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Part of our research program focuses on the impacts of changes in the environment on the ecology and biogeochemistry of wet ecosystems. In particular, (1) land use impacts (e.g., mining, agriculture) on water and sediment chemistry and plant and macroinvertebrate communities, (2) how wetland plants respond to various environmental pollutants (e.g., pesticides, metals, metal nanoparticles, nitrogen, phosphorus), and (3) how these plants can be used for the remediation of these pollutants.
Current projects
Current projects
Microbial composition of mining-contaminated and remediated soils in the Missouri Tri-State mining district.
Project leader: Ophelia Pettington
Lab and Field assistants: Anna Faust, Emily Holly, Alexis Reifsteck
Implications of nitrate-providing species Azolla observed in Lake Springfield.
Project leader: Anna Faust
Lab and Field assistants: Ben Cooper, Sam Booth, Jaslyn Johnson
Metals in aquatic vegetation and sediment in mining contaminated wet ecosystems.
Prospective graduate students and interested undergraduate students should contact Dr. Kissoon-Charles with questions.
Annual and seasonal changes to aquatic vegetation in a spring-fed pond and its relation to pond environmental characteristics
Project leader: Daphne Miles
Lab and Field assistants: Anna Faust, Malachai Frisby
Past Projects
Past Projects
Seasonal and spatial variation of aquatic vegetation in spring-fed Ozark ponds.
Project leader: Hannah Whaley
Field assistants: Daphne Miles, Emma Fonki, Leslie Hatch, Britt Masters, AFS - MSU subunit
Effects of metal contamination on decomposition and macroinvertebrate colonization.
Project leaders: Leslie Hatch, Indigo Tran, and Malachai Frisby.
Lab assistants: Elizabeth Carrell, Elizabeth Harris, Amanda Heider, Joshua Jarvis, Matthew Keese
Effects of silver nanoparticles on duckweeds.
Project leaders: Indigo Tran, Jordan Heiman
Lab assistants: Tarkesia Blakley, Lauren Griffin, Madison Gurski, Mitchell Canada
Silver nanoparticle stability and aquatic plants.
Project leader: Tory Lydy
Lab assistants: Ari Vera, Emma Fonke, Hannah Whaley
Interspecific competition of native and non-native duckweeds.
Project leader: Abby Giering
Lab assistants: Elizabeth Carell, Indigo Tran.
Metals in gravel bar sycamores in a contaminated river system.
Project leaders: Jordan Heiman, Indigo Tran
Field assistants: Chet Hall, Leslie Hatch, OEWRI.
Macrophytes and atrazine in Southwest Missouri ponds.
Project leader: Christine Cornish
Field and Lab assistants: Chet Hall, Leslie Hatch
Assessment of rain gardens several years post construction.
Project leader: Teresa Aguayo
Field assistants: Nick Barry, Tory Lydy, Indigo Tran, Hannah Whaley
Image analysis to determine area cover of floating aquatic plants.
Project leaders: Jordan Heiman, Indigo Tran
Lab assistants: Tarkesia Blakley, Madison Gurski, Mitchell Canada
Duckweed growth: effects of metal nanoparticles and carbon.
Project leader: Madison Gurski
Lab assistants: Lauren Griffin, Jordan Heiman
Salinity tolerance in Lemna minor.
Project leader: Jordan Heiman
Lab assistants: Lauren Griffin, Madison Gurski
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