Student (affiliation) | Faculty Advisor
| Project |
1996 |
Christine Addison
(U. Nebraska, Lincoln) | Dr. Döerte Westphalen
Dr. Samia Sarkis | Population dynamics of the calico clam, Macrocallista maculata |
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Eric Edsinger-Gonzalez
(U. Washington) | Dr. Hank Trapido-Rosenthal | RAPD-PCR as a tool in the
molecular taxonomy of zooxanthellae |
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Brandon Falk
(U. Washington) | Dr. Kathy Coates |
Marine oligochaetes: The proposed finding of Grania americana and a new species of Grania in Bermuda |
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David Huang
(U. California) |
Dr. Norm Nelson | Spatial variability in UV absorption properties of zooxanthellae-coral associations |
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Lauren Interess
(Williams College) | Dr. David Malmquist | A comparison of accepted and controversial marine deposits in Bermuda: Implications for the Pleistocene sea-level record |
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Jenny Lin
(Harvard College) | Dr. Deborah Steinberg | Gut-content analysis & gut clearance rates of vertically migrating
zooplankton in the Sargasso Sea |
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Elizabeth Shank
(Pennsylvania State) | Dr. Hank Trapido-Rosenthal | Nitric oxide production by Symbiodinium freshly isolated from Aiptasia pallida |
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Ann Michelle Stanley
(Rhodes College) |
Dr. S.R. Smith | Heavy metal concentrations in Castle Harbour corals |
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1997 |
Brad Adams
(Duke University) | Dr. David Malmquist | Environmental monitoring in Leamington Cave: Establishing Bermuda's ancient hurricane record |
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Margaret Boettcher
(Brown University) | Dr. Norm Nelson |
Color signatures of shallow marine water environments |
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Jessica Bohonowych
(Duke) | Dr. Deborah Steinberg |
Chemical defenses in plankton from the Sargasso Sea |
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Melanie Gates
(Maine Maritime Acad.) |
Dr. Nick Bates | The role of corals in the carbon dioxide cycle |
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Lara Hutto
(Michigan Tech. U.) |
Dr. Kent Simmons | Assessment of trace metals in the Lovers' Lake area |
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Nicole Maturen
(Vanderbilt University) | Dr. Kathy Coates | UFO's in marine tubificid worms |
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Kay Roache
(University of Delaware) | Dr. Dennis Hansell | Carbon and nitrogen cycling in Devil's Hole, Harrington Sound |
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Paola Vallejo
(U. Wisconsin Madison) | Dr. Hank Trapido-Rosenthal |
A cell surface taurine receptor in the dinoflagellate alga Symbiodinium bermudense |
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1998 |
Jennifer Austin
(Florida State Univ.
| Dr. Hank Trapido-Rosenthal | Chemical communication between a sea anemone and its endosymbiotic algae |
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Maria Calvi
(Dartmouth College) | Dr. Deborah Steinberg | The effect of light, lunar phase, and substrate type on emergence of demersal zooplankton |
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Stuart Goldberg
(University of Maine) | Dr. Craig Carlson | Bacterioplankton
utilization of zooplankton excretia |
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Leone McCreary
(Columbia University) | Dr. Robbie Smith/
Dr. Nick Bates | Short term cycles of CO2 in the surface waters of a coral reef ecosystem (Hog Reef Flat, Bermuda) |
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Casuarina McKinney
(Duke University) | Dr. Robbie Smith | A characterization of coral disease and coral bleaching in Bermuda |
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Anna Neill
(University of Richmond) | Dr. Kathy Coates | A molecular investigation of morphological variation in the coral Pseudoplexaura porosa |
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Tara Tredennick
(Brown University) | Dr. Hank Trapido-Rosenthal | Odorant clearance in the olfactory organ of
the spiny lobster, Panulirus argus |
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John Ubante
(UCSB) | Dr. Norm Nelson |
UV light absorption of the water column |
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1999 |
Amy Apprill
(Univ. San Diego) | Dr. Norm Nelson | Remotely-sensed classification of the Bermuda platform |
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Amanda Cundiff
(Univ. California Berkeley) | Dr. Kent Simmons | The effect of groundwater contamination by domestic sewage on dissolved inorganic nitrogen fluxes in a Bermudian mangrove bay |
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Karl Hess
(University of Utah) | Dr. Hank Trapido-Rosenthal |
Molecular identification of an unknown species of bacteria living within Chondrilla nuclea, the Chicken-Liver Sponge |
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Chloe Nella
(Johnson County Com. Col.) |
