GPMB Student Profiles 2008-2009
| Student | Thesis Topic | Major Advisor |
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| Jesse Alderson jesse.e.alderson@gmail.com |
Regional and Temporal Distributions of Injured Loggerhead Sea Turtles (Caretta caretta) In the Southeastern United States | David Owens |
| Courtney
Arthur cdarth@gmail.com |
Mercury contamination along the eastern coast of the US: Assessment of the diamondback terrapin, Malaclemys terrapin, as a sentinel species | David Owens |
| Tom
Baird t_d_baird@yahoo.com |
Descriptive and Mechanistic Toxicity of Conazole Fungicides Using the Model Test Alga Dunaliella tertiolecta (Chlorophyceae) | Marie DeLorenzo |
| Jenn Bennett bennee21@hotmail.com |
Jack DiTullio | |
| Carole
Berini carole_berini@yahoo.fr |
Pygmy Sperm Whale (Kogia breviceps, De Blainville 1838) Strandings along the Southeastern Coast of the United States: Geographic Information System-based Analysis of Correlation with Environmental Factors | Laura Kracker |
| Tessa Bricker brickte@earlham.edu |
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| Elizabeth Broyles elizbroyles@gmail.com |
David Owens | |
| Samantha Bryant sambryant.sc@gmail.com |
Isaure de Buron | |
| Kathleen
Clancy keclancy@edisto.cofc.edu |
Loren Coen | |
| Jonathan Craft craftjd@gmail.com |
Erik Sotka | |
| Bryan
Danson bryan.danson@gmail.com |
Contribution of some reef fish species on artificial reefs to the potential annual fecundity of populations in the southeastern United States | Pat Harris |
| Adair
Dempsey amdempse@edisto.cofc.edu |
Localization of facilitated urea transporters in the kidney of the euryhaline elasmobranch, Dasyatis sabina | Wayne Fitzgibbon |
| Ashley Duquette amd82886@gmail.com |
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| Peter Feltman peterfeltman@gmail.com |
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| Daniel Fernandes daoriaf@hotmail.com |
Bob Podolsky | |
| Jason
Ferrante jaferran@edisto.cofc.edu |
Discovery of Plasma Protein Biomarkers as Indicators of Domoic Acid Exposure in California Sea Lions (Zelophus californianus) | Mike Janech |
| Jennifer
Fountain jenfoun10@gmail.com |
Determining Impact of Stocked Striped Bass, Morone saxatilis, in the Ashley River, South Carolina, using Microsatellite Analysis | Mike Denson |
| Joy
Gerhard joygerhard@gmail.com |
Population dynamics of adult red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) in offshore waters of South Carolina | Marcel Reichert |
| Hannah Giddens hbgiddens23@yahoo.com |
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| Anna
Greene akg317@yahoo.com |
Invertebrate Endofauna Associated with Sponge and Octocoral Epifauna at Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary off the Coast of Georgia | Jeff Hyland |
| Melanie Hedgespeth mlhedges@edisto.cofc.edu |
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| Eric
Hiltz erhiltz370@hotmail.com |
Assessment of the Flounder (Paralichthys spp.) Gigging Fishery in South Carolina | Marcel Reichert |
| Jessalyn
Ierardi jessalyn.ierardi@gmail.com |
Quantitative Expression of Target Immune and Stress Response Genes within the Skin and Kidney Cell Line of the North Atlantic Right Whale, Eubalaena glacialis: A Microarray Approach for Health Assessment | Greg Warr |
| Chris Johns cdjohns@edisto.cofc.edu |
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| Nat Johnson ngjohnso@edisto.cofc.edu |
Karen Burnett | |
| Sara
Jones sejones2@edisto.cofc.edu |
Changes in the food web structures in tidal creeks across a range of levels of impervious cover of tidal creek watersheds | Guy DiDonato |
| Ryan Joyce ryanj427@hotmail.com |
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| Suzie
