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<\/a>\nA photo of the EMLS participants in Evian, overlooking Lake Geneva.<\/p>\n
Back in Blacksburg, Elle Humes, our Daphnia nanny undergraduate, finished her year-long experiments and presented her findings. \u00a0We will miss her enthusiasm and passion for the zooplankton this summer!<\/p>\n We have also received lots of good news: Jon recently received the Krieg Award for Teaching and Research Excellence from the VT Biology department and the Virginia Water Resources Research Center’s Student Research Grant to support his study of zooplankton dynamics in managed reservoirs, and Cayelan received the 2014 Outstanding Research Award from the VT Biology department.<\/p>\n Finally, Cayelan’s paper with Justin Brookes for the United Nations Chronicle has been published online. \u00a0See the article on the Publications page of the website and the press release here<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is lots of action, adventure, and excitement in the Carey Lab- classes are over, we are in the field most days every week, and we are learning a lot\u00a0about the ecology\u00a0and biogeochemistry of our study reservoirs. Cayelan is back in\u00a0Blacksburg after being on the road for much of April and May: she gave seminars at Miami University of Ohio, University of Quebec in Montreal, and INRA (the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique) in Thonon-les-bains, France, and was an…<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nPick a yacht, any yacht: sampling Lac Leman\/Lake Geneva<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nVisiting the Institute of Forel at the University of Geneva, CH: the birthplace of limnology!<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nAfter the training school, Bas Ibelings, the lead of the EMLS, and Cayelan hiked up in Chamonix to see the glaciers: Mont Blanc (la Mer de Glace) is in the background.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nElle with her Aquashade experimental zooplankton!<\/p>\n