Dr. Dave Malmquist | Salt water seed germination: An experiment to consider how floating disseminates contributed to Bermuda's endemic and native flora |
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Rachel Oshrey
(Cal. State. U. Monterey) | Dr. Robbie Smith | Exploring coral diseases of the soft corals Pseudoptero-gorgia americana, Gorgonia ventalina and their interactions with the encrusting fire coral
Millepora alcicornis |
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Marla Ranaletti
(UC Santa Cruz) | Dr. Debbie Steinberg |
The importance of salps (pelagic tunicates) in the flux of organic material to the deep Sargasso Sea |
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Debra Sorocco
(Boston Univ.) |
Dr. Kathy Coates | A study of the distribution and formation of crystalline structures in marine Tubificidaeidae |
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Lei Young
(Oregon State U.) | Dr. Craig Carlson | Response of bacterioplankton community structure and dynamics to varying substrates |
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2000 |
Holly Biggs
(University of Illinois | Dr. Craig Carlson |
Effects of DOM quality on bacterial production of CDOM and bacterial community structure |
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Kelly Dorgan
(UC Santa Cruz) |
Dr. Kathy Coates | Trophic structure of a polychaete pommunity in a seagrass bed |
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Christina Kachulis
(University of Missouri) | Dr. Richard Owen | The effect of Irgarol 1051 on coral photosynthesis |
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Tom Miller
(Colgate University) | Dr. Kathy Coates | Determinants of the patchy distribution of Enchytraeids (Clitellata) on a sandy Bermuda beach |
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David Nicholson
(Stanford University) | Dr. Dennis Hansell | Organic carbon, organic nitrogen
and inorganic nitrogen in Bermuda's rainwater and groundwater |
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Anne Prusak
(SUNY Stony Brook) | Dr. Debbie Steinberg | Production of colored dissolved inorganic matter (CDOM) by zooplankton and its possible composition |
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Brandy Wiegers
(Univ. of Idaho) | Dr. Hank Trapido-Rosenthal | Searching the genome of the zooxanthellae Symbiodinium bermudense for genes "stolen" from prokaryotes |
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2001 |
Jessica Archer
(Evergreen State College) | Dr. Hank Trapido-Rosenthal |
The role of symbiont-generated nitric oxide (NO) in the bleaching of sea anemones and scelaractinian corals |
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Alex Gagnon
(UC Berkeley) |
Drs. Nick Bates and Alex Amat | Effects of elevated pCO2 on zooxanthellae photosynthesis |
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Stephanie Jaeger
(SUNY Stony Brook) | Dr. Mike Lomas | The flux of DON in both batch cultures of Thalassiora oceanica and in size-fractionated natural planktonic assemblages from the NW Sargasso Sea |
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Rachelle Jensen
(UC San Diego) | Drs. Robbie Smith, Jo Pitt and Hank Trapido-Rosenthal |
Assessing the relationship between environmental stress and nitric oxide |
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Corey Lindsay
(Wayne State College) | Dr. Hank Trapido-Rosenthal | Triumphs and tragedies: Constructing a cDNA library and cloning the 18S rRNA gene |
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Natalie Ostrander
(Dartmouth College) | Dr. Richard Owen | Antifoulant herbicides Irgarol 1051 and Diuron inhibit photosynthesis in zooxzanthellae |
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Iara Perez-Bonet
(University of Puerto Rico) | Drs. Samia Sarkis and Richard Owen | Lysosomal and nervous response alterations caused by the exposure of the scallop Argopecten gibbus to cadmium |
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2002 |
Kimberly Asher
(Humboldt State Univ.) |
Drs. Jo Pitt and Shane Anderson | Assessment of the Abundance of Fishery Target Species within Bermuda's Marine Protected Areas and Reference Areas Using a Timed Swim Method |
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Kristina Evans
(Wittenberg University) | Dr. Kathy Coates | A Morphological and Molecular Investigation of Gorgonians in Bermuda |
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Sarah Evans
(Hobart & William Smith Coll.) | Dr. Richard Owen | Multixenobiotic Resistance in Madracis mirabilis,
Endosymbiotic Zooxanthellae and Seagrass |
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Garrett Gregory
(Humboldt State Univ.) | Dr. Mike Lomas | Urea Cycling in the Sargasso Sea |
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Magda Gutkowska
(Evergreen State Col.) | Dr. Hank
Trapido-Rosenthal | Increases in the Activity of Zooxanthellae Nitric Oxide Synthase are Associated with the Temperature-Induced Bleaching of the coral Madracis mirabilis |
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Safiya Sawney
(Eckerd College) | Dr. Hank Trapido-Rosenthal | Increases in the Activity of Zooxanthellae Nitric Oxide Synthase are Associated with the Temperature-Induced Bleaching of the coral Madracis mirabilis
