Lab Members
At any point, you can find a wide range of researchers in our lab — students from Biology and Chemistry work alongside students majoring in Environmental and Urban Studies, Studio Arts, and Experimental Humanities. We also engage with citizen scientists from across the Hudson Valley through the Bard Water Lab, and participate in local efforts to protect drinking water and scenic waterways. There are often opportunities for volunteering, work study, internships, research assistantships, and senior projects in the lab — if you’re interested, please contact Prof. Dueker at [email protected]. We welcome anyone with curiosity about the biology of water and air — bring your questions and we’ll work together to explore them scientifically.
Here are some folks who have been or are currently involved in the lab:
Eli Dueker, Bard College Assistant Professor of Biology and Environmental and Urban Studies, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Visiting Researcher, Queens College Associate Researcher
Clara Woolner (BIO 2016), Bard Water Lab Manager and Saw Kill Watershed Community Coordinator
Tierney Weymueller (EUS 2018), student Saw Kill Watershed Community Coordinator, Bard Summer Research Intern (2016)
Christopher Hulbert (BIO 2018), student Bard Water Lab Manager, Bard Summer Research Intern (2016), Senior Project (in progress, Smyth lead advisor): Cyanobacteria in water and air in the Hudson Valley
Lizzy Winig (EUS 2015), research assistant , Senior Project: Lifeguarding the Hudson: Microbial Agents of Concern in Puddles, Tide Pools, and the River
Sophie D’Anieri (EUS 2017), student Saw Kill Watershed Community intern, Bard Summer Research Intern (2016)
Franklin Savulich (EUS 2019), Bard Water Lab intern
Mary Elisa Blundell, community Bard Water Lab volunteer and member of the Saw Kill Watershed Community
Sheila Buff, community Bard Water Lab volunteer and member of the Saw Kill Watershed Community
Karen Schneller-McDonald, community Bard Water Lab volunteer and member of the Saw Kill Watershed Community
Laurie Husted (Bard Sustainability Manager), community Bard Water Lab volunteer and member of the Saw Kill Watershed Community
Marika Krupitsky (BIO 2018), research assistant, Bard Water Lab volunteer
Carlo Raimondo (EUS 2018), lab intern, Bard Water Lab volunteer
Sara Eisenberg (BIO 2018), Bard Water Lab volunteer
Eva Grunblatt (PHYS 2020), Bard Water Lab volunteer
May Grzybowski, Bard Water Lab volunteer
Hunter Mathis (EUS 2019), Bard Water Lab volunteer, research intern
Samuel Astrachan (EUS 2017), Bard Water Lab volunteer, Senior Project (in progress): Effect of Land Use Change on Benthic Macroinvertebrate Communities on the Saw Kill
Aldo Grifo-Hahn (EUS 2017), Senior Project (in progress, Smyth lead advisor): Snapping turtle territorial behavior in North and South Tivoli Bays
Mengzhen Chen (BIO 2017), Senior Project: Comparative microbial flora study of tap water and bottled water in the United States using BOD protocol
Haley Goss-Holmes (BIO 2017), Senior Project: Human Stress Affects Indoor Aerosol Microbial Communities
Kyle Feldman (BIO 2017), Senior Project: Water Security in the Village of Red Hook, New York: Monitoring Groundwater and Surface Water Sources for Potential Indications of Contamination
Marco Spodek (EUS 2017), research assistant, Bard Summer Research Intern (2015), Senior Project: Nitrate Loading in the Saw Kill Watershed: small watershed nutrient dynamics, answering a community question, and assessing methodological approaches
Isabel Keddy-Hector (BIO 2017), Senior Project (Perron lead advisor): A Metagenomic Analysis of Hurricane Sandy Flood-Borne Bacteria
Quanita Kendrick (BIO 2017), Senior Project (Savage lead advisor): Development of Reliable Sampling Strategies to Detect Enterococcus on Impermeable Surfaces
Lizzy Elliott (BIO 2018), Bard Summer Research Intern (2016)
Alanna Rebbeck (EH 2018), Bard Summer Research Intern (2016)
Ayat Kanaan (Al Quds Bard BIO 2018), Bard Summer Research Intern (2016)
Yuejiao Wan (EUS 2018/19 and Duke University Forestry), Bard Summer Research Intern (2015), Shanghai water and air quality project
Isaiah Chisholm (EUS 2016), research assistant, Senior Project: Development and Application of Otolith Microstructure Analysis of glass-phase American eels (Anguilla rostrata) in the Saw Kill
Melissa Guevara (EUS 2016), Senior Project: River Beneath the Street
Beckett Lansbury (BIO 2016), Hudson River Foundation Polgar Fellowship (2015), Senior Project: Influence of a Waterway on the Microbial Colonization of Riparian Vegtation
Shaya French (BIO 2015), Senior Project: Influence of sewage and sewage infrastructure on microbial aerosols above an urban waterway
Sherif Kamal (Parsons School of Design, 2014), Hudson River Foundation Polgar Fellowship (2013): Microbial Agents of Concern in Water and Air at the Hudson River Estuary Waterfront
