Current Graduate Students with Thesis Topic Pending:

Biancani, Peter  M.S. (USA) Fall '07
Collier, Linda  M.S. (USA) Fall '07
D'Ambra, Isabella   Ph.D. (USA) Fall '06
Gutierrez, Robert M.S. (USA)
Jones, Christian  M.S. (USA) Fall '04
Jones, Lisa  Ph.D. (USA)
Lang, Lanora  M.S. (USA)  Spring '06
LeMoine, Nathan  M.S. (USA) Fall '07
Leifer, Justin  Ph.D. (USA) Fall '06
Miller, Mary-Elizabeth (USA) Fall '05
Miller, Glenn Ph.D. (USA)
Millett, Andrew M.S. (USA)  Fall '06
Money, Erin  M.S. (USA) Fall '06
Novoveska, Lucie  Ph.D. (USA) Fall '06
Patterson, Heather  Ph.D. (USA) Fall '07
Punitila, Riika M.S. (USA) Fall '07
Reynolds, Brad M.S. (USA) Fall '06
Robinson, Kelly  Ph.D. (USA) Fall '07
Robinson, Orin M.S. (USA) Fall '06
Schobernd, Zebulon  Ph.D. (USA) Fall '07
Scyphers, Steven  M.S. (USA) Fall '07
Senne, Joseph M.S. (USA) Fall '06
Shaffer, Nicole  M.S. (USA) Fall '05
Sheehan, Kate M.S. (USA) Fall '06
Shiplett, Randi M.S. (USA) Fall '06
Smith, Casey  M.S. (USA) Fall '07
Stapleton, Chuck  Ph.D. (USA) Spring '06
Stultz, Debra Ph.D. (USA) Spring '04
Toth, Lauren M.S. (USA)

Recent Graduates

2008 Graduates:
Canion, Andy. Variability in Phytoplankton Productivity on Hourly to Monthly Time-Scales and Its Coupling with Nitrogen Inputs to Weeks Bay, Alabama. M.S. (USA).

McKay, Kelly. The effects of prior grazing by the variegated sea urchin and the bucktooth parrotfish on the palatability of turtlegrass. M.S. (USA).

Plutchak, Rochelle. An Assessment of Services Provided by Artificial Oyster Reefs: Primary Production and Nutrients in Tidal Creeks. M.S. (USA).

2007 Graduates
Anton, Andrea.  The impact of natural and anthropogenic disturbances on the ecological services provided by seagrass meadows. M.S. (USA).

Connors, James. Groundwater flow dynamics and associated inorganic nitrogen transport, Weeks Bay, Alabama. Ph.D. (USA).

Husband, J. Daniel. Role of DMSP in oxidative stress protection in Spartina alterniflora. Ph.D. (USA).

Murdoch, Thad. A Functional Group approach for predicting the composition of hard coral assemblages in Florida and Bermuda. Ph.D. (USA).

Newton, D. Craig. Juvenile Red Snapper Density, Diet, and Growth Among Four Nursery Habitats in the Northcentral Gulf of Mexico. M.S. (USA).

Shafer, Deborah. Physiological factors affecting the distribution of the nonindigenous seagrass Zostera Japonica along the Pacific Coast of North America. M.S. (USA).

Steeves, Carly. The Effects of Increased Habitat Structure on Predation Rates in Seagrass Beds. M.S. (USA).

Stutes, Jason. Seagrass (Halodule wrightii) communities of the Northwest Gulf of Mexico: Differences in production dynamics and primary consumption across a gradient of human impact. Ph.D. (USA).

2006 Graduates
Bood, Nadia.   The recovery and resilience of coral assemblage on managed and unmanaged reefs in Belize: A long-term study. M.S. (USA). 

Booth, Dale.   The impact of oysters on the growth and recruitment of Halodule wrightii.  M.S. (USA).

Bruton, Jody. Fates of methanethiol in coastal seawater. Ph.D. (USA).

Clardy, Todd.  Stock discrimination between eastern Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic king mackerel, Scomberomorus cavalla, using otolith shape analysis. M.S. (USA).

Furman, Brad.  Effects of Nutrient Enrichment and Grazers on Coral Reefs:  An Experimental Assessment.  M.S. (USA).

