{"id":4771,"date":"2018-02-26T17:58:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T17:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/?p=4771"},"modified":"2022-10-07T17:59:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T17:59:41","slug":"freshwater-aquatic-trophic-level-shifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/2018\/02\/26\/freshwater-aquatic-trophic-level-shifts\/","title":{"rendered":"Freshwater Aquatic Trophic Level Shifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">[Past Projects]<\/span><\/h3>\n<h2>Dr. Francisco Moore and Lamalani Siverts<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Lake Erie regularly experiences harmful algal blooms that can be toxic due to cyanobacteria domination.\u00a0 The cyanobacteria thrive on nutrient runoff from agriculture and warmer global temperatures. Zebra and Quagga mussels are invasive species in North America and act as ecosystem engineers. This study will use stable isotopes to track the aquatic food web before, during, and after the harmful algal bloom season to examine how mussels impact phytoplankton trophic levels. Spend your summer on a boat and learn how to obtain aquatic field samples, process the samples, and analyze the data.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-823\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1447\/2018\/02\/pond-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"389\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uakron.edu\/biology\/faculty-staff\/detail.dot?u=moore\">Click here for more information on Dr. Moore&#8217;s lab.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Past Projects] Dr. Francisco Moore and Lamalani Siverts Lake Erie regularly experiences harmful algal blooms that can be toxic due to cyanobacteria domination.\u00a0 The cyanobacteria thrive on nutrient runoff from agriculture and warmer global temperatures. Zebra and Quagga mussels are invasive species in North America and act as ecosystem engineers. This study will use stable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/2018\/02\/26\/freshwater-aquatic-trophic-level-shifts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Freshwater Aquatic Trophic Level Shifts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4695,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[125789],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-past-projects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4695"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4772,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4771\/revisions\/4772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/tiered-mentoring\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}