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Student Theses, Conference Presentations, Awards, & Employment


REEF Lab Graduates: 
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Hannah Nylander-Asplin       Quantifying shifts in acroporid community composition in the USVI        https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_stuetd/498/
                                              Conferences: NSU Research Symposium (2018), BEM (2018)
                                              Awards: AMLC research scholarship, NSU Teaching Assistantship,BEM people’s choice best student talk award
                                              Employment: NOAA
 
Kelly Habicht                        How will reef-building corals respond to thermal stress and ocean acidification during the earliest life history stages?                                                                        https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_stuetd/490/
                                              Conferences: NSU Research Symposium (2018), BEM (2018)
                                              Awards:  NSU Research Assistant, BEM judge’s choice best student talk
                                              Employment: Smithsonian Marine Station


​Morgan Hightshoe              Identifying disease resistant and thermal tolerant genotypes in the threatened staghorn coral, Acropora cervicornis                                                                             https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_stuetd/475/                 
                                           Conference Presentations: SEEC & ESA (2016), AMLC & BEM (2017), NSU Research Symposium (2018), BEM (2018)

                                           Awards: NSU Research Assistant, Lerner-Gray Grant, NOAA grant, AMLC 3rd place best student talk
                                           Employment: Nova Southeastern University, Dr. David Gilliam's Laboratory
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Megan Bock                        Disease Transmission, Tolerance, and Survival of the Caribbean Reef-Building Coral, Acropora cervicornis 
                                                      https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_stuetd/467/ 

                                            Conference Presentations: SEEC (2016), AMLC, BEM & FWC (2017), Oceans (2018), NSU Research Symposium (2018),  
                                                        BEM (2018)
                                            Awards: NSU Research Assistant, NSU Fishing Tournament Scholarship, AMLC 2nd place best student talk,                                                         BEM judge's choice best student talk 
                                            Employment: Florida Department of Transportation


Anna Jordan                        Trends in Caribbean coral spawning       https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_stuetd/468/
                                             Conference Presentations: SEEC (2016), BEM (2017)
                                             Employment: Discovery World

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Alicia Vollmer                        Rare parthenogenic reproduction in common reef coral, Porites astreoides      https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_stuetd/464/
                                             Awards: NSU Teaching Assistantship, NSU Research Assistant, SGA travel
                                  Conference Presentations: SEEC & ESA (2016); AMLC, BEM, FWC (2017)
                                  Employment: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
 
Leah Harper                           Quantifying coral recruitment in the northern portion of the Florida Reef Tract      http://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_stuetd/458/
                                              Awards: NSU Research Assistant, Lerner-Gray Grant
                                              Conference Presentations: SEEC & ESA (2016); AMLC, BEM & FWC (2017)
                                   Employment: Smithsonian Institution
 
Justin Voss, M.S.                    Influence of Laurencia algae species on coral settlement and metamorphosis http://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_stuetd/435/
                                                Awards: SEEC travel grant, Lerner-Gray Grant, Silva Student Grant from the International Phycological Society
                                                Conferences: SEEC 2016        
                                      Employment: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
 
Josh Stocker, M.S.                  Effects of 17 β-estradiol and progesterone on Porites astreoides and Acropora cervicornis reproduction and growth                                                   http://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_stuetd/431/
                                                Conferences:  BEM 2015
                                                Employment: Anderson County (SC) Department of Health and Environmental Control

Hunter Noren, M.S.                 Twilight reefs may usher in a new dawn for depauperate, shallow reefs   http://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_stuetd/421/
                                                Awards: NSU Teaching Assistantship 
                                                Conferences:  BEM 2015                   
                                                Employment: Nova Southeastern University
 
Margaret Rushmore, M.S.      The effect of sedimentation on Porites astreoides: examining oxidative stress and survival among life-history stages                                                   http://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_stuetd/414/
                                                Awards: Women in Fishing Grant, Shell Foundation Grant
                                                Employment:  Florida Department of Transportation

Ashley Dungan, M.S.              Does ocean acidification affect the coral ultrastructure across life history stage?  http://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_stuetd/392/ 
                                                 Awards: AMLC, 2 Mote POR grants, Lerner-Gray Grant, SAML
                                                 Conferences:  AMLC, ICRS, SEEC, ASLO
                                     Employment:  PhD candidate with Dr. Madeline van Oppen at the University of Melbourne
 
Kellie Pelican, M.S.                  The effects of petroleum pollutants on sea urchins reproduction and development http://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_stuetd/401/
                                                 Employment:  Federal Express/maternity leave

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