By: Carlyn Scott, Science Communications Manager
The 无码专区 College of Marine Science (CMS) hosted its 41st annual Graduate Student Symposium (GSS) on Friday, January 31. GSS is an opportunity for CMS students to present their research to the community via oral or poster presentations.
Patrick Schwing, an alum of CMS and assistant professor of marine science at Eckerd College, started off the symposium with his research on the potential impact of deep-sea mineral mining and the need to determine baseline evaluations of minerals and the seafloor.
The student presentations covered the breadth of biological, geological, chemical, and physical oceanography research that takes place at CMS, including water quality responses to Hurricane Milton and ice retreat in the West Antarctic Peninsula.
鈥淭he research presented at the Graduate Student Symposium helps to answer critical questions and inform a better understanding of our ocean,鈥� said Tom Frazer, professor and dean of CMS. 鈥淭he caliber of these presentations is a testament to the talents of our students and the high level of research that we conduct at the College of Marine Science.鈥�
Oral presentations
- Lydia Ruggles: 鈥淚dentifying B-Vitamin Requirements and Phycosphere Interactions for the HAB Forming Dinoflagellate, Pyrodinium bahamense var. bahmense鈥�
- Bella Iannotta: 鈥淪patiotemporal Characterization of Sedimentary Phytopigments in the Southeastern Clarion Clipperton Zone: Establishing Baselines and Assessing Deep-Sea Mining Impacts鈥�
- Orion Scharton: 鈥淒evelopment of the East Florida Coastal Ocean Model (EFCOM)
- Bradley Nemeth: 鈥淐haracterization of Trace Metals Via Optical Proxies鈥�
- Luis Sorinas: 鈥淗eat Flux Exchange on the West Florida Continental Shelf on the Synoptic Time Scale. A Case Study from Tropical Cyclonic and Cold Front Events鈥�
- Emma Graves: 鈥淓xamining Phytoplankton Community Composition Through the Lens of Physical and Chemical Gradients in the Atlantic Sector of the Southern Ocean鈥�
- Haibo Xu: 鈥淪torm Surge and Coastal Inundation Nowcasts/Forecasts During the Hurricanes Helene and Milton鈥�
- Felipie Stanchak: 鈥淭esting the Alkenone Unsaturation Index Proxy for Paleotemperature Reconstructions in the SW Atlantic鈥�
- Beatriz Alejandra Aguilar: 鈥淭he Root of the (Organic) Matter: Mangrove Formation of Belowground Biomass鈥�
- Lyka Confesor: 鈥淪easonal Trichodesmium Clade Patterns on the Oligotrophic West Florida Shelf鈥�
- Madjid Hadjal: 鈥淭hose Floating Materials in the Northern Adriatic Sea: Observations from Satellites鈥�
- Keyu Mao: 鈥淏rine Shrimp Cysts in the West Aral Sea from Satellite Observations鈥�
- Sebin John: 鈥淎 Coupled Physical-Biological Model of Karenia brevis on the West Florida Shelf: An Application to the 2018 Bloom Event鈥�
Poster Presentations
- Dylan Halbeisen: 鈥淧hysical and Biogeochemical Controls on the Distribution of Dissolved Nickel and its Isotopes in the Denmark Strait (GEOTRACES GApr16)鈥�
- Emily Kaiser: 鈥淲arm Ocean Temperatures along the West Antarctic Peninsula Drove Regional Ice Retreat During the Last Deglaciation鈥�
- Christa Baranowski: 鈥淯sing rDNA Sequencing to Identify Changes in Phytoplankton Community Composition and Diversity in Response to the Piney Point (Tampa Bay, Florida) Emergency Wastewater Discharge in 2021鈥�
- Karsen Henwood: 鈥淶ooplankton in the Cariaco Basin鈥�
- Bostony Braoudakis: 鈥淥xygen Supply Capacities of Pacific Benthic Fish Species, Blackeye Gobies (Rhinogobiops nicholsii) and bluebanded gobies (Lythrypnus dallli), Increase at Higher Temperatures鈥�
- Samantha D鈥橝ngelo: 鈥淲ater Quality Response to Hurricane Debby as Measured by the Tampa Bay Observing Network (TBON)鈥�
- Arianna (Nina) Rodriguez: 鈥淓valuating Fish Egg Community Composition with Respect to Depth on the West Florida Shelf鈥�
- Siria Munoz Navarro: 鈥淐oastal Water Level Variability along the Gulf of Mexico and the West Atlantic Coast鈥�
- Kennedy Quillen: 鈥淩evealing Hidden Patterns: A Cross-Ecosystem Synthesis of Crypsis Ecology鈥�
- Angelique Rosa Marin and Natalia Lopez-Figueroa: 鈥淟inking Cassiopea Blooms to Foraminiferal Assemblages: Identifying Effective Bioindicators for Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Puerto Rico鈥�
- Madeline Lile-Delfino: 鈥淟et There Be Light: Using Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation Techniques to Produce Bioluminescence in Plants鈥