Bernie Clabeaux

• Phytoremediation, specifically involving the utilization of an aquatic algae to clean up contaminated soils and sediments
• Role of plants in environmental restoration

My name is Bernadette Clabeaux. I am a fourth year graduate student in the Biological Sciences Department, striving for my Doctorate in Plant Physiology. I received my Master’s Degree in April 2007 from UB, and my Bachelor’s Degree from Medaille College, both in Biological Sciences. I am an avid outdoors-woman from the Buffalo southtowns, and am very interested in biology, plant sciences, ecology, and environmental restoration. I love to hike and fish with my husband, and am a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. I typically spend one day every weekend on some nearby stream or lake, despite heavy rain or snow. My thesis topic is on the notion of phytoremediation, specifically involving the utilization of an aquatic algae to clean up contaminated soils and sediments. I am very interested in the role of plants in environmental restoration, and am happy to be a part of the ERIE IGERT program.

• BS in Biological Sciences (Medaille College, year)
• MS in Biological Sciences (University at Buffalo, 2007)

Clabeaux, B. and Bisson, M.A. (2008, September). Cadmium uptake in Charophytes: Role in phytoremediation. Poster session presented at the 5th International Symposium on Fossil and Extant Charophytes (Bisson), Rostock, Germany. Submitted to Proceedings Issue of Charophytes.

Clabeaux, B. (2009, March). Cd uptake and tolerance: Role of Charophytes in phytoremediation.  Paper presented at the Biological Sciences Symposium, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.

Clabeaux, B.and Bisson, M.A. (2009, April).  Cd uptake and tolerance: The role of Charophytes in phytoremediation. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Northeast Algal Symposium, Amherst, Massachusetts.