Research

Nia Jeffers research area is mangrove habitat restoration and management with a focus in mangrove restoration methodology.

Ana Silverio uses long-term independent and dependent fisheries catch data from Texas Parks and Wildlife and quantitative tools to look at how extreme events affect coastal fish populations along the Texas Gulf Coast.

Chloe Pearson's uses acoustic telemetry to better understand the habitat use of rainbow smelt, including location, usage and use timing.

Shelby Perry studies the effects of stocking density and light on the growth and aggression of juvenile lumpfish.

Mikayla Cote examines the influence of marine microzooplankton grazing on the production/consumption of transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) and marine aggregates in general.

Riplee Mercer's research examines a species of nori called Wildemania amplissima and how it can be used in aquaculture in New England.

Faith Frings is interested in developing methods for increasing quantitative literacy in biology courses at the undergraduate level.

Grant Milne explores the use of passive acoustic monitoring and metabarcoding of seawater samples as methods of measuring soundscape properties and detecting marine taxa to identify indicators of the underwater acoustic environment in temperate coastal habitats.

Alyssa Stasse's dissertation work focuses on using genetic techniques, such as genome and transcriptome sequencing, to determine differences between populations of eastern oysters.

Melanie Smith studies how acoustic data can help us to better understand the ecology and behavior of marine mammals, specifically humpback whales in Southeast Alaska

Researcher Sophie Wulfing uses concepts from linear algebra and evolutionary game theory to model populations of the blue octopus in the fishery of southwest Madagascar.

Valerie Eddington is developing a linear regression model that will use acoustic information to estimate the population of large bat colonies.