Meet the Stream Team!
- By Erin Seybold
- July 08, 2010
Even though we’ve only been here for a few days, our projects are already underway. The Stream Team (Erin, Kate, and Travis) is continuing work from last summer’s progress towards understanding nutrient and carbon processing in small streams in the area. Last year, we focused on trying to understand what nutrients (nitrogen or phosphorous) were most important for the bacterial community in the stream. We were also interested in studying whether there are differences in nutrient limitation between 2 different types of streams – yedoma streams underlain by Pleistocene deposits, and floodplain streams underlain by younger Holocene soils.
The Stream Team
This year, we will continue to study nutrient demand in streams, but also try to assess how carbon transformations in these streams may be constrained or limited by nutrient availability. Travis will be studying how carbon and nutrients change over the length of the stream. Erin will be studying the metabolism of carbon in a series of lab experiments that manipulate the carbon and nutrient concentration to try to understand whether these cycles are connected. Kate will be studying the possible carbon inputs into streams, and attempting to understand what sources are most labile in the stream environment. As a group, we will also be performing whole system experiments that will tie our projects together. We hope that our projects provide a broad understanding of how carbon is transformed and transported in stream ecosystems.
We are excited for our first field day tomorrow! We will be sampling a stream at an experimental site in the area and testing out our methods. We can’t wait to get started! Erin, Kate, and Travis
July 10, 2010 at 8:10 am, Sybil Fillman said:
Hi, Travis, I enjoy reading your blogs and finding out what you are doing. I appreciate the enthusiasm you all have for your various projects. LOve, GRANDMA
July 11, 2010 at 8:04 am, Max Janicek said:
Hey stream team, I think we all need an informative dangle-potty update.
July 16, 2010 at 1:00 pm, Jessie said:
Kate,
Everything you’re doing looks incredible! Glad to see the updates.
xoxo
Jessie