Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Mengyang Zhou
10:00 a.m., Monday, November 4, 2024
Physical influences on ocean biogeochemistry at different scales – Nitrogen biogeochemistry in mesoscale eddies in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre and seasonal hypoxia in the Southern Benguela Upwelling System
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Lauren J. Barrett
10:00 a.m., Monday, August 26, 2024
Carbon and Oxygen Dynamics in Productive Coastal Ecosystems: From the Remote Arctic to Metropolitan Temperate Zones
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Ewaldo Leitão De Oliveira Júnior
11:00 a.m., Monday, July 1, 2024
The role of temperature and thermal adaptation on plankton ecology
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Tyler Griffin
10:00 a.m., Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Taxonomic and Functional Profiles of Gut Microbiota from Mytilid Mussels: Dynamics Under Normal Physiological Conditions and in Response to Disturbance
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Mackenzie Blanusa
1:00 p.m., Friday, June 14, 2024
Tropical Submesoscale Dynamics as Inferred from an Array of Saildrones
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Max Zavell
1:00 p.m., Thursday, April 18, 2023
Experimental Assessment of Ocean Warming and Acidification Effects on Multiple Life Stages of Black Sea Bass, Centropristis striata
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Shannon Jordan
2:00 p.m., Friday, March 22, 2024
Improving site suitability for eelgrass restoration through manipulation of the sedimentary iron cycle
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Graham Trolley
2:00 p.m., Friday, November 3, 2023
Investigating Natural Biofilms on Ocean Microplastics and the Implications for Ocean Color Remote Sensing
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Kayla Mladinich Poole
10:00 a.m., Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Selective ingestion of microplastics by suspension-feeding invertebrates: Investigations into sources, fate, and concentrations in coastal environments
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Emma Shipley
11:00 a.m., Tuesday, July 11, 2023
Environmental Transport of Organic Contaminants Across Global Freshwater and Marine Systems
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Sean Ryan
1:00 p.m., Thursday, June 29, 2023
Causes and consequences of geographic variation in anti-herbivore traits of a rocky intertidal seaweed
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Michael Mathuri
10:00 a.m., Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Physiological mechanism of nitrogen isotope fractionation during ammonium assimilation by marine phytoplankton
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Josie Mottram
3:00 p.m., Monday, April 17, 2023
Refining the use of cold-water corals as a proxy for the marine nitrogen cycle through the comparison of the δ15N of diet, tissue, and skeleton of Balanophyllia elegans
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Patricia Myer
2:00 p.m., Monday, March 20, 2023
A Critical Examination of the Factors Controlling Methylmercury Uptake into Marine Plankton
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Mary McGuinness
12:30 p.m., Thursday, November 17, 2022
Examination of Controlling Parameters for Total Alkalinity in Long Island Sound Embayments
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Lingjie Zhou
10:00 a.m., Tuesday, November 15, 2022
Estimate Phytoplankton Carbon Biomass using DNA
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Annette J. Carlson
12:00 p.m., Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Quantifying interannual variability of shelf nutrients and associated hypoxia in St. Helena Bay with new metrics and tools
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Mathew Holmes-Hackerd
11:00 a.m., Monday, November 7, 2022
High Sensitivity Respirometry Shows Resilience to Acute Naupliar Heat Stress in the copepod, Acartia tonsa
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Yipeng He
1:30 p.m., Thursday, October 27, 2022
Costs and Consequences of Adaptation to Combined Warming and Acidification for Two Estuarine Copepods
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Annalisa Mudahy
11:00 a.m., Thursday, September 1, 2022
Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Water Column Respiration in an Urban Estuary Revealed Using Automated Respiration Chambers
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Samantha Linhardt
2:00 p.m., Friday, April 8, 2022
Consumer pressure interacts with recruitment to shape the effects of an intertidal foundation species (Semibalanus balanoides) at local and regional scales
