Marian L. Schmidt

The paper examines how floating photovoltaic arrays affect methane concentrations and microbial communities in ponds, finding higher bottom-water methane and methanotroph blooms under FPV.

The paper links cyanobacterial abundance to heterotrophic metabolism across Lake Erie basins, showing distinct roles of cyanobacterial cohorts in structuring microbial diversity and oxygen demand.

This study shows wind-driven upwelling in Lake Ontario disrupts microbial community assembly by redistributing rare taxa and creating novel coastal communities with unique functional traits.

This paper introduces Absolute UniFrac, a beta-diversity metric that incorporates absolute microbial abundances, and demonstrates its utility through simulations and real datasets.