Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Interactions between macroalgae and the sediment microbial community: Nutrient cycling within shallow coastal bays, Amber Kay Hardison
Comparative sensory and energetic ecology of sciaenid fishes and their competitors in Chesapeake Bay, VA, Andrij Z. Horodysky
Function of seed-bank ecology in mid-Atlantic semi-annual and perennial Zostera marina beds, Jessie C. Jarvis
Environmental Analysis of Selected Estrogens and androgens: Applying Ultra-Performance Liquid Chromatography and Combating Matrix Interference, Stacie L. Rice
Development of a Storm Surge Model using a High-Resolution Unstructured Grid Over a Large Domain, Tao Shen
Toxicology of Decabromodiphenyl Ether in Avian Embryos: Disposition of the Flame Retardant BDE-209 in Yolk-Injected Chicken Embryos (Gallus gallus), Samantha D. Sifleet
Variability in juvenile growth, mortality, maturity, and abundance of American shad and blueback herring in Virginia, Troy D. Tuckey
Investigating the Relationships between Recruitment Indices and Estimates of Adult Abundance for Striped Bass, Weakfish, and Atlantic Croaker, Justine R. Woodward
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Interspecific Interactions in Oyster Reef Communities: The Effect of Established Fauna on Oyster Larval Recruitment, Brian B. Barnes
Factors Controlling Tidal Flat Morphology in South San Francisco Bay between the 1890s and 2005, Joshua Alexander Bearman
Stable Isotope Dynamics in Summer Flounder Tissues, with Application to Dietary Assessments in Chesapeake Bay, Andre Buchheister
Impacts of gelatinous zooplankton on dissolved organic matter cycling and bacterioplankton communities in the York River Estuary, Robert Howard Condon
A Bio-Economic Feasibility Model for Remote Setting: Potential for Oyster Aquaculture in Virginia, Michael Spohn Congrove
Controls on Erodibility in a Partially Mixed Estuary, York River, Virginia, Patrick J. Dickhudt
Community dynamics in submersed aquatic vegetation: Intermediate consumers as mediators of environmental change, James G. Douglass
Zooplankton Community Structure in a Cyclonic and Mode-Water Eddy in the Sargasso Sea, Bethany Rose Eden
An Evaluation of Norovirus Persistence in Estuarine Water and of Methods for its Detection in Treated Sewage Effluent, Margaret H. Fagan
The Survival Benefit of Benthic Macroalgae Gracilaria vermiculophylla as an Alternative Nursery Habitat for Juvenile Blue Crabs, Justin A. Falls
Acoustic measurements of cohesive sediment transport: Suspension to consolidation, Ho Kyung Ha
Natural mortality of blue crab: Estimation and influence on population dynamics, David A. Hewitt
Effects of Shoreline Development and Oyster Reefs on Benthic Communities in Lynnhaven, Virginia, Amanda Sue Lawless
Pathogenicity of the purportedly toxic dinoflagellates Pfiesteria piscicida and Pseudopfiesteria shumwayae and related species, Vincent J. Lovko
A Molecular Analysis of Atlantic Menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) Stock Structure, Abigail J. Lynch
Idiopathic Lesions and Visual Deficits in the American Lobster (Homarus americanus) from Longs Island Sound, NY, Christopher Robert Magel
A Modern Sediment Budget for the Continental Shelf off the Waipaoa River, New Zealand, andrea J. Miller
Twine-Top Modifications of Sea-Scallop Dredges: Reducing Yellowtail-Flounder Bycatch, Kelli A. Milleville
Nearshore morphology and lithology: Links to framework geology and shoreline change, Jennifer L. Miselis
Sediment Transport and Erodibility in the York River Estuary: A Model Study, Jeffrey Paul Rinehimer
Age, growth, and demography of the sandbar shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus, over temporal and spatial scales, Jason G. Romine
Recent Sedimentation Patterns and Facies Distribution on the Waipaoa River Shelf, N.Z, Lila Eve Rose
Bottom-up and top-down controls on sedimentary ecosystem functioning in a seagrass habitat, Amanda C. Spivak
Effects of Adaptive Foragers on the Diversity and Functioning of Assembled Model Communities, William J. Tarantino
Modeling Mercury Biomagnification in the South River, Kyle R. Tom
Controls on continental shelf stratigraphy: Waiapu River, New Zealand, Heidi M. Wadman
A Molecular Phylogeny of the Genus Bonamia Based on Sequence Data of the Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) Gene Complex, Delonna M. White
Variability in Geologic Framework and Shoreline Change: Assateague and Wallops Islands, Eastern Shore of Virginia, Geoffrey L. Wikel
Mesopelagic zooplankton feeding ecology and effects on particle repackaging and carbon transport in the subtropical and subarctic North Pacific Ocean, Stephanie E. Wilson
The relationship between antibody redox structure and affinity in rainbow trout, Jianmin Ye
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Environmental Factors and Typha spp Dominance in Created Wetlands, Azure E. Bevington
A Molecular Study of the Mitochondrial Genome and Invasions of the Veined Rapa Whelk, Rapana venosa, Emily A. Chandler
Elemental and Isotopic Characterization of Organic Matter and Carbon in the U.S South Atlantic Bight, Jennifer A. DeAlteris
Effects of regional species pool dynamics on metacommunity structure and ecosystem function, Kristin E. France
Shelf sediment dispersal mechanisms and deposition on the Waiapu River shelf, New Zealand, Tara A. Kniskern
The Impact of Drainage Ditches on Salt Marsh Flow Patterns, Sedimentation and Morphology: Rowley River, Massachusetts, Lynsey E. LeMay
The infection dynamics of PaV1 in the Caribbean spiny lobster Panulirus argus, Caiwen Li