Kacenas sklunsfo@edisto.cofc.edu |
Investigating Reproductive Plasticity in Three Populations of an Intertidal Mollusc | Bob Podolsky |
| Meggie Kent meg.r.kent@gmail.com |
John Leffler | |
| Allie Kreutzer allie.kreutzer@gmail.com |
The role of abandoned crab traps in oyster reef restoration | Virginia Shervette |
| Lyndsey
Lefebvre l.s.lefebvre@gmail.com |
Identifying spawning habitat of cobia, Rachycentron canadum, in Port Royal Sound and St. Helena Sound, South Carolina | Mike Denson |
| Ammon
Lesher ammonlesher@hotmail.com |
An Analysis of Larval Dispersal and Retention within the South Atlantic Bight using Satellite-Tracked Drifters Released on Reef Fish Spawning Grounds | George Sedberry |
| Amanda
McCarty amandatmccarty@yahoo.com |
Ecology and Phylogeography of Feeding Preference of the Marine Herbivore, Ampithoe longimana | Erik Sotka |
| Amanda
McLenon amandamclenon@gmail.com |
Identification of enzymes responsible for methionine production and subsequent Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) biosynthesis in a Clade F1 Symbiodinium sp. isolated from Scleractinian coral (Montipora verrucose) | Jack DiTullio |
| Juliana
Miller juliana.r.miller@gmail.com |
Effects of Environmental Stress on Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) in Zooxanthellae | Jack DiTullio |
| Meg Muckenthaler mrmucken@coastal.edu |
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| Steven
O'Connell oconnell.steven@gmail.com |
Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Perfluorinated Substances in Two Long-Lived Marine Species: Loggerhead Sea Turtles, Caretta caretta, and Beluga Whales, Delphinapterus leuca | Jennifer Keller |
| Katie Olds ktolds@gmail.com |
Phil Dustan | |
| Lindsey Parent lparent618@yahoo.com |
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| Joe Pollock joepwv@gmail.com |
Pam Morris | |
| Jared Ragland jaredragland@gmail.com |
Jennifer Keller | |
| Kolo
Rathburn Kolo_Rathburn@hotmail.com |
Karen Burnett | |
| Rachel Rein reinr@mercury.hendrix.edu |
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| Katie Reiss Sharksrule2007@aol.com |
John Kucklick | |
| David Shiffman David.Shiffman@gmail.com |
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| Ray
Simpson P51MustNB@aol.com |
Comments on the genus Bregmaceros, with the description of Bregmaceros sp.5 | Tony Harold |
| Mark Stratton stratton.ma@gmail.com |
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| Nora
Sturgeon sturgeonfish52@gmail.com |
Behavior of Bottlenose Dolphins Tursiops truncatus around blue crab pots near Charleston, South Carolina | David Owens |
| Chuck Tucker chuktuk@gmail.com |
Spawning in the southern and gulf flounders (Paralichthys lethostigma and P. albigutta) off the South Carolina coast | Marcel Reichert |
| Artur
Veloso abveloso@gmail.com |
Viral Infection and the Transcriptome of the Pacific Whiteleg Shrimp: The Effect of Taura Syndrome Virus and Yellow Head Virus in Two Strains of Litopenaeus vannamei (Boone 1931) Different in Their Resistance to TSV | Bob Chapman |
| Travis
Washburn twwashbu@edisto.cofc.edu |
The Macrobenthic Communities of the Southeastern United States: Effects of Land Use on the Macrobenthic Communities & The Spatial Variability of Dominant Macrobenthic Organisms within Creek Systems | Denise Sanger |
| Drew Wham fcwham@edisto.cofc.edu |
Phil Dustan | |
| Jacquelyn
Wilkie jacmwilkie@yahoo.com |
Characterization of the surf zone macrofauna at Folly Beach, South Carolina | Tony Harold |
| Tucker
Williamson twilliamson@mail.une.edu |
Molecular ecology of the barnacle Megabalanus coccopoma over its introduced range in the southeastern U.S. | John Zardus |