Theses/Dissertations from 2024
From Rain Drops To Rivers: Unraveling Aridification's Influence On Coastal Stream Ecosystem Dynamics, Sean Kelly Kinard
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Changing Foundation Species In The Chesapeake Bay: Implications For Faunal Communities Of Two Dominant Seagrass Species, Lauren Elizabeth Alvaro
Place-Based Estuary Science Education at Machicomoco State Park, Anna Caputo
Ecology Of Larval Fishes Along The Western Antarctic Peninsula: Climate-Change Impact, Taxonomy, Phenology, And Thermal Tolerance, Andrew Derik Corso
Succession Of The Late Summer Phytoplankton Blooms In The York River Estuary, Va, Heather Kathleen Corson
Chesapeake Bay Carbonate Cycle: Past, Present, And Future, Fei Da
Biotic And Abiotic Factors Associated With Temporal And Spatial Variability Of Constitutive Mixotroph Abundance And Proportion, Marcella Dobbertin da Costa
Quantification Of Poultry And Human Fecal Contamination In The Tidal Creeks Of The Virginia Eastern Shore Using A Multifaceted Edna Method, Abigail Renee Golder
Effects Of Environmental Stress From A Changing Climate On Populations Of Commercially Important Bivalves Along The Eastern Coast Of The United States, Anthony Robert Himes
Impacts And Uncertainties Of Climate Change On The Chesapeake Bay, Kyle E. Hinson
Achieving Equitable Offshore Wind Development: Lessons from European Stakeholders, Kacey Hirshfeld
Empirical Valuation Of Primary And Alternative Nursery Habitats For The Blue Crab Callinectes Sapidus In Chesapeake Bay, Alexander C. Hyman
From field to shore: Policy improvements to better protect ecosystem and human health from poultry wastes in Virginia, Rachael A. King
Emerging Red Sore Disease Of American Eel (Anguilla Rostrata) In Chesapeake Bay: Etiology, Epidemiology, And Impacts In Aquaculture And The Wild, Amanpreet Kaur Kohli
Impacts Of Minuca Pugnax On Ecosystem Functioning In Its Historical And Expanded Range, Kayla Shanice Martinez-Soto
Mattanock Town Restoration Plan, Katlin McCarter Grigsby
Weaving a science story: Narratives and language as tools in the science classroom, Claudia Moncada
Exploring Pah Partitioning In Oysters Using Immunological Techniques, Kristen Madison Prossner
Linking Physiological Effects Of Environmental Stressors From Cellular To Whole-Organismal Levels In The Early-Life History Stages Of Crassostrea Virginica (Eastern Oyster), Katherine Annie Schatz
Climate Impacts On Spatiotemporal Habitat Usage Of Mid-Atlantic Fishes, Adena Jade Schonfeld
Ecological Restoration Of The Native Oyster, Crassostrea Virginica, To Chesapeake Bay, David Martin Schulte
Tracing Atlantic Sea Scallops Using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology, Will Shoup
Subsurface Structure And Impacts Of Marine Heatwaves In The Chesapeake Bay, Nathan P. Shunk
Ecosystem Transitions And State Changes Rapidly Alter The Coastal Carbon Landscape: Evidence From The Chesapeake Bay Region, Alexander Jason Smith
Identifying Factors Controlling Dinophysis Spp. Feeding, Growth, And Toxin Production Through Field And Lab Studies, Vanessa R. Strohm
Development of 3D and 360 GIS-Based Models to Visualize Projected Sea Level Rise in Coastal Virginia, Candice M. Vinson
Insight Into The Evolving Interactions Between Crassostrea Virginica And The Parasite Perkinsus Marinus, Elizabeth Faye Weatherup
Characterizing Changes In Participation And Diversification In Virginia's Small-Scale Commercial Fishing Industry, Shelby Brooke White
Comparing Low Salinity Transcriptomic Profiles Among Hard Clam, Mercenaria Mercenaria, Lines, Leslie Speight Youtsey
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Environmental Ecology And Life History Variation Of Perkinsus Marinus, Lydia M. Bienlien
