Smith College

Lab Group

Miller starting scale-ups!

Pine St. samples on different media

Microbial culture from Pine Street

Plus Jeremy in the background!

McCardell Bicentennial Hall

Where the magic happens!

Summer Lab Group 2016

The Giddings lab

Bioactivity Screens

Kayak/BBQ party in Westport, NY

Ely Copper Mine in Vershire, Vermont

Another site for collecting extremophilic microbes.

Pine Street Barge Canal

One of our sampling sites for microbes. Burlington, Vermont.

(Bio)chem bros

Chem department heads to the lake!

Growth from Pine Street water sample

Perfect for identifying bacteria!

Lizzie and Kate

Professor Giddings

Cheetahs in South Africa

Be your own hero!!!

Lion Park-Johannesburg, South Africa

Coculture on solid media

Coculture of bacteria-fungi on solid media

Elizabeth Mine in Strafford, Vermont

Copper mine site as well as an EPA superfund site. This is also a place we are interested in collecting microbes.

Collecting sediment at Kingsland Bay

Heading on the research vessle

Our captain

Inside the boat

Kapable Kate pondering

Collecting samples at Ely Mine

An EPA superfund site where we collected microbes

Wastewater runoff at Ely Mine

Testing the pH of water at Ely Mine

Waste piles at Ely Min

Ely Mine

In the bushes trying to avoid ticks

Schoolhouse Brook, Ely Mine

Schoolhouse Brook

Ely Mine location where we collected water and sediment

Schoolhouse Brook