Our geo-science and environmental science students hail from a wide range of institutions and disciplines. All are interested in scientific research and are participating in our study of biogeochemical processes in northern upland and wetland ecosystems.
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Nate Tomczyk University of Maine Ecology and Environmental Science major I am a senior in the Ecology and Environmental Science program at the University of Maine. My previous research experience was studying biogeochemistry in vernal pools at my home university. In Abisko I am working closely with Eric (The Hammer) Heim to find a gradient of bedrock phosphorous concentrations. My work on the gradient will be with the soils that overlay the bedrock and the microbes in those soils. Specifically I will be looking at the microbial biomass by measuring substrate induced respiration, enzyme activities using a fluoremetric micro plate method and also the concentrations of nutrients in the soils. I may also do a side project involving soil biology along a temperature/altitudinal gradient.
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