Stroud Water Research Center
A study of how soil erosion and sediment transport through rivers impacts the exchange of carbon between the land and the atmosphere and affects climate.
Senior Research Scientist
Staff Scientist
Wang, J., L. Borecki, X. Zhang, D. Wang, J. Kan, and J. Sun. 2016. Acta Oceanologica Sinica 35:85–93.
This project is testing sediment microbial fuel cells (MFCs) as a source of clean, sustainable, environmentally friendly energy. The study uses MFCs to power a Christmas tree as an example…
While an intern at the Stroud Center, Kristen Jellison, Ph.D., got her first taste of investigative scientific research, and she was immediately hooked.
Kan, J., S. Clingenpeel, C.L. Dow, T.R. McDermott, R.E. Macur, W.P. Inskeep, and K.H. Nealson. 2016. Frontiers in Microbiology 7(210):1–13.
Investigators explore how the quality of organic molecules changes with distance downstream and how those changes influence the composition of the communities of streambed microbes using that food resource. The…
Inskeep, W.P., Z.J. Jay, R.E. Macur, S. Clingenpeel, A. Tenney, D. Lovalvo, J.P. Beam, M.A. Kozubal, W.C. Shanks, L.A. Morgan, J. Kan, Y. Gorby, S. Yooseph, and K. Nealson. 2015. Frontiers in Microbiology 6:1044.
Zhang, X., J. Kan, J. Wang, H. Gu, J. Hu, Y. Zhao, and J. Sun. 2015. Ecotoxicology 24:1430–1441.