Abby Webster

PhD student at SUNY ESF studying attached and benthic cyanobacteria in the Finger Lakes, NY. Interested in all things water quality. Opinions are my own 💧☀️🧪

[Abby Webster @aquatic_abby]

@NYCmicrobes @WiseAlgae @PSAAlgae @algaenerd Love to see this!

[Abby Webster @aquatic_abby]

This was one of my favorite experiences of 2022. Awesome place with a great mix of field & lab, and even better people. I learned so much! 🔬

[Michael Kausch @NYCmicrobes]

Still time to register (deadline extended!) for this awesome algae identification course @LouisCalderCtr taught by John Wehr. Check out very cool sites and meet some great people (last year @WiseAlgae, @aquatic_abby, @DrAlgaeGirl, @MiaWrey), plus you get to hang out with me. 🔬😝

[Abby Webster @aquatic_abby]

My research is taking me to Australia! 🇦🇺 Stoked for this opportunity and so ready to jump into it 🦘Check out other awesome student projects below ⤵️

[ASLO @aslo_org]

ASLO is pleased to announce the newest cohort of the #NSFfunded #LOREX program! These 11 students will be embarking on international research exchanges in 4 host countries this summer and fall. Read more about the students and their projects here: https://t.co/Ro8diBlYZF

[🦋Dr. Emme C.🦋 @TeraLepido]

Girls! Help me put this on blast. The first ever conference on environmental science and studies @sunyesf is happening in April 2023. We need your help sharing this faaaar and wide. I know I follow a lot of faculty and researchers, please share with your students.

[Abby Webster @aquatic_abby]

Check out this new paper by my awesome lab mates and advisor! They propose a new method to time stamp Hg exposure to fish using fish eye lenses 👁‍🗨🐟

[Abby Webster @aquatic_abby]

Hey sci twitter, what's the shelf life on your chlorophyll-a standard when it's already in extraction solution?

I think I purchased Sigma-Aldrich Chl-a from spinach (C5753) last year, but I'm not at the lab where that lot's spec sheet is... do I need to buy another?

[Abby Webster @aquatic_abby]

@OKWildlifeDept YOY longnose gar are still among the cutest things I've ever seen. From a 2017 seining survey in the St Lawrence River

[Abby Webster @aquatic_abby]

Thinking it's the same thing as what I saw a month prior in the same lake. Also 400x. True branching?

[Abby Webster @aquatic_abby]

A day late to #phycologyFriday and getting stumped again with an attached cyano ID. No heterocytes present. It's moniliform?Thought it had true branching but got to a point in the key where only false was mentioned... hints? Photos at 400x, 2nd pic is zoomed in.

[Abby Webster @aquatic_abby]

Happy #phycologyfriday! Never did a proper intro, so I'm Abby 👋 My research uses artificial substrates to monitor attached cyanobacteria in lakes. Today involves prepping for my 12-week sampling next week, which means we're already 3/5 through the field season 🙁

[Abby Webster @aquatic_abby]

Sometimes phycobiliprotein extractions aren't so bad 😌Standard spectra: phycocyanin crude extracted from cheap Spirulina (works fine) and phycoerythin purchased pre-purified (worth it). Spec identified the peaks!

[GEOAQUAWATCH @geoaquawatch]

Take the NEON Algal Taxonomic Data Survey! https://t.co/aEYPBxO2kP

[Abby Webster @aquatic_abby]

@janthealgaeman @morgan_vis Geminella keys out! Thanks! 🔎

[Abby Webster @aquatic_abby]

It's #PhycologyFriday and I'm not sure where to start with this ID. Chain of tiny greens? Could it be a desmid? Cyano? (But I think I see chloroplasts and starch granules)
Found in periphyton assemblage from a mesotrophic lake. More details below 🔬

[Abby Webster @aquatic_abby]

Mags in order: 40x(?) Spirogyra for scale, 400x, 630x, 630x. I added lugol's before 2nd photo, but couldn't tell if I was seeing starch or if refraction(?) was messing with the light/true colors.

[Abby Webster @aquatic_abby]

Found lots of #hydrodictyon nets while paddling today. Continuously amazed by algal structures

[Michael Kausch @NYCmicrobes]

Congratulations and thank you to John Wehr and @LouisCalderCtr algae class @DrAlgaeGirl, @WiseAlgae, @Abby__Webster, @MiaWrey, Robbin Matthews, Karen Collins, Heather Pembrook, Don Culjak, Puspha Naraine, John Kaurich for an awesome two weeks of collecting!! #PhycologyFriday