{"id":3087,"date":"2026-08-03T14:13:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T19:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/earth-environmental-sciences\/?p=3087"},"modified":"2026-08-03T14:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T19:17:06","slug":"ees-phd-candidate-mahir-tajwar-receives-2026-gsa-graduate-student-research-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/earth-environmental-sciences\/ees-phd-candidate-mahir-tajwar-receives-2026-gsa-graduate-student-research-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"EES PhD Candidate Mahir Tajwar Receives 2026 GSA Graduate Student Research Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">Congratulations to EES PhD candidate Mahir Tajwar on receiving the 2026 Graduate Student Research Grant from the Geological Society of America (GSA).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3088\" src=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/earth-environmental-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/08\/Picture1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/earth-environmental-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/08\/Picture1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/earth-environmental-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/08\/Picture1.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Mahir&#8217;s doctoral research investigates the biogeochemical processes that regulate freshwater lake ecosystems, with a particular focus on carbon cycling, nutrient dynamics, and ecosystem metabolism. His dissertation examines how contrasting trophic conditions influence lake function by comparing an oligotrophic freshwater lake with a eutrophic farm pond. His research also explores the effects of artificial light at night (ALAN) on lake metabolism and biogeochemical cycling. The GSA Graduate Student Research Grant will support Mahir&#8217;s ongoing field observations, laboratory analyses, and data interpretation as part of his doctoral research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to EES PhD candidate Mahir Tajwar on receiving the 2026 Graduate Student Research Grant from the Geological Society of America (GSA). Mahir&#8217;s doctoral research investigates the biogeochemical processes that regulate freshwater lake ecosystems, with a particular focus on carbon cycling, nutrient dynamics, and ecosystem metabolism. His dissertation examines how contrasting trophic conditions influence lake&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":3090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7,16],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/earth-environmental-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/08\/EES-News-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/earth-environmental-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/earth-environmental-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/earth-environmental-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/earth-environmental-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/earth-environmental-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/earth-environmental-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3089,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/earth-environmental-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions\/3089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/earth-environmental-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/earth-environmental-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/earth-environmental-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/earth-environmental-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}