Summer Students Explore the Bay

This summer marks the fifteenth year of Maryland Sea Grant's undergraduate fellowship program, an effort that has brought college students from Maine to Hawaii to the Chesapeake Bay to participate in marine research. Supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program pairs students with scientist-mentors at three estuarine research labs, the Horn Point Laboratory (HPL) and the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) - both part of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science - and the ANSERC Estuarine Research Center (ANSERC).

Listed below are each student's home campus, summer topic and advisor for 2003.

Sarah Henson, The College of St. Rose, Albany, New York
Topic: The Biogeochemistry of Seagrass and Sediment in Contrasting Ruppia maritima Beds
Advisors: Mike Kemp and Laura Murray, HPL
Tamara Kroboth, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Topic: Trace Mercury Uptake by Spartina alterniflora in Mesocosm Simulating Capping, Marsh Restoration, and Phytoremediation
Advisor: Fritz Riedel, ANSERC
Alessandra Paolicchi, Texas A&M University, Galveston, Texas
Topic: Binding Capabilities of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) to Dissolved Organic Carbon and Activated Carbon
Advisor: Joel Baker, CBL
Bill Kaminski, Southampton College, Long Island, New York
Topic: Feeding Ecology in the Lined Seahorse, Hippocampus erectus, in the Chesapeake Bay
Advisor: Dave Secor, CBL
Rebekah Duncan, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida
Topic: Grazing Habits of Eurytemora affinis and Acartia tonsa in Turbid and Non-turbid Environments
Advisor: Mike Roman, HPL
Jesse Phillips-Kress, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Topic: Temporal and Spatial Variability of the Planktonic Food Web in the Patuxent River
Advisor: Denise Breitburg, ANSERC
Miranda Hoover, Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio
Topic: Flow Cytometric Indicators of Phytoplankton in the Chesapeake Bay
Advisors: Jason Adolf and Larry Harding, HPL
Keith Douglass, Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island
Topic: The Impact of Ammonium on the Recruitment and Growth of Arenicola cristata in its Different Life Stages
Advisor: Roberta Marinelli, CBL
Janet Krenn, University of Illinois, Champaign
Topic: The Influence of Microphytobenthos on Resuspension in Shallow Estuaries: A Comparison between Florida and Chesapeake Bays
Advisor: Jeff Cornwell, HPL
Christina Geierman, Michigan State University, Lansing
Topic: Linking Oysters and Seagrasses: Using Breakwaters as an Analogue to Oyster Reefs
Advisor: Eva Maria Koch, HPL
Stephanie Hurder, Richard Stockton College, Pomona, New Jersey
Topic: Use of Fluorescent Particles to Determine the Zone of Oyster Biodeposition Under Field Conditions
Advisor: Roger Newell, HPL
Laura Rubiano-Gomez, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Topic: Characterization of Suspended Particle Sinking Speeds in the Upper Chesapeake Bay
Advisor: Larry Sanford, HPL
Emily Maung, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia - Development of a Novel Approach to Determine the Effects of Protist Grazing on Marine Bacterial Diversity
Advisor: Marcelino Suzuki, CBL
Alex Bogler, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Topic: Evaluating DNA Damage in the Blue Crab ( Callinectes sapidus ) Collected from the Chesapeake Bay and its Tributaries Using the Comet Assay
Advisor: Carys Mitchelmore, CBL

For more about the REU program, student fellows, their projects and publications, see www.mdsg.umd.edu/programs/research/reu/ or contact Dr. Fredrika Moser, 301-405-6373.

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