News and Updates
Current: The Peng Lab is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to study nitrous oxide production by salt marsh sediment fungi.
2024.7.18: Work in the Peng Lab has been featured by the USC Colleage of Arts and Sciences, highlighting our Commitment to educate the next generation of scientists.
2024.4.27: The Peng Lab interacted with 415 zoo guests at the Earth Day Celebration at the Riverbanks Zoo & Garden. We played the Nitrogen Cycle Game (NASA), the Salt marsh activity book (NOAA), and we presented a poster.
2024.4.19: Congratulations to Sydney Staines for defending her Honors Thesis!
2024.4.6: The Peng Lab led a second annual field trip for 35 ZooTeens participants to the Baruch Marine Field Lab and the NOAA Educational Salt Marsh Boardwalk in Georgetown, SC. Special thanks to Beth Thomas and Hayley Fournier for their guidance!
2023.12.23: The Peng Lab participated in a 32-day research cruise to the eastern tropical South Pacific oxygen minimum zone off the coast of Chile and Peru. We departed from Talcahuano on November 18 and returned to Arica on December 20.
2023.7.13: Julianne McHenry participated in a three-week (June 23 - July 12) research cruise to the Santa Barbara Basin. She dived to the bottom of the basin in the HOV (Human Operate Vehicle, submersible) Alvin!
2023.4.29: The Peng Lab concluded the first year of a partnership with the ZooTeens Conservation Team program at the Riverbanks Zoo by leading a field trip for 30 youth participants to the Baruch Marine Field Lab and the NOAA Educational Salt Marsh Boardwalk in Georgetown, SC. Special thanks to Beth Thomas for her guidance!
2023.3.15: Congratulations to Margaret Bernish for defending her Master's thesis! Best wishes for her next adventure as a Ph.D. student at the Gradaute School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island!
2022.11.21: Congratulations to Liam Kellogg for receiving the Magellan Journey award for early researchers!
2022.9.10: Congratulations to Birch Lazo-Murphy for winning the Sonoma County Mycological Association Graduate Fellowship!
2022.8.3: Congratulations to Lily Bosch for receiving the Magellan Journey award for early researchers!
2022.4.28: Congratulations to Dylan Lane for winning the First Place Poster Presentation Award at Discover UofSC!
2022.4.27: Congratulations to Dylan Lane for defending his Honors Thesis!
2022.4.22: Congratulations to Dylan Lane for presenting his Honors Thesis at Discover UofSC today!
2022.4.15: Congratulations to Sydney Staines for receiving the Magellan Journey award for early researchers!
2022.4.4: Congratulations to Sydney Staines for receiving the Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship (NOAA)!
