Graduate Student Profiles 2022-2023
Student | Thesis Topic | Major Advisor |
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Camille Berardone | ||
Hayden Bessette | Jody Beers | |
Shannon Bley | Investigation of Microplastics in Stormwater Ponds and Chronic Exposure to Grass Shrimp (Palaemon pugio) with a Focus on Tire Wear Particles | John Weinstein |
Ashley Bobnar | ||
Elizabeth Bullard | Drivers of Estuarine Finfish Community Structure: A Case Study of South Carolina Coastal Estuaries | Joseph Ballenger |
Christopher Carbon | Heather Spalding | |
Matt Carr | Tracey Smart | |
Kelly Cusick | Michael Janech | |
Liam Danaher | ||
Abigail Davis | ||
Leah DiMaggio | Lane snapper Lutjanus synagris: documenting age, growth, and reproductive biology in the U.S. Caribbean | Virginia Shervette |
Evan Dunn | Heather Spalding | |
Raven Ferguson | Examining variation in response to No. 2 fuel oil exposure between tall- and short-form saltmarsh cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora): Implications for marsh restoration after an oil spill | Paul Pennington |
Jesi Gibbs | Melissa Hughes | |
Peter Gibson | ||
Zoe Golden | ||
Maria Granquist | Monitoring Microbiome changes of Mesphotic Corals during husbandry for restoration | Thomas Greig |
Alec Heilman | ||
Ethan Johnson | Temperature effects on the Sulfur for Phosphorus Lipid Substitution Strategy in P-limited Synechococcus WH-7803 | Jack DiTullio |
Gabby Jones | John Weinstein | |
Hunt Jones | Does Microbiome Diversity Affect the Cycling and Retention of Nutrients in Caribbean Sponges? | Christopher Freeman |
Margaret Knight | Leslie Hart | |
Hannah Korper | Lengxob Yong | |
Clayr Kroenke | Application of eDNA, Metabarcoding, and PCR Techniques to Survey Community Variability and Pathogen Prevalence in Two South Salt Marsh Systems: A Pilot Study | Thomas Greig |
Jess Kusher | Jack DiTullio | |
Dimitrios Kyridis | Julie Vecchio | |
Hannah Linde | Peter Etnoyer | |
Kerryanne Litzenberg | Physiological effects of age and temperature on blood chemistry, metabolism, and mortality of harvested horseshoe crabs, Limulus polyphemus |
Jody Beers |
Kelsey Martin | Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in aquaculture feeds and potential dietary exposure from aquaculturally-raised fish | Ashley Boggs |
Alex Martinez | ||
Adeline McCullough | ||
Grace McGrew | Paul Pennington | |
Alexandra Mitchell | Understanding reproductive development in female White Shrimp Penaeus setiferus in support of sustainable fisheries management | Michael Kendrick |
Claire Murdock | ||
Colin Perkins-Taylor | Using unoccupied aerial systems (UAS) to investigate the body condition and blow microbiome of an estuarine bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) population in Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A. | Norman Levine |
Elle Pestorius | Heather Fullerton | |
Rachel Prostko | Predator and Refuge Density Effects on Movement and Mating Behavior of Snapping Shrimp Alpheus angulosus | Melissa Hughes |
Anna Quintrell | Characterization of Microbiome in Coastal Shark Species | Heather Fullerton |
Rachel Radick | Characterizing Invertebrate Communities Associated with the Cryptogenic Alga Chondria tumulosa in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, Hawai’i | Heather Spalding |
Josh Ratay | Characterization of loggerhead (Caretta caretta), Kemp’s ridley (Lepidochelys kempii), and green (Chelonia mydas) sea turtle diets in South Carolina, USA | David Owens |
Brandon Reding | Modeling the Effects of Sample Size on Empirically Derived Natural Mortality Estimates Based on Maximum Age | Walter Bubley |
Grace Richa | ||
Ian Rolfe | Adaptations to the Photosynthetic Potential and Pigmentation of Mesophotic Macroalgae in the Hawaiian Archipelago |
Heather Spalding |
Courtney Saldana | Effects of Predicted Future Ocean Acidification and Dredging-Induced Turbidity on the Scleractinian Coral Lipidome | Tracey Schock |
Mikayla Sonnenfield | Jack DiTullio | |
Carly Lynn Strange | Ecological Association of Early Life History Stages of Fishes with Bottom Coverage of Benthic Algae | Antony Harold |
Anna Thornton | Marie DeLorenzo | |
Annabelle Tierney | Distribution and characterization of microplastics in sediments and commercial shrimp species in South Carolina estuaries | Andrew Tweel |
Conor Torris | A Survey of Epibionts of Marine Arthropods in the Charleston Estuary | John Zardus |
Lukas Troha | Modeling the Selectivity and Fishing Mortality of Red Drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, in South Carolina from a Multiyear Tag-Recapture Study | Joseph Ballenger |
Gabrielle Tutelo | Diet Composition of Juvenile Snapper-Grouper Species along the Southeast U.S. Atlantic Coast | Tracey Smart |
Ryan Ware | Christopher Freeman | |
Catlyn Wells | Characterizing the habitat utilization of commercially and recreationally important reef fish in the Southeast, US | Walter Bubley |
Schuyler Wilson | ||
Adam Ziegler | Determining Genetic Differentiation Among Populations of the Ecosystem Engineer, Diopatra cuprea, Using Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) | Erik Sotka |
Piper Zola |