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Peter Ruffino
1:00 p.m., Thursday, April 7, 2022
Tracing the fate of phytoplankton-derived nitrogen: effects of oysters on recycling, denitrification, and burial
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Kelli Mosca
12:00 p.m., Monday, March 21, 2022
Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus) Growth and Habitat Use in the Connecticut River and Long Island Sound
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Hannah Collins
10:00 a.m., Tuesday, December 14, 2021
Examining the effects of nylon microfibers on the gut microbiome and gut tissues of the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Josiah Grzywacz
4:00 p.m., Monday, November 29, 2021
Quantum Efficiency (Fv/Fm) and Performance of Retained Plastids in an Oligotrich Mixotroph and Its Prey
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Lucas Jones
4:00 p.m., Monday, November 22, 2021
Using Low-Coverage, Whole Genome Sequencing to Study Northern Sand Lance (Ammodytes dubius) Population Connectivity in the Northwest Atlantic
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of James deMayo
10:00 a.m., Thursday, August 12, 2021
Costs and Consequences of Adaptation to Combined Warming and Acidification for Two Estuarine Copepods
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Raymond Graham
10:00 a.m., Thursday, July 29, 2021
Investigation of the moisture budget within the Tropics, under the ITCZ
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Melissa Wojcicki
12:00 p.m., Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Understanding Deep-Sea Trophic Interactions by Metabarcoding Mesopelagic Fish Diets
Master’s Thesis Presentation of John Speers
9:30 a.m., Friday, June 11, 2021
The Effect of Sea Level Rise on Flooding Statistics
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Christina Menniti
9:00 a.m., Thursday, April 22, 2021
Assessing the Importance of Variability in Oxygen Concentrations and Horizontal Fluxes in Western Long Island Sound
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Amin Ilia
1:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Waves in Long Island Sound
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Quinne Murphy
12:30 p.m., Thursday, December 17, 2020
The role of cyanobacteria in calcium carbonate precipitation in Fayetteville Green Lake, New York
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Brittany N. Sprecher
3:30 p.m., Friday, November 20, 2020
Developing a Genetic Transformation Toolkit for Dinoflagellates
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Callie Concannon
2:00 p.m., Friday, November 20, 2020
Whole life-cycle CO2 × temperature effects on fecundity and oocyte recruitment in the Atlantic silverside (Menidia menidia)
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Susan Smith
2:30 p.m., Thursday, November 19, 2020
Evaluating the morphological, ecological, and genomic lines of identity in marine ciliates
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Alec Shub
10:30 a.m., Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Deep South Atlantic watermass variability during the last glacial cycle: New stable isotope records from the Brazil Margin
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Sarah McCart
10:00 a.m., Monday, November 16, 2020
Assessing the sea level hypothesis with hydrothermal and volcanic ash records from the East Pacific Rise and Pacific-Antarctic Ridge
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Halle Berger
2:00 p.m., Thursday, July 23, 2020
A Regional Vulnerability Assessment for the Dungeness Crab (Metacarcinus magister) to Changing Ocean Conditions: Insights From Model Projections and Empirical Experiments
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Allison Staniec
10:00 a.m., Monday, July 20, 2020
Examining Dissolved Gases in a Changing Climate
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Matthew Sasaki
2:00 p.m., Monday, June 15, 2020
Thermal Macrophysiology of the Estuarine Copepod Acartia tonsa: Adaptation Across Spatial and Temporal Temperature Gradients
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Veronica Rollinson
2:00 p.m., Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Sources and Fluxes of Reactive N in a Southern New England River
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Vena Haynes
2:30 p.m., Thursday, December 12, 2019
The Interactive Effects of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles and Light on Coastal Planktonic Organisms
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Allison Byrd
11:00 a.m., Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Tidally Resolved Carbon and Nutrient Exchange through Eastern Long Island Sound