Geraldi, Nathan M.S. (USA).

Gregalis, Kevan. Evaluation of fisheries benefits of oyster reef restoration along an environmental gradient in Mobile Bay, Alabama. M.S. (USA).

Harada, Hyakubun.  Effects of UV radiation and oxidative stress on the production of methylated sulfur compounds by marine phytoplankton.  Ph.D. (USA).

Johnson, Matthew.  The role of habitat fragmentation per se on the structure and function of seagrass ecosystems in the northern Gulf of Mexico.  Ph.D. (USA).

2005 Graduates
Blackmon, Derrick C.   Diel Vertical Migration of Seagrass-Associated Benthic Invertebrates: A Novel Escape Mechanism that Provides an Allochthonous Input of Seagrass-Based Prodcution to Coral Reef Resident Predators, Ph.D.(USA).

Higgins, III, John.  Overcoming gamete dilution in free-spawning zooplankton: How the moon jellyfish, Aurelia sp., exploits the water column to maximize fertilization success.  Ph.D.(USA). 

Hunter, Amy. The effects of anthropogenic eutrophication on the carbon budget of black needlerush, Juncus roemerianus, marshes. Ph.D. (UA).

Kramer, Katherine Lindsey.  Has marine reserve protection made a difference?  Fish community structure, grazing intensity and coral recruitment on protected patch reefs. M.S. (USA).

Kroutil, Ryan.  An experimental assessment of the impacts of coral loss on fish community composition in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.  M.S. (USA).
 
Lopez, Chad.   Sediment Plume Variability and Associated Phytoplankton Responses in the Alabama Coastal Shelf Waters Using Satellite Imagery. M.S. (USA)   

Martin, Jonathan.  A multiscale analysis of the spatial variability of gelatinous zooplankton in the northern Gulf of Mexico.  M.S. (USA).

2004 Graduates
Corcoran, Alina A.  The effects of ultraviolet-B radiation and nutrient enrichment on the biomass, production and metabolism of microphytobenthic communities in coastal lagoons. M.S. (UA). 

Dunsmuir, Adrienne L.  Effects of Anthropogenic Eutrophication on the Estuarine Microphytobenthic Communities:  Do Light and Nutrients Matter?  M.S. (USA).

Jackson, Jered.  Changes in biomass production and diets of Bay anchovy, Atlantic croaker, spot, and Gulf Menhaden in Mobile Bay over seasons, and as a result of wind-driven resuspension events.  M.S. (USA) 

Kellogg, Mary "Lisa".   Reef restoration: Using habitat structure, hydrodynamics, and target species ecology to develop design criteria.  Ph.D. (USA).

Prerost, Julie. Size and Sexual Structure of Squilla Empusa Populations in the North Central Gulf of Mexico:  The Role of Behavior in Determining Predation by Lutjanus Campechanus.  M.S.  (USA)   

Rakow, Kelly.  Oriented swimming by the Scyphomedusa Aurelia against shear flow. M.S. (USA). 

Russell, Carolanne.  The effect of sediment resuspension on nutrient and phytoplankton dynamics in shallow estuaries:  A mesocosm experiment.  M.S. (USA) 

Shotts, Kelly. Determining the role of non-point source nutrient inputs in the food web of the Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Alabama using stable isotope analysis. M.S. (USA)  

2003 Graduates
Christian, Juliet.  Evaluating the Energetic Value and Structural Contributions of Mangroves and Seagrasses to Local Fish Populations: The Importance of Habitat Connectivity. M.S. (USA)

Fioravanti, Geremea.   The role of habitat architecture in regulating communities of reef fishes and spatial subsidies in marine reserves of the upper Florida Keys. M.S. (USA).   

Goecker, Meg.  The effects of Nitrogen Content of Turtlegrass, Thalassia testudinum, on rates of herbivory by the bucktooth parrotfish, Sparisoma radians.  M.S. (USA).

Kilbane, Deborah Ann.   Intra-year class cannibalism in early juvenile blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus). M.S. (USA).

Lartigue, Julien.  Nitrate uptake, nitrogen storage, and nitrate reductase activity in estuarine Enteromorpha sp. (Chlorophyceae). Ph.D. (USA).

