Science Serving Maryland's Coasts

REU Mentor Profile
Elizabeth W. North, Ph.D.

Location:

Horn Point Laboratory

Research Topics:

Coastal and Estuarine Processes, Fisheries, Modeling and Analysis

Research Interests:

Biological-physical interactions: circulation and particle trajectory modeling, fish larvae and zooplankton ecology, fisheries population variability, estuarine and coastal physical oceanography.

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

Students:

2016 - Kiera Givens, University of Virginia

2015 - Robert Scharping, Kansas State University Manhattan

2011 - Kayla Hinson, University of Texas El Paso

2007 - Kiera Jarvis, Westminister College

2006 - Katharine Smith, Princeton University

2005 - Ginger Jahn, Hawaii Pacific

Student Publications:

Scharping, R.J.*, L. Plough, D.W. Merritt, and E.W. North. 2019. Low-salinity tolerance of early-stage oyster larvae from a mesohaline estuary. Marine Ecology Progress Series: 613, 97-106, https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12905.
Smith, K. A.*, E. W. North, F. Shi, S. Chen, R. R. Hood, E. W. Koch, and R. I. E. Newell. 2009. Modeling the effects of oyster reefs and breakwaters of seagrass growth. Estuaries and Coasts 32:748-757.

Student Presentations:

Givens, K.*, E. North, L. Sanford, K. Kahover, L. Harris, and P. Wiberg. 2017. Observing and detecting Crassostrea virginica filtration in Harris Creek, MD. ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Keohane, I.*, R. Gawde, J. Tay, E. North, and R. Hood. 2017. Variation in oyster influenced water quality simulations in response to different filtration rate functions. ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Scharping, R.*, E. North and L. Plough. 2016. Salinity tolerance of early-stage oyster larvae in the Choptank River, Chesapeake Bay, USA. Ocean Sciences Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Hinson, K. I.*, C. Thompson, and E. North. 2012. Testing a new technology for bivalve larvae identification. ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Jahn, G. L.*, and E. North. 2006. Investigation of the relationship between the North Atlantic centers of action and freshwater flow in the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays. ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Recent REU Fellows

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Curtis Szewczyk

University:

Chatham College

Class Year:

2018

Update: Beginning grad school at University of South Carolina (2020)

Shirley Ma

University:

Emory University

Class Year:

2018

Update: Presenting at ASLO 2019

Lillian Henderson

University:

University of Rochester

Class Year:

2018

Update: Presenting at AGU 2018

Hannah Haskell

University:

University of Southern Maine

Class Year:

2018

Elizabeth Grzyb

University:

American University

Class Year:

2018

Update: Presented at Council for Undergraduate Research Symposium 2018

Norberto Latorre Arzola

University:

Universidad del Turabo

Class Year:

2018

Update: Presenting at ASLO 2019

Ben Lane

University:

St. Olaf College

Class Year:

2018

Update: Presenting at ASLO 2019

Ella Kaplan

University:

University of Minnesota

Class Year:

2018

Update: Presenting at ASLO 2019

Aquanette Sanders

University:

University of North Carolina Wilmington

Class Year:

2017

Brooke Iacone

University:

Rowan University (NJ)

Class Year:

2017

Update: GIS analyst at Cross County Connection

Max Spehlmann

University:

Lake Forest College

Class Year:

2016

Update: Hydrologic Technician at Department of Interior

Carl Pollard

University:

Juniata College

Class Year:

2016

Update: Geologist at SaLUT-TLB

Kiera Givens

University:

University of Virginia

Class Year:

2016

Update: Oceans Fellow at Meridian Institute

Robert Scharping

University:

Kansas State University Manhattan

Class Year:

2015

Update: Published his REU research in Marine Ecology Progress Series in 2019.

Alison Aceves

University:

California State University, Monterey Bay

Class Year:

2015

Update: MS student at Auburn University

Calvin Chu

University:

City University of New York

Class Year:

2015

Update: Energy modeler at Bright Power, Inc.

Isabel Sánchez-Viruet

University:

Universidad Metropolitana

Class Year:

2014

Update: Graduate Student at Chesapeake Biological Laboratory

Caroline Tapscott

University:

Transylvania University

Class Year:

2012

Update: Environmental scientist at Amer Foster Wheeler

Cristina Villalobos

University:

California State University Monterey Bay

Class Year:

2013

Update: Environmental Educator at Nature's Classroom

Barrett Wessel

University:

University of Maryland, College Park

Class Year:

2014

Update: PhD student at University of Maryland

Lisa McBride

University:

New Mexico Highlands University

Class Year:

2013

Update: Environmental Health Technician, Albuquerque

Julia Hopkins

University:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Class Year:

2011

Update: Postdoctoral researcher at Delft University of Technology

James Fiorendino

University:

Rutgers University

Class Year:

2014

Update: PhD student at Texas A&M University

Jade Bowins

University:

Sacred Heart University

Class Year:

2013

Update: Environmental Scientist at AECOM

REU News

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2019 REUs presented at the CERF Conference in Mobile, AL

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)!

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 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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