This page is the homepage of the Wet Ecosystems Research Group at NDSU (under construction)
Graduate students
La Toya Kissoon (M.S. student): 'Metal accumulation in the rhizosphere and constitutive metal tolerance in wetland plants' (Funded by North Dakota EPSCoR start-up funds for Marinus Otte).
Sharmila Sunwar (Ph.D. student): 'Elemental uptake by Triglochin maritima in 'extreme' wetlands - hot springs, salt marhes and saline-sodic prairie potholes' (Funded by North Dakota EPSCoR start-up funds for Marinus Otte)
Dimuthu Wijeyeratne (Ph.D. student): ' Chemical fingerprinting of wetland sediments' (Funded by the NDSU Graduate School).
Undergraduate students
Jordan Wein (2006/2007, undergraduate work study student, NDSU): 'Phytostabilization: Chemical Mobility in Soil Under Different Plants' (Funded by the Agricultural Experiment Station/NDSU- College for Science and Mathematics Small Grant Program).
Matthew Green (Summer 2007, undergraduate work study student, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN). 'Phytostabilization: Chemical Mobility in Soil Under Different Plants' (Funded by the Agricultural Experiment Station/NDSU- College for Science and Mathematics Small Grant Program). Also 'Aphids on Triglochin maritima'.
Carolyn Mauricio (Summer 2007, NATURE student, Cankdeska Cikana Community College, Fort Totton , ND): 'The Rhizosphere: the secret life of roots'.
Stephanie Franco (Summer 2007, NATURE student, Sitting Bull College, Fort Yates , ND): 'The Rhizosphere: the secret life of roots'.
La Toya Kissoon (M.S. student): 'Metal accumulation in the rhizosphere and constitutive metal tolerance in wetland plants' (Funded by North Dakota EPSCoR start-up funds for Marinus Otte).
Sharmila Sunwar (Ph.D. student): 'Elemental uptake by Triglochin maritima in 'extreme' wetlands - hot springs, salt marhes and saline-sodic prairie potholes' (Funded by North Dakota EPSCoR start-up funds for Marinus Otte)
Dimuthu Wijeyeratne (Ph.D. student): ' Chemical fingerprinting of wetland sediments' (Funded by the NDSU Graduate School).
Undergraduate students
Jordan Wein (2006/2007, undergraduate work study student, NDSU): 'Phytostabilization: Chemical Mobility in Soil Under Different Plants' (Funded by the Agricultural Experiment Station/NDSU- College for Science and Mathematics Small Grant Program).
Matthew Green (Summer 2007, undergraduate work study student, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN). 'Phytostabilization: Chemical Mobility in Soil Under Different Plants' (Funded by the Agricultural Experiment Station/NDSU- College for Science and Mathematics Small Grant Program). Also 'Aphids on Triglochin maritima'.
Carolyn Mauricio (Summer 2007, NATURE student, Cankdeska Cikana Community College, Fort Totton , ND): 'The Rhizosphere: the secret life of roots'.
Stephanie Franco (Summer 2007, NATURE student, Sitting Bull College, Fort Yates , ND): 'The Rhizosphere: the secret life of roots'.
For information, contact marinus.otte@ndsu.edu or donna.jacob@ndsu.edu
Otte and Jacob moved from Ireland in 2006, see www.ucd.ie/wetland/wethome.htm