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Thomas Miller, Ph.D.

Location:

Chesapeake Biological Laboratory

Research Topics:

Climate Change , Fisheries

Research Interests:

Recruitment and population dynamics of aquatic animals, including feeding and bio-physical interactions. Fish early life history. Blue crabs.

Visit http://www.umces.edu/thomas-miller for more about their expertise, education, and contact information.

Students:

2018 - Hannah Haskell, University of Southern Maine

2015 - Annie Nyffeler, Nebraska Wesleyan University

2014 - Jeffrey Rice, Florida Gulf Coast University

2013 - Arthur Williams, Presbyterian College

2011 - Angela Kunrath, University of San Diego

2006 - Eloy Martinez-Rivera, University of Puerto Rico, Humacao

2005 - Andrew Ostrowski, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

2004 - Jennifer (Hurt) Bergman, University of Wisconsin

2001 - Matthew Behum, Colgate University

1999 - Aisha Rawlinson, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

1997 - Bryce Brylawski, St. Mary's College of Maryland

1996 - Nate Wall, Eckerd College

Student Presentations:

Nyffeler, A.* and T. Miller. 2016. Climate change effects on respiration rates of blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) from the Patuxent River, Chesapeake Bay . Ocean Sciences Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana .
Rice, J. A.*. 2015. Determination of mineral composition of blue crab carapace: assessment of spatial variability and response to acidification in Patuxent River, Chesapeake Bay . ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Granada, Spain .
Martinez-Rivera, E.*, and T. Miller. 2007. Assessing habitat quality in Chesapeake Bay: Application of RNA:DNA indices to blue crab (Callinectes sapidus, Rathbun, 1896). ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico .
Ostrowski, A.*, and T. Miller. 2006. Effects of food availability on the RNA:DNA ratio of juvenile Atlantic Menhaden, Brevoortia tryannus, in the habitats of the Patuxent River. ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii .

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REU NEWS

Eight students will be presenting the summer work at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in March 2022!
2019 REUs presented at the CERF Conference in Mobile, AL
Olivia Saliger won a student presentation awards for talk at the 2019 Coastal Estuarine Research Federation Meeting. Her REU mentor was Judy O'Neil.
Congratulations to 2015 REU Alison Aceves for being selected as an honorable mention in the 2015 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program competition.
In February 2016, seven REUs from the 2015 cohort presented their research findings at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Congratulations to 2015 REU Hope Ianiri on receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2016)!
Jeanette Davis, Ph.D. (REU '06) published a children's book, Science is Everywhere.
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