2025
Gunnar Hansen
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Mason, Robert and Baumann, Zosia
Thesis: Patterns of Mercury and Methylmercury Bioaccumulation in Marine Bivalve Molluscs
2024
Lauren Barrett
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Vlahos, Penny
Thesis: Carbon and Oxygen Dynamics in Productive Coastal Ecosystems: From the Remote Arctic to Metropolitan Temperate Zones
Mackenzie Blanusa
Degree: MS
Advisor: Rocha, Cesar
Thesis: Tropical Submesoscale Dynamics as Inferred From an Array of Saildrones
Brittney Collins
Degree: MS
Advisor: Whitney, Michael
Thesis: Not available
Tyler Griffin
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Ward, J. Evan
Thesis: Taxonomic and Functional Profiles of Gut Microbiota from Mytilid Mussels: Dynamics Under Normal Physiological Conditions and in Response to Disturbance
Shannon Jordan
Degree: MS
Advisor: Tobias, Craig
Thesis: Potential for Improved Eelgrass Restoration Success Through Manipulation of the Sediment Iron Cycle
Ewaldo Leito De Oliveira Jnior
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Dam, Hans
Thesis: The Role of Temperature and Thermal Adaptation on Plankton Ecology: Population Dynamics, Predator-prey and Antagonistic Interactions
Sydney McDonald
Degree: MS
Advisor: Granger, Julie
Thesis: Not available
Felipe Porto
Degree: MS
Advisor: Visscher, Pieter
Thesis: Not available
Sophia Smith
Degree: MSc
Advisor: Mason, Robert
Thesis: Speciation, Partitioning, and Transport of Hg from the Penobscot River to the Gulf of Maine
Ethan Taylor
Degree: MS
Advisor: Lund, David
Thesis: Evaluating the Depth Habitat of G. bulloides in the Atlantic Sector of the Southern Ocean
Max Zavell
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Baumann, Hannes
Thesis: Experimental Assessment of Ocean Warming and Acidification Effects on Multiple Life Stages of Black Sea Bass, Centropristis striata
Mengyang Zhou
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Granger, Julie
Thesis: Physical Influences on Ocean Biogeochemistry Ð Nitrogen Biogeochemistry in Mesoscale Eddies in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre and Seasonal Hypoxia in the Southern Benguela Upwelling System
2023
William Hawkins
Degree: MS
Advisor: Visscher, Pieter
Thesis: Not available
Yipeng He
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Maon,Robert
Thesis: Air-sea Exchange of Mercury and its Species in the Coastal and Open Ocean
Michael Mathuri
Degree: MS
Advisor: Granger, Julie
Thesis: Physiological Mechanism of Nitrogen Isotope Fractionation During Ammonium Assimilation by Marine Phytoplankton
Kayla Mladinich Poole
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Ward, J. Evan
Thesis: Selective Ingestion of Microplastics by Suspension- Feeding Invertebrates: Investigations into Sources, Fate, and Concentrations in Coastal Environments
Josie Mottram
Degree: MS
Advisor: Granger, Julie
Thesis: Refining the Use of Cold-Water Corals as a Proxy for the Marine Nitrogen Cycle Through the Comparison of the ?15N of Diet, Tissue, and Skeleton of the Coral Balanophyllia elegans
Patricia Myer
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Mason, Robert
Thesis: A Critical Examination of the Factors Controlling Methylmercury Uptake into Marine Plankton
Sean Ryan
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Matassa, Catherine
Thesis: Causes and Consequences of Variation in Anti-Herbivore Traits of a Rocky Intertidal Seaweed
Emma Shipley
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Vlahos, Penny
Thesis: Environmental Transport of Organic Contaminants Across Global Freshwater and Marine Systems
Graham Trolley
Degree: MS
Advisor: Dierssen, Heidi
Thesis: Investigating Natural Biofilms on Marine Microplastics and the Implications for Ocean Color Remote Sensing
2022
Annette Carlson
Degree: MS
Advisor: Siedlecki, Samantha
Thesis: Quantifying Interannual Variability of Shelf Nutrients and Associated Hypoxia in St. Helena Bay with New Metrics and Tools
Hannah Collins
Degree: MS
Advisor: Ward, J. Evan
Thesis: Examining the effects of nylon microfibers on the gut microbiome and gut tissues of the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis
Mathew Holmes-Hackerd
Degree: MS
Advisor: Dam, Hans
Thesis: Naupliar Exposure to Acute Warming Shows no Carryover Ontogenetic Effects on Respiration Rates, Body Size, and Development Time of the Copepod Acartia tonsa
Samantha Linhardt
Degree: MS
Advisor: Matassa, Catherine
Thesis: Local and Regional Variation in Recruitment Modifies Species Interactions and Community Dynamics on Gulf of Maine Rocky Shores
Kelly McGarry
Degree: MS
Advisor: Siedlecki, Samantha
Thesis: Not available
Mary McGuinness
Degree: MS
Advisor: Vlahos, Penny
Thesis: Examination of Controlling Parameters for Total Alkalinity in Long Island Sound Rivers
Kelli Mosca
Degree: MS
Advisor: Baumann, Hannes
Thesis: Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus) Growth and Habitat Use in the Connecticut River and Long Island Sound
Annalisa Mudahy
Degree: MS
Advisor: Tobias, Craig
