About Ed

I am an ecosystem and microbial ecologist working to understand how microorganisms control and constrain transformative processes in primarily (but not exclusively) aquatic ecosystems. My research has two principal pillars. The ecosystem ecology research primarily takes place in the Lake Yojoa watershed in north central Honduras. It addresses pressing questions in watershed sustainability and tropical limnology. The microbial ecology research focuses on the causes and consequences of microbial biomass. How do environmental stressors cause microbes to alter their biomass composition and how do those shifts in biomass affect the systems (food webs, ecosystems) those microbes participate in. In our lab we work across scales from single-cell microbiology to integrated watershed analyses of natural and perturbed ecosystems.

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Interests

  • We investigate the causes and consequences of microbial biomass in a range of diverse ecosystems

Education

B.S., Biology - University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA,

Ph.D., Ecology - University of Minnesota
Saint Paul, MN,

Presentations

Is Heavy Metal Bad For Your Biomass? Consequences of Metal Exposure to Bacterial Stoichiometry Upstream and Downstream from a Superfund Site

ASM annual meeting, Atlanta, GA, June, 2018

Hall, E.K.

Evaluating variation in microbial ecology one cell at a time.

ESA annual meeting, Portland, OR, August 2017

Hall, E.K.

Lake Yojoa Honduras: The changing state of a large tropical lake during 30 years of human caused stress

ESA annual meeting, Baltimore, MD, August, 2015

Hall, E.K.

Memberships

  • Ecological Society of America, Advancing the Science of Limnology and Oceanography, International Society of Microbial Ecology, American Geophysical Union