Current Marine Science Graduate Students

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Katie Pugliares - Genetic Relatedness Among Mass Stranded Atlantic White-Sided Dolphins (Lagenorhynchus ocutus) on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA.

Charlotte Regula - Spiralzooid Form and Function within Hydractinia Spp. Colonies Encrusting Pagurus Hermit Crab Shells.

Emily Rosser - Effects of Marine Reserve Protection and Fishing Pressure on Reef Fish Trophic Communities of the Belize Barrier Reef.

Jay Williams - The Use of Steroid Hormone Concentrations to Determine the Reproductive Cyclicity of the Little Skate, Leucoraja erinacea, in the Western Gulf of Maine.

Angela Cicia - Assessing discard survivability and the physiological effects to capture on four skates species within the Northwest Atlantic

Caitlyn Little - Movement patterns and habitat utilization of Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus) in the Saco River, ME

Recent Marine Science Graduate Students

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Jocelyn Brown-Saracino - Effects of Unique Topographical Features on Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus) Breeding Behavior.

Andy Dutra - Toxic and Bioluminescent Dinoflagellates:  Molecular and Ecological Importance.

Dashiell Pappas - Diet of Gray Seals (Halichoerus grypus) in Penobscot Bay, Maine, Evaluated Through Hard Part Analysis and Fecal DNA

Nina Hamacher - Identification of Melanopsin in the Retina of Nassau Grouper (Epinephelus striatus) by Insitu Hybridization.

Melissa Smith - Distribution, Feeding Ecology and Habitat Usage of Monkfish Within the Western Gulf of Maine Closures Area (WMGCA).

Joseph Sungail - Interspecific Competition for Food Resources Between Juvenile Life Stages of American Lobsters (Homarus americanus), Rock Crabs (Cancer irroratus), and Green Crabs (Carcinus maenas).

Noel Takeuchi - Circulating Vitamin A and E Levels Based on Artificial Formula Consumed in Rescued Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina) Pups.