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REU Mentor Profile
Todd Kana, Ph.D.

Location:

Horn Point Laboratory

Research Topics:

Environmental Chemistry

Research Interests:

Regulation of photosynthesis; phytoplankton and aquatic plant ecophysiology; light respiration; applications of mass spectrometry.

Visit this website for more about Dr. Kana's expertise, education, and contact information.

Students:

2011 - Karlena Brown, Delaware Valley College

2008 - Tsega Gsilassie, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

2005 - Kristen (VanSant) Blattner, Texas A&M University

2000 - Rebecca (Raves) Golden, East Stroudsburg University

1998 - Emily Cooper, Goucher College

1996 - Erin Haramoto, George Washington University

1995 - Matthew B. Sullivan, Long Island University Southampton

1993 - Christina Darkangelo Wood, Long Island University, Southampton

1992 - Jim Oldham, Hampshire College

Student Publications:

Glibert, P. M., T. M. Kana, and K. Brown*. 2013. From limitation to excess: the consequences of substrate excess and stoichiometry for phytoplankton physiology, trophodynamics and biogeochemistry, and the implications for modeling. Journal of Marine Systems 125:14-28.
Kana, T. M., C. Darkangelo*, M. D. Hunt, J. B. Oldham*, G. E. Bennet, and J. C. Cornwell. 1994. Membrane inlet mass spectrometer for rapid high precision determine of nitrogen, oxygen and argon in environmental water samples. Analytical Chemistry 66:4166-4170.
Kana, T. M., M. B. Sullivan*, J. C. Cornwell, and K. Groszkowski*. 1998. Denitrification in estuarine sediments determined by membrane inlet mass spectrometry. Limnology and Oceanography 43:334-339.

Student Presentations:

Brown, K. L.*, T. M. Kana, J. Alexander, and P. M. Glibert. 2012. N and P accumulation in Thalassiosira pseudonana under different N:P supply ratios at saturating concentrations: implications for food webs. ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Gsilassie, T.*, and T. M. Kana. 2009. Application of membrane inlet mass spectrometry to asses bubble formation in productivity and denitrification experiments. ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Nice, France.

REU News

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Congratulations to 2015 REU Alison Aceves for being selected as an honorable mention in the 2015 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program competition.

Congratulations to 2015 REU Hope Ianiri on receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2016)!

Stella Castro and Adrian Plummer won a student presentation awards for their poster and talk, respectively, at the 2015 ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting. Their REU mentors were Cindy Palinkas and Louis Plough.

Congratulations to former REUs Cristina Villalobos and Jenessa Duncombe on their 2015 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship awards!

Congratulations to Gabriel Ng (2012) on his NSF Graduate Research Fellowship award and Chrissie Schalkoff (2013) on her Fulbright Scholarship!

In February 2016, seven REUs from the 2015 cohort presented their research findings at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.

MEES Ph.D. student Jeanette Davis (REU '06) was selected as a Sea Grant Knauss Fellow for 2015.

Robert Sabo (REU 2010) received a summer fellowship through the Maryland Water Resources Research Center and a two-year EPA STAR fellowship to work on water quality in Chesapeake Bay watersheds.

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