Thesis: Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Water Column Respiration in an Urban Estuary Revealed Using Automated Respiration Chambers
Peter Ruffino
Degree: MS
Advisor: Tobias, Craig
Thesis: Tracing the fate of phytoplankton-derived nitrogen: effects of oysters on recycling, denitrification, and burial
Lingjie Zhou
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Lin, Senjie
Thesis: Estimate Phytoplankton Carbon Biomass Using DNA
2021
James deMayo
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Dam, Hans
Thesis: Costs and Consequences of Adaptation to Combined Warming and Acidification for Two Estuarine Copepods
Raymond Graham
Degree: MS
Advisor: Edson, James
Thesis: Investigation of the Moisture Budget Within the Tropics, Under the ITCZ
Josiah Grzywacz
Degree: MS
Advisor: McManus, George
Thesis: Quantum Efficiency (Fv/Fm) and Performance of Retained Plastids in an Oligotrich Mixotroph and Its Prey
Amin Ilia
Degree: PhD
Advisor: O’Donnell, James
Thesis: Waves in Long Island Sound
Lucas Jones
Degree: MS
Advisor: Baumann, Hannes
Thesis: Using Low-Coverage, Whole Genome Sequencing to Study Northern Sand Lance (Ammodytes dubius) Population Connectivity in the Northwest Atlantic
Christina Menniti
Degree: MS
Advisor: Whitney, Michael
Thesis: Assessing the Importance of Variability in Oxygen Concentrations and Horizontal Fluxes in Western Long Island Sound
Maryam Mirhakak
Degree: MS
Advisor: Dierssen, Heidi
Thesis: Not available
Quinne Murphy
Degree: MS
Advisor: Visscher, Pieter
Thesis: The Role of Cyanobacteria in Calcium Carbonate Precipitation in Fayetteville Green Lake, New York
John Speers
Degree: MS
Advisor: O’Donnell, James
Thesis: The Effect of Sea-Level Rise on Flooding Statistics
Melissa Wojcicki
Degree: MS
Advisor: Bucklin, Ann
Thesis: Understanding Deep-Sea Trophic Interactions by Metabarcoding Mesopelagic Fish Diets
2020
Halle Berger
Degree: MS
Advisor: Matassa, Catherine and Siedlecki, Samantha
Thesis: A Regional Vulnerability Assessment for the Dungeness Crab (Metacarcinus magister) to Changing Ocean Conditions: Insights From Model Projections and Empirical Experiments
Callie Concannon
Degree: MS
Advisor: Baumann, Hannes
Thesis: Whole Life-Cycle CO2 ? Temperature Effects on Fecundity and Oocyte Recruitment in the Atlantic Silverside (Menidia menidia)
Vena Haynes
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Ward, J. Evan
Thesis: The Interactive Effects of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles and Light on Coastal Planktonic Organisms
Sarah McCart
Degree: MS
Advisor: Lund, David
Thesis: Assessing the Sea Level Hypothesis with Hydrothermal and Volcanic Ash Records from the East Pacific Rise and Pacific-Antarctic Ridge
Veronica Rollison
Degree: MS
Advisor: Granger, Julie
Thesis: Sources and Fluxes of Reactive N in a Southern New England River
Matthew Sasaki
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Dam, Hans
Thesis: Thermal Macrophysiology of the Estuarine Copepod Acartia tonsa: Adaptation Across Spatial and Temporal Temperature Gradients
Alec Shub
Degree: MS
Advisor: Lund, David
Thesis: Deep South Atlantic Watermass Variability During the Last Glacial Cycle: New Stable Isotope Records from the Brazil Margin
Susan Smith
Degree: PhD
Advisor: McManus, George
Thesis: Evaluating the Morphological, Ecological, and Genomic Lines of Identity in Marine Ciliates
Brittany Sprecher
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Lin, Senjie
Thesis: Developing a Genetic Transformation Toolkit for Dinoflagellates
Allison Staniec
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Vlahos, Penny
Thesis: Examining Dissolved Gases in a Changing Climate
2019
Allison Byrd
Degree: MS
Advisor: Vlahos, Penny
Thesis: Tidally Resolved Carbon and Nutrient Exchange through Eastern Long Island Sound
Steven Deignan-Schmidt
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Whitney, Michael
Thesis: An Investigation into River Water Distribution, Island Influences, and Embayment Temperatures in Long Island Sound
Yan Jia
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Whitney, Michael
Thesis: A Study on Pathways of Major River Waters in Long Island Sound
Christopher Murray
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Baumann, Hannes
Thesis: An Experimental Evaluation of the Sensitivity of Coastal Marine Fishes to Acidification, Hypoxia, and Warming
Youngmi Shin
Degree: PhD
Advisor: O’Donnell, James
Thesis: Wind and Wave-Driven Circulation in a Fetch-Limited Coastal Basin: Western Long Island Sound
Qiang Sun
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Whitney, Michael
Thesis: Improving the Treatment of Rivers and Assessing River Influences in the Global Ocean of the Community Earth System Model
2018
Michelle Fogarty
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Fewings, Melanie
Thesis: Air-Sea Momentum, Heat, and Carbon Dioxide Fluxes in Shallow Coastal Ecosystems
Ellen Johnson
Degree: MS
Advisor: Vlahos, Penny
Thesis: Not available
Matthew Lacerra
Degree: MS
Advisor: Lund, David
