Ecology and Systematics of Diatoms course, 2012
Students in Ecology and Systematics of Diatoms contribute to the Diatoms of the United States. For a final project, students intensively research a single taxon and submit their work to the review board. Several taxa from 2012 are in progress.
TAXA
Achnanthes inflata | Caloneis lewisii | Cocconeis pediculus | Cyclotella bodanica var. intermedia | Cymbopleura inaequalis | Fragilariforma nitzschioides |
LINKS
Ecology and Systematics of Diatoms course
Diatom slide from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
NEWS
In 2012, students from an eclectic mix of states (Arkansas, Iowa, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, Oklahoma, Utah) and an unlikely set of countries (Indonesia, Iran, Australia) gathered for the diatom course at Iowa Lakeside Lab. Most of the students are enrolled in graduate programs, using diatoms in their research projects. The students learned not only about the freshwater diatom genera in North America, but were exposed to the species diversity from this global set of student study sites.
In 2013, we will mark the 50th anniversary of the class in Iowa, which started as the “Diatom Clinic” by Dr. Gene Stoermer in 1963. Recently, a former student from the 1963 class, Gerry Haukoos, sent a note in rememberance of Gene. He recalled that the first morning of the class in 1963, he overheard Dr. John Dodd instructing his former graduate student (Gene) in the adjoining room. John Dodd said something like, "you're in the big time now, go get'em". This exchange occurred when John and Gene were in a stone lab, in the midst of the cornfields of northwest Iowa! For many years of teaching the summer course, Gene would end his lectures with, "Now go forth and do great things". All the students that pass through this stone building have done exactly that.
Funding
J.C. Kingston Fellowship
Teaching Fellowship | Nina Desianti
C.W. Reimer Scholarship
Merit Scholarship | Catharina Grubaugh
Friends of Lakeside Lab
Educational Support |
Okoboji Foundation
Educational Support |
Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust
Student Microscopes and Imaging |
Messengers of Healing Winds
Student Microscopes and Imaging |
Participants
Mark Edlund
Senior Scientist, Science Museum of Minnesota
Review Board, This Website
Steve Main
Professor, Retired, Wartburg College
Marina Potapova
Assistant Curator, Diatom Herbarium, Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia of Drexel University
Review Board, This Website
Sarah Spaulding
Ecologist, US Geological Survey
Review Board, This Website
Islam Atazadeh
Ph.D. Student, Centre for Environmental Management, School of Science, University of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
David R.L. Burge
M.S. Student, Ecotoxicology, Arkansas State University
Hydrologic Technician, US Geological Survey
William Daniels
Ph.D. Student, Geology Department, Brown University and Marine Biological Laboratory
Nina Desianti
J.C. Kingston Fellow, Iowa Lakeside Laboratory, Ecology and Systematics of Diatoms
Catharina Grubaugh
Ph.D. Student, Fordham University
Kerry Howard
Ph.D. Student, Department of Geological Sciences & Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno
Matthew Keith
Undergraduate Student, University of Iowa
Somayyeh Kheiri
Ph.D. Student, Department of Biology, Islamic Azad University of Tehran Branch of Science and Research, Iran
Steve Nelson
Professor of Geochemistry, Department of Geological Sciences, Brigham Young University
Michael Van Gorp
Undergraduate Student, University of Iowa
Jane Shuttleworth
Friends of Lakeside Lab
This project was first entered on 08 June, 2012 by Sarah Spaulding
Image Credit: Mark Edlund
Students at the Miocene Ashfall Fossil Bed, Nebraska.
Image Credit: Sarah Spaulding
David Burge collecting Neidium at Dead Man's Lake, Pilot Knob, Iowa.
Image Credit: Matt Keith
Caloneis lewisii from the Reimer Herbarium L-3-6. The sample was collected on the East Branch of Des Moines River, north of Seneca in Kossuth County, Iowa
Image Credit: Kerry Howard
Colony of Fragilariforma nitzschoides with contracted chloroplasts and internal valves.