Spring 2011 turned out to be busy at the St. Cloud State University Aquatic Toxicology Laboratory.
Dr. Schoenfuss spent two months in Hawai'i as part of his National Science Foundation funded grant research. For part of the field work, he was accompanied by Jerry Leonard, who was able to gather data for a soon to be submitted manuscript on trail following behavior in Hawaiian stream gobies.
In March, most of the lab travelled to Lake Geneva Wisconsin for the annual meeting of the Midwest Chapter of the Society for Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry (picture above). Six oral presentations were given by lab members (four student presentations, Dr. Schoenfuss, Steve Bartell) and April Dammann was awarded runner-up for best oral presentation at the meeting.
Immediately following the MW SETAC conference, Dr. Schoenfuss presented the keynote address at the MN Wastewater Conference, March 25, 2011 in Brooklyn Park, MN. The four graduate students (Beth Poganski, Jeff Miller, Zach Jorgenson, and April Dammann) also presented. Further seminar presentations by Dr. Schoenfuss at St. Cloud State University and Normandale Community College ("slice of Life" lecture series) followed.
April and May saw three defense presentations by graduate students from the Aquatic Toxicology Laboratory: Jeff Miller defended on April 11, 2011; Zach Jorgenson on April 18, 2011; and Beth Poganski on May 2, 2011.
Another spring dissection trip will bring many lab members together one last time in Chicago in early May.
As many of our students are graduating, two new graduate student recruits will join the lab this summer to carry on research on the effects on contaminants of emerging concerns.