Thesis: Reduced Carbon Storage at Intermediate Depths in the Southwest Atlantic During HS1: Evidence for a Weaker Southern Ocean Biological Pump
Almariet Palm
Degree: MS
Advisor: Visscher, Pieter
Thesis: The Dissolution of Diatoms in Marine Microbial Mats
Gihong Park
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Dam, Hans
Thesis: Costs and Benefits of Putatively Anti-Grazing Defenses in the Marine Dinoflagellate Alexandrium catanella
Julie Pringle
Degree: MS
Advisor: Baumann, Hannes
Thesis: Sex-Specific Hatch and Growth Patterns in Young-of-the-Year Atlantic Silversides (Menidia menidia, Atherinopsidae) From Mumford Cove, Connecticut
Emily Seelen
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Mason, Robert
Thesis: A Multi-Estuary Approach to Better Understand the Sources and Fate of Methylmercury within Estuarine Water Columns
Heidi Yeh
Degree: MS
Advisor: Bucklin, Ann
Thesis: Metabarcoding Analysis of Prey Composition of the Copepod Calanus finmarchicus in Regions of the North Atlantic Ocean
2017
Mark Ballentine
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Tobias, Craig
Thesis: Coastal Ecosystem Processing of Nitrogen Rich High Explosives
Danielle Boshers
Degree: MS
Advisor: Granger, Julie
Thesis: Oxygen Isotopic Composition of Nitrate Produced by Freshwater Nitrification
Brian DiMento
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Mason, Robert
Thesis: An Investigation of the Major Transformations and Loss Mechanisms of Mercury and Selenium in the Surface Ocean
Tristan Kading
Degree: MS
Advisor: Lombardo, Kelly
Thesis: Not available
Jacob Snyder
Degree: MS
Advisor: Baumann, Hannes
Thesis: Analysis of a Newly Digitized Long-Term Dataset of Environmental Observations from Long Island Sound
Amanda Vieillard
Degree: MS
Advisor: Tobias, Craig
Thesis: Impacts of New England Oyster Aquaculture on Sediment Nitrogen Cycling: Implications for Nitrogen Removal and Retention
Joseph K. Warren
Degree: MS
Advisor: Vlahos, Penny
Thesis: Development of an In-situ Passive Sampling Device for Munitions Compounds and Sulfate
2016
Thivanka Ariyarathna
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Vlahos, Penny
Thesis: Sorption and Metabolism of Explosives in Sediment of Coastal Marine Ecosystems
Melissa Cote
Degree: MS
Advisor: Lund, David
Thesis: The Driver of the Carbon Isotope Minima During the Last Deglaciation: A Weakened Biological Pump or Enhanced Southern Ocean Circulation?
Joanne Elmoznino
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Vlahos, Penny
Thesis: Occurrence, Fate and Distribution Behaviors of Organic Contaminants, Perfluorinated Alkyl Acids and Phthalic Acid Esters, in Wastewater Effluent and the Housatonic River Estuary
Kayla Flynn
Degree: MS
Advisor: Fewings, Melanie
Thesis: The Causes of Regional Sea-Surface Temperature Anomalies During Wind Relaxation Events Off the U.S. West Coast in Summer
Kathleen Gosnell
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Mason, Robert
Thesis: Uptake and Trophic Transfer for Mercury and Methylmercury at the Base of Marine Food Webs
Nashaat Mazrui
Degree: PhD (Chem)
Advisor: Mason, Robert
Thesis: The Interaction of Mercury and Methylmercury with Reduced Sulfur: Implications for the Transformation of Mercury and Methylmercury in the Environment
Melissa Pierce
Degree: MS
Advisor: Ward, J. Evan
Thesis: Not available
Melissa Pierce
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Ward, J. Evan
Thesis: The Microbiome of the Eastern Oyster, Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin, 1791): Temporal and Spatial Variation, Environmental Influences, and its Impact on Host Physiology
Maria Rosa
Degree: PHD
Advisor: Ward, J Evan
Thesis: Mechanisms Of Particle Retention and Selection in Suspension-Feeding Bivalves
Aaron Rosenberg
Degree: MS
Advisor: Edson, James
Thesis: Measuring and Modeling Oceanic Air-Sea Fluxes
Brandon Russell
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Dierssen, Heidi
Thesis: Application of a Portable Hyperspectral Imaging System to Field Studies in Animal Camouflage and Coral Reef Symbiosis
Emily Seeley
Degree: MS
Advisor: Lund, David
Thesis: Testing the Sea Level Hypothesis with New Records along the Southern East Pacific Rise and Pacific Antarctic Ridge
Eric Sinsky
Degree: MS
Advisor: Lombardo, Kelly
Thesis: The Impacts of Surface Conditions on Sea Breezes over Coastal Connecticut
2015
Kayla Erikson
Degree: MS
Advisor: Bucklin,Ann
Thesis: A Time Series Investigation of the Cryptic Copepods Pseudocalanus spp. on the NW Atlantic Continental Shelf
Rebecca Gladych
Degree: MS
Advisor: Shumway, Sandra
Thesis: Not available
Rachel Perry
Degree: MS
Advisor: Vaudrey, Jamie
Thesis: Nutrient Dynamics of Floating Seagrass Wracks in Greater Florida Bay
Ashley Phillips
Degree: MS
Advisor: Skoog, Annelie
Thesis: A Derivatization Method for Tagging Low-Molecular Weight Organic Acids in Seawater with a Fluorescent Coumarin
Kaylan Randolph
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Dierssen, Heidi
Thesis: Optical Measurements of Whitecaps and Bubbles During Large Scale Wave Breaking in the Southern Ocean
Faith Raymond
Degree: MS
Advisor: Tobias, Craig
