Jenni Soohy, biology graduate assistant

Jenni Soohy joined the biology department after completing an REU internship at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences studying copepods. She is currently working in Steven Rier’s stream ecology lab researching ecosystem function of streams and collaborating with the Chesapeake Conservancy to monitor stream restoration projects.

Her research focuses on a benthic cyanobacteria, Phormidium spp.She would like to better understand the environmental conditions that cause it to proliferate and learn more about the ecosystem function of the benthic mat it creates.