Alumni

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 Postdoctoral Associate

  1. Dr. Silvia Newell, Currently: Director of Michigan Sea Grant and a Professor at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability 

  2. Dr. Priya Roy Chowdhury, Currently: Associate Professor, Keene State College

  3. Dr. John Angell, Currently: Assistant Professor of Instruction, Sarasota-Manatee campus

  4. Dr. Amanda Vieillard, Currently: Director of Ocean Policy, Carbon 180


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

  12. Nia Bartolucci, Ph.D. (2019-2024) Currently: Physical Scientist, EPA

  13. Lydia Jefferson, MS (2021-2024) Currently: Lab Relocation Specialist, Renovo Solutions

 
​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 

  29. Sophie Glastein, headed to University of Delaware for graduate school.


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: Project Scientist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

  2. Ken Czapla (2010-2014). Currently: Postdoctoral fellow, University of California Riverside

  3. Alia Al-Haj (2014-2018). Currently: Postdoctoral Researcher at Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.

  4. Isabel Sánchez-Viruet (2016-2017).

  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

Ilana Jacobs (2025): Exploring Drivers of Net Ecosystem Exchange in Urban Green Spaces Dominated by Low-Form Vegetation