We are excited to welcome new team members! Rongyun Tang: We are excited to welcome Rongyun as a postdoctoral Researcher in our lab. Rongyun is joining our team in June 2025.
Congratulations to Dana for successfully defending her MS thesis, “Quantifying Gross Rates of Methane Production and Consumption in a Northern Forest”. Dana’s research was based on an NSF-funded project focused on the Northern Forests (https://www.
We organized the 12th Annual Southeastern Biogeochemistry Symposium (SBS 2025)(https://sbs2025site.wordpress.ncsu.edu/). Grateful to everyone who joined us. Congratulations to Sihi Lab graduate student Praneswar Ghosh (PG) for winning 3rd prize for his talk at SBS 2025!
Congratulations, PG and his project partner Baha Erim Uzunoglu for winning 2nd place in the Theoretical Collaborative Research category at the NC PSI BRIDGE Symposium, 2025!
We had a great semester: graduations, awards and recognition from national, regional, and University levels, internships with external agencies and more. So, we celebrated with students, colleagues, friends and families.
Yaxi Du decoded hidden mechanisms of soil carbon cycle processes using exciting metaphors and visuals! Yaxi is also a semi-finalist in Laney Graduate School’s 3-minute thesis competition. Here is a link to Yaxi’s spotlight video: https://www.
The Lester Committee approves Dana Kahn’s request for research-support (Total: $7,000 in 2023-24). She will join the Howland team crew again for the 2024 Field campaign. See here to learn more about the NSF project Dana is participating as a master’s student: https://www.
Yaxi received 1st prize for her talk at the 2024 Southeastern Biogeochemistry Symposium! Congratualtions, Yaxi! Murray gave another excellent talk, and Dana presented a great poster too! Well done, team! Very proud!
New paper in JGR Biogeosciences, led by former Sihi Lab postdoc, Zhuonan Wang. Open access Link: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/BY4CD4E8UBWZBSYKBFR8?target=10.1029/2023JG007702 News release on this piece: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1039895 Also see here: https://news.emory.edu/stories/2024/04/esc_soil_carbon_models_01-04-2024/story.html
Congratulations to Dana Kah for your recognition with an Honorable Mention in the 2024 NSF GRFP competition. It is a significant achievement for a graduate student in the STEM field. We are proud of you, Dana!