Graduate Student Profiles 2022-2023
| Student | Thesis Topic | Major Advisor |
|---|---|---|
| Courtney Bayles | Assessment of Strand Feeding Common Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Waters surrounding Captain Sam's Inlet, South Carolina: are Anthropogenic Impacts Influencing This Specialized Foraging Strategy? | Brian Balmer |
| Hayden Bessette | ||
| 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 |
| Elizabeth Bullard | Drivers of Estuarine Finfish Community Structure: A Case Study of South Carolina Coastal Estuaries | Joseph Ballenger |
| Amanda Capuano | ||
| Christopher Carbon | ||
| Matt Carr | ||
| Kelly Cusick | ||
| Leah DiMaggio | Virginia Shervette | |
| Evan Dunn | ||
| Raven Ferguson | Paul Pennington | |
| Gautam Ghosh | Michael Janech | |
| Jessica Leigh Gibbs | ||
| Maria Granquist | Thomas Greig | |
| Ethan Johnson | Jack DiTullio | |
| Gabrielle Jones | ||
| Hunt Jones | Does Microbiome Diversity Affect the Cycling and Retention of Nutrients in Caribbean Sponges? | Christopher Freeman |
| Margaret Knight | ||
| Hannah Korper | ||
| 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 |
| Jesseca Kusher | ||
| Dimitrios Kyridis | ||
| Kassidy Lange | Peter Etnoyer | |
| Hannah Linde | ||
| Kerryanne Litzenberg | Jody Beers | |
| Rebecca Lucia | Melissa Hughes | |
| Kelsey Martin | Ashley Boggs | |
| Madeline Grace McGrew | ||
| Robin Minch | Do Environmental Conditions, Ontogeny, and Sexual Maturity Drive Changes in Ray Abundance and Distribution? | Tracey Smart |
| Alexandra Mitchell | Michael Kendrick | |
| Alexander Parry | Assessing Heterotrophic Feeding in Ecologically Dominant Caribbean Sponge Species | Christopher Freeman |
| Emily Parsons | Roadmaps to Restoration: the Effects of Genetic Relatedness on Fertilization Success of Threatened Stony Corals in the Florida Keys | Cheryl Woodley |
| Colin Perkins-Taylor | Norman Levine | |
| Nicole Principe | Using Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) to Understand the Habitat Use and Distribution Patterns of Common Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Cooper River and Surrounding Waters of Charleston, South Carolina | Norman Levine |
| Rachel Prostko | Predator and Refuge Density Effects on Movement and Mating Behavior of Snapping Shrimp Alpheus angulosus | Melissa Hughes |
| Anna Quintrell | Heather Fullerton | |
| Rachel Radick | Heather Spalding | |
| Josh Ratay | David Owens | |
| Brandon Reding | Modeling the Effects of Sample Size on Empirically Derived Natural Mortality Estimates Based on Maximum Age | Walter Bubley |
| Ellen Reiber | Population Genetic and Stock Enhancement Tools for Conservation of the Overfished White Seabass, Atractoscion nobilis | Tanya Darden |
| Ian Rolfe | Heather Spalding | |
| Courtney Saldana | Effects of Predicted Future Ocean Acidification and Dredging-Induced Turbidity on the Scleractinian Coral Lipidome | Tracey Schock |
| Mikayla Sonnenfield | ||
| Jonathan Stewart | The Impact of Select Fluorine Free Aqueous Film-Forming Foams (AFFF) on the Eastern Oyster, Crassostrea virginica | Ed Wirth |
| Carly Lynn Strange | Ecological Association of Early Life History Stages of Fishes with Bottom Coverage of Benthic Algae | Antony Harold |
| Michael Thienes | Variability in Size at Maturity of Femail Blue Crab (Callinectes sapidus) in Coastal South Carolina | Michael Kendrick |
| Anna Thornton | ||
| Annabelle Tierney | Andrew Tweel | |
| Conor Torris | A Survey of Epibionts of Marine Arthropods in the Charleston Estuary | John Zardus |
| Caroline Tribble | Assessing the Influence of Anthropogenic Noise on Atlantic Common Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Vocalizations Using Long-Term Passive Acoustic Monitoring in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina | Eric Montie |
| 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 | Tracey Smart | |
| Ryan Ware | ||
| Josiah Waters | Examining Temporal Patterns of Benthic Microalgal Community Structures in a South Carolina Salt Marsh | Craig Plante |
| Catlyn Wells | Walter Bubley | |
| Jessica Wenclawiak | Plastic Litter in Charleston Harbor: Characterizing Spatiotemporal Changes in Abundance and Assessing Microplastic Uptake and Depuration in Oysters, Crassostrea virginica | John Weinstein |
| Morgan Will | Predictive Habitat Modeling of Mesophotic and Deep-Sea Coral Species in the Gulf of Mexico | Peter Etnoyer |
| Taylor Williams | Reproductive System and Population Connectivity of a Cryptogenic, Invasive-Like Red Alga at Manawai, Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument |
Heather Spalding |
| Matthew Young | Utilizing Trace Elements and Stable Isotope Analysis to Reconstruct Distribution of Scalloped (Sphyrna lewini) and Carolina (Sphyrna gilberti) Hammerheads | Gorka Sancho |
| Adam Ziegler | Erik Sotka |