Past Fellows
Eytan Abraham - University of Maryland
Marine Estuarine and Environmental Sciences Graduate Program
February 2003 - January 2005Advisor: Y. Zohar
A novel approach to inducing sterility in farmed fish: Disrupting the early establishment of the GnRH System (R/A-03)
Jason Adolf - University of Maryland
Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory
February 1996 - January 2000Advisor: L.W. Harding
Assimilation modeling of planktonic processes in Chesapeake Bay with aircraft and satellite ocean color data (R/P-44)
February 1996 - Janyart 1998
Satellite remote sensing with SeaWiFS to detect seasonal and interannual variability in phytoplankton abundance in the Chesapeake Bay and adjacent coastal waters (R/P-37)
Angela Arnold - Johns Hopkins University
August 1999 - September 2002Advisor: G. Brush
The long-term history of the Chesapeake Bay trophic state (R/P-46)
Richard Bartleson - University of Maryland
Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory
February 2000 - January 2002Advisor: M. Kemp
Seagrass-eutrophication interactions: Role of spatial pattern (R/P-48)
Jennifer Bryan - University of Maryland
Advisor: Lora HarrisJune 2011 - May 2012
Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (IEA) of the Potomac Estuary (Dave Secor Lead PI) (R/EH-11)
Laurie Bauer - University of Maryland
Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
September 2002 - September 2004Advisor: T.J. Miller
Winter mortality of Chesapeake blue crabs,Callinectes sapidus (R/F-93)
Wesley Bickford - University of Maryland
Environmental Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park
March 2009 - March 2011Advisor: Brian Needelman
Prescribed burns in the sustainable conservation and restoration of tidal marshes (R/EH-8)
Jeff Biermann - University of Maryland
Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory
May 2005 - May 2007Advisor: Elizabeth North
How do changes in physical conditions and megalopae behavior affect blue crab recruitment variability in Chesapeake and Delaware Bays? (R/EH-1)
Patrick Campfield - University of Maryland
Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
February 2000 - January 2003Advisors: W.M. Kemp, L. Murray, J.C. Cornwell
Evaluating and improving larval stocking as a method to restore American shad in Chesapeake Bay (R/F-90)
Shih-nan Chen - University of Maryland
Marine Estuarine and Environmental Sciences Graduate Program
September 2004 - August 2006Advisor: L. Sanford
Do oyster filtration and wave attenuation associated with oyster reefs and breakwaters improve seagrass habitat? (R/P-57)
September 2005 - August 2007
Interactions between shoreline erosion, suspended solids, and submerged aquatic vegetation in the Potomac River (R/EH-2a)
Christopher Chick - University of Maryland
Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory
February 2005 - January 2007Advisor: J. Cornwell
Predicting the restoration trajectory and water quality value of benthic microalgae in shallow water Chesapeake sediments (R/WQ-1)
Chris Conroy - University of Maryland
Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
April 2009 - April 2011Advisor: Dave Secor
Intrapopulation biodiversity and recruitment pathways for Chesapeake striped bass (R/FISH-98)
Jessica Davis - University of Maryland
Marine Estuarine and Environmental Sciences Graduate Program
February 2003 - January 2005Advisors: W.M. Kemp, L. Murray, J.C. Cornwell
Sediment biogeochemistry and seagrass bed development: implications for restoration and sustainability (R/P-56)
Christie-Sue Decker - University of Maryland
Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
February 2001 - January 2002Advisor: B. Anderson
Mercenaria mercenaria - QPX: Immunological characterization of the host-pathogen interface (R/F-91)
Yonghui Gao - University of Maryland
Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory
February 2009 - January 2011Advisor: Diane Stoecker
Cyanobacterial Blooms: A Roadblock to Estuarine Restoration? (R/EH-9)
Jason Granberg - University of Maryland
Center for Environmental Science, Appalachian Laboratory
December 2007 - December 2009Advisor: Katharina Engelhardt
The role of genetic diversity in restoration success for Vallisneria americana in the Chesapeake Bay (R/CR-3)
assie Gurbisz - University of Maryland
Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory
June 2011 - March 2011Advisor: Michael Kemp
