Biogeochemistry

biogeochemistry news

  • Dear Graduate, and Undergraduate Students, We are excited to announce the 27th Annual Penn State Interdisciplinary Environmental Research Symposium (PIERS), which will take place on April 4–5, 2025, at the University Park campus! PIERS is a student-led symposium that brings together researchers…

  • 2nd Annual Blooms and Shrooms Mycology and Natural Sciences Research Symposium The BnS Mycology and Natural Sciences Symposium is an undergraduate-created and run event hosted by the Blooms and Shrooms club. This symposium is intended to promote ongoing mycology research…

  • CALL FOR ABSTRACT Penn State Water Conference 2025 – Water on the Horizon The Penn State Association of Water Students (PAWS) and the Water Council invite you to submit the abstract for the 2025 Penn State Water Conference: Water on the Horizon, taking place March 20-21, 2025, at the University Park campus in State College,…

  • On behalf of the Biogeochemistry (BGC) Executive Committee, we would like to remind you all that we still have some BGC Mini Grants available for the academic year FA24-SP25! BGC Mini Grants: The BGC program has some miscellaneous funding from…

  • Past course syllabi: Topics in Biogeochemistry Syllabus 2019_Final

  • Congratulations are in order to Diana Ayala, Caitlin Hodges, and Mara Cloutier on successful defenses of their PhD dissertations! Diana (Environmental Engineering and Biogeochemistry) is a Fulbright Scholar from Ecuador, and her dissertation is Omics-Enabled Evaluation of Microbial Communities in…

  • Congratulations to Allison Franklin on her successful PhD defense! Allison is a PhD in Soil Science and Biogeochemistry and her dissertation “Analysis of environmental fate, transport and toxicological impacts of antibiotics and antibiotic resistant bacteria in agroecosystems impacted by wastewater…

  • The Environmental Chemistry and Microbiology Student Symposium will be held on March 15-16 and abstracts are due February 21st. Keynote speakers include: Dr. Michael Hoffmann, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology. Dr. Hoffmann is the 2019…

  • Congratulations to Paulina Piotroswski on her successional PhD defense! Piotrowski earned a PhD in Chemistry and Biogeochemistry with this dissertation “Enhancing analytical methods towards the geochemical and biogeochemical fingerprinting of shale gas systems”. Piotroswski’s next stop is as a post-doctoral…

  • Diana Ayala was awarded a SIAM Talent Grant to attend a summer school in anaerobic microbiology in the Wagenigen University in the Netherlands in August 2017. I think this is an amazing opportunity for other people who are also interested…