Toward A Comprehensive Water Quality Model For The Chesapeake Bay Using Unstructured Grids, Xun Cai
Diel, Seasonal, And Interannual Changes In Coastal Antarctic Zooplankton Community Composition And Trophic Ecology, John A. Conroy
Across-Scale Energy Transfer In The Southern Ocean, Laur Ferris
Invertebrates In A Migrating Salt Marsh, Emily Marie Goetz
Improving Coastal Management Through Integrating Social-Ecological Assessments, Amanda Grace Guthrie
A Retrospective Analysis Of Atlantic Surfclam (Spisula Solidissima) Growth And Distribution In The Context Of A Changing Ocean, Alexis Hunter Hollander
Importance Of Muddy Bed Aggregate Processes In Cohesive Sediment Dynamics Associated With Sediment Management Projects, David Perkey
Environmental Justice in the Elizabeth River Watershed: Exploring the Utility of Environmental Justice Screening Tools, Julianna M. Ramirez
Exploring The Effects Of Microplastics On Marine Biota, Meredith Evans Seeley
The Role Of Zooplankton Community Composition In Fecal Pellet Carbon Production In The York River Estuary, Chesapeake Bay, Kristen Nicole Sharpe
Barrier-Island Dynamics: Transgression, Regression, And State Changes, Justin Lee Shawler
Determining Drivers Of Spatio-Temporal Patterns Of Decapod Species In The Coastal Plain Region Of Texas, Alexander T. Solis
Determining Drivers Of Spatio-Temporal Patterns Of Decapod Species In The Coastal Plain Region Of Texas, Alexander T. Solis
Physiological Condition And Recruitment Of Mytilus Edulis And Donax Variabilis On Virginia Barrier Islands, Taylor Walker
The Fate And Transport Of Nitrogen In Subterranean Estuaries, Stephanie J. Wilson
Spartina Alterniflora Defense Against Herbivory, Serina Sebilian Wittyngham
Feedbacks Among Benthic Metabolism, Nitrogen Cycling, And Intense Phytoplankton Blooms In The York River Estuary, Michelle H. Woods
Data-Driven Approaches For Water Quality Modeling In Coastal Systems, Xin Yu
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Sediment Transport And Trapping On The Ayeyarwady-Martaban Continental Shelf, Matthew Joshua Fair
Sediment And Terrestrial Organic Carbon Budgets For The Offshore Ayeyarwady Delta: Establishing A Baseline For Future Change, Evan Rose Flynn
Estuarine Microbiomes And Biogeochemistry: Impacts Of Spatiotemporal Variation, Algal Blooms, And Microplastics, Samantha Grace Fortin
Quantifying The Increased Resiliency Of Chesapeake Bay Hypoxia To Environmental Conditions: A Benefit Of Nutrient Reductions, Luke Thomas Frankel
Recruitment And Post-Settlement Mortality Of The Soft-Shell Clam, Mya Arenaria, Shantelle Landry
Stock Composition Of Striped Marlin (Kajikia Audax) In The Central North Pacific Ocean Inferred By Analyses Of Genome-Wide Molecular Markers, Jackson Martinez
Dealing With Many Species: Improving Methodology For Forming And Assessing Species Complexes, Kristen Omori
Co-Occurring Hab Species And Phycotoxins: Interactions With Oysters, Sarah Krystal Desautels Pease
Improving Observation, Assessment, And Management Of Atlantic Coastal Sharks, Cassidy Dawn Peterson
Differential Nitrogen Uptake By Aquatic Communities In A Chesapeake Bay Tributary And In The Coastal Alaskan Arctic, Brianna Stanley
Impact Of Canyon Upwelling And Downwelling In The Mid-Atlantic Bight, Haixing Wang
Controls On Estuarine Sediment Bed Erodibility: Insights From The York River Estuary, Cristin Lee Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Inorganic Carbon Chemistry In East Antarctic Coastal Polynyas, Mar C. Arroyo
An Assessment Of The Population Genetic Structure And Evidence Of Multiple Paternity In Channeled Whelk, Busycotypus Canaliculatus, Along The Us Atlantic Coast, Samantha E. Askin
