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Megan Vahsen wins Ecological Society of America George Mercer Award

ESA’s Announcement of the Award Winners George Mercer Award Megan L. Vahsen, Michael J. Blum, J. Patrick Megonigal, Scott J. Emrich, James R. Holmquist, Brady Stiller, Kathe E. O. Todd-Brown and Jason S. McLachlan ESA presents the 2024 George Mercer Award … Continue reading

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Resilience Conference at Notre Dame

April 20, 2022 We had at the opportunity to meet with collaborators Antoinette Abeyta from the University of New Mexicao, Gallup and Diana Dalbotten from the University of Minnesota in person! Antoinette and Diana joined Jason and Alyssa as panelists … Continue reading

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Helena Kleiner’s Award Winning Poster

Helena’s poster for the 2021 Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) Conference was awarded one of the Best Graduate Student Poster Awards. Click on the poster below to see it at full size.

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McLachlan Lab at ESA 2020

Jason McLachlan and Megan Vahsen both presented virtually at ESA 2020 this year. Jason’s talk focused on the education initiatives for the Ecological Forecasting Initiative. You can see his abstract here and video here.   Megan’s talk highlighted how she … Continue reading

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McLachlan Lab Undergrad Brady Stiller Named 2020 Valedictorian

We are excited that Brady Stiller has been named the 2020 Valedictorian for the University of Notre Dame!  Brady joined the lab as a sophomore in 2017 working on the marsh project.  In addition to contributing to research during the academic year, Brady … Continue reading

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2019 Blue Genes Harvest

Author: Megan Vahsen In early October, several members of the McLachlan lab conducted a harvest of our mesocosm experiment at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) in Edgewater, MD. The experiment was a huge effort as a part of our … Continue reading

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Science Conversations and Site Review with NSF Program Director

On Tuesday, August 6, we had the opportunity to give Liz Blood, the DEB (Division of Environmental Biology) Program Director at NSF, a tour of our Blue Genes marsh experiment at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC).  The day was … Continue reading

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Jason McLachlan in the New York Times

  Jason was quoted in today’s New York Times article highlighting different methods of handling the effect changing climate has on trees!

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McLachlan Lab at AGU 2018!

The McLachlan lab represented at AGU (American Geophysical Union) this year!  We had five lab members of the lab present.  There were four posters presented by graduate students, Kelly Heilman and Bethany Blakely, undergrad Marissa Kivi, and Jason. Graduate student, Ann … Continue reading

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Congratulations to senior Marissa Kivi!

Marissa Kivi is an Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics senior. She joined the McLachlan lab as a freshman in the fall of 2015 and began by entering tree information from the 1800s for our PalEON project.  In the fall of 2017, … Continue reading

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