Reconstructing long-term patterns in sea nettle abundance and effects on the Chesapeake Bay food web (R/P-61)
Rebecca Holyoke - University of Maryland
Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory
May 2002 - May 2004Advisor: R.I.E. Newell
Quantifying the magnitude of nitrogen and phosphorus removal associated with restoration of oysters in the Chesapeake Bay (R/P-51)
Olaf Jensen - University of Maryland
Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
January 2001 - September 2002Advisor: T.J. Miller
The spatial dynamics of blue crab in Chesapeake Bay (R/F-89)
Anthony Kaufman - Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
August 2009 - July 2011Advisor: Eric Johnson
Large-scale blue crab recruitment limitation in upper Chesapeake Bay: Dispersal and post-settlement processes (R/FISH-99)
Sarah Kolesar - Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
January 1999 - January 2000Advisor: D.L. Breitburg
The importance of understanding ecological complexity to predicting effects of multiple stressors on coastal systems (R/PT-05)
February 2001 - September 2003
Advisor: D.L. Breitburg
Does low dissolved oxygen favor dominance of gelatinous zooplankton in Chesapeake Bay? (R/P-50)
Cheih-Lun Lie - University of Maryland
August 2011 - August 2012Advisor: Eric Schott
Effects of cyanobacteria on health and disease of blue crab (R/DIS-2a)
Ed Martino - University of Maryland
Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
February 2005 - January 2007Advisor: E. Houde
Primary production, spring blooms and control of recruitment in pelagic fish (R/WQ-2)
Deanna McQuarrie - University of Maryland
Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
September 2006 - August 2008Advisor: David Secor
Ecosystem effects on living resources: spatially explicit bioenergetic model of white perch carrying capacity (R/CR-1)
Varjola Nelko - Johns Hopkins University
February 2005 - January 2007Advisor: R. Dalrymple
Field prediction of rip currents (R/EH-3)
Tamara Newcomer - University of Maryland
Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
August 2007 - August 2009Advisor: Sujay Kaushal
Investigation of stream restoration as a means of reducing nitrogen pollution from rapidly urbanizing coastal watersheds of Chesapeake Bay” (R/EH-7)
Brandon Puckett - University of Maryland
Marine Estuarine and Environmental Sciences Graduate Program
September 2003 - August 2005Advisor: D. Secor
Growth and recruitment of juvenile Cheaspeake Bay blue crab (R/F94)
Kristen Rathjen - University of Maryland
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
May 2007 - May 2010Advisor: Denise Breitburg
Reconstructing long-term patterns in sea nettle abundance and effects on the Chesapeake Bay food web (R/EH-4), through 2010
Rose Smith - University of Maryland
August 2011 - August 2012Advisor: Sujay Kaushal
Developing a decision support tool for stream restoration strategies to reduce nitrogen loads in urbanizing Chesapeake Bay watersheds (R/WS-2)
Larry Taylor - University of Maryland
September 1999 - Dec 2000Advisor: R.M. Weiner
Bioremediation of recalcitrant complex carbohydrate biopolymers by a novel marine bacterium (R/BT-07)
Jul 2001 - January 2004
Advisor: R.M. Weiner
Chitinosomes in Microbulbifer degradans : A new paradigm for the degradation of complex polysaccharides of marine origin (R/BT-10)
George Waldbusser - University of Maryland
Marine Estuarine and Environmental Sciences Graduate Program
February 2003 - January 2005Advisor: R. Marinelli
Benthic studies in the Chesapeake Bay: 1. Analysis and synthesis of faunal data in relation to sediment and water column interactions, and 2. Scope for future needs. (R/P-55)
Roy Weitzel- University of Maryland
Center for Environmental Science, Appalachian Laboratory
August 2009 - July 2011Advisor: Andrew Elmore
Investigating Impacts of headwater stream burial during development of downstream nutrient export to Chesapeake Bay (R/WS-1)
Ten-Tsao Wong - University of Maryland
Center of Marine Biotechnology
February 1998 - January 2000Advisor: Y. Zohar
The novel gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) of fish: Its functions, regulation of synthesis and release, and potential use for spawning manipulations in striped bass (R/F-85)
February 2000 - January 2002
Advisor: Y. Zohar
The gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) system of striped bass: Endocrine, molecular and applied studies (R/AQ-01)
