ERIE Program News

Congratulations to ERIE IGERT trainee Susan Mackintosh who sucessfully defended her dissertation and graduated with her Ph.D. in Chemistry. Her dissertation was entitled "Answering Burning Questions: Analysis and Quantification of Halogenated Flame Retardants and their Metabolites in Environmental and Biological Matrices." Dr. Mackintosh will now be moving on to a Post-Doc in the School of Public Heath at San Diego State University. (May 2013)

The UB Office of the Vice President for Research & Economic Development recently published an article featuring the ERIE REU Program. We are happy to announce that this program has received grant renewal from the National Science Foundation. Read the article here http://www.research.buffalo.edu/ovpr/news/story.cfm?id=569060219748 (March 2013)

Several people involved in the ERIE IGERT Program, including trainees Sarah Whiteway and Douglas Lambert, recently published a paper in the Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) entitled "An assessment of U.S. stream compensatory mitigation policy: Necessary changes to protect ecosystem functions and services."  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jawr.12034/full (March 2013)

ERIE trainee David T.R. Stewart recently published a paper with numerous co-authors in the journal Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry entitled "Quantum dots exhibit less bioaccumulation than free cadmium and selenium in the earthwork Eisenia andrei." (March 2013)

Shannon Seneca and ERIE PI Alan Rabideau recently published a paper entitled "Natural zeolite permeable treatment wall for removing Sr-90 from groundwater" in Environmental Science & Technology. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es304008r?mi=uli2s0&af=R&pageSize=20&searchText=zn(February 2013)

The application period for the 2013 REU summer program is now closed.

2012 ERIE REU participant J. Oliver Haugland gave a presentation entitled "Mapping stream subsurface heterogeneity using ground penetrating radar in glacially dominated streams" at the 2012 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting co-authored by ERIE IGERT trainee Jonathan Malzone and Dr. Chris Lowry. (November 2012)

ERIE IGERT trainee Jonathan Malzone gave a presentation entitled "Physiochemically distinguishing hydrological exchange between streams and stratified glacial drift with multiple groundwater sources" at the 2012 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting co-authored by Dr. Chris Lowry. (November 2012)

ERIE IGERT Trainee Jonathan Malzone and his advisor Dr. Chris Lowry gave a presentation entitled "Complex base flow in stratified glacial drift aquifers: ecological implications" at the 39th International Association for Hydrogeologists Congress in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada (September 2012).

Congratulations to ERIE IGERT Trainee Susan Mackintosh! Ms. Mackintosh received the Otto Hutzinger Student Award for her presentation at the 2012 Dioxin Conference. This award recognizes outstanding student presentations and acknowledges their scientific contribution to the field of halogenated persistent organic pollutants. (September 2012)

Welcome to the 2012 ERIE IGERT Trainees: Jonathan Pleban (Geography), Beynan Ransom (Civil, Structural, & Environmental Engineering), Luke Scannell (Civil, Structural, & Environmental Engineering), and Joshua Wallace (Chemistry). Information about the new Trainees is forthcoming on our ERIE People webpage. Congratulations and best of luck! (August 2012)

ERIE IGERT Trainee Susan Mackintosh gave a presentation entitled "Levels and bioaccumulation of halogenated flame retardants in the Lake Erie aquatic food web" with multiple co-authors at the Dioxin 2012 Symposium in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. (September 2012)

ERIE IGERT Trainee David Spiering recently presented a poster entitled "Effectiveness of alternative herbicides for control of Japanese knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum)" at the First Terrestrial Invasive Plant Species Conference in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada (August 2012)

ERIE IGERT trainees Stacey Blersch and David Spiering worked with Groundwork Buffalo's Green Team on a restoration project at Tifft Nature Preserve. You can read more about this project and partnership in this press release (August 2012)

Congratulations to ERIE IGERT trainee David T.R. Stewart for receiving the Best Ph.D. Student Platform Presentation Award at the Laurentian Chapter of the Society of Environmental Toxicologists and Chemists (SETAC) Annual Meeting. His presentation was entitled "Bioaccumulation of Cadmium and Selenium from Quantum Dots by Eisenia andrei" and co-authored by Noguera, K.O., Lee, V., Banerjee, S., and Aga, D.S. (June 2012)

ERIE IGERT co-PI, Dr. Sean Bennett, is co-editor of a new American Geophysical Union monograph entitled Stream Restoration in Dynamic Fluvial Systems: Scientific Approaches, Analyses and Tools. Read the UB Green press release and interview here. (May 2012)

ERIE IGERT trainees Valerie Goodness, Douglas Lambert, and Sarah Whiteway are presenting their research entitled "Interdisciplinary evaluation of a wetland enhancement project for the Tuscarora Nation" at the 2012 NSF IGERT Trainee Video & Poster Competition via IGERT.org (visit http://posterhall.org/igert2012/). Voting is open to the public until May 25th at noon. Cast your "Public Choice" vote for their poster here: http://posterhall.org/igert2012/posters/304  (May 2012)

Congratulations to Shannon Seneca for successfully defending her dissertation entitled “Evaluation of a Natural Zeolite PermeableTreatment Wall in the Removal of Strontium-90 from Groundwater: Installation to Long-term Performance.” Shannon is the second ERIE IGERT trainee to graduate and the first female Native American to earn a Ph.D. from UB's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Read her UB Reporter article here. Good luck on your future endeavors, Shannon! (May 2012)