Maryland Sea Grants Offices will be closed January 26th, 27th, & 28th, 2026, due to forecasted inclement weather.

Jennifer Purcell Ph.D.

Location:

Horn Point Laboratory

Research Topics:

Coastal and Estuarine Processes

Research Interests:

Biological oceanography, zooplankton ecology. Trophic importance, population dynamics, and behavior of gelatinous zooplankton, especially cnidarians and ctenophores. Environmental effects on population size of jellyfish. Jellyfish as predators and competitors of fish. Top-down control in marine ecosystems. Predator-prey relationships.

Student Presentations:

The REU students are indicated with an asterisk (*).

RECENT REU FELLOWS

REU NEWS

  • Eight students will be presenting the summer work at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in March 2022!

  • REUs at CERF 2019
    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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