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Tom Fisher, Ph.D.

Location:

Horn Point Laboratory

Research Topics:

Biogeochemistry and Environmental Chemistry

Research Interests:

Terrestrial and atmospheric nutrient inputs, watershed ecology, nutrient cycling and limitation, and primary production of aquatic systems.

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

Students:

2017 - Aquanette Sanders, University of North Carolina Wilmington

2014 - Nicholas Dylla, Elmhurst College

2012 - Mohamed Sackor, University Maryland Eastern Shore

2010 - Whitley Gilbert, Iowa State University

2008 - Michelle D'Aguillo, College of William and Mary

2007 - Nicole Carlozo, St. Mary's College of Maryland

2007 - Alexander Davies, Millersville University of Pennsylvania

2006 - Kimberly Pierce, Clarkson University

1992 - Susan Gillette, University of Maryland, College Park

1990 - James D. Hagy III, Duke University

Student Publications:

Fisher, T. R., J. D. Hagy*, and E. Rochelle-Newall. 1998. Dissolved and particulate organic carbon in Chesapeake Bay . Estuaries 21:215-229 .

Student Presentations:

Sanders, A.*, T. Fisher, and R. Fox. 2017. Evaluating the effectiveness of drainage control structures in agricultural fields . Coastal Estuarine Research Federation Biennial Meeting, Providence, RI .
Dylla, N. P.* , R. Fox and T. Fisher. 2015. A potent greenhouse gas source: nitrous oxide emission during base flow and storm flow in the Choptank River basin . ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Granada, Spain .
Gilbert, W.*, and T. Fisher. 2011. Determining denitrification through the measurementof excess N2 in upwelling groundwater in Choptank River streams . ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico .
Pierce, K.*, and T. Fisher. 2007. Methanogenesis and denitrification in groundwaters of agricultural areas on the Delmarva Peninsula . ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico .

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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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