My primary research interests include the impacts of climate change, linking biodiversity and ecosystem function as well as incorporating metacommunity theory into the field of aquatic microbial ecology.  I am currently a PhD candidate in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan.  My dissertation research focuses on aquatic microbial ecology in Northern Alaska and examines interactions of temperature, nutrients, carbon sources, and community composition as controls on bacterial production in arctic lakes and streams.  I plan to continue ecological research as a postdoc starting in 2008.

Course oriented research:

Basic limnological analysis of Zaca Lake during two time periods of fall cooling.  EEMB 145AL with Sally MacIntyre and Rebecca Shipe, October and November 1998.

Grazing Impact of Daphnia on Chlorella in Lake Los Carneros.  Effects of nutrient and light variability on Thalassiosira weissflogii.  EEMB 145BL with Professors Alldredge and Brzezinski, and Gabrielle Johnson, January and February 1999. 

Third Sister Lake. Bacterial Productivity over spring ice-melt.  EEB 473 with Kristi Judd, Winter 2003.  Modified into the publication:  Judd K.E., H.E. Adams, N.S. Bosch, J.M. Kostrzewski, C.E. Scott, B.M. Schultz, D.H. Wang, and G.W. Kling.   In Press.  A case history: Effects of mixing regime on nutrient dynamics and community structure in Third Sister Lake, Michigan during late winter and early spring 2003.  Lake and Reservoir Management.

Dioxane and temperature effects on the growth and diversity of bacteria in Little Lake, Michigan.  CEE 582 with Jeremy Semrau, Fall 2004.  Coauthored by Jeffrey Carey, Andrew Henderson, and Lauren Yelen.