Thesis: Not available
Steven Schmidt
Degree: MS
Advisor: Whitney, Michael
Thesis: Not available
Lija Treibergs
Degree: MS
Advisor: Granger, Julie
Thesis: Enzyme Level N and O Isotope Effects of Assimilatory and Dissimilatory Nitrate Reduction
2014
Paola Batta Lona
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Bucklin, Ann
Thesis: Environmental Genomics and Transcriptomics of Salpa thompsoni and Population Genetic Variation of Euphausia superba in the Southern Ocean
Zair Burris
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Dam, Hans
Thesis: Mating Dynamics of the Calanoid Copepods Acartia tonsa and Acartia hudsonica
Nicole Chang
Degree: MS
Advisor: Tobias, Craig
Thesis: Nitrogen Isotope Dynamics of Anammox and Denitrification in Coastal Groundwater
Richard Dabundo
Degree: MS
Advisor: Granger, Julie
Thesis: Nitrogen Isotopes in the Measurement of N2-Fixation and the Estimation of Denitrification in the Global Ocean
John Doyle
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Ward, J. Evan
Thesis: Ingestion, Depuration, and Potential Toxicity ofÊTitanium Dioxide Nanoparticles in the Blue Mussel, Mytilus edulis, and the Eastern Oyster, Crassostrea virginica
Diana Lancaster
Degree: MS
Advisor: Whitlatch, Robert
Thesis: Recruitment Patterns of the Fouling Community on Eelgrass in Long Island Sound
Joshua Lord
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Whitlatch, Robert
Thesis: Effect of Temperature Changes on Competitive and Predator-Prey Interactions in Coastal Epi-Benthic Communities
John Natale
Degree: MS
Advisor: Shumway, Sandra
Thesis: Not available
Patrick Plummer
Degree: MS
Advisor: Tobias, Craig
Thesis: Not available
Tiffany St. George
Degree: MS
Advisor: Vlahos, Penny
Thesis: Not available
Laura Thompson
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Romano, Tracy
Thesis: The Combined Influence of Diving Physiology and Stressors on Immune Cell Function in a Deep Diving Monodontid and Three Shallow Diving Phocid Species
2013
Alejandro Cifuentes-Lorenzen
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Edson, James
Thesis: The Wave Boundary Layer Over the Open Ocean and the Implications to Air-Sea Interaction
Benjamin Cournoyer
Degree: MS
Advisor: Dam, Hans
Thesis: Can Acartia spp. Adapt to Climatic Warming? Heritable within-Population Genetic Variation in Life History Traits
Michael Finiguerra
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Dam, Hans
Thesis: Determining the Role of a Novel Sodium Channel Mutation on Tolerance to Paralytic Shellfish Toxins in the Marine Copepod Acartia hudsonica
Susan Gichuki
Degree: PhD (Chem)
Advisor: Mason, Robert
Thesis: Chemical Processes Influencing Mercury Transformations And Atmospheric Fluxes In The Atmospheric Boundary Layer In Coastal Regions
Jenay Guardiani
Degree: MS
Advisor: Tobias, Craig
Thesis: Water Column Carbon Dynamics in the New River Estuary, NC
Veronica Ortiz
Degree: MS
Advisor: Mason, Robert
Thesis: An Examination of Marine Snow as a Pathway for Mercury Uptake in the Blue Mussel Mytilus edulis
Kristin Raub
Degree: MS
Advisor: Vlahos, Penny
Thesis: Comparison of Marine Sampling Methods for Organic Contaminants: Passive Samplers, Water Extractions, and Live Oyster Deployments
Donald Schoener
Degree: PhD
Advisor: McManus, George
Thesis: Inorganic Carbon and Nitrogen Utilization in Mixotrophic Ciliates
Yunyun Zhuang
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Lin, Senjie
Thesis: Transcriptomic Profiling of Genes Related to Cell Division, Metabolism and Toxin Production in the Dinoflagellate “Alexandrium fundyense“
2012
V. Alejandro Arias Esquivel
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Skoog, Annelie
Thesis: Hydroxyl Radicals in Marine Sediments
Christina Batoh
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Dam, Hans
Thesis: Grazer-Induced Toxin Production in the Dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense :ÊCues, Merchanisms, and Cost
Tzong-Yueh Chen
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Skoog, Annelie
Thesis: Abiotic Aggregation of Organic Matter in Aquatic Systems: Alteration of Chemical Characteristics and Implications
Kimberley Gallagher
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Visscher, Pieter
Thesis: The Roles of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria in Organomineralization and Microbialite Formation: Mechanisms of Mineral Precipitation
Melissa Hacker-Gibson
Degree: MS
Advisor: Whitney, Michael
Thesis: Physical Processes that Affect Hypoxia in the Thames River Estuary, USA
Chiu-Yen Kuo
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Lin, Senjie
Thesis: Growth, Lipid Synthesis, and Bacterial Association of Eutreptiella sp. from Long Island Sound Characterized Using Ecological and Molecular Techniques
Grant McCardell
Degree: PhD
Advisor: O’Donnell, James
Thesis: Physical Supplies of Oxygen to the Bottom Waters of Western Long Island Sound
Victoria Price
Degree: MS
Advisor: Auster, Peter
Thesis: An Approach For Use of Dual Frequency Identification Sonar (DIDSON) to Quantify Behavioral Aspects of Piscivory at Ecologically Relevant Time and Space Scales
