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 http://www.umces.edu/elizabeth-north for more about their 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 .

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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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