Alumni

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 Postdoctoral Associate

1. Silvia Newell, Currently: Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Science, Wright State University 
2. Priya Roy Chowdhury, Currently: Assistant Professor, Keene State College
3. Amanda Vieillard, Currently: AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow

Graduate Students

1. Sarah Foster, (MS: 2010-2010; Ph.D.: 2010-2019). Currently: Assistant Professor at Babson University
2. Joanna Carey, Ph.D. (2009-2013). Currently: Associate Professor, Babson College
3. Amanda Vieillard, MS (2011-2013). Currently: AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow
4. Lindsey Fields, Ph.D., co-advised w/ C. Oviatt at GSO/URI for her last year (2012-2013). Currently: Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Georgia. 
5. Elise Heiss, Ph.D. (2009-2014). Currently: Associate Professor of Chemistry at King’s College.
6. Timothy Maguire, Ph.D. (2013-2017) Currently: Head of the Environmental Biogeochemistry Section in the Patrick Center at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.
7. Hollie E. Emery, Ph.D. (2010-2018) Currently: Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management
8. Nick E. Ray, Ph.D. (2015-2020) Currently: Postdoctoral Researcher at Cornell University in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
9. Alia Al-Haj, Ph.D. (2017-2021) Currently: Postdoctoral Researcher at Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.
10. Emily Chua, Ph.D. (2015-2022) Currently: A Visiting Professor at Boston College
11. Claudia Mazur, Ph.D. (2017-2022) Currently: Coastal Management Specialist | National Estuarine Research Reserve Liaison
    

 
​Undergraduate Students
Directed Study, UROP, and/or Senior Thesis 

1. Mary Kate Rogener, Ph.D at UGA; Currently: Coastal Ecology Program Analyst at NOAA
2. Courtney Zambory, MS at Iowa State University; Currently: Natural Resources Specialist II : Spatial Information Analyst, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
3. Julia Luthringer, MS at Yale University; Currently: Program Officer at National Geographic
4. Maria Henning 
5. Kristin Yoshimura; Ph.D. at University of Delaware; Postdoc at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Currently: Assistant Professor at James Madison University
6. Maya Babu; Currently: MS student at University of Maryland
7. Halina Malinowski, Currently: Volunteer Supervisor, Game Rangers International, Zambia
8. Sam Gifford
9. Mollie Yacano; Currently: Ph.D. student University of North Carolina
10. Christopher Payne; Currently: Vet school at Cornell 
11. Katie Pritchard
12. Emma Chamberlain; Currently: Ph.D. student at Scripps
13. Jennifer Soukup
14. Robert Lauto; Currently: Associate Data Analyst at Digital Remedy and part time student in the CUNY SPS Master of Science in Data Science.
15. Emma Schectman; Currently: Teacher at Nature’s Classroom
16. Carly Langan; Currently: studying neuroscience at BU
17. Gabriel Hillyer; MS at University of Maine, Currently: Ph.D. at University of Maine
18. Spencer Showalter; MS from University of Washington 
19. Julie Mastermann; Currently: Science Education & Outreach Coordinator at CUASHI
20. Gretchen McCarthy; Currently: Ph.D. student in the Department of Marine Science, University of Otago
21. Victoria Momyer; Currently: Research Associate III on the Stem Cells team at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
22. Tony Pham; Currently: Microbiome Research Associate at The George Washington University
23. Ryan Shipley; Currently: Lab manager for the Templer Lab at Boston University
24. Tyler Chidsey; Currently: Research technician for the Rotjan Laboratory at Boston University
25. Brenden Blakely; Currently: looking for work and graduate school oppurunties
26. Zoe Erturk; Currently: looking for work and graduate school oppurunties
27. Isha Zangani; Currently: looking for work and graduate school oppurunties
28. Rene Yang; Currently: NOAA marine fisheries 
    

