What does it take to make your own simple microbial fuel cell? Find out what some students have been experimenting with in a Bioenergy course at Duke.
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Composting Commences at the LSRC
One housemate armed herself with a can of fly repellent while another removed the small, covered trash bin from underneath our kitchen sink. She swiftly relocated the pungent bin of food waste to the frontContinue reading
The government shutdown and graduate students
You’ve probably already seen lots of sad stories about how the government shutdown is affecting people around the country. This is not a story as heart-wrenching as those of displaced weddings and turned-away children withContinue reading
How a Master’s Thesis Becomes a Peer-reviewed Article: Episode 5 – Available online!
A few weeks ago, I received the type-set proofs of my paper from the editorial staff at Ecosystems. It was great to see my writing looking like a real journal article. A slightly closer lookContinue reading
One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Algae Food
Abundant waste sources can serve a new purpose and be used to grow algae for biofuels. This post lists a sample of some of these waste sources, have you heard of all of them?
Becoming Informed About Fracking
My experience at Duke’s monthly Energy Mix, and how it prompted me to learn more about fracking and its current state in North Carolina.
Preface
A little about myself and why I’m excited to be blogging.
How a Master’s Thesis Becomes a Peer-reviewed Article: Episode 4 – Acceptance!
Readers, I have been negligent in my blogging this summer. The truth is that I’ve been struggling with a case of PhD angst and ennui. The long list of tasks I hoped to accomplish, papersContinue reading
Attending a workshop – learning new skills
I spent a few days last week attending a workshop in GIS for aquatic ecology and evolutionary biology at St. Louis University. It’s intense training – 8 hours a day thinking about how to import,Continue reading
Cicadas are coming!
As entomologist Craig Gibbs notes in a recent New York Times Op-Ed, the cicadas are coming. There’s been a lot of buzz (no pun intended, I swear!) about the emergence of the Brood II cicadas,Continue reading