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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Place-Based Estuary Science Education at Machicomoco State Park, Anna Caputo

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Achieving Equitable Offshore Wind Development: Lessons from European Stakeholders, Kacey Hirshfeld

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From field to shore: Policy improvements to better protect ecosystem and human health from poultry wastes in Virginia, Rachael A. King

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Mattanock Town Restoration Plan, Katlin McCarter Grigsby

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Weaving a science story: Narratives and language as tools in the science classroom, Claudia Moncada

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Tracing Atlantic Sea Scallops Using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology, Will Shoup

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Environmental Ecology And Life History Variation Of Perkinsus Marinus, Lydia M. Bienlien

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Toward A Comprehensive Water Quality Model For The Chesapeake Bay Using Unstructured Grids, Xun Cai

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Diel, Seasonal, And Interannual Changes In Coastal Antarctic Zooplankton Community Composition And Trophic Ecology, John A. Conroy

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Across-Scale Energy Transfer In The Southern Ocean, Laur Ferris

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Invertebrates In A Migrating Salt Marsh, Emily Marie Goetz

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Improving Coastal Management Through Integrating Social-Ecological Assessments, Amanda Grace Guthrie

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A Retrospective Analysis Of Atlantic Surfclam (Spisula Solidissima) Growth And Distribution In The Context Of A Changing Ocean, Alexis Hunter Hollander

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Importance Of Muddy Bed Aggregate Processes In Cohesive Sediment Dynamics Associated With Sediment Management Projects, David Perkey

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Environmental Justice in the Elizabeth River Watershed: Exploring the Utility of Environmental Justice Screening Tools, Julianna M. Ramirez

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Exploring The Effects Of Microplastics On Marine Biota, Meredith Evans Seeley

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The Role Of Zooplankton Community Composition In Fecal Pellet Carbon Production In The York River Estuary, Chesapeake Bay, Kristen Nicole Sharpe

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Barrier-Island Dynamics: Transgression, Regression, And State Changes, Justin Lee Shawler

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Determining Drivers Of Spatio-Temporal Patterns Of Decapod Species In The Coastal Plain Region Of Texas, Alexander T. Solis

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Physiological Condition And Recruitment Of Mytilus Edulis And Donax Variabilis On Virginia Barrier Islands, Taylor Walker

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The Fate And Transport Of Nitrogen In Subterranean Estuaries, Stephanie J. Wilson

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Spartina Alterniflora Defense Against Herbivory, Serina Sebilian Wittyngham

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Feedbacks Among Benthic Metabolism, Nitrogen Cycling, And Intense Phytoplankton Blooms In The York River Estuary, Michelle H. Woods

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Roles Of Hydrodynamics And Topographies On The Transport Of Dissolved Material, Particulates, And Harmful Algae In Chesapeake Bay, Jilian Xiong

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Data-Driven Approaches For Water Quality Modeling In Coastal Systems, Xin Yu

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Sediment Transport And Trapping On The Ayeyarwady-Martaban Continental Shelf, Matthew Joshua Fair

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Sediment And Terrestrial Organic Carbon Budgets For The Offshore Ayeyarwady Delta: Establishing A Baseline For Future Change, Evan Rose Flynn

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Estuarine Microbiomes And Biogeochemistry: Impacts Of Spatiotemporal Variation, Algal Blooms, And Microplastics, Samantha Grace Fortin

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Quantifying The Increased Resiliency Of Chesapeake Bay Hypoxia To Environmental Conditions: A Benefit Of Nutrient Reductions, Luke Thomas Frankel

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Recruitment And Post-Settlement Mortality Of The Soft-Shell Clam, Mya Arenaria, Shantelle Landry

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Stock Composition Of Striped Marlin (Kajikia Audax) In The Central North Pacific Ocean Inferred By Analyses Of Genome-Wide Molecular Markers, Jackson Martinez

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A Quantitative Genetic Analysis Of Commercial Traits In Polyploid Crassostrea Virginica, With An Evaluation Of Strategies For Genetic Improvement Of Triploids, Joseph L. Matt

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Dealing With Many Species: Improving Methodology For Forming And Assessing Species Complexes, Kristen Omori

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Co-Occurring Hab Species And Phycotoxins: Interactions With Oysters, Sarah Krystal Desautels Pease

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Improving Observation, Assessment, And Management Of Atlantic Coastal Sharks, Cassidy Dawn Peterson

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Differential Nitrogen Uptake By Aquatic Communities In A Chesapeake Bay Tributary And In The Coastal Alaskan Arctic, Brianna Stanley

