Nina Santos is a Ph.D. student at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. For her dissertation, she is focused on small shrimp-like crustaceans called mysids – an understudied yet important part of many estuarine and coastal food webs.
Fellowship Experiences
A blog by and about students supported by Maryland Sea Grant
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Studying Water From The Air: Learning to fly drones
Hayley Oakland •
As a burgeoning aquatic ecologist and environmental scientist, I never anticipated needing to know how to fly a drone.
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Using Phytoplankton Communities to Track the Restoration of the Anacostia River
Samantha Gleich •
I tend to think of phytoplankton as the “forests” of an aquatic environment. Much like trees in a terrestrial ecosystem, phytoplankton form the base of the aquatic food web and are critically important to the overall structure and function of an ecosystem. Read more...
The Four Busiest Months of My Knauss Fellowship
Noelle Olsen •
By the time the Knauss fellowship begins in early February, fellows are at various stages of their graduate career: Law students may have graduated but are awaiting their Bar exam results; a Ph.D. Read more...
In Puerto Rico, A Bioluminescent Bay Blacks Out
Aixa Alemán-Díaz •
Is bioluminescence good or bad? Or are we not sure? Who knows about bioluminescence and what do they know about it? What is the relationship between bioluminescence, people and society?
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The Oyster – And The Contaminants That Can Affect It – Is My World
Ethan Hain •
I stumbled into my father’s rubber work boots as I peered out over the Chesapeake Bay in the cold November morning. His advice echoed through my ears, “If you’re early, you’re on time. If you’re on time, you’re late. If you’re late, you’re …” I’ve always found myself following his adage to a tee, which means I’d arrived at the Deal Island marina an hour before anyone else.
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