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Yan Jia
10:00 a.m., Wednesday, April 24, 2019
A study on Pathways of Major River Waters in Long Island Sound
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Steven R. Deignan-Schmidt
11:00 a.m., Friday, April 12, 2019
An Investigation into River Water Distribution, Island Influences, and Embayment Temperatures in Long Island Sound
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Qiang Sun
3:00 p.m., Monday, January 28, 2019
Improving the Treatment of Rivers and Assessing River Influences in the Global Ocean of the Community Earth System Model
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Youngmi Shin
10:00 a.m., Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Wind and Wave Driven Circulation in Western Long Island Sound: Fetch-limited Coastal Basin
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Christopher S. Murray
11:00 a.m., Thursday, December 6, 2018
An Experimental Evaluation of the Sensitivity of Coastal Marine Fishes to Acidification, Hypoxia, and Warming
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Julie W. Pringle
2:00 p.m., Thursday, November 15, 2018
Sex-Specific Hatch and Growth Patterns in Young-of-the-Year Atlantic Silversides (Menidia menidia, Atherinopsidae) From Mumford Cove, Connecticut
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Emily Seelen
10:00 a.m., Monday, October 15, 2018
A Multi-Estuary Approach to Better Understand the Sources and Fate of Methylmercury within Estuarine Water Columns
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Matthew Lacerra
11:00 a.m., Thursday, August 9, 2018
Reduced Carbon Storage at Intermediate Depths in the Southwest Atlantic During HS1: Evidence for a Weaker Southern Ocean Biological Pump
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Heidi Yeh
9:00 a.m., Thursday, June 14, 2018
Metagenetic analysis of variation in prey composition of the copepod Calanus finmarchicus in regions of the North Atlantic Ocean
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Gihong Park
3:00 p.m., Monday, May 14, 2018
Costs and Benefits of Putatively Anti-Grazing Defenses in the Marine Dinoflagellate Alexandrium catanella
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Michelle C. Fogarty
1:30 p.m., Monday, April 16, 2018
Air-Sea Momentum, Heat, and Carbon Dioxide Fluxes in Shallow Coastal Ecosystems
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Almariet Palm
9:30 a.m., Friday, April 6, 2018
The Dissolution of Diatoms in Marine Microbial Mats
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Danielle Boshers
10:00 a.m., Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Oxygen isotope composition of nitrate produced by freshwater nitrification
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Jacob T. Snyder
12:00 p.m., Monday, November 27, 2017
A newly digitized 45-year dataset of environmental and biological observations from Long Island Sound
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Amanda Vieillard
10:30 a.m., Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Impacts of New England oyster aquaculture on sediment nitrogen cycling: Implications for nitrogen removal and retention
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Joseph K. Warren
10:00 a.m., Thursday, June 8, 2017
Development of an In-Situ Passive Sampling Device for Munitions Compounds and Sulfate
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Brian DiMento
10:00 a.m., Wednesday, April 19, 2017
An Investigation of the Major Transformations and Loss Mechanisms of Mercury and Selenium in the Surface Ocean
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Mark Ballentine
10:00 a.m., Thursday, December 15, 2016
Coastal Ecosystem Processing of Nitrogen Rich High Explosives
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Thivanka Ariyarathna
1:00 p.m., Friday, December 2, 2016
Sorption and Metabolism of Explosives in Sediment of Coastal Marine Ecosystems
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Melissa Pierce
3:00 p.m., Wednesday, November 30, 2016
The microbiome of the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin, 1791): spatial and temporal variation, environmental influences, and its impact on host physiology
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Maria Rosa
1:00 p.m., Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Mechanisms of Particle Retention and Selection in Suspension-Feeding Bivalves
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Melissa Cote
10:00 a.m., Friday, July 29, 2016
The driver of the carbon isotope minima during the last deglaciation: A weakened biological pump or enhanced Southern Ocean circulation?
