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Office: 311 Barnard Hall
Specialty: Microbial ecology in cold temperature environments
E-mail: cforeman@montana.edu

Current Research

  • Studies of deep ice cores
  • Environmental Biofilms
  • Dissolved organic matter (DOM) dynamics

Visit my research website.

My research interests revolve around the organization of microbial communities in relation to their physical environment and the processing of nutrients and organic matter. We use limnological, biochemical and molecular biology approaches to investigate processes carried out by bacteria in permanently ice covered lakes, glaciers and streams. 

Ongoing research concerns carbon flux through bacterial communities in icy environments, with the long-term goal of improving predictions of carbon fate (metabolism to CO2, sequestration into biomass, long term storage in ice) in the context of a changing environment. 

Dr. Foreman reports on the College of Engineering Engineer-A-Thon 

 

Interested students should contact Dr. Foreman or visit her research website

Biofilm related publications searchable by author via CBE Publications Database

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