Marine Biology Dissertations

2010

  • Burton V. Shank
    Effectiveness of marine managed areas of central and southern Belize: Spatial variations in major community processes and the implications for local management success.
    Advisor: Kaufman

2009

  • Christopher T. Frenz
    Voltage-gated sodium channel isoform expression in the mouse main olfactory epithelium: A neuronal role for the cardiac isoform, Nav1.5.
    Advisor: Dionne

2008

  • Eric D. Crandall
    Isolation and gene flow in Indo-Pacific species with pelagic larvae.
    Advisor: Barber
  • Jennifer B. Culbertson
    Long-term ecological impacts of the Wild Harbor oil spill on salt marsh fiddler crabs, Uca pugnax, salt marsh grasses, Spartina alterniflora, and ribbed mussels, Geukensia demissa.
    Advisor: Valiela
  • Sophia Erith Fox
    Ecological effects of nitrogen loading to temperate estuaries: Macrophyte and consumer community structure and food web relationships.
    Advisor: Valiela
  • Gabrielle Tomasky Holmes
    Nutrient supply, water residence time, temperature, and grazing as controls of size-fractionated phytoplankton biomass in shallow temperate estuarine ecosystems.
    Advisor: Valiela
  • Mindy Lou Richlen
    The ecology and phylogeography of ciguatera on coral reefs.
    Advisor: Lobel

2007

  • Vanessa C. Miller-Sims
    Olfactory homing and dispersal of coral reef fishes in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
    Advisor: Atema
  • Mirta C. Teichberg
    Macroalgal growth: Local and global comparisons of nutrient limitation and assimilation.
    Advisor: Valiela

2006

  • Carolyn Miller Angell
    Body fat condition of free-ranging right whales, Eubalaena glacialis and Eubalaena australis.
    Advisor: Dionne
  • Sara Powers Grady
    Population dynamics of the horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, on Cape Cod: Field data and model simulations of the effects of harvest.
    Advisor: Valiela
  • Gregory B. Skomal
    The physiological effects of capture stress on post-release survivorship of sharks, tunas, and marlin.
    Advisor: Lobel
  • Joanna K. York
    A stable isotopic assessment of sources and assimilation of nitrogen by estuarine phytoplankton.
    Advisor: Valiela