A brief follow up to NADS 2024

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone for being part of the North American Diatom Symposium community. Everyone brings their energy and perspective to our science. We hope that all had a relaxing and rewarding experience at Lakeside.

A giant hug to our sponsors! We appreciate your generous funding for student travel and merit awards:

Rhithron Associates, Inc.

Balogh International

Friends of Lakeside Lab

International Society for Diatom Research


Student Travel Awards of $200 each:
Anna Agi, Georgia College & State University
Hirak Parikh, Indiana State University
Samantha Hormiga, Florida International University
Lindsey Carlson, University of Vermont
Sristika Adhikari, Indiana State University
Adam Dingmann, St. Cloud State University 
Sydney Brown, George Mason University
E. Mary Mullins, Tarleton State University
Hanna Innocent, Florida International University
Natalie Aranda, University of Colorado, Boulder
Isabelle Rytlewski, University of South Florida
Lane Allen, University of Colorado, Boulder
Oliver McLellan, The Ohio State University

Best Moderator/Timekeeper pair awards of $100 each:
Samantha Hormiga, Florida International University
Isabelle Rytlewski, University of South Florida

Best Student Oral Presentation awards of $400 each:
Paige Kleindl, Florida International University
Lane Allen, University of Colorado, Boulder
Katie Johnson, Florida International University
Lindsey Carlson, University of Vermont

Best Student Poster awards of $400 each:
Mailor Amaral, Systematics, University of Colorado, Boulder
Kaya Tanner, Paleolimnology, Indiana State University
Incy Rojas-Pina, Ecology, St Catherine University
Mary Mullins, Ecology, Tarleton State University

And special thanks to our 27th NADS student award judges
Virginia Card, Julie Wolin, Tom Frankovich, Euan Reavie, David Burge, Josh Stepanek, Janai Southworth, Sarah Spaulding, and Mark Edlund.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 27th NADS
Would you like to publish the research presented in your talk or poster, or have a diatom related manuscript you need to get published (don’t we all)? Consider submitting a manuscript to the Proceedings of the 27th NADS. The proceedings will be published open access as a special issue in the long-running journal Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences. Mark Edlund, Sarah Spaulding, and Marina Potapova will serve as co-editors of the proceedings.

Support the North American Diatom Symposium, our students and early career researchers, efforts to secure diatom collections, sharing of knowledge, and much more by joining the International Society for Diatom Research (ISDR). The society provided more funding for students at this meeting than was taken in by non-student members. We need your support.

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DOWNLOAD THE 2024 NADS PROGRAM

NORTH AMERICAN DIATOM SYMPOSIUM PLENARY TALKS
Thursday, October 3 2024

1:30 PM (central time, US and Canada)
Dr. Evelyn Gaiser -THIRTY-SIX YEARS OF THINKING LIKE A DIATOM: THE POWER OF PERSISTENT ATTACHMENTS

3:30 PM (central time, US and Canada)
Dr. Jeffery Stone - REVISITING THE DIATOM RECORD OF FOY LAKE, MONTANA

Friday, October 4 2024

8:30 AM (central time, US and Canada)
Dr. David Burge – LAKESIDE DIATOMS – THE NEXT GENERATION

10:30 AM (central time, US and Canada)
Dr. Victoria Chraïbi
- FITTING FRUSTULES INTO THE FUTURE OF UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION

1:30 PM (central time, US and Canada)
Dr. Jane Marks – ECOSYSTEM CONSEQUENCES OF A NITROGEN FIXING PROTO-ORGANELLE

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