UMass Biogeochemistry Laboratory

01/12/2019

UMass Geosciences

The UMass Biogeochem faculty are privileged to work with these three exceptionally talented and motivated PhD students who designed a project, organized the fieldwork, analyzed the samples, and published the results. Alumni Awards from the UMass Geosciences Department partially supported this research.

A eye-opening 900-year reconstruction of Northeastern #climate was just published by grad students Daniel Miller, Helen Habicht, & Benjamin Keisling, w/ Dr's Isla Castañeda and Ray Bradley. It reveals previously undetected past temperature cycles in unprecedented detail and extends the record 900 years into the past, well beyond the previous early date of 1850...

https://www.geo.umass.edu/news/graduate-students-publish-unprecedented-900-year-climate-record-northeastern-united-states

#paleoclimate #geology #climatechange #studentresearch #stem #newengland

11/06/2018

Join us today and #BeAVoter and #voteforscience in the #Midterms2018! Also, #VoteForWomen and #electscientists!

10/27/2018

Dr. Elizabeth Thomas, who was a former UMass Biogeochem Lab postdoc (and who is now faculty at the University at Buffalo), has her research highlighted on the AGU page!

In GRL: A Wetter Arctic Coincident With Hemispheric Warming 8,000 Years Ago. http://ow.ly/KenI30mnojy

08/30/2018

The UMass Biogeochem Team successfully completed a Puzzle Escape Room this evening- we highly recommend “Find the Professor of the Occult” in Easthampton. It was challenging and super cool!

07/25/2018

WGBY Public Television

UMass Biogeochem Lab postdoc Will Daniels talks with WGBY Public Television about his recent experience as part of NASA's HERA XVII mission - check it out at 7pm tonight!

ACLU Massachusetts' Attorney Bill Newman and Republican National Lawyers Association's Peter Vickery give their perspectives on family separation at the US border with Mexico, and the Trump Administration's reunification efforts. Then, UMass Geosciences' Will Daniels discusses his experience working with NASA on a 45-day mission simulation.

Tune in for these stories and more, tonight at 7pm on "Connecting Point."→💻 Watch a livestream at wgby.org/cplive

07/20/2018

UMass Geologists in Greenland

Members of the UMass Biogeochem lab recently returned from fieldwork in Greenland. To learn more check out a blog post written by Postdoc Will Daniels: https://limnowill.com/2018/07/18/umass-geologists-in-greenland/

05/16/2018

Today at 2pm in room 129 Morrill II, Rebecca Smith will defend her master’s thesis “Mid-Pliocene to Early Pleistocene Sea Surface and Land Temperature History of NW Australia Based on Organic Geochemical Proxies from Site U1463”.

04/18/2018

'No fresh air, no fresh food, but lots of exciting science': UMass Amherst researcher will spend 45 days in NASA 'space' lab

Another news article about postdoc Will Daniels’ participation in a NASA human research experiment:

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2018/04/umass_post-doc_climate_scienti.html

Will Daniels, of Hadley, a 33-year-old University of Massachusetts postdoctoral researcher, is part of NASA's 17th Human Exploration Research Analog.

04/17/2018

UMass Amherst Geoscientist on NASA Mission to Improve Astronaut Experience

Tomorrow UMass Biogeochem Lab postdoc Will Daniels heads to Houston to participate in NASA’s 17th Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA) mission at Johnson Space Center. He is one of four scientists who will take part in a 45 day simulated mission to an asteroid to collect rock samples.

https://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/umass-amherst-geoscientist-nasa-mission

April 12, 2018 Contact: Will Daniels Will Daniels at NASA HERAAMHERST, Mass. – Geoscientist Will Daniels, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Climate System Research Center, is set to embark on the trip of a lifetime this month as part of an experiment for NASA...

03/18/2018

Check out NE GSA 2018 talks in session T12 by UMass Biogeochem Lab postdocs and PhDs Will Daniels, Helen Habicht, Boyang Zhao and Dan Miller!

02/19/2018

Expedition 374 and ice sheet modelling Conversation with Benjamin Keisling, scientist onboard the JOIDES Resolution during Expedition 374 – JOIDES Resolution

UMassGeo PhD student Benjamin Keisling is currently sailing on IODP Expedition 374 and discusses his ice sheet modelling research.

http://joidesresolution.org/expedition-374-and-ice-sheet-modelling-conversation-with-benjamin-keisling-scientist-onboard-the-joides-resolution-during-expedition-374/

09/17/2017

Amazing weekend for surface sediment sampling at Sebago Lake!

07/28/2017

Session Proposal: Biomarkers from Source to Sink - Bridging the Transition from Empirical Relationships to Mechanistic Theory (2017 AGU Fall Meeting)

Looking for an AGU session to submit to? Check out B014:
Biomarkers from Source to Sink - Bridging the Transition from Empirical Relationships to Mechanistic Theory

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session25887

For urgently needed technical support, phone 401-334-9902 between the hours of 8:30 AM and 6:00 PM Monday through Friday, US Eastern Standard Time (GMT -05:00), and provide support code 1438.

07/20/2017

Checking out late Permian anhydrite at mine in Osterode Germany as part of IODP Exp. 356 Post-cruise meeting.

