Graduate Student Profiles 2022-2023
| Student | Thesis Topic | Major Advisor |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |