Meredith Tyree Polaskey
Taxon Contributor
Professional Research Associate Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado
We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. - Martin Luther King Jr.
I am broadly interested in improving diatoms as bioassessment tools to monitor and protect our water resources.
I graduated with my M.S. in Environmental Studies in 2017, where I examined how new counting protocols could produce better statistical models of water quality at less cost than traditional protocols. I previously worked as the lead analyst on an EPA project of northeast lakes to produce a diatom voucher flora for the region, with the aim of improving taxonomic consistency among analysts and producing more cohesive, analytically useful datasets.
I am now working on a USGS grant aimed at improving diatom taxonomic consistency within stream biological assessments throughout the United States.
Projects
Species contributed
Achnanthidium crassum | Achnanthidium rosenstockii | Adlafia suchlandtii | Aneumastus carolinianus | Cavinula jaernefeltii | Cavinula lapidosa | Cavinula variostriata | Chamaepinnularia hassiaca | Diploneis abscondita | Diploneis boldtiana | Diploneis calcilacustris | Diploneis puella | Encyonopsis thumensis | Eolimna aboensis | Frustulia pseudomagaliesmontana | Genkalia digitulus | Gomphonema apuncto | Gomphonema christenseni | Gomphonema insularum | Gomphonema manubrium | Gomphonema pseudosphaerophorum | Gomphonema sphaerophorum | Gyrosigma obscurum | Humidophila perpusilla | Luticola minor | Luticola mobiliensis | Mayamaea cahabaensis | Navicula ingenua | Navicula kotschyi | Neidium densestriatum | Neidium hitchcockii | Neidium pseudodensestriatum | Pinnularia brauniana | Pinnularia cuneicephala | Pinnularia formica | Pinnularia scotica | Psammothidium rossii | Sellaphora disjuncta | Stauroneis staurolineata
Species reviewed
Cymbella fontinalis | Cymbella vulgata | Gomphonema duplipunctatum | Gomphonema eileencoxiae | Surirella undulata