07/18/2017

UMass Biogeochem visits the core repository in Bremen during the IODP Exp 356 post cruise meeting!

06/24/2017

The succession of algae & cyanobacteria blooming in the UMass Campus Pond is really quite fascinating to watch...

05/11/2017

Undergraduate Research Assistantships | UMass Biogeochemistry Laboratory

UMass undergrads: interested in gaining research experience? Two research positions are currently available in Geography and Geology/Water Resources with Prof. Eve Vogel! http://blogs.umass.edu/biogeochem/undergraduate-research-assistantships/

PROJECT: Electricity, flexibility and sustainability: Place-based environmental and sociopolitical impacts of our coming electrical system as seen through hydropower and rivers

04/28/2017

Today undergrads S. Lukas and M. Thompson-Munson present results of their honors thesis projects today at the MA Undergraduate Research Conference. Check it out in the Campus Center until 5pm!

12/21/2016

That awkward moment when a student complains he didn't get Exam #3 back and you have explain that is because he hasn't attended class since taking Exam 3...

12/15/2016

Excited for tonight's Honors Ceremony where UMass Geosciences professor Julie Brigham-Grette will be recognized for becoming an AGU Fellow!

11/05/2016

Cool colored ketone fractions - IODP Exp 356 samples!

10/19/2016

www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu

The University of Buffalo has an available position for a Stable Isotope and Biogeochemistry Lab Manager.

https://www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/position/JobDetails_css.jsp

10/19/2016

Tracing the methane cycle in peats using bacteriohopanepolyols

A biogeochem PhD position is available at Plymouth University.

Apply now. PhD studentship beginning 1 January 2017. Title of PhD Project: Tracing the methane cycle in peats using bacteriohopanepolyols.

09/20/2016

blogs.umass.edu

A Tenure Track Position in Aqueous & Environmental Geochemistry in the Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, is now available!

http://blogs.umass.edu/biogeochem/files/2016/09/Aqueous_position_UMass.pdf

09/05/2016

We're impressed that the faculty of Ghent University brew their own beer! #JESIUM2016

07/28/2016

2016 Class of AGU Fellows Announced - Eos

Congratulations to UMass Geosciences department head Julie Brigham-Grette on being elected a 2016 AGU Fellow!

https://eos.org/agu-news/2016-class-of-agu-fellows-announced

The American Geophysical Union has chosen 60 new Fellows and will honor them at the upcoming 2016 Fall Meeting in San Francisco, Calif.

05/11/2016

UMass Biogeochemistry Laboratory's cover photo

05/11/2016

Undergrad Stephen L at the Five Colleges Undergraduate Poster Symposium presenting his work on River restoration in the Deerfield Watershed (this project is through another lab but Stephen also works in the Biogeochem lab).

05/10/2016

Click here to support Aaron Beltzer Memorial Fund by Elliot Beltzer

A memorial fund has been established for Aaron Beltzer, who was pursuing his master's degree in the Department of Geosciences at UMass. We miss you Aaron!

https://www.gofundme.com/23ekfpqt

My brother Aaron passed away on April 27th, 2016 at 26 years old. He will be sorely missed by many family members, friends, and colleagues. The Department of Geosciences at UMass Amherst (where he was pursuing his master's degree) has generously set up a memorial fund in his honor. Aaron was extr...

04/21/2016

Organic Geochemistry Unit

Organic Geochemistry Unit

Wonderful obituary by Kate Freeman for the founder of our group:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/532314a

04/13/2016

Octopus makes great escape from New Zealand aquarium - BBC News

This is awesome!

Octopus makes great escape from New Zealand aquarium
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-36025141

Inky the octopus squeezed his way out of a tank at New Zealand's National Aquarium.

04/12/2016

UMass Amherst Geoscientists to Reconstruct Climate at Old Norse Settlements in Greenland

And:

http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/umass-amherst-geoscientists-reconstruct

April 11, 2016 Contact: Janet Lathrop 413/545-0444 A statue of Leif Erikson near the settlement of Qassiarsuk, Greenland, where UMass Amherst doctoral student Greg de Wet, left, will return this summer to continue field work to generate area climate records over the past 1,500 years. With him are me…

04/12/2016

UMass team to study why Vikings left Greenland settlements - The Boston Globe

A couple of links to articles highlighting a project the UMass Biogeochem lab is involved with:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/04/11/umass-team-study-why-vikings-left-greenland-settlements/bAjtoo5Y4ncsW12u30orXO/story.html

Geosciences Professors Raymond Bradley and Isla S. Castañeda were awarded about $350,000 from the National Science Foundation to reconstruct climate change over the past 1,500 years in Greenland.

04/08/2016

Today's ridiculous email:

From: Fisher Scientific
Subject: Your Kimwipes Seem Lonely
Message: A Holder Will Make Them Happy

Yes, they are trying to sell a $51 plastic holder for lab tissues...

04/06/2016

Barack Obama

President Obama highlights research on climate change & sea level rise by UMass Professor Rob DeConto!

Here's how climate change could impact sea level rise—and why it's so important to act now: http://ofa.bo/uOE