Heather Buelow, M.S.
Lab manager
Contact Information
hbuelow@nd.edu
Education
M.S. Biology, University of New Mexico, 2017
B.S. Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2006
Research
Broadly interested in microbial ecology, polar ecology, and climate change impacts on the environment.
Publications
K L Feeser, D J Van Horn, H N Buelow, D R Colman, T A McHugh, J G Okie, E Schwartz, C D Takacs-Vesbach. 2018. Local and regional scale heterogeneity drive bacterial community diversity and composition in a polar desert. Frontiers in Microbiology, 9: 1928.
M A Knox, W S Andriuzzi, H N Buelow, C D Takacs‐Vesbach, B J Adams, D H Wall. 2017. Decoupled responses of soil bacteria and their invertebrate consumer to warming, but not freeze–thaw cycles, in the Antarctic Dry Valleys. Ecology Letters, 20(10): 1242-1249.
H N Buelow, A S Winter, D J Van Horn, J E Barrett, M N Gooseff, E Schwartz, C D Takacs-Vesbach. 2016. Microbial community responses to increased water and organic matter in the arid soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Frontiers in Microbiology, 7: 1040.
L A Winslow, H A Dugan, H N Buelow, K D Cronin, J C Priscu, C D Takacs-Vesbach, P T Doran. 2014. Autonomous year-round sampling and sensing to explore the physical and biological habitability of permanently ice-covered Antarctic lakes. Marine Technology Society Journal, 48(5): 8-17.
E Schwartz, D J Van Horn, H N Buelow, J G Okie, M N Gooseff, J E Barrett, C D Takacs-Vesbach. 2014. Characterization of growing bacterial populations in McMurdo Dry Valley soils through stable isotope probing with 18O-water. FEMS microbiology ecology, 89(2): 415-425.
D J Van Horn, J G Okie, H N Buelow, M N Gooseff, J E Barrett, C D Takacs-Vesbach. 2014. Soil microbial responses to increased moisture and organic resources along a salinity gradient in a polar desert. Applied and environmental microbiology, 80(10): 3034-3043.