Watershed and Earth Systems Science from Utah State University.
When he's doing "big science", you're likely to find Ben biking, playing with his family, hiking, making music, blogging about the intersection of science, society, and religion, or . . . biking? Details at benabbott.org.
Sydney Ruhala, MS Student
Sydney joined the lab as a MS student in June 2014. Sydney grew up enjoying the many lakes and rivers of Michigan. She is interested in the geochemical pathways that emerge in groundwater-surface water environments and how these environments may alter downstream water quality conditions. She graduated from Lymann Briggs College at Michigan State University with a B.S. in Environmental Geosciences, and then an M.S. in Geosciences from our lab and department in 2017.
Stephen Plont, Undergraduate Researcher
Stephen joined the lab in 2015. He is a senior at MSU, studying for majors in Environmental Geosciences and Chemistry. In his time at MSU, he has grown to appreciate the beauty in streams and lakes, and the services they provide in ecosystems. He is interested in the geochemical signatures of land use at the groundwater-surface water interface and how land use dynamics may affect the quality of freshwater resources as well as environmental health. Stephen conducted hyporheic studies using in situ mesocosms. Stephen also lead a full summer field campaign at the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest LTER as part of the Leverhulme Project. Stephen joined the group in Spring 2015. He is now a graduate student at Virginia Tech.
Evan Wiewiora, Undergraduate Researcher
Evan joined the lab in 2015. He was in the Environmental Geosciences program. He worked on how landscape patterns and processes control dissolved organic matter abundance in stream sediments across mid-Michigan. Evan also helped with the completion of the "Sparty Wells" Groundwater-Surface Water Demonstration Site on Campus. Evan joined the lab as a sophomore in June 2015. Evan graduated with a B.S. in Evnrionmental Geosciences in 2017 and now works for Cascade Drilling.
Abraham Downer, Undergraduate Researcher
Abraham joined the lab in 2014. He graduated and is now a Teaching Assistant in the Geography Department at MSU. He is a native of Northern Michigan. His interests include the occurrence, fate and transport of freshwater and contaminants in the Great Lakes region as well as disturbances to those systems. He worked on developing new hyporheic water sampling techniques to explore geochemical patterns in our local mid-Michigan sand-bedded streams, and collecting GIS data for Augusta Creek, MI. He is now working toward his MS in Physical Geography at MSU.
Christian Poelstra, Undergraduate Researcher
Christian joined the lab in November 2015 for 6 months as part of his Honors College training. Christian is a junior at MSU and is studying Environmental Geosciences. Growing up on a lake, he has always had a connection to the outdoors. He joins our group to explore his growing interests in geothermal pathways and wetland ecosystems. He is assisting with multiple projects and tasks in the lab. Christian strives continue his education to graduate school.
Facilities
Student and Computing Lab Space
Wet lab space
Established January 2015! It will never look so fresh, clean, or empty ever again!
Established January 2015! It will never look so fresh, clean, or empty ever again!
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