The Sweetman lab is part of the Department of Ecosystem Science and Management at Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania. Research in our lab is focused on understanding the potential impacts of the cumulative effects of climate change, population growth and land use change on freshwater lakes and wetlands.
Research in the lab is often multidisciplinary and collaborative. Several approaches are used, including the use of paleolimnology – looking at archives in lake sediments, along with large-scale surveys and experimental approaches to examine the consequences of environmental changes to aquatic ecosystems.
Lab News:
- Mason Ward was awarded a NSF GRFP Fellowship! Congratulations Mason!
- Congratulations to Christine Cornish on successfully defending her PhD!
- Congratulations to Whitney Sauskojus on successfully defending her MS! Whitney will be starting a position working with Ulteig.
- Congrats to Kui on successfully defending her PhD! (Currently a postdoctoral researcher at the St. Croix Watershed Research Station).
- The Sweetman lab has moved to Penn State! We will still be keeping close ties to NDSU, as grad students Christine, Kui and Whitney are all working there, but look for new research and recruitment opportunities coming soon!
- Undergraduate Ellie Schneider was awarded a Cassel Undergraduate Research Scholarship for this summer!! Ellie will be looking at the impacts of road salt on zooplankton. Stay tuned for more details!
- Congratulations to Kui for successfully completing her PhD comprehensive exams!
- Congratulations to Dr. Kyle McLean on completing his PhD! Kyle will be continuing to work at the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, and we are excited to continue to collaborate with him on work at the Cottonwood Lake Study Area and prairie potholes!
- Kui Hu and Christine Cornish both received travel awards from the Shockey-Scoby Fund. Hopefully the lab will be able to travel to a conference this fall!
- Whitney Sauskojus was awarded a Cassel Undergraduate Research Scholarship this summer, working on wetlands in North Dakota!
- We received an EPSCoR Research Seed Grant to “Evaluating the response of prairie wetland communities to glyphosate”