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Emily Seeley
10:00 a.m., Friday, May 20, 2016
Testing the sea level hypothesis with new records along the southern East Pacific Rise and Pacific Antarctic Ridge
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Kayla Flynn
2:30 p.m., Thursday, May 5, 2016
The Causes of Regional Sea-Surface Temperature Anomalies during Wind Relaxation Events off the U.S. West Coast in Summer
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Aaron Rosenberg
10:00 a.m., Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Measuring and Modeling Oceanic Air-Sea Fluxes
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Eric Sinsky
1:00 p.m., Monday, April 11, 2016
The Impacts of Surface Conditions on Sea Breezes over Coastal Connecticut
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Brandon Russell
2:00 p.m., Friday, March 11, 2016
Application of a Portable Hyperspectral Imaging System to Field Studies in Animal Camouflage and Coral Reef Symbiosis
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Kathleen Gosnell
2:00 p.m., Thursday, January 14, 2016
Uptake and Trophic Transfer for Mercury and Methylmercury at the Base of Marine Food Webs
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Joanne Elmoznino
1:30 p.m., Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Occurrence, Fate and Distribution Behaviors of Organic Contaminants, Perfluorinated Alkyl Acids and Phthalic Acid Easters, in Wastewater Effluent and the Housatonic River Estuary
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Rachel Perry
10:00 a.m., Friday, August 14, 2015
Nutrient Dynamics of Floating Seagrass Wracks in Greater Florida Bay
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Ashley Phillips
10:00 a.m., Thursday, July 16, 2015
A Derivatization Method for Tagging Low-Molecular Weight Organic Acids in Seawater with a Fluorescent Coumarin
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Kayla Erikson
10:00 a.m., Thursday, May 28, 2015
A Time Series Investigation of the Cryptic Copepods Pseudocalanus spp. on the NW Atlantic Continental Shelf
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Kaylan Randolph
10:00 a.m., Thursday, May 14, 2015
Optical measurements of whitecaps and bubbles during large scale wave breaking in the Southern Ocean
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Lija Treibergs
11:00 a.m., Thursday, May 7, 2015
Enzyme level N and O isotope effects of assimilatory and dissimilatory nitrate reduction
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Paola G. Batta-Lona
12:30 p.m., Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Environmental genomics and transcriptomics of Salpa thompsoni and population genetic variation of Euphausia superba in the Southern Ocean
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Zair Paloma Lojkovic Burris
2:00 p.m., Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Mating dynamics of the calanoid copepods Acartia tonsa and Acartia hudsonica
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Richard Dabundo
12:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Nitrogen isotopes in the measurement of N2-fixation and the estimation of denitrification in the world ocean
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Joshua P. Lord
2:00 p.m., Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Effect of Temperature Changes on Competitive and Predator-Prey Interactions in Coastal Epi-Benthic Communities
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Laura Anne Thompson
1:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 15, 2014
The Combined Influence of Diving Physiology and Stressors on Immune Cell Function in a Deep Diving Monodontid and Three Shallow Diving Phocid Species
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Nicole Whi-tzen Chang
1:00 p.m., Friday, April 4, 2014
Nitrogen Isotope Dynamics of Anammox and Denitrification in Coastal Groundwater
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of John Jeremiah Doyle
10:00 a.m., Friday, January 17, 2014
Ingestion, Depuration, and Potential Toxicity of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles in the Blue Mussel (Mytilus edulis) and the Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica)
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Kristin Raub
10:00 a.m., Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Comparison of Marine Sampling Methods for Organic Contaminants: Passive Samplers, Water Extractions, and Live Oyster Deployments
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Jenay M. Guardiani
3:00 p.m., Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Carbon Dynamics in the New River Estuary, NC
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Veronica L. Ortiz
10:00 a.m., Thursday, August 22, 2013
Can Marine Aggregates Serve as for Vector Mercury Uptake into the Blue Mussel Mytilus edulis?
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Michael Brian Finiguerra
9:30 a.m., Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Determining the Role of a Novel Sodium Channel Mutation on Tolerance to Paralytic Shellfish Toxins in the Marine Copepod Acartia hudsonica
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Benjamin L. Cournoyer
12:00 p.m., Monday, July 22, 2013
Can Acartia spp. Adapt to climatic warming? Heritable within-population genetic variation in life history traits.
