
New Lab Publications
The Newton Lab has two new publications! Ryan Bartelme published the first part of his dissertation work on the microbial community structure in a mature freshwater recirculating aquaculture biofilter. His paper describes how operational conditions related to fish rearing impact the bacterial community in the biofilter. He also put together some excellent work related to the nitrifying assemblage in this biofilter. He found the nitrifying community was rather stable over

Welcome Natalie!
Natalie joined the Newton Lab today!! We are every excited to get her into the grad student life and started on her project, related to wastewater nutrient infiltration into groundwater systems. She will be working as part of a collaboration between Dr. Tim Grundl and the Newton Lab, and no doubt our expert in groundwater microbial communities in the near future. Natalie comes to us from the Milwaukee School of Engineering and after doing an internship working on biofuel t