A (Not Really) New Graduate Program After many decades, the Wool Gee Pig (Waterloo-Laurier Graduate Program in Geography, W-LGPIG) is dead. Citations? 346 How Much Should Grad Students Get Paid? There are any number of ways to approach this question. Rejection List How many journals have rejected my work? Do I make the list alphabetical? Chronological? Can I remember them all? What Are Graduate Courses For? Why do we make graduate students, particularly thesis-based masters students, take courses? 2020 Year in Review We count years a variety of ways: Tenure Achievement Unlocked As previously announced on twitter, I have been granted tenure and promotion at Laurier. A Rose By Any Other Name How do we name research groups? Four in a Row There is the two-fer: where something is sold as 2 for the price of 1, First FORMBLOOM Preprint Our first preprint from FORMBLOOM is now on the bioRxiv: Citations Hit 100! Welcome to Mackenzie Schultz and Jeremy Leathers Two new additions to the group: New nitrogen isotope preprints Deposited two new preprints related to nitrogen isotopes: Welcome to Mackenzie Schultz Welcome to Mackzenie Schultz who starts her MSc research on SAMMS (Sub-Arctic Metal Mobility Study). She will work linking paleolimnolgical analyses in a few headwater lakes with their catchments northwest of Yellowknife. McQuay's MSc Thesis Congratulations to Eric McQuay on finishing his MSc thesis on The Role of Nitrate in Controlling Iron Release from Sediment during Anoxia in Dimictic, Fresh Water Lakes. MSc and PhD Opportunities: Metal Mobility in the Permafrost and Organic-Carbon-Rich Landscapes of the Northwest Territories MSc and PhD Opportunities: Forecasting and Biogeochemistry of Bloom-Affected Lakes Graduate Student Opportunities in Aquatic Ecology and Biogeochemistry Seeking 1 PhD student for project 2 below Introducing lugnuts A new pan-Canadian research program to train undergrad students in nutrient biogeochemistry is underway. Dubbed lugnuts, it starts with the role of freeze-thaw cycles to nutrient release from soils and vegetation. No time like the present No time like the present to learn how to deply jekyll and github pages.