Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Place-Based Estuary Science Education at Machicomoco State Park, Anna Caputo
Achieving Equitable Offshore Wind Development: Lessons from European Stakeholders, Kacey Hirshfeld
From field to shore: Policy improvements to better protect ecosystem and human health from poultry wastes in Virginia, Rachael A. King
Mattanock Town Restoration Plan, Katlin McCarter Grigsby
Weaving a science story: Narratives and language as tools in the science classroom, Claudia Moncada
Tracing Atlantic Sea Scallops Using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology, Will Shoup
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
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
Impacts of Margalefidinium polykrikoides and Alexandrium monilatum on Oysters Cultured in Lower Chesapeake Bay, Clara L. Robison
Partitioning of Hydrophobic Organic Contaminants and Microbial Communities on Microplastics, Kelley Ann Uhlig
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Improving Stock Assessments and Management Advice for Bluefin Tunas and Other Highly Migratory Species, Lisa Elma Ailloud
The Eastern Oyster Microbiome and its Implications in the Marine Nitrogen Cycle, Ann Arfken
Impacts of Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition and Coastal Nitrogen Fluxes on Chesapeake Bay Hypoxia, Fei Da
Characterizing the Biological Impacts and Human Dimensions of the U.S. East Coast Recreational Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Fishery, William Morris Goldsmith
Reproductive Investment in Crassostrea Virginica as an Indicator of a Tolerance Response to Perkinsus Marinus, Lauren Irene Huey
Shifting Patterns of Ribbed Mussel Distribution and Ecosystem Services in Response to Sea Level Rise, Robert Earl Isdell
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
Individual- and Population-Level Effects of Temperature and Hypoxia on Two Demersal Fishes in Chesapeake Bay, Benjamin Marcek
The Relationship Between Reproduction and Mortality in Triploid Crassostrea Virginica, Joseph L. Matt
Impacts of Sea Level Rise on Tidal Wetland Extent and Distribution, Molly Mitchell
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
Multi-Scale Phylogenomics of Gadiformes With Emphasis on Hakes (Merluccius, Merlucciidae), Adela Y. Roa-Varon
Crab Larval Abundance and Settlement Patterns in a Changing Chesapeake Bay, Itchika Sivaipram
Consumption Patterns of Chesapeake Bay Fishes, Christopher James Sweetman
The Role of Ecological Interactions in Saltmarsh Geomorphic Processes, Bethany Lynn Williams
Assessing the Impact of Land Use and Climate Change on Streamflow and Nutrient Delivery to the New River Estuary, NC, Shanna Williamson
Developing Efficient High-Order Transport Schemes for Cross-Scale Coupled Estuary-Ocean Modeling, Fei Ye
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Nitrogen Isotope Fractionation and Toxin Production during The Uptake of Micromolar Concentrations of Nitrate, Ammonium, and Urea By A Marine Dinoflagellate, Christen Taylor Armstrong
