This year the “Ecology and Systematics of Diatoms” course celebrates 60 years since the informal workshop by Dr. E.F. Stoermer in 1963.

Students in the 2023 class traveled from near and far to study diatoms. Many of the students wish to obtain training for their graduate research projects, using diatoms as indicators of environment. Some research projects relate to modern ecology, others to paleoecology.

Some of the class activities include contributing to a long-term study of the life cycle of Diatoma, learning the difference between different sediment coring devices and how to deploy them, examining Miocene diatoms in the Nebraska Ashfall site, and developing a species treatment as a page for this website.

As for many of the classes over the 60 years, diatomists "stopped by" to talk diatoms with the students. Sarah Spaulding, Matt Julius, and David Burge joined the instructors, Mark Edlund and Sylvia Lee.

Funding

  • John C. Kingston Fellowship

    Teaching Fellowship - Lane Allen

  • C.W. Reimer Scholarship

    Merit Scholarship - Joy Jackson, University of Toledo

  • E.F. Stoermer Scholarship

    Merit Scholarship - Hanna Innocent, Florida International University

  • Friends of Lakeside Lab

    Educational Support

  • Okoboji Foundation

    Educational Support

  • Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust

    Student Microscopes and Imaging Systems

  • Messengers of Healing Winds

    Student Microscopes and Imaging Systems

Participants

Mark Edlund

Content Editor, Centric Diatoms Diatoms of North America, Editoral Review Board

Senior Scientist Science Museum of Minnesota

Sylvia Lee

Biologist U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Steve Main

Professor emeritus Retired, Wartburg College

Gene Stoermer

1934 - 2012

Professor Emeritus University of Michigan

David R.L. Burge

Content Editor, Araphid and Centric Diatoms Diatoms of North America, Editoral Review Board

Assistant Scientist St. Croix Watershed Research Station

Phytoplankton Scientist Natural Resources Research Institute

Adjunct Faculty Iowa Lakeside Laboratory/Ecology and Systemmatics of Diatoms

Matthew Julius

Professor St. Cloud State University

Sarah Spaulding

Content Editor, Symmetric Biraphid Diatoms Diatoms of North America, Editoral Review Board

Ecologist US Geological Survey

Lane Allen

PhD Student University of Colorado

Oliver McLellan

Ph.D. Candidate The Ohio State University

Jessica DePaolis

Ph.D. Student Geosciences Department, Virginia Tech

Hanna Innocent

M.S. Student Biological Sciences Department, Florida International University

Joy Jackson

Ph.D. Student Environmental Science Department, The University of Toledo

Paige Liebrecht

Undergraduate student Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Iowa

Ayowole Fifo

M.S. Student Geology Department, University of Nevada, Reno

Andrew Burgess

Undergraduate Student University of Iowa

Cheryl Allen Gilpin

Geoscientist / Microfossil Taxonomist / Photomicroscopy Artist Werner Museum of Natural History: Center for Research, Collections and Art Galleries Huntsville, Texas

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