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 | 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 |
| Elizabeth Bullard | Drivers of Estuarine Finfish Community Structure: A Case Study of South Carolina Coastal Estuaries | Joseph Ballenger |
| Christopher Carbon | ||
| Matt Carr | ||
| Kelly Cusick | Michael Janech | |
| Leah DiMaggio | Lane snapper Lutjanus synagris: documenting age, growth, and reproductive biology in the U.S. Caribbean | Virginia Shervette |
| Evan Dunn | ||
| 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 |
| Gautam Ghosh | Analysis of proteins associated with domoic acid toxicosis in cerebrospinal fluid of California Sea Lions (Zalophus californianus) | Michael Janech |
| Jesi Gibbs | Melissa Hughes | |
| Maria Granquist | Monitoring Microbiome changes of Mesphotic Corals during husbandry for restoration | Thomas Greig |
| Ethan Johnson | Temperature effects on the Sulfur for Phosphorus Lipid Substitution Strategy in P-limited Synechococcus WH-7803 | Jack DiTullio |
| Gabby Jones | ||
| Hunt Jones | Does Microbiome Diversity Affect the Cycling and Retention of Nutrients in Caribbean Sponges? | Christopher Freeman |
| Margaret Knight | Leslie Hart | |
| 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 |
| Jess Kusher | Jack DiTullio | |
| Dimitrios Kyridis | ||
| Kassidy Lange | Biological Characteristics of Two Mesophotic Gorgonian Corals and Suitability for Restoration |
Peter Etnoyer |
| Hannah Linde | ||
| 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 | ||
| Grace McGrew | ||
| Robin Minch | Do Environmental Conditions, Ontogeny, and Sexual Maturity Drive Changes in Ray Abundance and Distribution? | Tracey Smart |
| Alexandra Mitchell | Understanding reproductive development in female White Shrimp Penaeus setiferus in support of sustainable fisheries management | 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 | 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 | |
| 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 | 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 |
| Ellen Reiber | Population Genetic and Stock Enhancement Tools for Conservation of the Overfished White Seabass, Atractoscion nobilis | Tanya Darden |
| 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 | |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 | Diet Composition of Juvenile Snapper-Grouper Species along the Southeast U.S. Atlantic Coast | Tracey Smart |
| Ryan Ware | ||
| Josiah Waters | Examining Temporal Patterns of Benthic Microalgal Community Structures in a South Carolina Salt Marsh | Craig Plante |
| Catlyn Wells | Characterizing the habitat utilization of commercially and recreationally important reef fish in the Southeast, US | 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 | Determining Genetic Differentiation Among Populations of the Ecosystem Engineer, Diopatra cuprea, Using Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) | Erik Sotka |