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Serious fun: The limnological legacy of SRC
Among the many things we can thank Steve Carpenter for is his view that, whatever you are doing in science, it should be fun, at least most of the time. This talk will reflect on the several decades of science fun I have had with SRC in a saga that encompasses not just my junior-year biometry homework (not fun) but also a stint as a semi-clueless undergraduate researcher (pretty fun) and as a rookie technician as the Cascade Project got underway (super fun, including the generation of data that led me into the field of ecological stoichiometry). This was followed by the fun but challenging period during which I transitioned to independent researcher performing SRC-inspired whole-lake experiments in California and Canada. Later, as I began work on phosphorus sustainability, Steve’s innovative mind led me back for collaborations involving application of an autoregressive change point model and a general autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity model (spoiler alert: not 100% fun). Such sustained observations lead to one conclusion, made with strong confidence: working with Steve is serious fun. (Note: some of the fun will also be reviewed.)