CURRENT LAB PERSONNEL

Katherine Webster, Affiliate Faculty

Kath is a landscape limnologist with a longterm research interest in understanding how hydrogeomorphic features shape lake characteristics across broad spatial extents and, particularly, how they influence the response of lakes to stressors ranging from acid rain to nutrient enrichment.  She has played a major role in building the LAGOS-US research platform, taking the lead in drafting the User Guides and providing leadership in making the databases accessible and well-documented.

Email: katherine.e.webster@gmail.com

Patrick Hanly, Research Program Coordinator (2019-present)
Patrick is an aquatic community ecologist focusing on understanding the drivers of biodiversity from local to regional and global scales. He is interested in integrating big, open-source data such as satellite imagery and citizen science databases to expand the scope of applied ecological theory.

Email: hanlypat@msu.edu

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZGcS-DUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Patrick_Hanly3

Xinyu Sun, Postdoctoral Researcher (2023-present)

Xinyu’s research focuses on how stressors, caused by human activities and climate change, impact freshwater organisms and ecosystems. Her previous projects looked at the interactive effects of elevated salinity and climate change on freshwater zooplankton by conducting lab and field experiments. She is now interested in using big, open-source data to quantitatively compare abiotic and ecological conditions across waterbodies, synthesize regional patterns, and link these patterns to freshwater systems’ responses to environmental changes. She is also keen on developing and implementing team science strategies and using a collaborative approach in her projects.

Email: sunxiny9@msu.edu

Arika Hawkins, Post-bacc Research Assistant

Email: hawki267@msu.edu

 

 

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