Hypoxia and Macoma balthica: Ecological effects on a key infaunal benthic species, William Christopher Long
Feeding Ecology of Atlantic Menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) in Chesapeake Bay, Patrick D. Lynch
Trophic Ecology and Growth Dynamics of Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis) in Chesapeake Bay, with Reference to Mycobacteriosis, Kathleen Anne McNamee
Characterization of exotic pathogens associated with the suminoe oyster, Crassostrea ariakensis, Jessica A. Moss
Bottom-up and climatic forcing on the nesting and foraging ecology of leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea), Vincent Sellitto Saba
Biogeochemistry and phytoplankton dynamics in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, Amy Rebecca Shields
Assessing the Impacts of Land use Change on Hard Clam Aquaculture in Old Plantation Creek, Northampton County, Virginia, Matthew J. Strickler
Biomarker Responses in Fathead Minnows (Pimephales promelas) during Exposure to Exceptional Quality Biosolids, Constance A. Sullivan
Acoustic Measurement and Modeling of Waves in Estuarine and Coastal Environments, Justin P. Vandever
Monograph of the North American freshwater fish leeches (Oligochaeta: Hirudinida ; Piscicolidae) and molecular phylogeny of the family Piscicolidae, Julianne I. Williams
The Role of Bacteria-Particle Interactions in Marine Snow Dynamics, Emily M. Yam
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Migratory and Spawning Behavior of American Shad in the James River, Virginia, Aaron W. Aunins
Wetland Vegetation Dynamics and Ecosystem Gas Exchange in Response to Organic Matter Loading Rates, David E. Bailey
Physical Processes Behind Delta Propagation and Flood Layer Dynamics, Po River, Italy, Aaron J. Bever
Population Genetic Structure of Escolar (Lepidocybium flavobrunneum) and a Molecular Phylogeny of the Trichiuroidea, Kirsten Brendtro
Physiological consequences of high water flow on the coral Montastrea annularis (Ellis and Solander, 1786), Lawrence W. Carpenter
Floristic Quality Index: Ecological and management implications in created and natural wetlands, Douglas A. DeBerry
Developing a stock assessment for the barndoor skate (Dipturus laevis) in the Northeast United States, Todd Gedamke
Ecology and conservation of Virginia shark species: Analysis of thirty years of Virginia long-line shark census data, 1974--2004, Daniel Stuart Ha
Natal-river to estuary migration of American shad: estimating the value of essential rearing habitat, Joel Christopher Hoffman
Development of generalized index-removal models, with particular attention to catchability issues, Thomas F. Ihde
Role of Apolipoprotein A-1 in Defense Against Bacteria by Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis), L. Danielle Johnston
Sources of mortality, movements and behavior of sea turtles in Virginia, Katherine Lamont. Mansfield
Diel and Site-Specific Feeding of Young Striped Bass in a Heterogeneous Nursery Habitat, Sarah C. Muffelman
Habitat Utilization and Salinity Tolerance of the Sandbar Shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus, in Virginia, Leonard Pace
A Molecular Technique for Specific Identification of Western Atlantic Ocean Scombrids and an Analysis of a Larval Scombrid Assemblage off the Kona Coast of Hawaii, Melissa A. Paine
The Effects of Climate Change on the Population Ecology of the Atlantic Surf Clam, Spisula solidissima, in the Middle Atlantic Bight, Adriana Picariello
Sources and composition of particulate organic matter in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, California, Vicki Pilon
Sediment biogeochemistry of northern Cascadia margin shallow gas hydrate systems, John W. Pohlman
Incorporating space into stock assessments of marine species, John F. Walter
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Distinguishing Sediment Transport Modes to the Outer-Shelf off the Waiapu River, New Zealand, Lisa D. Addington
Linking Framework Geology and Nearshore Morphology: Correlation of Paleo-Channels with Shore-Oblique Sandbars and Gravel Outcrops, A. Grace Browder
Influence of Environmental Factors on the Seed Ecology of Vallisneria americana, Jessie J. Campbell
Physiological Ecology of the Cultured Hard Clam, Mercenaria mercenaria: A Case Study in Cherrystone Inlet, Virginia, Elizabeth Darrow Condon
Planar oxides as a novel approach to metal ion sorption studies: from the lab to the field, Christine F. Conrad
Nursery delineation, movement patterns, and migration of the sandbar shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus, in the eastern shore of Virginia coastal bays and lagoons, Christina L. Conrath
Predicting Future Shoreline Condition Based on Land Use Trends, Logistic Regression, and Fuzzy Logic, Lynne M. Dingerson
A Molecular Phylogeny of the Echeneoidea (Perciformes: Carangoidei) and an Investigation of Population Structuring Within the Echeneidae, Kurtis N. Gray
Investigation of the Life History of the Cownose Ray, Rhinoptera bonasus (Mitchill 1815), Donna S. Grusha
Description and evaluation of the United States coastal pelagic longline fishery interactions with target and non-target species in the western North Atlantic, David. Kerstetter
Simulation of turbidity maximums in the York River, Virginia, Jae-Il Kwon
Eye Pathologies Found in Several Decapod Crustaceans, Andrea M. Maniscalco
Site Fidelity, Home Range, and Daily Movements of White Perch, Morone americana, and Striped Bass, Morone saxatilis, in Two Small Tributaries of the York River, Virginia, Patrick E. McGrath
Meiofauna Abundance and Distribution in Chesapeake Bay: Relationships with Environmental Stressors, Sediment Toxicity and Macrofauna, William J. Metcalfe
