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Rier Laboratory
Stream Ecology
Commonwealth University

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Student researchers in the Rier Lab

Rebecca Burlingame, M.S. student

Rebecca Burlingame, M.S. student

Rebecca Burlingame, M.S. student

Microbial extracellular enzymes in soils

Hanna Martin, M.S. student

Rebecca Burlingame, M.S. student

Rebecca Burlingame, M.S. student

Role of nutrients in mediating the effects of algal-produced labile carbon exudates on the decomposition of detrital organic matter in streams

Recent alumni

Emily Ashberry, M.S.

Emily Ashberry, M.S.

Emily Ashberry, M.S.

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection


M.S. thesis: Understanding the environmental context of algal priming of course particulate organic matter decomposition in streams


Corey Conville, M.S.

Emily Ashberry, M.S.

Emily Ashberry, M.S.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency


M.S. thesis: Comparison of macroinvertebrate bioindicators to ecosystem function across a gradient of agricultural impairment



Ben Paul, M.S.

Emily Ashberry, M.S.

Mitchell Liddick, M.S.

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection


M.S. thesis: Influence of Cladophora sp. on the composition and spatial distribution of macroinvertebrate communities in streams

Mitchell Liddick, M.S.

Mitchell Liddick, M.S.

Mitchell Liddick, M.S.

Ph.D. Student

University of Notre Dame


M.S. thesis: Using mesocosms to investigate the effects of microfibers on stream biofilm taxonomic distributions and nutrient uptake

M.S. thesis: Using mesocosms to investigate the effects of microfibers on stream biofilm taxonomic d

Braeden Gonzales, M.S.

Mitchell Liddick, M.S.

Braeden Gonzales, M.S.

Somerset County, MD Sanitary District



M.S. thesis: Microbial extracellular enzymes as indicators of riparian and upstream forest cover in headwater streams

AMD and algal phosphorus limitation

Martina Bennick, M.S.

Mitchell Liddick, M.S.

Braeden Gonzales, M.S.

M.S. thesis: ­­Assessing the impacts of anthropogenic acidification on autotrophic stream biofilms using pulse amplitude modulation fluorometry


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