Diatoms of North America
I am an aspiring biologist currently working on my PhD at CU Boulder. I am in charge of updating the Antarctic Freshwater Diatoms website. I am also working on diatom community responses to wildfire. I conducted a paleolimnological study of Texas reservoirs investigating the factors driving the occurrence of harmful algal blooms for my Masters. My favorite genus these days is Neidium. In my "spare time", I've been working on sorting out the wealth of Neidium taxa present in the Colorado front range.
I have always loved the water however it was during an 82 day long trip in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area that I realized I would like to devote my life's work to protecting these ecosystems.
Projects
Species contributed
Achnanthidium minutissimum | Aulacoseira ambigua | Aulacoseira granulata | Aulacoseira nygaardii | Aulacoseira subarctica | Aulacoseira tenella | Cavinula pseudoscutiformis | Discostella pseudostelligera | Discostella stelligera | Eunotia incisa | Fragilaria vaucheriae | Fragilariforma polygonata | Luticola hamiltonii | Navicula aurora | Navicula rhynchocephala | Navicula vulpina | Neidium amphigomphus | Neidium bisulcatum | Neidium fossum | Neidium hercynicum | Neidium iridis | Pleurosigma delicatulum | Pseudostaurosira brevistriata | Pseudostaurosira microstriata | Pseudostaurosira parasitica | Sellaphora schadei | Stauroneis alabamae