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Water Clarity And Suspended Particle Dynamics In The Chesapeake Bay: Local Effects Of Oyster Aquaculture, Regional Effects Of Reduced Shoreline Erosion, And Long-Term Trends In Remotely Sensed Reflectance, Jessica Turner

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Impact Of Canyon Upwelling And Downwelling In The Mid-Atlantic Bight, Haixing Wang

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Controls On Estuarine Sediment Bed Erodibility: Insights From The York River Estuary, Cristin Lee Wright

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Inorganic Carbon Chemistry In East Antarctic Coastal Polynyas, Mar C. Arroyo

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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

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Efficacy And Unintended Outcomes Of Spatial Property Rights For Fisheries And Aquaculture Management In Chile And In Virginia, U.S.A., Jennifer Beckensteiner

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Studies On The Anatomy Of Teleosts, Katherine Elliott Bemis

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Morphology and Systematics of Batrachoidiformes (Percomorphacea: Teleostei), Diego Francisco Biston Vaz

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Evaluating The Impacts Of Land Use And Climate Change On The Hydrology Of Headwater Wetlands In The Coastal Plain Of Virginia, Pamela Braff

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The Role Of Suspended Sediment In Assessing Coastal Wetland Vulnerability, Daniel J. Coleman

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Predicting the Impacts of Climate Change on the Sandbar Shark and Cobia, Daniel P. Crear

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Impacts Of Fertilization On Salt Marsh Resilience: Altered By Location-Specific Drivers, Kenneth Michael Czapla

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Investigating Economic Costs Of Derelict Blue Crab Callinectes Sapidus Pots And Preferred Mitigation Solutions In The Chesapeake Bay, James DelBene

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Influence Of Suspended Particle Size And Composition On Particle Image Processing, Estuarine Floc Fractal Properties, And Resulting Estuarine Light Attenuation, Kelsey Fall

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Effects Of Acidification And Salinity On Callinectes Sapidus, Mercenaria Mercenaria, And Their Interactions, Katherine Sara Longmire

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Genetic And Morphological Assessment Of Population Structure Of The Clearnose Skate (Rostroraja Eglanteria) From The Western North Atlantic Ocean, Lindsey Noel Nelson

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A Mechanistic Understanding of Range Expansion of Invasive Blue Catfish in the Chesapeake Bay Region, Vaskar Nepal

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Cross-Scale Simulations: An Innovative Approach To Evaluate The Impacts Of Sea-Level Rise On Tidal Marsh Habitats, Mirtha Karinna Nunez

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Spatial And Temporal Distribution Of Phycotoxins In Lower Chesapeake Bay: Method Development And Application, Michelle D. Onofrio

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Recruitment Characteristics Of Juvenile Striped Bass (Morone Saxatilis) Across Recovery Periods, Year Classes, And Subestuaries Of The Chesapeake Bay, Olivia M. Phillips

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Composition and Bioavailability of Effluent Dissolved Organic Nitrogen, Quinn Nicole Roberts

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Population Structure Of The Hard Clam, Mercenaria Mercenaria, Along The East Coast Of North America, Ann Janette Ropp

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The Epibiont-Host Interaction between Zoothamnium intermedium and Estuarine Copepods, Lucia S.L. Safi

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The Impacts Of Acute Hypoxic Exposure And Other Concomitant Stressors On The Cardiorespiratory Physiology Of Coastal Elasmobranch Fishes, Gail Danielle Schwieterman

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Search for Selection: Genomic, Transcriptomic, and Phenotypic Investigations of Spotted Seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus), Jingwei Song

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Temporal Variability In Cohesive Sediment Dynamics In A Partially Mixed Estuary, The York River Estuary, Virginia, Usa: A Numerical Study Developed From Observations, Danielle Tarpley

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Environmental Controls On Pteropod Ecology And Physiology Along The Western Antarctic Peninsula, Patricia Susan Thibodeau

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Animal Waste and Antibiotic Impacts on Microbial Denitrification in Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems, Miguel Albergaria Furtado Semedo

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Satellites, Seagrass, and Blue Crabs: Understanding Inter-Annual Fluctuations and Linkages in the York River, Kristen Bachand

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Seasonal Variability of the Co2-System Throughout the Chesapeake Bay Mainstem, Jaclyn Rain Friedman

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Human Dimensions of a Participatory, Collaborative Modeling Process - Oysterfutures, Taylor Dawn Goelz

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Unexplored Aspects of the Biotic Filter to Seedling Recruitment in Aquatic Environments, Andrew James Johnson

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The Effect of Vaccination and Host Genetics on Transmission Dynamics of Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis Virus and Flavobacterium Psychrophilum in Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus Mykiss), Darbi Rae Jones

