Laura Lapham, Ph.D.

Gas hydrates, methane cycling, sediment biogeochemistry, carbon and nitrogen cycling, sulfate reduction, methanogenesis.

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Lapham, L.L., E.A. Hobbs, J.M. Testa, A. Heyes, M.K. Forsyth, C. Hodgkins, C. Szewczyk* and L.A. Harris. 2022. The effects of engineered aeration on atmospheric methane flux from a Chesapeake Bay tidal tributary. Frontiers in Environmental Science.
Lapham, L., S. Dallimore, C. Magen, L. Henderson*, L Powers, M. Gonsior, B. Clark, M. Cote, P. Fraser, and B Orcutt. 2020. Microbial greenhouse gas dynamics associated with warming coastal permafrost, Western Canadian Arctic. Frontiers in Earth Science.

Glenna, M.*, L. Lapham, A. Hildebrand, M. Strauss. 2024. Anaerobic and aerobic methane oxidation rates under varying temperature conditions in surficial sediments of the Chesapeake Bay. Ocean Sciences Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Rico, I.*, L. Lapham, and E. Hobbs. 2022. Impact of sedimentary methane flux on the water column in the Patuxent River. Ocean Sciences Meeting, Virtual.
Henderson, L.*, C. Magen, S. Dallimore, D. Whalen, P. Fraser, B. Orcutt, C. Wheat, L. Lapham. 2018. Methane production rates from laboratory incubations of Arctic coastal plain permafrost . American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Washington, District of Columbia .
Byrd, A.*, H. McIntosh, M. Gonsior, and L. Lapham. 2017. Characterizing fluorescent dissolved organic matter in sediment pore-waters of the Chesapeake Bay estuary . ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii .
Martin, K.*, L. Lapham, and A. Heyes. 2015. Measuring temporal variability of methylmercury and methane in the pore waters of a Chesapeake Bay tidal marsh . AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California .
Geronimo, G.*, and L. Lapham. 2014. The microbial effects of the addition of oil to anoxic sediments from the Chesapeake Bay . Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii .

RECENT REU FELLOWS

Eight students will be presenting the summer work at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in March 2022!
2019 REUs presented at the CERF Conference in Mobile, AL
Olivia Saliger won a student presentation awards for talk at the 2019 Coastal Estuarine Research Federation Meeting. Her REU mentor was Judy O'Neil.
Congratulations to 2015 REU Alison Aceves for being selected as an honorable mention in the 2015 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program competition.
In February 2016, seven REUs from the 2015 cohort presented their research findings at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Congratulations to 2015 REU Hope Ianiri on receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2016)!
Jeanette Davis, Ph.D. (REU '06) published a children's book, Science is Everywhere.
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