Abigail Bockus
Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Rhode Island
Advisor: Brad Seibel
Research: Determining the relationship between TMAO concentration and lipid accumulation in teleost and elasmobranch fishes
Tara Fresques
Developmental Biology, Brown University
Advisor: Gary Wessel
Research: Animal reproduction; using the sea star, Patiria miniata, to investigate how embryonic signals contribute to egg and sperm specification. Key insights from this project will aid in identification of how molecular and external forces influence animal reproduction.
Biology, University of Rhode Island
Advisor: Serena Moseman-Valtierra
Research: The cumulative and synergistic effects of climate change, nutrient pollution and exotic species invasion may alter greenhouse gas fluxes in coastal marshes
Francoise Morison
Oceanography, University of Rhode Island
Advisor: Susanne Menden-Deuer
Research: Plankton food web dynamics. What factors drive rates of grazing by heterotrophic protists? How will changes in ocean conditions such as warming affect feeding interactions in the plankton, directly and/or indirectly through species composition.
Victor Schmidt
Advisors: Linda Amaral-Zettler, Katherine Smith
Research: Microbial ecology in the context of environment-microbe-host dynamics in fish and the practical applications of this research to the ornamental and food fish industries.
Rhode Island EPSCoR is funded by the National Science Foundation under EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Award #OIA-1655221 (Sept. 2017-Aug. 2022). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.