{"id":5667,"date":"2026-10-28T15:05:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T20:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/?p=5667"},"modified":"2026-10-29T13:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T18:38:12","slug":"nres-professor-and-alumni-publish-ohio-river-algae-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/2026\/10\/28\/nres-professor-and-alumni-publish-ohio-river-algae-research\/","title":{"rendered":"NRES professor and alumni publish Ohio River algae research"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Dr. Mindy Yeager-Armstead, chair and professor in Marshall University&#8217;s Department of Natural Resources &amp; Earth Sciences (NRES), recently published new research in <em>PLOS ONE<\/em> with College of Science graduate alumni Geneve Brady and Austin Hoffman.<\/p>\n<p>The article, titled <em>\u201cPhysical, chemical, and biological controls on algal dynamics in the Greenup Pool of the Ohio River,\u201d<\/em> examines the environmental factors that influence algal growth in a section of the Ohio River. The study explores how physical conditions, water chemistry, and biological interactions work together to shape algal dynamics in the Greenup Pool.<\/p>\n<p>The publication highlights ongoing research contributions from NRES faculty and alumni while advancing scientific understanding of freshwater ecosystems in the Ohio River region.<\/p>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0360624\" target=\"_self\" class=\"button green \">\n\t\t<span>Read the full article<\/span>\n\t<\/a>\n\t\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mindy Yeager-Armstead, chair and professor in Marshall University&#8217;s Department of Natural Resources &amp; Earth Sciences (NRES), recently published new research in PLOS ONE with College of Science graduate alumni Geneve Brady and Austin Hoffman. The article, titled \u201cPhysical, chemical, and biological controls on algal dynamics in the Greenup Pool of the Ohio River,\u201d examines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":5668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[77,48,54,75,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-scholars","category-nres","category-nre","category-research","category-science-abstracts"],"acf":[],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/460\/2026\/10\/nres-mindy-armstead-plos-2026.jpg?w=640","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/460\/2026\/10\/nres-mindy-armstead-plos-2026.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5669,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667\/revisions\/5669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}