The Werner and Reimer labs are teaming up this year to run a new stream: 'Great Salt Lake microbialite ecology.' The stream will include field work to Great Salt Lake, extraction of microbe and invertebrate DNA, sequencing analysis, and mathematical modeling. Undergrads will work closely with graduate students on the project, and the results will contribute toward research papers. Conceptually, the stream will survey long-term dynamics of microbialite communities and identify drivers of those dynamics.