Research Staff

Jim Graham
Dr. Graham's main research interests are in the physiological ecology and population dynamics of algae and protozoa in freshwater systems.

Stuart Jones
Stuart's research focuses on forces that structure aquatic communities and how the composition of those communities influence ecosystem scale processing of organic matter.

Eunsoo Kim
Eunsoo’s research interest is algal and protozoan evolution. She is currently looking for evidence of possible cryptic speciation of Peridinium limbatum from Crystal Lake and Crystal Bog. She is also interested in biodiversity of freshwater protozoa and algae. Her goal is to establish uniprotistan and unialgal cultures of rarely known or unknown creatures from freshwater, particulary oligotrophic, Sphagnum-dominated, acidic wetlands.

Ryan Newton
Ryan is interested in examining the dynamics and function of bacterial communities in freshwater lakes.

Ashley Shade

Principal Investigators

Katherine (Trina) McMahon Lead Principal Investigator
(Civil / Environmental Engineering)

David Armstrong (Civil / Environmental Engineering)

Steve Carpenter (Center for Limnology, Zoology)

Linda Graham (Botany)

Angela Kent
(Natural Resources and Environmental Science,
Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Tim Kratz (Center for Limnology)

Rachel Whitaker
(Microbiology,
Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Former Members

George Lauster

Eric Triplett
( Univ of Florida, Gainesville)

Tony Yannarell
(Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)