NEWS UPDATES:
August 2024: This past year has been a looooong one. In August 2023, I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease and Alpha Gal Syndrome after receiving several tick bites over the 2023 summer field season. A month on doxycycline seemed to clear up Lyme, but Alpha Gal has been a different story. I have been a vegetarian for many years, and so, I thought I would not have to worry about Lone Star Tick bites. BUT, turns out, Alpha Gal is so much more than a 'red meat allergy'. At my worst, I was sensitive to any product that contained alpha gal, including toiletries, cosmetics, sugar, wool blankets, leather furniture, my dog, my rabbit, and on and on. I even reacted to fumes from cooking red meat and melted cheese! Exposures resulted in headaches, stomach pains, strange rashes, fatigue, brain fog, and joint pain.
Acupuncture has me feeling somewhat better these days. However, I may never get to eat ice cream and pizza again. So sad. : (
This is my public service announcement: CHECK FOR TICKS!!! Every Day! Every Where on Your Body!
Acupuncture has me feeling somewhat better these days. However, I may never get to eat ice cream and pizza again. So sad. : (
This is my public service announcement: CHECK FOR TICKS!!! Every Day! Every Where on Your Body!
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July 2023: PRISM researcher Abigail Sommer ('25) and I had a productive summer making fish glow! More info to come...
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June 2023: Check out our dataset on Lake Trophic Status across the conterminous United States based on remote sensing data. So excited to be part of this fabulous group of scientists led by Dr. Michael Meyer, USGS.
Lake Trophic Status Dataset
Lake Trophic Status Dataset
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April 2023: We had so much fun hosting Ware Academy at the Baliles Center this week... our first field trip since the COVID pandemic. Students learned about the importance of wetlands from scientists with Resource Environmental Solutions (RES), LLC, oysters from volunteers with the Tidewater Oyster Growers Association (TOGA), and water quality with Drs. Dina Leech and Ben Campbell. Can't wait to have you back next year!
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April 2023: So proud of Danielle Clarke-Bradley ('24) and Grace Smith ('25) on their poster presentation at Longwood's Research and Inquiry Day. We are looking forward to sharing our work on environmental sensors and 'dead zone' monitoring at the Chesapeake Studies Conference in September 2023.
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August 2022: Dina received Longwood's Provost Scholarship Award at this year's Convocation, which recognizes excellence in scholarship. So honored and excited!
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May 2022: Dina presented our work on DOM flocculation and its potential to contribute to estuarine 'dead zone' formation at last week's Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting in Grand Rapids, Michigan. So great to see friends and colleagues and catch up on some great aquatic science!
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May 2022: Congratulations Kelsey on your graduation and being named this year's Outstanding Senior in Integrated Environmental Sciences. We are going to miss you, but can't wait to see you captain your own vessel!
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January 2022: Thank you, Whitney Pipkin, and The Bay Journal for highlighting our new Baliles Center for Environmental Education and the work we do with our students.
The Bay Journal: Taking the long view on land, education |
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LINK: Inland and Coastal Waters are changing color... so what? |
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https://cdnsciencepub.com/eprint/IVIQAQ2RFIRQ52FH6AUX/full |
- September 2020: Science inspiring art... Check out former lab member Troy Clift's new tattoo! I wonder what Angelo Secchi would think? And can you now use Troy's leg in lieu of the disk???
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SABBATICAL!!! |
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April 2020: Out of COVID craziness, a new research project is born! With the move to online learning, Kirsten Bauer ('21), Davice Jones ('23), and Dr. Leech have shifted their research efforts to analysis of large datasets. Check out their new project assessing the effects of water quality on largemouth bass populations in Briery Creek and Sandy River Reservoirs, Farmville, VA. The project collaborates with scientists at the Virginia Departments of Wildlife Resources and Environmental Quality and is supported by Longwood's PRISM program.
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2019 ASLO Fellows Announcement |
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Lakes in Blue and Brown |
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https://doi.org/10.1002/lob.10278 |
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- September 2018: Dina and Dr. Mark Fink attended the Organization of Biological Field Stations annual meeting at the Schoodic Institute in Acadia National Park, Maine. Such an awesome venue for the meeting, and we learned so much about running a field station. We can't wait to put our ideas into action at Longwood's Hull Springs Farm.
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