Maryland Marine Notes: May-June 2001 Sidebar - Students Participate in Summer Fellowship Program

Volume 19, Number 3 • May-June 2001

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Students Participate in Summer Fellowship Program

This summer marks the thirteenth year for Maryland Sea Grant's summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program. Fourteen students arrived in early June for orientation and to begin working with researchers at environmental laboratories. They will present the results of their summer's work at a seminar on August 17.

The REU fellowship, supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, pairs fellows with a scientist-advisor to conduct an independent research project at one of three environmental laboratories in Maryland: Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Horn Point Laboratory (both part of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science) or the Academy of Natural Sciences Estuarine Research Center.

This year's REU students were selected competitively from 88 applicants nationwide. Student fellows, their home colleges, research topics and advisors are listed below.

Christopher Chick (Hendrix College). Nutrient burial in agriculturally impacted wetlands. Advisor: Jeff Cornwall.
Edward Galbavy (Tufts University). Development and implementation of a precise mobile device measuring atmospheric ammonia and ammonium aerosols throughout southeast Maryland. Advisor: Ron Siefert.
Christopher Belnap (Hartwick College). Bacterial mediation of dissolved organic matter and protein degradation in estuarine waters. Advisor: Rodger Harvey.
Amy Long (University of Pittsburgh). What levels of turbulence affect Pfiesteria piscicida's ability to graze? Advisors: Diane Stoecker and Larry Sanford.
Zeb Schonernd (Earlham College). Use of artificial substrates to predict habitat suitability for SAV restoration. Advisor: Laura Murray.
Leslie Brandt (Gustavus Adolphus College). Epiphytic algae as UV filters on leaves of the seagrasses Zostera marina L. and Ruppia maritime L. Advisor: Eva Maria Koch.
Katharine Boyle (San Francisco State University). The survivorship of Mya arenaria from predation as a function of SAV and SAV density. Advisor: Denise Breitburg.
Sarah Maurer (Hofstra University). Predation and selectivity of Neomysis Americana on Eurytemora affinis and rotifers. Advisor: Marie Bundy.
Elizabeth Kennedy (Iowa State University). Sub-lethal effects of contaminants on Leptocheirus plumulosis. Advisor: Chris Rowe.
Adrian Kirby (Saint Mary's College, Indiana). Carnivorous feeding preferences exhibited by adult copepods Acartia tonsa and Eurytemora affinis. Advisor: Mike Roman.
Tracy Jo Williams (Florida Southern College). The effects of population densities and behavior of Macoma balthica on nutrient exchange and primary production in coastal sediments. Advisor: Roberta Marinelli.
Patrick Spain (Suffolk University). The ability of various sized oyster spat to withstand increasing degrees of dessication. Advisor: Don Meritt.
Matthew Behum (Colgate University). Effects of small-scale turbulence on the condition of larval fathead minnows, Pimephales promelas. Advisor: TomMiller.
Cherie Jenkins (Coastal Carolina University). Effect of salinity on growth rates and survival of juvenile Chesapeake Bay white perch, Morone americana. Advisor: David Secor.

Maryland Sea Grant's REU summer program is open to students who have completed at least two years of undergraduate work, will be enrolled as undergraduates in the fall and are U.S. citizens or permanent residents. For more information, visit the web at www.mdsg.umd.edu/programs/research/reu/.

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