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Alejandro P. Cifuentes-Lorenzen
10:30 a.m., Friday, May 17, 2013
The Wave Boundary Layer Over the Open Ocean and the Implications to Air-Sea Interaction
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Donald Matthew Schoener
10:00 a.m., Friday, January 25, 2013
Inorganic Carbon and Nitrogen Utilization in Mixotrophic Ciliates
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Yunyun Zhuang
2:00 p.m., Monday, January 7, 2013
Transcriptomic Profiling of Genes Related to Cell Division, Metabolism and Toxin Production in the Dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Grant McCardell
2:00 p.m., Friday, November 2, 2012
Physical Supplies of Oxygen to the Bottom Waters of Western Long Island Sound
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Tzong-Yueh Chen
10:00 a.m., Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Abiotic Aggregation of Organic Matter in Aquatic Systems: Alteration of Chemical Characteristics and Implications
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of V. Alejandro Arias Esquivel
10:00 a.m., Friday, August 10, 2012
Hydroxyl radicals in marine sediments
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Christina Senft-Batoh
2:00 p.m., Thursday, August 9, 2012
Grazer-Enhanced Toxin Production in the Dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense: Cues, Mechanisms, and Cost
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Kimberley Lane Gallagher
1:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 18, 2012
The role of sulfate-reducing bacteria in organomineralization and microbialite formation: Mechanisms of mineral precipitation.
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Rita Chiu-Yen Kuo
2:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Growth, lipid synthesis, and bacterial association of Eutreptiella sp. isolated from Long Island Sound characterized using ecological and molecular techniques
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Victoria Price
1:00 p.m., Monday, April 30, 2012
An approach for use of Dual Frequency Identification Sonar (DIDSON) to quantify behavioral aspects of piscivory at ecologically relevant time and space scales
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Amina Traore Schartup
9:00 a.m., Friday, April 20, 2012
The Role of Natural Organic Matter and Sulfur on the Bioavailability of Inorganic Mercury to Methylating Organisms and to the Fate and Transport of Methylmercury in Coastal Ecosystems
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Diana Lancaster
9:30 a.m., Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Recruitment Patterns of the Fouling Community on Eelgrass in Long Island Sound
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Lauren Stefaniak
2:00 p.m., Monday, April 16, 2012
Didemnum vexillum: Identity, origin, and life history of an invasive ascidian
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Kelley Bostrom
10:00 a.m., Thursday, November 10, 2011
Testing the limits of hyperspectral airborne remote sensing by mapping eelgrass in Elkhorn Slough
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Ebru Unal Yigiterhan
3:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Population Genetic Structure and Gene Expression Patterns of Calanus finmarchicus in the North Atlantic Ocean
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of James F. Reinhardt
10:00 a.m., Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Dispersal, Recruitment and Habitat Invasibility in Shallow Epifaunal Communities of Southern New England
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Udonna Chinedu Ndu
9:30 a.m., Friday, May 6, 2011
The Mechanisms and Pathways of the Uptake of Inorganic Mercury and Methylmercury Species in Escherichia coli: Possible Implications for Mercury Cycling in the Marine Environment
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Maria Rosa
10:00 a.m., Thursday, February 10, 2011
Effects of particle surface properties on feeding selectivity in suspension-feeding bivalve molluscs
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Dana M. Frank
10:30 a.m., Thursday, December 16, 2010
An Experimental Approach to Elucidate Functional Mechanisms of Control of the Bivalve Pump
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Diane C. Bennett
2:00 p.m., Thursday, December 9, 2010
The Dynamical Circulation of a Partially Stratified, Frictional Estuary: Long Island Sound
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Dirk A. Aurin
11:00 a.m., Friday, November 12, 2010
Developing Ocean Color Remote Sensing Algorithms for Retrieving Optical Properties and Biogeochemical Parameters in the Optically Complex Waters of Long Island Sound.
