Student Achievements
Biology Alum Receives JGLR/Elsevier Early Career Award
July 06, 2022
GVSU alum from the Master of Science in Biology, Jasmine Mancuso, was awarded the Elsevier Early Career Scientist Award for 2021 Most Notable Paper in the Journal of Great Lakes Research (JGLR).
This award was given by the International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR), which is a scientific organization of researchers that study lakes. IAGLR held a virtual awards ceremony to honor their 2022 scholarship and awards recipients on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. Among those recipients was Mancuso who received the JGLR/Elsevier Early Career Award.
Her research article focuses on how climate change does not exclusively result in a warmer, dryer planet. Most research focuses on how increased temperatures and more frequent droughts will affect the phytoplankton community; however, extreme weather can also be a consequence of climate change. Her article mentioned in 2019, Michigan experienced extreme weather conditions including record-breaking rainfall and cooler-than-average temperatures. This gave the opportunity to study how this alternate scenario can affect the phytoplankton community.
Mancuso graduated from GVSU in the Spring/Summer semester of 2020. She is currently working as a lab manager for the aquatic ecology lab at Oakland University. She also teaches at Rochester University as an adjunct professor of ecology and at Oakland University as a teaching assistant. Mancuso is currently working on a new research study that focuses on carbon cycling in aquatic ecosystems.
The award-winning article can be viewed on ScienceDirect. Congratulations, Jasmine!
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