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Kaylynne Dennis Defends Thesis On The Freshwater Carbon Cycle
October 31, 2025
Kaylynne Dennis successfully defended her Master's thesis on October 31st, 2025, titled "Trends, Drivers, and Implications: Measurements of Production and Respiration Reveal Net Autotrophy in a Great Lakes Estuary."
Commentary on Great Lakes Science Published in JGLR
August 31, 2025
A commentary was published by collaborators from the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research on the value of Great Lakes research in terms of human health and safety, economic prosperity, and society�s capacity to confront major challenges.
Book Review in Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin
June 25, 2025
Bopi Biddanda and colleague James Cotner published a book review on Peter Blanken's textbook "Essentials of Water: Water in the Earth's Physical and Biological Environments."
Microbial Mat Story Featured in Eos
January 12, 2024
Decades after their discovery, Grand Valley and NOAA collaborated on summarizing current findings of the Lake Huron Sinkholes of Northeastern Michigan, and the microbial mats within for Eos.
Nate Dugener wins Outstanding Pub Award from GVSU Grad School
November 27, 2023
Former graduate student of the Biddanda Lab, Nate Dugener, won the 2023 Outstanding Publication Award from the GVSU Graduate School.
Bopi Biddanda featured in Q&A for GV Magazine
October 27, 2023
Bopi Biddanda was featured in a Q&A interview for GV Magazine and video on board the RV Jackson.
EOS Opinion on Spain's Mountain Water Towers published
August 25, 2023
An opinion piece about protecting the Mountain water towers of Spain's Sierra Nevada mountain range was published in the September issue of EOS.
Pair of papers about hypoxia published in Hydrobiology and JGLR
June 17, 2023
A pair of research articles about bottom water hypoxia in Muskegon Lake were published in the Journals Hydrobiology and Journal of Great Lakes Research.
Microbial Mat Tango Story Featured on GVSU Homepage and GVNext
February 10, 2023
The recently published study entitled "Extant mat microbes synchronize vertical migration to a diel tempo" by Bopi Biddanda, Anthony Weinke, and Ian Stone was featured on the GVSU homepage and in GVNext.
Study Detailing Daily Migrations of Microbial Mats Published in February Issue of JGLR
February 2, 2023
The Biddanda lab visually documented daily vertical migrations of purple and white-appearing microbial mats in Lake Huron sinkholes. The paper was officially published in the February issue of the Journal of Great Lakes Research.