February 2023

Thank you, Taylor Burke, for the great story coverage on Reno’s Channel 4 News. We are honored to have our research featured on the January 30, 2023 morning segment.

January 2023

Thanks to John Seelmeyer for writing an article about our recent publication. Check it out on Nevada Today.

December 2022

Save the Date! We will be hosting an NSF workshop in October 2023 at the University of Nevada, Reno campus to discuss the future of atmospheric mercury measurements. For more details, check out the workshop website. Hope to see you there.

November 2022

Join Dr. Monica Arienzo of the Desert Research Institute (DRI) and myself for a fall River Walk on November 5th at 10:00 a.m. The event will be hosted by Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful. We will walk along the beautiful Truckee River, talk about microplastics and their prevalence in the Truckee Meadows, and highlight some of the exciting microplastics research taking place at DRI and UNR. Be sure to sign up for the event before the slots fill up!

September 2022

• Event Cancelled due to wildfire smoke: Be sure to stop by the Core Analytical Lab’s booth at the annual CABNR Field Day event this year to say “Hi!” and grab a CAL sticker.
• Our master’s student, Natalie Allen, was one of the top 20 UNR graduate students selected to present at the UNR Siebenz-Binz Tahoe Forum, starring Sir Richard Branson and Dr. Guy Harvey. Congrats, Natalie!

August 2022

See you in Pittsburgh for the National Ambient Air Monitoring Conference. Be sure to stop by for my talk, “New methods for measuring reactive, particulate-bound, and gaseous oxidized mercury”.

July 2022

Be sure to check out our workshop and presentations, as well as our “New developments in understanding reactive mercury concentrations and chemistry” special session, at the International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant 2022!

• Workshop: “Introduction to New Methods for Measuring Reactive, Particulate, and Gaseous Oxidized Mercury Chemistry and Concentrations”
• Presentation: “Comparison and calibration of methods for ambient reactive mercury quantification” – by Sarrah Dunham-Cheatham
• Presentation: “Insights derived from observations of the chemistry and concentrations of reactive Hg, gaseous oxidized Hg, and particulate bound Hg at multiple locations with different climate in the United States” – by Mae Gustin
• Presentation: “Evidence Against Rapid Mercury Oxidation in Photochemical Smog” – by Seth Lyman
• Presentation: “Ambient mercury observations in wildfire plumes at two Western U.S. sites using an improved dual-channel measurement system” – by Lynne Gratz
• Presentation: “Improvements to the RMAS used to measure and identify concentrations and chemistry of reactive mercury” – by Natalie Allen
• Presentation: “Fate of mercury, cadmium, selenium and arsenic in a simulated industrial aquaculture setting. International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant” by Livia Lown

May 2022

A huge congratulations to Nicole Choma for being honored with the Sam Lieberman Regents’ Award for Student Scholarship.

April 2022

• Be sure to check out my talk at the UNR Faculty Senate’s “Meet Future Collaborators” event on the 15th. Contact me for more details.
• Check out Nicole Choma’s poster, “Investigating sorption and desorption behavior of mercury to microplastics in aquatic ecosystems”, at the Spring Wolf Pack Discoveries Symposium on the 25th

March 2022

Congrats to Dr. Mae Gustin and our research team for winning the UNR Environmental Health & Safety’s “Excellence in Laboratory Safety Award”! Keep up the good (safe) work, team!

February 2022

Our new Shimadzu TOC analyzer is now ready for use in the Core Analytical Lab. Be sure to contact us to request use.

December 2021

Be sure to attend my talk, “Comparison of methods for the measurement of gaseous oxidized mercury” at AGU this month.

July 2021

If you are attending Goldschmidt this year, be sure to check out our work, presented by Seth Lyman, “Accurate Measurements Show High Atmospheric Oxidized Mercury in the Western United States.”

April 2021

Check out this week’s featured article in Nevada Weekly, showcasing our recent pet food mercury study.

November 2020

Our team is going to SciCon2! Be sure to catch all of our presentations, including:

• Comparison of reactive mercury measurements from multiple co-located active systems (presenter: Sarrah Dunham-Cheatham)
• Assessment of the variation in tree ring mercury concentrations between co-located tree species (presenter: Ben Ingle)

October 2020

Check out this feature article on the Core Analytical Lab.

July 2020

The University of Nevada, Reno Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station and the USDA Agriculture Research Service have teamed up form the Core Analytical Laboratory (CAL), and have named me the lab Director!

Check out the capabilities of the CAL at our new website.

September 2019

This month my collaborators and I will be presenting our research at the 14th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant.

Talks will include:

• Testing methods for quantification and identification of reactive mercury compounds
• Development of an automated method for measurement of gaseous oxidized mercury
• Measurement and understanding GOM concentrations and chemistry from sites in Utah, Hawaii, Maryland, and Nevada, USA
• An integrated system for accurate, independently verified measurements of oxidized mercury
• Reactive mercury speciation and dry deposition during AMDEs in the Arctic

Posters will include:

• Mercury is a global contaminant in commercial cat and dog foods
• Introducing UNRRMAS­­ 2.0: Improvements for quantification and identification of atmospheric reactive mercury
• Ozone may not be an important oxidant of atmospheric mercury

August, 2019

Check out my chapter, “Standard Techniques in Geomicrobiology”, in Analytical Geomicrobiology: A Handbook of Instrumental Techniques, available now from Cambridge University Press.

March 27, 2019

Happy Women in Science Month! This month, the University is featuring some of our female STEM scientists. I am honored to be featured twice on the Nevada Today blog alongside Drs. Stringham and Yerka as well as my fellow female pet food researchers.

Edit: The Nevada Today blogs posts were additionally featured in the April 5, 2019 and April 12, 2019 Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) newsletters, under the “General Interest News” section.