Bridget Holohan – MVP technician
By Ewaldo Leitao Easy and hard to find – her door is always open but without a name tag – ready to help, and to give advice (for 5 cents), Bridget Holohan has been in the marine sciences community for over two decades. Bridget is currently working for two labs helping in many projects. Bridget […]
[Read More]Graduated Master and PhD students 2022-23
The Department of Marine Sciences congratulates all our recent Master and PhD graduates! You worked hard, earned your degree, and enriched our community. Thank you, and best of luck for your next career steps! Annalisa Mudahy (M.S. 2022) Major advisor: Craig Tobias Thesis: Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Water Column Respiration in an Urban […]
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CT-NERR is fully staffed and operational!
By Ewaldo Leitao Thanks to the tremendous efforts of our esteemed researchers, the University of Connecticut now hosts the Connecticut National Estuary Research Reserve (NERR). The NERR System is a network of 30 coastal areas designed to protect and study estuarine ecosystems. The NERR System is a program of NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), […]
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Brittany Sprecher continues science in Germany and California
By Ewaldo Leitao Brittany Sprecher finished her PhD in December, 2020, and soon after she moved to Germany to continue her investigations on phytoplankton molecular biology. In her PhD, Brittany was able to develop molecular techniques to begin to help explain the complexity of dinoflagellates. Dinoflagellates are small eukaryotic cells that can photosynthesize and produce […]
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Finally in person again: Feng Graduate Research Colloquium 2023! -
Our [student] Life on the Ocean -
Congratulations to Dr. Patricia Myer, PhD!
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Kayla Mladinich Poole receives R. LeRoy Creswell Award for Outreach and Education -
Heat tolerance changes across environments and populations -
Sampling freshwater mussel gut microbiomes in the Great Lakes -
Prof. Catherine Matassa wins UConn-AAUP Teaching excellence award -
Jamie Vaudrey selected for Faculty Environmental Leadership Award -
Anagha Payyambally awarded Quad Fellowship -
Mary McGuinness completes MSc on alkalinity in Long Island Sound embayments -
Meet Dennis Arbige -
“Harmony of Nature”: environmental data becomes music -
From microbes to whales: alumna Susan Smith on her career journey -
DMS grad students do outreach in local elementary school -
Surveying ocean acidification on the Northwest Atlantic shelf -
Dr. Lingjie Zhou defends PhD on quantifying phytoplankton carbon biomass using DNA -
Annette Carlson presents master’s thesis on oxygen and nutrient cycling in St. Helena Bay -
DMS Kayla Mladinich shows that bivalves can reject microplastics -
Shell recycling will help restore oysters in Long Island Sound -
Dr. Yipeng He becomes the department’s newest PhD! -
Outreach event for eelgrass restoration -
Graduate student Mackenzie Blanusa participates in NASA S-MODE cruise -
Marine Sciences faculty and students participate in Early College Experience event -
A soccer match to honor Dennis Arbige’s service for DMS -
The Arctic is not so Boron!