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Fluxes, drivers, and composition of carbon exchanged at the Taskinas Creek, VA coastal marsh creek-estuarine interface, Amanda Knobloch

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Applying the Concept of Thresholds in Ecotoxicology with Focus on the Joint Effects of Habitat Fragmentation and Contamination, Marcos Krull

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An Exploration into the Identification, Etiology, and Distribution of Idiopathic Blindness in the American Lobster, Homarus Americanus, Addison T. Ochs

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Impacts of Physical Transport on Estuarine Phytoplankton Dynamics and Harmful Algal Blooms, Qubin Qin

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Fecundity of Triploid Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) as a Function of Tetraploid Lineage, Kate Ritter

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Impacts of Margalefidinium polykrikoides and Alexandrium monilatum on Oysters Cultured in Lower Chesapeake Bay, Clara L. Robison

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Partitioning of Hydrophobic Organic Contaminants and Microbial Communities on Microplastics, Kelley Ann Uhlig

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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Improving Stock Assessments and Management Advice for Bluefin Tunas and Other Highly Migratory Species, Lisa Elma Ailloud

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The Eastern Oyster Microbiome and its Implications in the Marine Nitrogen Cycle, Ann Arfken

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Impact of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation on Water Quality in Cache Slough Complex, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: a Numerical Modeling Study, Xun Cai

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Impacts of Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition and Coastal Nitrogen Fluxes on Chesapeake Bay Hypoxia, Fei Da

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Characterizing the Biological Impacts and Human Dimensions of the U.S. East Coast Recreational Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Fishery, William Morris Goldsmith

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Reproductive Investment in Crassostrea Virginica as an Indicator of a Tolerance Response to Perkinsus Marinus, Lauren Irene Huey

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Shifting Patterns of Ribbed Mussel Distribution and Ecosystem Services in Response to Sea Level Rise, Robert Earl Isdell

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Movements, Habitat Utilization, and Post-Release Survival of Cobia (Rachycentron Canadum) That Summer in Virginia Waters Determined Using Pop-Up Satellite Archival Tags (Psats), Douglas Jensen

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Beach-Ridge Sedimentology as an Archive of Terrestrial Climate Change: Insights From Geochemical and Stratigraphic Study of the Tijucas Strandplain, Southern Brazil, Julie Lauren Krask

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Development of Large-Scale Unstructured Grid Storm Surge and Sub-Grid Inundation Models for Coastal Applications, Zhuo Liu

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Evaluation of Population Structure and the Interspecific Relationship of Striped Marlin (Kajikia Audax) and White Marlin (K. Albida) Based on Traditional or Genome-Wide Molecular Markers, Nadya Mamoozadeh

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Individual- and Population-Level Effects of Temperature and Hypoxia on Two Demersal Fishes in Chesapeake Bay, Benjamin Marcek

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The Relationship Between Reproduction and Mortality in Triploid Crassostrea Virginica, Joseph L. Matt

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Genetic Analyses of Striped Bass in the Chesapeake Bay: an Investigation of Connectivity Among Virginia Subestuaries and an Evaluation of Close-Kinship Mark Recapture Methodology to Estimate Spawning Abundance., Savannah Michaelsen

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Impacts of Sea Level Rise on Tidal Wetland Extent and Distribution, Molly Mitchell

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The Development of Fiddler Crabs (Uca Spp.) as a Comparative Model System for the Parasitic Dinoflagellate, Hematodinium Perezi and its Natural Host the Blue Crab, Callinectes Sapidus, Patricia Anne O'Leary

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Multi-Scale Phylogenomics of Gadiformes With Emphasis on Hakes (Merluccius, Merlucciidae), Adela Y. Roa-Varon

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Crab Larval Abundance and Settlement Patterns in a Changing Chesapeake Bay, Itchika Sivaipram

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Consumption Patterns of Chesapeake Bay Fishes, Christopher James Sweetman

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The Development and Proliferation of Summer Algal Blooms in the Oligo/Poly-Haline Portion of the Chesapeake Bay - Observational and Numerical Modeling Studies, Zhengui Wang

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The Role of Ecological Interactions in Saltmarsh Geomorphic Processes, Bethany Lynn Williams

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Assessing the Impact of Land Use and Climate Change on Streamflow and Nutrient Delivery to the New River Estuary, NC, Shanna Williamson

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Developing Efficient High-Order Transport Schemes for Cross-Scale Coupled Estuary-Ocean Modeling, Fei Ye

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Nitrogen Isotope Fractionation and Toxin Production during The Uptake of Micromolar Concentrations of Nitrate, Ammonium, and Urea By A Marine Dinoflagellate, Christen Taylor Armstrong