Benjamin Peterson

First shipment of supplies into the new lab! Can't wait to put these new toys to use.

As projects develop, I will be looking to recruit graduate students, undergraduates, and postdocs starting in 2025. If you or someone you know is interested in any or all of these topics, stay tuned for these opportunities!

My lab will focus on contaminant and microbial biogeochemistry, with a specific emphasis on mercury and the Great Lakes region. We will be highly collaborative and use an interdisciplinary approach, with research programs in both environmental and culture-based study systems.

I'm excited to share that today was my first day as an Assistant Professor in the School of Freshwater Sciences (@waterscienceUWM) at UW - Milwaukee! I am very excited to join the great faculty at this one-of-a-kind program, especially in my home state and a city I love.

As permafrost thaws, its massive stores of mercury leach into the environment. @BigMicrobeBen of @UCDavis will use advanced microbial methods to understand the effect of permafrost-derived carbon on the microbial communities that produce toxic methylmercury.

For more info on the system and the USGS project: USGS Fact Sheet: pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2016/3051/f… MeHg loads to and export from the Hells Canyon Complex: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10… Impact of biogeochemistry on Hg fate: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art… More studies in prep!

Another dissertation chapter in print! We joined a massive U.S. Geological Survey project, investigating mercury cycling in a hydroelectric reservoir along the Snake River, to identify the microbes methylating mercury under nitrate-reducing conditions. nature.com/articles/s4139…

@quendi @RikaEAnderson I have yet to find a better sampling table

@RikaEAnderson @BigMicrobeBen

Our first seminar is tomorrow 🙂 join us

Submit an abstract to our special special "Meta-omic and geochemical approaches to linking microbial activity to biogeochemical mercury cycling" - Abstracts due Feb 28! #ICMGP2022

Join us for our first seminar on 24 Feb with @caitlin_gio as speaker. You can join us at mersorcium@gmail.com or here mersorcium.github.io for Zoom id. Looking forward to meet with all of you :)

The world lost a great one yesterday. Gonna miss you Woodsie, I was lucky to have had the opportunity to call you "coach". geneseoknights.com/general/2021-2…

Giannis Antetokounmpo. NBA Champion. Finals MVP.

2021 NBA CHAMPIONS!!

@quendi @Manuel_Kleiner @SeaStoriesRP @LizzyWilbanks Nice! That should count as a personal item on a flight, right?

@Manuel_Kleiner @SeaStoriesRP @LizzyWilbanks @BigMicrobeBen