Students

Current

• Talia Barry, Ph.D. Trophic interactions and their impacts on restoration, enhancement and colonization of living shorelines
• Kristie Semanchik, M.S. Assessing Living Shoreline Nature-based Solutions

Past

Doctoral

• Heidi Yeh, Ph.D. (2023) Oyster microbiome dynamics
• Amanda Wenczel, Ph.D. (2018) Filter feeder impacts in estuarine ecosystems

Masters

• Leah Scott, M.S. (2026) Oyster disease ecology: long-term changes affiliated with shifts in temperature, salinity and precipitation
• Elizabeth Bouchard, M.S. (2023) Horseshoe crab egg distributions in relation to intertidal oyster aquaculture
• 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
• Elizabeth Diamond, M.S. (2012) Do scavengers influence dermo disease (Perkinsus marinus) transmission?  Experiments in oyster parasite trophic interactions
• Emma Green-Beach, M.S. (2011) Dermo disease on Martha’s Vineyard:  Infections of Perkinsus marinus and its influence on population structure, assessed by microsatellite markers
• Jaclyn Taylor, M.S. (2008) Evaluation of the ecological value of constructed intertidal oyster reefs and aquaculture structures in Delaware Bay: Habitat utilization by motile macrofauna
• Sean Boyd, M.S. (2008) An ecological assessment of the non-indigenous isopod, Synidotea laticauda, in Delaware Bay
• Rebecca Ellin, M.S. (2000) Planktonic abundance and dispersal of the oyster parasite Perkinsus marinus

Undergraduate

• Jennifer Hunt, NSF REU RIOS Intern (UTPB 2026) Effects of predator cues on oyster larval development and settlement
• Mariano “Rocco” Edralin, NSF REU RIOS Intern (St. Mary’s College of CA 2025) Trophic interactions induced by predator cues
• Destiny Rosales, SEBS Science Communication Intern (Sp 2025) Creating a DARPA Reefense website to communicate project accomplishments
• Amanda Lemasters, Independent Study (2024) Histological assessment of changes in oyster reproduction over the past decade
• Kristie Semanchik, NSF REU RIOS Intern (Bucknell 2024) Oyster recruitment to artificial reefs
• Madison Aquilar, SPIN Intern (2024) Developing Low Carbon Concrete
• Nina Coli, NSF REU RIOS Intern (Univ South Carolina 2023) Oyster microbiome dynamics
• Catherine Carrion, NSF REU RIOS Intern (Virginia Tech 2022) Beach Characteristics, Horseshoe Crab (Limulus polyphemus) Eggs, & Oyster Farms
• Simon L’Heveder, NSF REU 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, NSF REU RIOS Intern (Univ of Dayton 2021) Creating fevers in oysters to control dermo disease
• Rachel Eggleston, NSF REU RIOS Intern (Illinois State 2019) Long-term shifts in timing of oyster reproduction in Delaware Bay
• Casey Jones, NSF REU RIOS Intern (Rutgers 2018) Sea level rise impacts on horseshoe crabs and red knots
• Mike DiLorenzo, Summer Intern (2017) Shellfish hatchery phytoplankton cultivation
• Bree Cerione, Summer Intern (2016) Living shoreline nekton use and oyster monitoring