Blaszczak Watershed and Stream Ecosystem Ecology Lab
at the University of Nevada, Reno
Flathead Valley, Montana (Google Earth Image)
Welcome! Our group studies the transformations and transport of nutrients, carbon, and contaminants through watersheds and the streams that drain them.
We are a growing group of freshwater scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno. We use a combination of field (environmental sensors), lab (analytical chemistry and mesocosm experiments), and modeling (mechanistic time-series models) approaches to address the questions we are most excited about!
Read more about our research here and check for opportunities to join the lab.
We are a growing group of freshwater scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno. We use a combination of field (environmental sensors), lab (analytical chemistry and mesocosm experiments), and modeling (mechanistic time-series models) approaches to address the questions we are most excited about!
Read more about our research here and check for opportunities to join the lab.
Mono Lake Basin, CA (Fall 2019)
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Beaver Creek, Montana
(Summer 2018)
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An urban stream in
Durham, NC (Spring 2015)
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News Feed
March 2021 part 2 - VERY exciting news to share from the lab - Lauren Bolotin received an Honorable Mention from the NSF GRFP and Ph.D. student Kelly Loria was awarded a NSF GRF!! We are all very proud of them and so thrilled!
March 2021 - (1) We are thrilled to have Heili Lowman has joined the lab as a postdoc on the NSF EPSCoR funded Modelscapes project! (2) Joanna gave a seminar at the University of Oklahoma titled "Predicting the pulse of rivers: ecological insights from river oxygen dynamics". Watch a recording here.
December 2020 - (1) Joanna presents ongoing work in collaboration with Lauren Bolotin and Chloe Dodge (lab members), as well as Phil Savoy (USGS) on freshwater salinization regimes across the western US at AGU 2020 and (2) Joanna is awarded a Nevada INBRE (IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence National Institutes of Health (NIH) program) grant to develop methods with the UNR Proteomics center to measure the cyanotoxin anatoxin-a in rivers!
October 2020 - Congrats to M.S. student Meredith Brehob on being awarded the Robert E. Dickenson Scholarship!!
September 2020 - Congrats to Ph.D. student Kelly Loria on being awarded the Whittell Forest Graduate Research Fellowship!!
August 2020 - Two very exciting pieces of news for August:
1. Two awesome graduate students, Kelly Loria (Ph.D. student) and Keenan Seto (M.S. student) have joined the lab!! See the people tab for more information about them.
2. Joanna is a co-PI on a recently awarded NSF EPSCOR RII Track-2 FEC award titled "Highly predictive, explanatory models to harness the life science data revolution". Joanna and Matt Forister (UNR Biology) will be splitting 3 postdocs each year and the Blaszczak lab will be deploying a buoy in Lake Tahoe! If you're interested in a postdoc and reading this, look for an advertisement soon and get in touch with me.
July 2020 - Big congrats again to Albert for this time on having his NSF EPSCoR Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) proposal funded for the 2020-2021 academic year!! Very exciting!
June 2020 - Congrats to Albert for being awarded the Nevada Undergraduate Research Award for the 2020-2021 academic year!!
March 2020 - The lab is staying home and staying safe during the coronavirus pandemic.
February 2020 - Joanna attends a StreamPulse project meeting, the 5th Symposium on Urban Stream Ecology (SUSE5), and the Water Research Career Collaborative annual meeting!
January 2020 - The Blaszczak lab is growing! Meredith Brehob joins the lab as the first MS student and is co-advised by Sudeep Chandra. Albert Lopez joins as a McNair scholar and Chloe Dodge joins as a research assistant. Excited for the semester!
December 2019 - Joanna presents the Global Riverine Hypoxia project at the AGU meeting in San Francisco
September 2019 - Joanna attended the Dry Rivers RCN workshop, which was productive and fun - papers are forthcoming!
September 2019 - Lauren Bolotin (UNR grad '19) is the first member to join the Blaszczak lab as a research technician!
August 2019 - The Blaszczak lab has opened its doors!
March 2021 part 2 - VERY exciting news to share from the lab - Lauren Bolotin received an Honorable Mention from the NSF GRFP and Ph.D. student Kelly Loria was awarded a NSF GRF!! We are all very proud of them and so thrilled!
- Kelly also gave a talk through the Headwaters Science Institute "Lunch with a Scientist Lecture Series". See the recording here!
March 2021 - (1) We are thrilled to have Heili Lowman has joined the lab as a postdoc on the NSF EPSCoR funded Modelscapes project! (2) Joanna gave a seminar at the University of Oklahoma titled "Predicting the pulse of rivers: ecological insights from river oxygen dynamics". Watch a recording here.
December 2020 - (1) Joanna presents ongoing work in collaboration with Lauren Bolotin and Chloe Dodge (lab members), as well as Phil Savoy (USGS) on freshwater salinization regimes across the western US at AGU 2020 and (2) Joanna is awarded a Nevada INBRE (IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence National Institutes of Health (NIH) program) grant to develop methods with the UNR Proteomics center to measure the cyanotoxin anatoxin-a in rivers!
October 2020 - Congrats to M.S. student Meredith Brehob on being awarded the Robert E. Dickenson Scholarship!!
September 2020 - Congrats to Ph.D. student Kelly Loria on being awarded the Whittell Forest Graduate Research Fellowship!!
August 2020 - Two very exciting pieces of news for August:
1. Two awesome graduate students, Kelly Loria (Ph.D. student) and Keenan Seto (M.S. student) have joined the lab!! See the people tab for more information about them.
2. Joanna is a co-PI on a recently awarded NSF EPSCOR RII Track-2 FEC award titled "Highly predictive, explanatory models to harness the life science data revolution". Joanna and Matt Forister (UNR Biology) will be splitting 3 postdocs each year and the Blaszczak lab will be deploying a buoy in Lake Tahoe! If you're interested in a postdoc and reading this, look for an advertisement soon and get in touch with me.
July 2020 - Big congrats again to Albert for this time on having his NSF EPSCoR Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) proposal funded for the 2020-2021 academic year!! Very exciting!
June 2020 - Congrats to Albert for being awarded the Nevada Undergraduate Research Award for the 2020-2021 academic year!!
March 2020 - The lab is staying home and staying safe during the coronavirus pandemic.
February 2020 - Joanna attends a StreamPulse project meeting, the 5th Symposium on Urban Stream Ecology (SUSE5), and the Water Research Career Collaborative annual meeting!
January 2020 - The Blaszczak lab is growing! Meredith Brehob joins the lab as the first MS student and is co-advised by Sudeep Chandra. Albert Lopez joins as a McNair scholar and Chloe Dodge joins as a research assistant. Excited for the semester!
December 2019 - Joanna presents the Global Riverine Hypoxia project at the AGU meeting in San Francisco
September 2019 - Joanna attended the Dry Rivers RCN workshop, which was productive and fun - papers are forthcoming!
September 2019 - Lauren Bolotin (UNR grad '19) is the first member to join the Blaszczak lab as a research technician!
August 2019 - The Blaszczak lab has opened its doors!
