Microbial life such as bacteria, fungi, and algae are integral to a naturally functioning aquatic ecosystem. By applying comprehensive molecular approaches, this laboratory is focused on characterizing the composition and distribution of microbial communities, and determining the functional roles as well as their interactions with environments.
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Studying How Massive Storms Impact Water Quality
Big storm events deliver huge amounts of particulate materials, which contributes significantly to the total amount of nutrients in freshwater streams and rivers.
Study Will Investigate Storm Impacts on Fresh Water
The Stroud Center will measure the huge amount sediment-associated nitrogen flushed downstream during intense storms, and investigate what happens to it.
Parent material and vegetation influence bacterial community structure and nitrogen functional genes along deep tropical soil profiles at the Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory
Stone, M.M., J. Kan, and A.F. Plante. 2015. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 80:273–282.
Forest canopy structural controls over throughfall affect soil microbial community structure in an epiphyte-laden maritime oak stand
Rosier, C., J. van Stan, L. Moore, J. Schrom, T. Wu, J. Reichard, and J. Kan. 2015. Ecohydrology 8:1459–1470.
Improved performance of the PacBio SMRT technology for 16S rDNA sequencing
Mosher, J.J., B. Bowman, E.L. Bernberg, O. Shevchenko, J. Kan, J. Korlach, and L.A. Kaplan. 2014. Journal of Microbiological Methods 104:59–60.
Linking seasonal inorganic nitrogen shift to the dynamics of microbial communities in the Chesapeake Bay
Hong, Y., X. Xu, J. Kan, and F. Chen. 2014. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 98:3219–3229.
Publications
Abandoned coal mine drainage and its remediation: impacts on stream ecosystem structure and function
Bott, T.L., J.K. Jackson, M. McTammany, J.D. Newbold, S. Rier, B.W. Sweeney, and J. Battle. 2012. Ecological Applications 22:2144–2163.
Electricity generation from a floating marine microbial fuel cell
Huang, Y., Z. He, J. Kan, A.K. Manohar, K.H. Nealson, and F. Mansfeld. 2012. Bioresource Technology 114:308–313.
Scaling the gas transfer velocity and hydraulic geometry in streams and small rivers
Raymond, P.A., C.J. Zappa, D. Butman, T.L. Bott, C. Potter, P. Mulholland, A.E. Laursen, W.H. McDowell, and D. Newbold. 2012. Limnology and Oceanography: Fluids and Environments 2:41–53.
Helton, R.R., K. Wang, J. Kan, D.H. Powell, and K.E. Wommack. 2012. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 79:474–486.
Kan, J., and J. Sun. 2011. Biodiversity Science 19:770–778.
