Carey Lab

Alex and Cayelan became local celebrities this week, as our recent work on the drinking water of Roanoke was highlighted on the front page of the Virginia Tech website.  For the past year, we have been studying how hypolimnetic oxygenation can control algal blooms and internal nutrient loading in Falling Creek Reservoir, a drinking water source for Roanoke.  All of this research was conducted in partnership with the Western Virginia Water Authority (WVWA).   Left: Rick & Alex collected *lots*…

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See a new paper by Cayelan and colleagues in the GLEON microbes working group on the under-ice microbiome in lakes, just out in the most recent issue of Limnology & Oceanography.

Cayelan and Jon have just returned back to Blacksburg after a week at the GLEON 15 conference in Bahia Blanca, Argentina.  Cayelan gave talks on her recent work at Falling Creek Reservoir and Lake Sunapee, and Jon presented a poster on lake vs. reservoir ecosystem comparisons. La Salada, Argentina  (photo: Jon Doubek)  

On Saturday, 28 September, the Carey and Brown labs co-hosted an open house event at the Blacksburg Nature Center on “What’s in your neighborhood pond or stream?”  We had a great turnout, and had a lot of fun showing off some local zooplankton and crayfish we collected on campus, as well as demonstrating our limnological prowess with an Ekman grab. Photos: Eric Sokol

The Carey Lab in the Department of Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech has funding for 1 graduate student to start in late Summer/early Fall 2014.  I am looking for an enthusiastic and highly self-motivated student at either the M.S. or Ph.D. level interested in working in freshwater lakes and reservoirs.  Potential areas of research include: 1) the effects of cyanobacterial blooms on food webs and nutrient cycling; 2) nutrient cycling at the lake sediment-water column interface; and 3) phytoplankton community…

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We are excited to launch a new lab website at Virginia Tech- many updates to come!

Carey Lab grad students Rick Browne and Alex Gerling are now famous after spending an afternoon with the local NBC station (WSLS) film crew.  See the video clip of them sampling here. WSLS highlighted our collaboration with the Western Virginia Water Authority to improve water quality at one of its reservoirs, where unwanted algae has become a problem.