Who's who in the Seagrass Ecosystem Research Lab at FIU


 

Faculty and Staff Current Graduate Students Undergraduate Assistants Alumni

 

Faculty and Staff
James W. Fourqurean, Ph.D.

Ligia Collado-Vides, Ph. D.

Tom Frankovich, Ph.D.

Susie P. Escorcia, M.S.

 

Darrell Herbert, Ph.D.    

Current Graduate Students

Thesis Title/Abstract

  Rebecca Bernard 2007-  
  Amanda Bourque 2005-  
  Justin Campbell 2006-  

Zayda Halun

2003-

 

Travis Thyberg

2004-

 

Undergraduate Assistants

Melissa Gil

Gone but not forgotten!

Tenure

Thesis Title

Anna Armitage

Post-doc,

2003-2006

 

Dorothy Byron (Dottie)

MS student,

2000-2006

Testing the physiological response of a subtropical seagrass, Thalassia testudinum, to salinity stress using Pulse Amplitude Modulated (PAM) fluorometry
 

Virginia Cornett (Ginny)

MS student,

2000-2006

Spatial Characterization of the Distribution of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation in the Shark River Slough Estuary

Kevin M. Cunniff

MS student,

1999-2006

Factors influencing the sexual reproduction of Thalassia testudinum

Braxton Davis 

MS student,

1995-1998

Determining interspecific actions between the dominant macrophytes of tropical Atlantic seagrass meadows 

Bryan Dewsbury

MS student,

2003-2006

The role of fish in the concentration of nutrients in an oligotrophic subtropical estuary

Meredith Ferdie

MS student,

1999-2002

Nutrient limitation of benthic primary production in the upper Florida
Keys

 
Patricia Mumford

MS student,

1996-1999

The effects of primary productivity and environmental stress on food chain length in Florida Bay

Bradley Peterson

Post-doc,

1998-2002

 
Luz Romero (on the right)

MS student,

1996-1999

Physicochemical factors controlling wood decomposition of three Florida mangroves

Craig D. Rose

Ph.D. student,

1996-2003

Sergio Ruiz

MS student,

2003-2006

Investigating the effects of iron and organic matter additions on the biogeochemistry of vegetated carbonate sediments (Florida Bay)

Leanne Rutten

MS student,

1999-2002

An assessment of nearshore benthic communities of the Florida Keys
Maureen Walter

MS student,

1996-1998

Foraging behavior of Halodule wrightii

 
 
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