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Ashley Swain
(Northeastern University) | Dr. Mike Lomas |
Phosphorus Limitation in Phytoplankton in the Western North Atlantic Ocean |
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2003 |
Brian Boeing
(SUNY Geneseo) | Dr. Hank Trapido-Rosenthal | Susceptibility of Corals to Bleaching is Correlated with Symbiont Nitric Oxide Synthase (NOS) Activity |
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Ben Daly
(Hobart & William Smith College) | Dr. Mike Lomas | The Effects of CO2
on Marine Phytoplankton Assemblages and Community Structure |
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Cassandra Cartwright
(Hampshire College) | Dr. Joanna Pitt | Post-Injury Regeneration of Diploria labyrinthiformis in a Stressful Environment: Castle Harbor, Bermuda |
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Tiffany Gregg
(Millersville University) | Drs. Andrea Bodnar and Richard Owen | Telomerase Activity in the Purple Sea Urchin Lytechinus variegatus |
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Erin Meyer
(Rutgers University) | Dr. Kathy Coates | An Exploration of Gamete Maturity in Cittarium pica (West Indian Topshell) in Bermuda |
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Joshua Verlinde
(UH Hilo) | Drs. Kathy Coates and Hank Trapido-Rosenthal | Molecular Diversity of
Symbiotic Dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium spp.) Within Alcyconacea of Bermuda |
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Gwen Woods
(Humboldt State University) | Drs. Andrea Bodnar, Mike
Lomas, and Richard Owen | Telomerase Activity in Marine Phytoplankton |
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2004 |
Walt Carlson
(Tennessee Tech. Univ.) | Dr. Mike Lomas | Taxonomic Variability in Nutrient Cell Quotas for Marine Phytoplankton |
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Victoria Conti
(Gordon College) | Dr. Gerry Plumley | Anabaena circinalis
: Examining the Genome in the Search for "Saxitoxin Genes" |
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Erin Culpepper
(James Madison Univ.) |
Dr. Kathy Coates | Colonization of Beach Wrack by Enchytraeid Oligochaetes |
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Jason Helyer
(Univ. Rhode Island) | Drs. Ross Jones, Samantha de Putron, Joanna Pitt | Use of Short-Term Growth Rates of Porites astreoides in Future Ecotoxicology Experiments |
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Kristin Henderson
(Evergreen State University) | Drs. Hank Trapido-Rosenthal and Andrea Bodnar | Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase Activity in Zooxanthellae |
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Ashley Maloney
(Stanford University) | Drs. Ross Jones, Samantha de Putron, Joanna Pitt |
Coral Health Monitoring |
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Paul Pawelzik
(SUNY Coll. Env. Sci. & Forestry) | Dr. Andrew Peters |
Bermuda Groundwater Survey |
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Suzanne Replinger
(Santa Clara University) |
Dr. James Wood | An Investigation of the Use of Subcutaneous Tagging in the Caribbean Reef Squid, Sepioteuthis sepioidia |
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2005
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Milton Bergson
(University of San Francisco) | Drs. Craig Carlson and Gerald Plumley, Rachel Parsons |
The temporal and spatial variability of oceanic microbial community structure upon an organic and inorganic nutrient enrichment in the northwestern Sargasso Sea |
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Samantha Bragan
(Clarkson University) | Dr. Gerald Plumley | Development of a Tn5 mutagenesis strategy for Anabaena circinalis: Genome size determination and nitrogen effects on growth rates and toxin production |
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John Casey
(College of Charleston) | Dr. Michael Lomas | Taxon-specific nitrogen and carbon uptake of marine phytoplankton in the Sargasso Sea
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Rachael Heuer
(University of Florida) | Dr. Kathryn Coates |
Variation in seagrass blade morphology over time and space: Bermuda 1998 to 2005 |
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Julie Hopper
(University of California, Santa Barbara) |
Dr. Ross Jones | Colony size-frequency distributions of Diploria strigosa and D. labyrinthiformis in Castle Harbour and the outer reefs of Bermuda |
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Diana Palacios-Lizeth
(San Diego Mesa College) | Dr. James Wood | Investigating the anti-predator schooling behavior of the Caribbean reef squid Sepioteuthis sepioidea |
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Alina Siu
(University of California, Berkeley) | Dr. Andrew Peters | Development of a passive sampler network for
monitoring NO2 and SO2 in Bermuda |
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Maria Monica Talag
(Dowling College) | Dr. Andrea Bodnar |
Telomere structure in corals and zooxanthellae during coral bleaching |
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