Lehrter, John.  Estuarine Ecosystem Motabolis and Retention of Allocthonous nutrient loads in three tidal river estuarine systems. Ph.D. (UA)

McCawley, Jessica. A bioenergetics approach for estimating prey demand by red snapper, Lutjanus campechanus, on Alabama artificial reefs. M.S. (USA).

Peachey, Rita. The effects of UV and pollutant-enhanced effects of UV on larvae of estuarine species. Ph.D. (USA).

Wapnick Cheryl.  A Historical Perspective on Shifting Dominance of a Coral Reef Community in Jamaica.  M.S. (USA).

Woods, Melissa. Reproductive biology of red snapper, Lutjanus campechanus, in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. M.S. (USA).

2002 Graduates
Albright, Heather. Secondary productivity and trophic transfer along productivity gradients. M.S. (USA).

Berrell, Theresa.  Variability in bottom-up enrichment in Mobile Bay and its effect on growth rates of Rangia cuneata. M.S. (USA).

Brackin, Michael Todd. Density, growth, and biomass production of Atlantic croaker, spot, penaeid shrimp and blue crabs in the Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Alabama. M.S. (USA).

Chaplin, Glen. Effects of Habitat complexity, created by native and exotic macrophtes, on secondary production and the transfer of energy to higher order consumers in lower Mobile-Tensaw Delta, Alabama. M.S. (USA).

Hamilton, Kim. An Oyster Gardening Program and Analysis of Two Off-bottom Oyster Culture Systems and Enteric Microorganisms in Mobile Bay, Alabama. M.S. (AU).

Harter, Stacy.  The effects of predation risk on growth rates of juvenile pinfish (Lagodon rhomboides) in Big Lagoon, Florida.  M.S. (USA).

O'Neal, Jonathan. Are survivors of a cohort of larval fishes exceptional individuals?: A masochism enclosure study. M.S. (USA).

Stets, Ted. Factors affecting the accumulation of dimethysulfide in anoxic sediments. M.S. (USA).

2001 Graduates
Gallagher, Leslie.  An evaluation of potential artifacts associated with caging experiments.  M.S. (USA) Summer 2001

Ingram, Gary Walter.  Selected aspects of the fishery biology of Gray Triggerfish (Balistes capriscus) in the northern Gulf of Mexico.  Ph.D.  (USA) Summer 2001

Strelcheck, Andy.  The influence of nearest neighbor dynamics on measures of reef fish demographics on experimental artificial reefs in the north-central Gulf of Mexico.  M.S.  (USA)  Summer 2001

2000 Graduates
Burns, Cary L.  The effect of organic forms of nitrogen on the growth rates of harmful algal species of the genus Procorentrum.  M.S.  (USA) Fall 2000

Jones, Brian D.  Larval fish chemoreception, feeding, and growth:  Effects of DMSP.  M.S.  (USA) December 2000

Noel, Jessica.  Biomass production of bay anchovy, Anchoa mitchilli, and the gulf menhaden, Brevoortia patronus in the Weeks Bay, Alabama and their potential roles as nutrient translocators.  M.S.  (USA) Summer 2000.

Stutes, Jason.  The relative importance of vertebrate and invertebrate grazing on epiphytes in a seagrass bed in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: an experimental assessment.  M.S.  (USA) Summer 2000.

Thomann, Christopher.  Latitudinal gradients in predation.  M.S. (USA) Spring 2000

Thompson, Kip.  Feeding Ecology, Energetics, and Production of Pinfish Lagodon rhomboides (Linnaeus) in Temperate Seagrass Meadows.  Ph.D. (USA) Spring 2000

1999 Graduates
Gregory Leah. Effects of nutrient enrichment & grazer presence on epiphytes of Thalassia Testudinum. M.S. (UA) Spring 1999  

Kirsch, Kevin D. Seagrass consumption by herbivorous fish: An underestimated trophic pathway in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. M.S. (USA) Fall 1999

Patterson, William F. Short and long-term movement of red snapper, Lutjanus campechanus, in the north central Gulf of Mexico: implications for the unit stock hypothesis. Ph.D. (USA) Spring 1999

Pickel, Bradley. Shoreline planform for unprotected beaches adjacent to bulkheads in multi-directional, sea-wave climates. M.S. (USA) Fall 1999