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Alison Tamsett
11:00 a.m., Thursday, July 15, 2010
Dynamics of hard substratum communities inside and outside of a fisheries habitat closed area in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (Gulf of Maine, NW Atlantic)
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Lihua Chen
9:00 a.m., Wednesday, March 3, 2010
A Molecular Approach to the Study of Saxitoxin Resistance in Copepods
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Emily Suzanne Maung
1:30 p.m., Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Hypoxia and the benthic communities of western Long Island Sound
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Terill Hollweg
2:00 p.m., Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Mercury cycling in sediments of Chesapeake Bay and the mid-Atlantic continental shelf and slope
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Anya Watson
2:00 p.m., Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Dynamic Camouflage Patterning in Nassau Grouper, Epinephelus striatus (Bloch 1792)
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Dean Janiak
3:00 p.m., Thursday, October 1, 2009
Ecological impacts of the non-native Grateloupia turuturu (Halymeniaceae, Rhodophyta) in Long Island Sound
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Ralph Jiorle
10:00 a.m., Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Tidal Currents and Friction over Large Marine Sand Waves in Eastern Long Island Sound
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Melissa Hacker-Gibson
3:00 p.m., Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Physical Processes that Affect Hypoxia in the Thames River Estuary, USA
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Lilibeth Miranda
10:00 a.m., Friday, February 13, 2009
Gene expression in the toxic dinoflagellate, Alexandrium fundyense: emphasis on cell cycle and growth-refulatory genes
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Christina Haska
10:00 a.m., Thursday, December 11, 2008
Assessing the Role of Bait Worm Packaging as a Potential Vector of Invasive Species to Long Island Sound
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Christopher Buonassissi
12:30 p.m., Wednesday, December 10, 2008
A Regional Comparison of Particle Size Distributions and the Power-Law Approximation in Oceanic and Estuarine Surface Waters by Laser Diffraction
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Brian D. Ortman
10:00 a.m., Thursday, December 4, 2008
DNA Barcoding the Medusozoa and Ctenophora
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Chiu-Yen Kuo
10:00 a.m., Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Variation in Planning Unit Size and Patterns of Fish Diversity: Implications for Design of Marine Protected Areas
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Dustin Kach
10:00 a.m., Friday, October 10, 2008
The Role of Marine Aggregates in the Ingestion of Picoplankton-Size Particles by Suspension-Feeding Molluscs
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Yubo Hou
1:30 p.m., Friday, September 19, 2008
Reconstruction of Dinoflagellate Genome Duplications through Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen and the Small Subunit Ribosomal RNA Gene Evolution
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Tiffany St. George
1:00 p.m., Friday, July 11, 2008
Organic Contaminants in the Thames River Estuary: Development of a Thin Film Passive Sampler
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Maille Lyons
10:00 a.m., Tuesday, June 24, 2008
The Importance of Marine Aggregates in the Ecological Epizootiology of Quahog Parasite X (QPX) Disease in Northern Quahogs (= Hard Clams) Mercenaria mercenaria
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Erick Rivera Lemus
11:00 a.m., Thursday, April 24, 2008
Wind waves in central Long Island Sound: A comparison of observations to an analytical expression
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Nathalie Morata
10:00 a.m., Friday, December 7, 2007
Sedimentary pigments as biomarkers of spatial and seasonal variations in the Arctic pelagic-benthic coupling
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Hélène Hégaret
10:00 a.m., Friday, October 26, 2007
Impacts of harmful algal blooms on physiological and cellular processes of bivalve molluscs
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Kimberly Barber
1:00 p.m., Friday, August 3, 2007
Social Foraging interactions in coral reef fishes
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Amy N. S. Siuda
10:00 a.m., Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Top-Down Control by Calanoid Copepods in Marine Plankton Communities
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Katie Haberlandt
10:00 a.m., Monday, April 9, 2007
Strombidium stylifer, an oligotrich ciliate and potential food source for marine larvae
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Brennan Phillips
11:00 a.m., Friday, April 6, 2007
Measurements on the defecation rate of Salpa thompsoni and its potential contribution to vertical flux in the Southern Ocean
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Caroline A. Loglisci
10:00 a.m., Thursday, April 5, 2007
A mass balance approach to understanding copepod fecal pellet cycling in Long Island Sound
Master’s Thesis Presentation of Adam Houk
11:00 a.m., Friday, April 6, 2007
Observations of the Spatial Structure of Turbulent Mixing in a River Plume Front
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Brett Branco
9:30 a.m., Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Coupled Physical and Biogeochemical Dynamics in Shallow Aquatic Systems: Observations, Theory and Models