Marine Science Graduate Research Symposiums

Time

Presenter

Title

Thursday

1:00

Welcoming remarks

1:05

Angelina Dichiera

Intraspecific scaling of carbonic anhydrase and anion exchange protein in red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus

1:20

Shuting Liu

Comparing capabilities of different bacteria strains on peptide decomposition in seawater

1:35

Chi Hung Tang

Effect of oil and dispersant on microzooplankton grazing

1:50

Meredith Evans

Predicting and responding to petroleum pollution in coastal salt marshes

2:05

Alexis Khursigara

Early life sensitivity of red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, to source and naturally weathered oil

2:20

Kiley Seitz

Thorarchaeota: a novel phylum of widespread sediment archaea

2:35

Matthew Dzaugis 

Importance of the spring transition in the northern Gulf of Mexico as inferred by marine fish biochronologies

3:00

Christina Bonsell

Slime or superfood: the past and future of edible seaweed

3:15

Jason Jenkins

How do drying-rewetting events affect nutrient fluxes and bacteria dynamics from subtropical marsh sediments?

3:30

Corinne Burns

You are what you eat: the effects of maternal diet on southern flounder egg composition

3:45

Joshua Lonthair

Sensitivity of an estuarine species, red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus), to ocean acidification

4:00

Matthew Seeley

Habitat use and trophic structure in Atlantic tarpon (Megalops atlanticus) using geochemical proxies in scales

4:15

Chris Biggs

Functional migration areas of two snapper species at a multi-species spawning aggregation

4:30

Claire Griffin

Monitoring chromophoric dissolved organic matter in the upper Midwest using optical remote sensing

Friday

9:00

Welcoming remarks

9:05

Nick Reyna

Influence of consecutive major storm events on source of particulate organic matter in a subtropical estuary, Texas

9:20

Hengchen Wei

Effectiveness of nitrogen assimilation in the non-tidal watershed of the Chesapeake Bay: evaluations based on thirty years of data

9:35

Aubrey Converse

ZIP9 elicits a unique signalling pathway in Atlantic Croaker ovarian follicles cells

9:50

Yida Gao

Temporal and spatial population genetic structure of dinoflagellate Alexandrium spp. blooms

10:05

Kaijun Lu

Urea cycling in relation to cyanobacterial (Microcystis) blooms in Lake Taihu, Yangtze River Delta, China

10:20

Craig Connolly

Patterns in concentrations of fluvial organic matter and watershed yields across space and scale in the Arctic

10:35

Erin Reed

Relationships between climate, growth and fisheries production in a commercially exploited marine fish

10:50

Xin Xu

Nitrogen cycling pathways and fluxes in oscillic freshwater zones