Maryland Marine Notes: July-August 99 Sidebar - Students Complete Summer Fellowship Program

Volume 17, Number 4 • July-August 1999


Students Complete Summer Fellowship Program
The eleventh year of Maryland Sea Grant's summer undergraduate research program ended in August, when students presented results of their summer's work at a seminar held at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL). Each of the fourteen students were paired with a scientist-advisor, and conducted an independent research project at either CBL, the UMCES Horn Point Laboratory or the Academy of Natural Sciences Environmental Research Center (ANSERC). The Maryland Sea Grant fellowships are supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation through its Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program. Students, their home colleges, research topics and advisors were: Audrey Barnett (Millersville University, Pennsylvania). The effect of humic substances on heterotrophic dinoflagellate population growth. Advisor: Dr. Diane Stoecker.
Heidi Enslin (College of St. Elizabeth, New Jersey). Using plants to determine availability of heavy metals in the Anacostia River. Advisor: Dr. Fritz Riedel. Michael Evans (St. Mary's College, Maryland). Phlyogenetic microbial community analysis by fluorescent in situ hybridization with 16S ribosomal RNA probes. Advisor: Dr. Paul del Giorgio. Elliott Hazen (Duke University, North Carolina). Ontogenetic, spatial and temporal variability in the diet of the Atlantic croaker, Micropogonias undulatus. Advisor: Dr. Ed Houde. Dan Huber (Duke University, North Carolina). Analysis of environmental conditions facilitating algal blooms of Aureococcus anophagefferens. Advisor: Dr. Pat Glibert. Jessica Keister (Baldwin-Wallace College, Ohio). The effects of nutrient availability on bacterial growth efficiency in aquatic salt marsh ecosystems. Advisor: Dr. Roger Newell. Mike Lameier (University of South Carolina). Grazing preferences of calanoid copepod Acartia tonsa on nauplii and phytoplankton. Advisor: Dr. Mike Roman. Randy Lee (California State University). Impact of waves on periphyton load on Zostera marina leaves in the Chesapeake and Chincoteague Bays. Advisor: Dr. Eva-Maria Koch. Chris Root (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire). Role of epiphyte loading in reduction of growth rate in Zostera marina. Advisor: Dr. Walter Boynton. Aisha Rawlinson (University of Maryland Eastern Shore). The influence of small-scale turbulence on feeding behavior of ctenophores. Advisor: Dr. Tom Miller. Rhonda Rumsey (College of Oneonta, New York). Historical trends in the deposition of mercury in the deep sediments of Baltimore Harbor and the Chesapeake Bay. Advisor: Dr. Rob Mason Brandy Smith (Savannah State University, Georgia). Dynamics of N2 and CH4 in Choptank River marsh creeks. Advisor: Dr. Jeff Cornwell. Anna Parker (Duke University, North Carolina). Effects of suspended sediments on Acartia tonsa (Copepoda) egg production. Advisor: Dr. Marie Bundy. Audrey Wise (Millersville University, Pennsylvania). The effects of zooplankton abundance on the growth rate of Mnemiopsis leidyi and Gobiosoma ginsburgi. Advisor: Dr. Denise Breitburg. REU students were selected from 125 applicants nationwide. Maryland Sea Grant will offer the Research Experiences for Undergraduates fellowship program again in 2000. It is open to students who will have completed at least two years of undergraduate work by summer 2000, will be enrolled as undergraduates the following fall, and are U.S. citizens or permanent residents. To receive application materials in January 2000, call (301) 405-6376. For general information on the REU program, check the web at www.mdsg.umd.edu/Education/REU.html.

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