Recent NCED graduates Nikki Strong (PhD '06) and Ben O'Connor (PhD '06) are perfect examples of the diverse and exciting fields that NCED students can look forward to after graduation. To read about what they're up to in our new web feature "Where Are They Now" (which highlights NCED graduates' current careers), please click here.

The interdisciplinary research approach of NCED PI Miki Hondzo, Associate Professor at the UMN, was the feature article in the most recent issue of the SAFL Channel (SAFL's biannual alumni newsletter). Hondzo's research team has been active in many aspects of NCED's StreamLab series of experiments. Click here for a description of his group's research, or here to read the SAFL Channel.

NCED grad student bridges institutions, research
Michael Limm, NCED graduate student with Mary Power at UC Berkeley, spent the month of October working with Miki Hondzo at the University of Minnesota on a collaborative project between the two labs. The question they are attempting to answer is "How do changes in sediment flux, specifically fine sediment, impact the productivity base of the food web (periphyton) via hydraulic changes near the bed surface?" During his visit, Limm and Hondzo manipulated bed roughness in a flume and measured periphyton response. They quantified flow conditions for different levels of bed roughness using an Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter (ADV) and Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV).