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Graduate Research Programs 2004
Functional Diversity of Symbionts (Symbiodinium spp) in Bermuda Corals and Anemones
Jeannette Loram, PhD awarded 2004, University of York
Faculty Advisors: Dr HG Trapido-Rosenthal (BBSR), Dr A Douglas (University of York)
Funding: National Environment Research Council Graduate Fellowship
Gorgonian Systematics and Phylogeography
in Bermuda: A Taxonomic Review and Examination of Gulf Stream Gene Flow
Jaret Bilewitch, MSc candidate, University of Toronto
Faculty Advisors:
Dr KA Coates (BBSR and University of Toronto), Dr HG Trapido-Rosenthal (BBSR), Dr D Currie (University of Toronto)
Funding: Frederick P Ide Graduate Award in Zoology (University of Toronto), Grants-In-Aid of
Research (BBSR-CABBS), National Coral Reef Institute Grant to HG Trapido-Rosenthal and KA Coates, World Wildlife Fund (Canada)
The Impact of Community Structure on the Efficiency of Carbon Export During
Winter Mixing Events in the Sargasso Sea
Carolyn Walker, PhD candidate, Otago University
Faculty Advisors:
Dr MW Lomas (BBSR), Dr W Jenkins (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), Dr P Boyd (National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research)
Funding: NSF Chemical Oceanography
Molecular Diversity of Symbiotic Dino-flagellates (Symbiodinium spp) within Alcyonacea of Bermuda and the Caribbean
Lyndsey Holland, MSc candidate, University of Toronto
Faculty Advisors:
Dr KA Coates (BBSR and University of Toronto), Dr HG Trapido-Rosenthal (BBSR), Dr D Currie (University of Toronto)
Funding: Zoology, University of Toronto Graduate Award, Grants-In-Aid of Research (BBSR-CABBS),
BBSR-CABBS Graduate Fellowship, BBSR Stone Fellowship, National Coral Reef Institute Grant to HG Trapido-Rosenthal and KA Coates, World Wildlife Fund (Canada)
Multi-drug Resistance Transporters in Cnidarian-dinoflagellate Symbioses
Abby Brown, PhD candidate, Duke University
Faculty Advisors: Dr HG Trapido-Rosenthal (BBSR), Dr M Been (Duke University)
Funding: Duke University Graduate Program in Genetics
Molecular Genetic Analysis of Three Geographically Distinct Populations of the Bermuda Skink
Lisa Kitson, PhD candidate, University College Cork
Faculty Advisors: Dr HG Trapido-Rosenthal (BBSR), Dr J Davenport (University College Cork)
Funding: Bermuda Biodiversity Project of the Bermuda Zoological Society
New Insights into Silicon Cycle Variability in the Sargasso Sea
Jeffrey Krause, MSc candidate, Oregon State University
Faculty Advisors: Dr MW Lomas (BBSR), Dr DM Nelson (Oregon State University)
Funding: NSF Chemical Oceanography
Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning: Bacteria as Regulators of Alexandrium Growth and Toxin
Synthesis
Renee Raudonis, MS candidate, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Faculty Advisor: Dr FG Plumley (BBSR and University of Alaska Fairbanks)
Funding: Alaska Sea Grant
Pigment
Profiles, Molecular Markers and the Bleaching Susceptibility of Zooxanthellae
Alexander Venn, PhD candidate, University of York
Faculty Advisors:
Dr HG Trapido-Rosenthal (BBSR), Dr A Douglas (University of York)
Funding: National Environment Research Council Graduate Fellowship
Reproduction, Recruitment and Population Dynamics of Several Coral
Species in Bermuda
Gretchen Goodbody, PhD candidate, Harvard University
Faculty Advisors: Dr Samantha de Putron (BBSR), Prof Robert Woollacott (Harvard University)
Funding: Harvard University Graduate Research Grant, BBSR Grants-in-Aid
Systematic and Biogeographic Studies of Hard Corals of the Caribbean
Jan M Locke, PhD candidate, University of Puerto Rico
Faculty Advisors: Dr Ernesto Weil (University of Puerto Rico), Dr KA Coates (BBSR and honorary faculty, UPR Department of Marine Sciences)
Funding: NSF, University of Puerto Rico
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