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Student Achievements
Incoming Graduate Student's Biology Research Published
August 25, 2014
Anthony Weinke, a new graduate student in the Biology program, is the first author on a manuscript published by Journal of Plankton Research on changing costal carbon cycling. The manuscript titled Systematically variable planktonic carbon metabolism along a land-to-lake gradient in a Great Lakes coastal zone was published advance online in the Journal of Plankton Researchon August 11, 2014:
Anthony received a Bachelor’s degree in Biology-Aquatic Science from GVSU in 2013, and he has worked at Grand Valley’s Annis Water Resources Institute from 2011-2014 in Dr. Bopi Biddanda’s laboratory. He has spent the past two years studying Michigan’s coastal carbon cycle, looking at long-term data collected on planktonic carbon metabolism through the past decade. He is entering the master’s program in Biology-Aquatic Science at GVSU, which will include further studies on the dynamics of Muskegon Lake. In the future, he hopes to pursue a career in Marine Biology and Conservation.
The article will be printed in the Sept/Oct issue, but is currently available online with open access:
Weinke, A.D., S. T. Kendall, D. J. Kroll, E. A. Strickler, M. E. Weinert, T. M. Holcomb, D. K. Dila, A. A. Defore, M. J. Snider, L. C. Gereaux, B.A. Biddanda (2014). Systematically variable planktonic carbon metabolism along a land-to-lake gradient in a Great Lakes coastal zone. Advance Access published August 11, 2014, doi: 10.1093/plankt/fbu066.
Photo: On board one of AWRI’s research vessels, Anthony holds a sensor-buoy in place during maintenance of the buoy observatory on Muskegon Lake, Michigan (www.gvsu.edu/wri/buoy). Anthony has analyzed time-series data that has been collected by the buoy since 2011 to understand ongoing changes in this lake ecosystem – a Great Lakes estuary.