Amina Schartup
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Mason, Robert
Thesis: The Role of Natural Organic Matter and Sulfur on the Bioavailability of Inorgainc Mercury to Methylating Organisms and to the Fate and Transport of Methylmercury in Coastal Ecosystems
Lauren Stefaniak
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Whitlatch, Robert
Thesis: Didemnum vexillum: Identity, Origin, and Life History of an Invasive Ascidian
2011
Kelley Bostrom
Degree: MS
Advisor: Dierssen, Heidi
Thesis: Testing the Limits of Hyperspectral Airborne Remote Sensing by Mapping Eelgrass in Elkhorn Slough
Udonna Ndu
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Mason, Robert
Thesis: 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
James Reinhardt
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Whitlatch,Robert
Thesis: Dispersal, Recruitment and Habitat Invasibility in Shallow Epifaunal Communities of Southern New England
Maria Rosa
Degree: MS
Advisor: Ward, J. Evan
Thesis: Effects of Particle Surface Properties on Feeding Selectivity in Suspension-Feeding Bivalve Molluscs
Ebru Unal Yigiterhan
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Bucklin, Ann
Thesis: Population Genetic Structure and Gene Expression Patterns of the Copepod Calanus finmarchicus in the North Atlantic Ocean
2010
Dirk Aurin
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Dierssen, Heidi
Thesis: Developing Ocean Color Remote Sensing Algorithms for Retrieving Optical Properties and Biogeochemical Parameters in the Optically Complex Waters of Long Island Sound
Lihua Chen
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Dam, Hans
Thesis: A Molecular Approach to the Study of Saxitoxin Resistance in Copepods
Dana Frank
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Ward, J. Evan
Thesis: An Experimental Approach to Elucidate Functional Mechanisms of Control of the Bivalve Pump
Diane Fribance
Degree: PhD
Advisor: O’Donnell, James
Thesis: The Dynamical Circulation of a Partially Stratified, Frictional Estuary: Long Island Sound
Terill Hollweg
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Mason, Robert
Thesis: Mercury Cycling in Sediments of Chesapeake Bay and the Mid-Atlantic Continental Shelf and Slope
Emily Maung
Degree: MS
Advisor: Whitlatch, Robert
Thesis: Hypoxia and Benthic Invertebrate Communities of Western Long Island Sound
Elisabeth Svensson
Degree: MS
Advisor: Skoog, Annelie
Thesis: Not available
Alison Tamsett
Degree: MS
Advisor: Auster, Peter
Thesis: 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)
Anna Watson
Degree: MS
Advisor: Whitlatch, Robert
Thesis: Dynamic Camouflage Patterning in Nassau Grouper, Epinephelus striatus (Bloch 1792)
2009
Christopher Buonassissi
Degree: MS
Advisor: Dierssen, Heidi
Thesis: A Regional Comparison of Particle Size Distribution by Laser Diffraction
Terill Hollweg
Degree: MS
Advisor: Mason, Robert
Thesis: Not available
Dean Janiak
Degree: MS
Advisor: Whitlatch,Robert
Thesis: Ecological Impacts of the Non-Native Grateloupia turutura (Halymeniaceae, Rhodophyta) in Long Island Sound
Ralph Jiorle
Degree: MS
Advisor: Whitney, Michael
Thesis: Tidal Currents and Friction over Large Marine Sand Waves in Eastern Long Island Sound
Dustin Kach
Degree: MS
Advisor: Ward,J. Evan
Thesis: The Role of Marine Aggregates in the Ingestion of Picoplankton-Size Particles by Suspension-Feeding Molluscs
Lilibeth Miranda
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Lin, Senjie
Thesis: Gene Expression in the Toxic Dinoflagellate, Alexandrium fundyense: Emphasis on Cell Cycle and Growth-Regulatory Genes
2008
Diane Fribance
Degree: MS
Advisor: O’Donnell, James
Thesis: Not available
Kimberley Gallagher
Degree: MS
Advisor: Visscher, Pieter
Thesis: Not available
Christina Haska
Degree: MS
Advisor: Lin, Senjie
Thesis: Assessing the Role of Bait Worm Packaging as a Potential Vector of Invasive Species to Long Island Sound
Helene Hegaret
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Shumway, Sandra
Thesis: Impacts of Harmful Algal Blooms on Physiological and Cellular Processes of Bivalve Molluscs
Yubo Hou
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Lin, Senjie
Thesis: Isolation and Characterization of Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen and the Small Subunit Ribosomal RNA Genes in Dinoflagellates: Insights into Dinoflagellate Genome Evolution
Chiu-Yen Kuo
Degree: MS
Advisor: Auster, Peter
Thesis: Variation in Planning Unit Size and Patterns of Fish Diversity: Implications for Design of Marine Protected Areas
Mary-Marguerite Maille Lyons
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Ward, J. Evan
Thesis: The Role of Marine Aggregates in the Ecological Epidemiology of Quahog Parasite X (QPX) Disease of Northern Quahogs (=Hard Clams) Mercenaria mercenaria
Grant McCardell
Degree: MS
Advisor: O’Donnell, James
Thesis: Not available
Nathalie Morata
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Renaud, Paul
Thesis: Sedimentary Pigments as Biomarkers of Spatial and Seasonal Variations in Arctic Pelagic-Benthic Coupling
