Sean Anderson
School: University of Rhode Island
Degree: M.S., Biological Oceanography
Advisor: Susanne Menden-Deuer
Expected completion date: Spring 2016, Currently Ph.D. student at University of Georgia
Research: My research centered on the response of the heterotrophic plankton, Oxyrrhis marina, to changes in the availability of algal prey. Specifically, I measured how characteristic such as cell size, population abundance and lipid content changed when the predator was starved versus well-fed.
RI NSF EPSCoR is supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation under EPSCoR Cooperative Agreements #OIA-2433276 and in part by the RI Commerce Corporation via the Science and Technology Advisory Committee [STAC]. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. National Science Foundation, the RI Commerce Corporation, STAC, our partners or our collaborators.