Jason L. Kish

Department of Biology
1035 Kirby Drive, SSB 207
University of Minnesota Duluth
Duluth, MN   55812

Tel:  218-726-8387
Email: kishx013@d.umn.edu

 

EDUCATION

B.S. (Biology)  University of Kansas  1998

RESEARCH INTERESTS

microbial ecology, limnology

CURRENT PROJECTS

Planktonic Archaea in Great Lakes

THESIS TITLE

Archaeal Community Structure and Abundance in the Lake Superior Water Column (Water Resources Science Graduate Program; Thesis committee:  R. E. Hicks, J. P. Werne, C. Carter)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 

University of Minnesota Duluth      
Graduate Research Assistant     2006-2007

Aptuit (Lawrence, KS)
Microbiology Analyst     2005-2006

City of Lawrence
Quality Control Technician     2004-2005

Water Systems Engineering (Lawrence, KS)
Research Associate     2001-2004

U.S. Geological Survey (Lawrence, KS)
Laboratory Technician     1996-2001

PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

Kish, J. L., E. M. Thurman, E. A., Schribner, and L. R. Zimmerman.  2000. Methods of analysis by the USGS Organic Geochemistry Research Group – Determination of selected herbicides and their degradation products in water using solid-phase extraction and GC/MS.  U.S.G.S. Report OFR 00-385, Lawrence, KS.  [html]

Lee, E. A., J. L. Kish, L. R. Zimmerman, and E. M. Thurman.  2001. Methods of analysis by the USGS Organic Geochemistry Research Group – Update and additions to the determination of chloroacetanilide herbicide degradation compounds in water using solid-phase extraction and HPLC/MS.  U.S.G.S. Report OFR 01-10, Lawrence, KS.  [html]

Kish, J. L., J. M. Bergin, J. P. Werne, and R. E. Hicks. 2007. Planktonic archaea and nitrogen cycling in Lake Superior. ASLO 2007 Aquatic Science Meeting, February 4-9, 2007, Santa Fe, NM. (poster presentation)