Rich Lab:In the News

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This is the page for SWES-MEL members or projects in the news! (most recent at top)

• University of Arizona UBRP Program awards Moira Hough an Honorable Mention for the "Outstanding Graduate Student/Postdoc/Technician Mentor" award, to be announced at the 28th Annual UBRP Conference on January 21, 2017.

• University of Arizona News article "'Microbial Pac-Man' May Soon Hit 'Game Over'" features some members of the IsoGenie team including UA undergraduate Rose Vining and UA doctoral student Moira Hough. October 10, 2016.

• Sveriges Radio 20-minute program on IsoGenie sampling in Stordalen Mire and shorter news report in Sveriges Radio morning news. September 13, 2016.

• Daily Wildcat article featuring undergraduate researcher Rose Vining talking about her field work experience in Abisko. July 26, 2016.

• OSU's College of arts and sciences news Gary Trubl, microbiology graduate student, represents Ohio State as a Summer School Scholar at the 2016 NASA Astrobiology Institute/Santander International Summer School at the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Santander, Spain, June 20–24, 2016.

• COSMOS Magazine (https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth-sciences/what-happens-if-permafrost-disappears) with lab collaborators Suzanne Hodgkins (Florida State University) and Ben Woodcroft (University of Queensland)

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• UBRP Gazette (https://ubrp.arizona.edu/anderson-presents-her-research-at-the-american-geophysical-union-meeting-in-san-francisco/) with undergraduate student Darya Anderson talking about her experience at American Geophysical Union Conference

• Daily Wildcat interview with PhD student Gary Trubl featuring an outreach event called Saturday Science Academy

• ClimateWire piece on McCalley et al

• Washington Post piece on McCalley et al with interview-quotes from V Rich

• Science Dailystory on McCalley et al

• UANews Press Release on Carrie McCalley's Nature paper, on our thawing permafrost project, with our Australian, Swedish, and Floridian collaborators. Co-authors include SWES-MEL's PI Virginia Rich and former post-doc Eun-Hae Kim.

• Daily Wildcat interview with Dr. Virginia Rich and PhD student Gary Trubl featuring our lab's work on climate change

• Daily Wildcat interview with PhD student Gary Trubl on Astrobiology and UA's efforts

• Arizona Illustrated television interview with PI Virginia Rich on our project on thawing permafrost microbiology and carbon cycling

• ScienceDaily profiles the Hodgkins et al paper on organic matter changes in thawing permafrost

• UANews profiled our Nature Communications paper, led by collaborating Tyson Lab, that describes the discovery of a novel and highly active methanogen in thawing permafrost systems

• UQ (institution of partner lab of Gene Tyson) did a press release for the IsoGenie Team's Nature Communications paper

• The paper introducing Candidatus Methanoflorens stordalenmirensis is now out in Nature Communications!!

• UANews profiled the funding of our continued work on the thawing permafrost gradient in Sweden.
  

• Here is our collaborator Gene talking to his university in a snazy video about this work, which also shows our field site.
  

• And here's the press release about SWES-MEL postdoc and driving force Dr. Eun-Hae Kim receiving one the prestigious Ford Foundation post-doctoral fellowships. Go EK!

• Here's a compelling video that SWES-MEL grad student Lynn Massey, who also works in science journalism and communication, made this spring about another SWES-department lab, that of Kevin Fitzsimmons.