Albino Munoz Barbosa
Degree: MS
Advisor: Visscher, Pieter
Thesis: Not available
Udonna Ndu
Degree: MS
Advisor: Mason, Robert
Thesis: Not available
Brian Ortman
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Bucklin, Ann
Thesis: DNA Barcoding the Medusozoa and Ctenophora
Erick Rivera Lemus
Degree: MS
Advisor: Bohlen,W. Frank
Thesis: Wind waves in central Long Island Sound: A comparison of observations to an analytical expression
2007
Kimberly Barber
Degree: MS
Advisor: Auster, Peter
Thesis: Social Foraging Interactions In Coral Reef Fishes
Alison Branco
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Kremer, James
Thesis: Empirical Methods for the Prediction of Optical Properties in Shallow Estuaries
Brett Branco
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Torgersen, Thomas
Thesis: Coupled Physical and Biogeochemical Dynamics in Shallow Aquatic Systems:ÊObservations, Theory and Models
Timothy Feinstein
Degree: MS
Advisor: Lin, Senjie
Thesis: Not available
Amy Ferland
Degree: MS
Advisor: Auster, Peter
Thesis: Not available
Zamara Fuentes Figueroa
Degree: MS
Advisor: Visscher, Pieter
Thesis: Not available
Katharine Haberlandt
Degree: MS
Advisor: McManus, George
Thesis: Strombidium stylifer , An Oligotrich Ciliate and Potential Food Source for Marine Larvae
Helene Hegaret
Degree: MS
Advisor: Shumway, Sandra
Thesis: Not available
Adam Houk
Degree: MS
Advisor: O’Donnell, James
Thesis: Observations of the Spatial Structure of Turbulent Mixing in a River Plume Front
Caroline Loglisci
Degree: MS
Advisor: Dam, Hans
Thesis: Not available
Cervinia Manalo
Degree: MS
Advisor: Vlahos, Penny
Thesis: Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM), DOM C/N and Nutrient Distributions in Western Long Island Sound in Spring and Summer, 2005
Jason McNamee
Degree: MS
Advisor: Whitlatch, Robert
Thesis: Not available
Jeffrey Mercer
Degree: MS
Advisor: Whitlatch,Robert
Thesis: Not available
Brennan Phillips
Degree: MS
Advisor: Kremer, Patricia
Thesis: Defecation by Salpa thompsoni and its Contribution to Vertical Flux in the Southern Ocean
Amy Siuda
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Dam, Hans
Thesis: Top-Down Control By Calanoid Copepods In Marine Plankton Communities
Jamie Vaudrey
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Kremer, James
Thesis: Estimating total ecosystem metabolism (TEM) from the oxygen rate of change: A comparison of two Connecticut estuaries
2006
V. Alejandro Arias Esquivel
Degree: MS
Advisor: Skoog, Annelie
Thesis: The effect of Oxygen Concentrations on Fluxes over the Sediment-Water Interface of Dissolved Organic Matter, Nutrients, Iron, and Manganese
Laura Baumgartner
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Visscher, Pieter
Thesis: Diversity and Lithification in Microbial Mats and Stromatolites
Binglin Li
Degree: MS
Advisor: Ward, J. Evan
Thesis: Effects of Organic Matter from Suspension Feeders on Particle Aggregation
2005
Paola Batta Lona
Degree: MS
Advisor: Lin, Senjie
Thesis: Isolation and Characterization of PCNA Gene from Emiliania huxleyi : Search for a Molecular Marker to Measure in situ Cell Division Rate
John Bean
Degree: MS
Advisor: Torgersen, Thomas
Thesis: Effective Vertical Diffusivity in Shallow Lakes by an Enhanced Flux-gradient Method: The Dependence of Diffusivity on Density Gradient and an Example Application to Ecosystem Stability
Peter Gay
Degree: PhD
Advisor: O’Donnell, James
Thesis: Salt Transport in Partially Mixed Estuaries
John Hamilton
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Whitlatch, Robert
Thesis: A Coupled Hydrodynamic-Larval Transport Model for Assessing Source-Sink Recruitment Dynamics in Estuarine Habitats
Chad Hammerschmidt
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Fitzgerald, William
Thesis: The Biogeochemical Cycling of Methylmercury in Coastal Marine Sediments
Robert Heckman
Degree: MS
Advisor: Bohlen, W. Frank
Thesis: Not available
2004
Kari Beth Heinonen
Degree: MS
Advisor: Ward, J. Evan
Thesis: Production of Transparent Exopolymer Particles (TEP) by Suspension-feeding Bivalves (Mollusca) and Tunicates (Chordata)
Rachel Reed
Degree: MS
Advisor: Visscher, Pieter
Thesis: Methane Dynamics Over a Salinity Cycle in a Solar Saltern of Combate, Puerto Rico
2003
Safra Altman
Degree: MS
Advisor: Whitlatch, Robert
Thesis: Space Invaders: The Effect of Small-Scale Disturbance on Invasion Success in Marine Communities
Dana Frank
Degree: MS
Advisor: Ward, J. Evan
Thesis: Development of a Technique for Continuous Monitoring of Pallial Cavity Pressure and Valve Gape Using the Eastern Oyster, Crassostrea Virginica (Gmelin, 1972)
Carl Lamborg
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Fitzgerald, William
Thesis: Mercury Speciation and Reactivity in the Coastal and Estuarine Waters of Long Island Sound
2002
Sean Colin
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Dam, Hans
Thesis: Determination and Characterization of Resistance by Populations of the Copepod Acartia hudsonica to the Toxic Dinoflagellate Alexandrium sp.
