Students
Current
Talia Barry, Ph.D. Trophic interactions and their impacts on restoration, enhancement and colonization of living shorelines
Leah Scott, M.S. Oyster disease ecology: long-term changes affiliated with shifts in temperature, salinity and precipitation
Destiny Rosales, SEBS Science Communication Intern (Sp 2025) Creating a DARPA Reefense Website to communicate project accomplishments
Past
Amanda Lemasters, Independent Study (2024)
Histological assessment of changes in oyster reproduction over the past decade
Kristie Semanchik, RIOS Intern (Bucknell 2024)
Oyster recruitment to artificial reefs
Madison Aquilar, SPIN Intern (2024)
Developing Low Carbon Concrete
Elizabeth Bouchard, M.S. (2023)Horseshoe crab egg distributions in relation to intertidal oyster aquaculture
Nina Coli, RIOS Intern (Univ South Carolina 2023)Oyster microbiome dynamics
Heidi Yeh, Ph.D. (2023)Oyster microbiome dynamics
Catherine Carrion, RIOS Intern (Virginia Tech 2022)Beach Characteristics, Horseshoe Crab (Limulus polyphemus) Eggs, & Oyster Farms
Simon L’Heveder, RIOS Intern (Univ of Edinburgh 2022)Sediment Composition and Infauna
Emma Huntzinger, GH Cook Senior Thesis. (2022) Oyster recruitment to a novel cement
Grace Jackson, RIOS Intern (Univ of Dayton 2021)Creating fevers in oysters to control dermo disease
Rachel Eggleston, RIOS Intern (Illinois State 2019)Long-term shifts in timing of oyster reproduction in Delaware Bay
Casey Jones, RIOS Intern (Rutgers 2018)Sea level rise impacts on horseshoe crabs and red knots
Amanda Wenczel, Ph.D. (2018)Filter feeder impacts in estuarine ecosystems
Mike DiLorenzo, Summer Intern (2017) Shellfish hatchery phytoplankton cultivation
Bree Cerione, Summer Intern (2016)Living shoreline nekton use and oyster monitoring
Jenny Paterno, M.S. (2015)Assessment of fish utilization on an oyster restoration area in the Delaware Bay
Emily Scarpa, M.S. (2015)Cilliate Xenomas in Crassostrea virginica from Great Bay, New Hampshire
Joshua Moody, M.S. (2012)The relationship of the ribbed mussel, Geukensia demissa, to shoreline erosion in Delaware Bay