Interns

1. Ben Suehler
2. Kate
3. Christine Anderson
4. Kristin Raub
5. Mark Zemel
6. Michelle Janaszek
7. Hedee Kim
8. Maggie Notopoulous
9. Zoe Yu
10. Sam Gwizd
11. Sarah Sargent
12. Suzanne Duan
13. Rachel Schweiker
14. Ashley Banks
15. Devon McGhee
16. Taylor O’Leary
17. Bennett Paradis
18. Melissa Lorella
19. Dylan Lewellyn
20. Elise Greenberg
21. Michelle Chen
22. Sarah Donovan
23. Abby Greenwood
24. Caroline Vokas
25. Zachary Bengston
26. Katie Sidell
27. Abby Greenwood
28. Hannah Ferguson
29. Paulina Azzu
30. Kwetzpallin Mexika
31. Adam Crawford
32. Natalia Sawicka
33. Inaya Abdul-Haqq

High school Students

1. Ariel Bobbett
2. Akaash Tawade 
3. Emily Miao
4. Renee Lee (RISE 2022)
5. Rhone-Ann Huang (GROW 2022)
6. Rebecca Adler (RISE 2022)

Research Technicians

1. Eric Morgan (2010-2011). Currently: Postdoctoral Scholar at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
2. Ken Czapla (2010-2014). Currently: Ph.D. student at Virginia Institute of Marine Science
3. Alia Al-Haj (2014-2018). Currently: Ph.D. student in my lab
4. Isabel Sánchez-Viruet (2016-2017). Currently: Laboratory Assistant Chesapeake Bay Laboratory
5. Seth Berger (2018)
6. Brendan Kelly (2018-2020). Currently: Environmental Scientist at Coneco Engineers and Scientists

 
Senior or BA/MA Thesis Titles:
Luthringer, Julia (2013) Matching the Call to the Whale: Identifying Unknown Call Types to Improve Marine Mammal Management and Conservation. 

Yoshimura, Kristin (2013) Investigating the Presence of Methane and Nitrous Oxide Producing Microbes within the Intestinal Tract of the Salt Marsh Fiddler Crab Uca pugnax.

Rogener, Mary Kate (2013) Manganese Cycling in a Temperate Estuary – Temporal Variations and Response to High Nitrogen Inputs.  

Malinowski, Halina (2016) Exploring the Impact of Elephants on the Silica Cycle: A Case Study with the Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus) of the Buttonwood Park Zoo in New Bedford, MA. 

Showalter, Spencer (2017)  Prevalence and impact of toxic Pseudo-nitzschia blooms in the California Current System in 2016. 

Yacano, Mollie (2017) Assessing the Role of Macroalgae in Silicon Cycling in Two Temperature Estuaries. 

Chamberlain, Emelia (2018) Ice-block lakes amplify paleoclimate signals: exploring late Holocene hydrologic and biogeochemical variability of Antarctic Lake Eggers. 

Soukup, Jennifer (2018) The Role of Invasive Phragmites australis in Altering Salt Marsh Silica Cycling.

Mastermann, Julia (2019): The Role of Avian Grazers in Altering Silica Availability for an Urban River (This was both her Kilachand Honors Project and her Earth Science Honors Project)

Elizondo, Elani (2020): The Role of Mangroves in Tropical Estuarine Silica Cycling.

McCarthy, Gretchen (2020): Oyster Controls on Sediment Nutrient Recycling and Water Column Phytoplankton Composition. 

Momyer, Victoria (2020): Methane Concentrations and Microbial Community Structure in Boston Groundwater Wells. (BA/MA)

Pham, Tony (2020): Black Carbon as a Nitrogen Transporter to Marine Systems. (BA/MA)

Chidsey, Tyler (2022): Quantifying Sandy Beach Greenhouse Gas Fluxes with and without Eelgrass Wrack

Shipley, Ryan (2022): Benthic Si Fluxes in Coastal Environments

Blakely, Brenden (2024): Exploring Si Uptake Rates in Marine Macroalgae

Zoe Erturk (2024): Long-term Nitrous Oxide Fluxes Across the Sediment-Water-Interface in a Temperate Estuary