Sheean Haley
Degree: MS
Advisor: Dam, Hans
Thesis: Toxin Dynamics in Populations of the Copepod Acartia hudsonica Resistant and Nonresistant to the Harmful Dinoflagellate, Alexandrium fundyense
Michael McKee
Degree: MS
Advisor: Ward, J. Evan
Thesis: Production of Transparent Exopolymer Particles (Tep) By Select Suspension Feeders
Stacey McLeroy
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Roesler, Collin
Thesis: Ecophysiology and optical detection of harmful algal blooms
Laura Rear
Degree: MS
Advisor: Codiga, Daniel
Thesis: Observations of Tidal Current and Stratification Profiles on the Continental Shelf Outside Block Island Sound
Carol Rosetta
Degree: MS
Advisor: McManus, George
Thesis: The Feeding by Ciliates on Two Harmful Algal Bloom Species-Prorocentrum minimum and Prymnesium parvum
George Waldbusser
Degree: MS
Advisor: Whitlatch, Robert
Thesis: Examining the Effects of Biodiversity on Ecosystem Services Using a Functional Group Approach in a Near Shore Soft Sediment Community
2001
Lisa Milke
Degree: MS
Advisor: Ward, J. Evan
Thesis: The Influence of Diet On Pre-Ingestive Particle Handling In Two Species Of Bivalved Molluscs: Mytilus edulis And Crassostrea virginica
Daniel Rogers
Degree: MS
Advisor: Visscher, Pieter
Thesis: A Mechanism for Biogenic Caco3 Precipitation In Modern Marine Stromatolites
2000
Johanna Bauman
Degree: MS
Advisor: Visscher, Pieter
Thesis: Stress Protein Production in Response To Environmental Stressors in the Bay Scallop, Argopecten irradians
Patrick Drake
Degree: MS
Advisor: Bohlen, W. Frank
Thesis: A Comparison of Near-Bottom Reynolds Stress Measurement Techniques in a Highly Stratified Estuarine Flow
Michael Ford
Degree: MS
Advisor: Dam, Hans
Thesis: Use of Video Image Analysis to Quantify Particle Aggregation
Robert Robertson
Degree: MS
Advisor: Cooper, Richard
Thesis: The Abundance and Distribution of Bacterioplankton in the Bottom Waters of Hudson and Block Submarine Canyons
Cynthia Serdikoff
Degree: MS
Advisor: Cooper, Richard
Thesis: Population Genetics of Argopecten irradians and Associations Between Allozyme Heterozygosity and Phenotypic Variation in Growth and Respiration Rate
Kam Tang
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Dam, Hans
Thesis: Interaction Between Marine Calanoid Copepods and Dimethylsulfoniopropionate
1999
Shelley Hoeft
Degree: MS
Advisor: Visscher, Pieter
Thesis: Methyl Bromide Metabolism in Marine Bacteria
Tonna-Marie Surgeon
Degree: MS
Advisor: Whitlatch, Robert
Thesis: Sulfide as an Environmental Factor and Toxicant in Three zostera marina l. (eelgrass) Beds in Long Island Sound
1998
Davnet Conway
Degree: MS
Advisor: Roesler, Collin
Thesis: Fluorescent Optical Properties of Two Types of Organic Material in Two Estuaries
David Detlor
Degree: MS
Advisor: Dam, Hans
Thesis: Uncoupled Production and Solubilization Of Particles From Dissolved Organic Matter
Leah Feinberg
Degree: MS
Advisor: Dam, Hans
Thesis: Effects of Dietary Diversity On Fecal Pellet Characteristics Of The Copepod Acartia tonsa
Eric Morton
Degree: MS
Advisor: Bohlen, W. Frank
Thesis: Observations of The Turbidity Maximum In The Connecticut River
Connie Russ
Degree: MS
Advisor: Fitzgerald, William
Thesis: Biogeochemical Cycling of Methylmercury in Two Connecticut Salt Marshes
Yin Sun
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Torgersen, Thomas
Thesis: Sedimentary Geochemistry of 224 RA
Paul Werdell
Degree: MS
Advisor: Roesler, Collin
Thesis: Remote Assessment of Benthic Substrate Composition Using Multispectral Reflectance
1997
Kevin Kroeger
Degree: MS
Advisor: Whitlatch, Robert
Thesis: Temperature and Dissolved Oxygen Concentration as Factors Influencing the Secondary Production Rate of Nucula annulata in Long Islang Sound, USA
John Lake
Degree: MS
Advisor: Lee, Douglas
Thesis: Diet Selectivity of Scup, Stenotomus chrysops , in Long Island Sound
Stacey McLeroy
Degree: MS
Advisor: McManus, George
Thesis: Effect of Copepod Feeding on Ingested Phytoplankton Pigments
Peter Scheifele
Degree: MS
Advisor: Cooper, Richard
Thesis: Impact of Low-Frequency Anthropogenic Noise on the Auditory System of the Beluga (Delphinapterus Leucas) in the Saint Lawrence River Estuary
Jill Steidl
Degree: MS
Advisor: Welsh, Barbara
Thesis: Not available
Xinsheng Zhang
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Dam, Hans
Thesis: Carbon Dynamics of the Planktonic Food Web in the Central Equatorial Pacific
1996
Kathryn Eller
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Crivello, Joseph
Thesis: Metallothionein mRNA and Protein Response to Arsenite in Juvenile Winter Flounder, Pleuronectes americanus
Chunyan Li
Degree: PhD
Advisor: O’Donnell, James
Thesis: Tidally Induced Residual Circulation in Estuaries with Cross Channel Bathymetry
Kimberly Philips
Degree: MS
Advisor: Dam, Hans
Thesis: Aspects of Feeding and Fecundity of Two Species of Calanoid Copepods, Temora
1995
George Smith
Degree: MS
Advisor: Welsh, Barbara
Thesis: Copepods and Eutrophication in Long Island Sound
1994
Mark Dixon
Degree: MS
Advisor: Cooper, Richard
Thesis: Habitat Selection in Juvenile Tautog, Tautoga onitis , and Juvenile Cunner, Tautogolabrus adspersus
Annette Frese
Degree: MS
Advisor: Whitlatch, Robert
Thesis: Effects of Resident Adult Ascidians on Larval Settlement and Post-Settlement Success
Martin Holt
Degree: MS
Advisor: Whitlatch, Robert
Thesis: Not available
John Leamon
Degree: MS
Advisor: Powell, Mark
Thesis: Correlation Among Four Health Parameters in Natural Populations of the Estuarine Fish, Fundulus heteroclitus (L.)
