COAS biological oceanography students come from a variety of backgrounds.
Below are listed current students with their thesis topics and advisors.
|
Grad
Student:
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Thesis
Topic:
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Degree: |
Advisor:
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scattering
properties of marine particles
|
Ph.D. |
Cowles
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|
|
photosynthetic
activity at HOT site
|
Ph.D. |
Abbott/Letelier
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|
|
tropical instability waves
|
M.S. |
Strutton
|
| Diego
Figueroa |
planktology
of the Galapagos platform |
Ph.D. |
Miller/Batchelder |
|
|
biochemical
basis of protistan phagotrophy
|
Ph.D. |
Sherrs
|
| Ladd
Irvine |
tagging and habitat selection of marine mammals |
M.S. |
Mate |
| Maria Kavanaugh |
sublittoral ecology |
Ph.D. |
Letelier |
|
|
zooplankton
in OR upwelling system
|
Ph.D. |
Peterson/Cowles
|
|
|
silica
cycling in the Sargasso Sea
|
Ph.D. |
Nelson
|
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|
plasticity
in photosystems of prokaryotes
|
Ph.D. |
Letelier/Abbott
|
| Brie Lindsey |
zooplankton ecology |
M.S. |
Batchelder |
| Olivia Mason |
endolithic prokaryotes from the marine subsurface |
Ph.D. |
Fisk/Giovannoni |
|
|
gray
whale foraging on mysids
|
Ph.D. |
Cowles
|
|
|
satellite
remote sensing applied to fisheries
management
|
M.S. |
Strub/Cowles
|
|
|
phytoplankton-DOC-bacteria
interactions in OR upwelling system
|
Ph.D. |
Wheeler
|
|
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bioenergetics
of Trichodesmium, esp. buoyancy regulation
|
Ph.D. |
Letelier/Spitz
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