Efficacy And Unintended Outcomes Of Spatial Property Rights For Fisheries And Aquaculture Management In Chile And In Virginia, U.S.A., Jennifer Beckensteiner
Studies On The Anatomy Of Teleosts, Katherine Elliott Bemis
Morphology and Systematics of Batrachoidiformes (Percomorphacea: Teleostei), Diego Francisco Biston Vaz
Evaluating The Impacts Of Land Use And Climate Change On The Hydrology Of Headwater Wetlands In The Coastal Plain Of Virginia, Pamela Braff
The Role Of Suspended Sediment In Assessing Coastal Wetland Vulnerability, Daniel J. Coleman
Predicting the Impacts of Climate Change on the Sandbar Shark and Cobia, Daniel P. Crear
Impacts Of Fertilization On Salt Marsh Resilience: Altered By Location-Specific Drivers, Kenneth Michael Czapla
Investigating Economic Costs Of Derelict Blue Crab Callinectes Sapidus Pots And Preferred Mitigation Solutions In The Chesapeake Bay, James DelBene
Effects Of Acidification And Salinity On Callinectes Sapidus, Mercenaria Mercenaria, And Their Interactions, Katherine Sara Longmire
Genetic And Morphological Assessment Of Population Structure Of The Clearnose Skate (Rostroraja Eglanteria) From The Western North Atlantic Ocean, Lindsey Noel Nelson
A Mechanistic Understanding of Range Expansion of Invasive Blue Catfish in the Chesapeake Bay Region, Vaskar Nepal
Cross-Scale Simulations: An Innovative Approach To Evaluate The Impacts Of Sea-Level Rise On Tidal Marsh Habitats, Mirtha Karinna Nunez
Spatial And Temporal Distribution Of Phycotoxins In Lower Chesapeake Bay: Method Development And Application, Michelle D. Onofrio
Recruitment Characteristics Of Juvenile Striped Bass (Morone Saxatilis) Across Recovery Periods, Year Classes, And Subestuaries Of The Chesapeake Bay, Olivia M. Phillips
Composition and Bioavailability of Effluent Dissolved Organic Nitrogen, Quinn Nicole Roberts
Population Structure Of The Hard Clam, Mercenaria Mercenaria, Along The East Coast Of North America, Ann Janette Ropp
The Epibiont-Host Interaction between Zoothamnium intermedium and Estuarine Copepods, Lucia S.L. Safi
The Impacts Of Acute Hypoxic Exposure And Other Concomitant Stressors On The Cardiorespiratory Physiology Of Coastal Elasmobranch Fishes, Gail Danielle Schwieterman
Search for Selection: Genomic, Transcriptomic, and Phenotypic Investigations of Spotted Seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus), Jingwei Song
Environmental Controls On Pteropod Ecology And Physiology Along The Western Antarctic Peninsula, Patricia Susan Thibodeau
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Animal Waste and Antibiotic Impacts on Microbial Denitrification in Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems, Miguel Albergaria Furtado Semedo
Satellites, Seagrass, and Blue Crabs: Understanding Inter-Annual Fluctuations and Linkages in the York River, Kristen Bachand
Seasonal Variability of the Co2-System Throughout the Chesapeake Bay Mainstem, Jaclyn Rain Friedman
Human Dimensions of a Participatory, Collaborative Modeling Process - Oysterfutures, Taylor Dawn Goelz
Unexplored Aspects of the Biotic Filter to Seedling Recruitment in Aquatic Environments, Andrew James Johnson
Fluxes, drivers, and composition of carbon exchanged at the Taskinas Creek, VA coastal marsh creek-estuarine interface, Amanda Knobloch
Applying the Concept of Thresholds in Ecotoxicology with Focus on the Joint Effects of Habitat Fragmentation and Contamination, Marcos Krull
An Exploration into the Identification, Etiology, and Distribution of Idiopathic Blindness in the American Lobster, Homarus Americanus, Addison T. Ochs
Impacts of Physical Transport on Estuarine Phytoplankton Dynamics and Harmful Algal Blooms, Qubin Qin
Fecundity of Triploid Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) as a Function of Tetraploid Lineage, Kate Ritter
