Defenses

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