Graduate Students     Thesis Topic/Degree Additional Degrees/Current Endeavors
Stewart Edmunds     Hemoglobin oxygen affinity of subadult red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus. M.S. 1994 Ph.D., Medical University of South Carolina
M.D. Medical University of South Carolina  
Richard Cochran     Respiratory responses of salt marsh animals to environmental hypoxia and hypercapnia. M.S. 1995 Environmental Specialist 3, Tennessee Dept. of Environment and Conservation, Div. of Water Pollution Control, Watershed Management Program
John Dwyer     Acid-base balance in the oyster in response to air exposure and parasitism. M.S. 1995 Assistant to the Director for Program Management, South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium
John Boyd     Cellular defense mechanisms in oysters in response to environmental hypoxia and hypercapnia.  M.S. 1998 Environmental/Preparedness Specialist, Scientific and Environmental Associates, Inc.
Libby Willson Farrelly   Respiration in the oyster in response to hypercapnic hypoxia, air exposure and parasitism.  M.S. 1999 Adjunct Faculty Member, Department of Biology, College of Charleston
Tina Mikulski (co-supervisor with Dr. Karen Burnett)     Immune responses of shrimp to bacterial challenges during hypoxia. M.S. 1999 Laboratory Technician, National Ocean Service (NOAA), Charleston, SC
Chris Milardo  The Effects of Environmental Variables on the Metabolism of the Protozoan Oyster Parasite Perkinsus marinus  M.S. 2001  
Steve Allen Bactericidal activity of hemocytes of the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas in conditions simulating hypoxia and air exposure. M.S. 2004  
Joe Burgents The Effects of Hypercapnic Hypoxia on the Clearance and the Distribution of Bacteria in the Pacific White Shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei.  M.S. 2004
Jennifer Ikerd Effects of Salinity on the Accumulation of the Bacterium Vibrio campbellii in the Gills of the Blue Crab Callinectes sapidus M.S. 2007.