Photos Emily Bechtold and Brooke Stemple (Wrighton Lab) sampling cores in Prairie Pothole wetlands in North DakotaKaela Amundson, Amelia Nelson, and Bridget McGivern (Wrighton Lab) enjoying the free day at ISME 18 in Lausanne!Kaela Amundson and Amelia Nelson working at East River, COKaela Amundson and Amelia Nelson sampling burned forest soilsSoil sampling within the Mullen fire burn scarVegetation recovery within the Badger Creek burn scarSampling lake sediment cores in the Prairie Pothole Region, NDSampling rig for summer in the Prairie Pothole RegionSampling rig for wintertime in the Prairie Pothole RegionPaula Dalcin Martins processing core material from the Prairie Pothole Region, NDSampling gear in the Prairie Pothole Region, NDSampling gear in the Prairie Pothole Region, NDProf Mike Wilkins collecting sediment core in the Prairie Pothole Region, NDPaula Dalcin Martins about to collect a lake sediment core in the Prairie Pothole Region, NDCasey Saup filtering river water on the East River near Crested Butte, COProf. Audrey Sawyer processing samples on the East River, Crested Butte, COCorey Wallace setting up a Campbell logger near the East River, Crested Butte, COView over the East River, Crested Butte, COFluid samples from fracking wells in ColoradoAnne Booker loading an NMR instrument at EMSLThe MSEEL hydraulic fracturing research site near Morgantown, WVReb Daly processing pristine shale core for microbiome analysesWellheads at a hydraulic fracturing site in West Virginia