John Modi
Degree: MS
Advisor: O’Donnell, James
Thesis: Not available
1993
Mari Butler
Degree: MS
Advisor: Dam, Hans
Thesis: Fecal Pellet Prodution Rates and Fecal Pellet Characteristics of the Copepod Acartia tonsa Under Simulated Bloom Conditions
Edward Deangelo
Degree: MS
Advisor: Torgersen, Thomas
Thesis: Quantification of Biologically Enhanced Porewater Transport During Hypoxia in Western Long Island Sound Sediments
David Drapeau
Degree: MS
Advisor: Welsh, Barbara
Thesis: The Vertical Distribution of Bacterio-Plankton and its Possible Relationship to Summertime Oxygen Depletion in Western Long Island Sound
Michael Feeley
Degree: MS
Advisor: Cooper, Richard
Thesis: The Distribution of Shell Disease and Analysis of Contaminant Loads in the Deep Sea Red Crab, C haceon quinquedens , Along the Continental Slope of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic United States
Jacqueline Johnson
Degree: MS
Advisor: Welsh, Barbara
Thesis: The Recycling of Inorganic Nutrients in the Upper Water Column During Seasonal Stratification in Western Long Island Sound
1992
Laura Brown
Degree: MS
Advisor: Buck, John
Thesis: A Nutritional and Microbiological Study of Captive Beluga Whales ( Delphinapterus leucas )
Charlotte Fuller
Degree: MS
Advisor: Whitlatch, Robert
Thesis: Effects of Porewater Hydrogen Sulfide on the Feeding Activity of the Subsurface Deposit-Feeding Polychaete, Clymenella Torquata, Leidy
Lynn Sedgwick-Springer
Degree: MS
Advisor: Whitlatch, Robert
Thesis: The Effects of the Soli- Tary Ascidian, Styela Claua Herdman, on Larval Settlement and Recruitment, on a New England Epifaunal Community
David Shull
Degree: MS
Advisor: Whitlatch, Robert
Thesis: Mechanisms of Polychaete Dispersal and Recolonization in an Intertidal Sandflat
Margaret Van Patten
Degree: MS
Advisor: Yarish, Charles
Thesis: The Allocation of Blade Surface to Reproduction of L aminaria longicruris De De La Pylaie in the Northwestern Atlantic Ocean
1991
Karen Chandler
Degree: MS
Advisor: Cooper, Richard
Thesis: The Effects of Temperature on the Distribution of the American Lobster ( Homarus americanus ) on Outer Cape Cod
Kathryn Eller
Degree: MS
Advisor: Cooper, Richard
Thesis: Heart Tumors in the Ocean quahog, Arctica islandica , from the Northeast United States Continental Shelf: Southern New England to Norfolk Canyon
Robert Mason
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Fitzgerald, William
Thesis: The Chemistry of Mercury in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean
1990
Janina Benoit
Degree: MS
Advisor: Torgersen, Thomas
Thesis: Infaunal Fluid/Particle Transport in Marine Sediments: Models and Applications
Wei Jun Ling
Degree: MS
Advisor: Whitlatch, Robert
Thesis: Cellular and Humoral Responses of Resistant and Susceptible Oysters, C rassostrea virginica , to the Infection of Haplosporidium nelsoni (Msx)
Mingzhi Lu
Degree: MS
Advisor: Monahan, Edward
Thesis: Distribution and Evolution of Sea Salt Aerosol in the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer
1989
Lee Crockett
Degree: MS
Advisor: Whitlatch, Robert
Thesis: Effects of Ealgrass, Zostera marina , on the Growth and Survival of the Hard Clam, Mercenaria mercenaria
Alan Desbonnet
Degree: MS
Advisor: Whitlatch, Robert
Thesis: The Effect of Size, Density, and Growth Strategy on Survival of Juvenile Surf Clams, Spisula Solidissima (Dillwyn, 1817), with a Comparison to Mercenaria Mercenaria Amd Mya Arenaria Growth Strategies
1988
Grace Vandal
Degree: MS
Advisor: Fitzgerald, William
Thesis: Not available
1987
Jonathan Kim
Degree: PhD
Advisor: Fitzgerald, William
Thesis: Volatilization and Efflux of Mercury from Biologically Productive Ocean Regions
1986
Richard Niesenbaum
Degree: MS
Advisor: Welsh,Barbara
Thesis: The Ecological Significance of Reproductive Sporulation By The Macroalga Ulva lactuca