Mentor: Anabela Maia (Rhode Island College) Project Location Rhode Island College Project Description This project will look at the metabolism and growth rate of Narragansett Bay fish species exposed to anthropogenic pressures such as increased temperature, turbulence, and pollutants throughout their lifecycle. The species studied will be Stenotomus chrysops (scup) and Menidia menidia (Atlantic silversides). […]
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CB-4: Interaction of Microplastics with Marine Cyanobacteria
Mentor: Arijit Bose (University of Rhode Island) Project Location University of Rhode Island – Kingston Project Description Overview Plastics are ubiquitous, the worldwide annual consumption is approximately 300 million tons. Most of these plastics are not recycled, and they eventually make their way into the ocean. About 150 million tons of plastic are in the […]
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Mentor: Roxanne Beinart (University of Rhode Island) Project Location University of Rhode Island – Bay Campus Project Description Student will use cultivation, microscopy, and molecular-based approaches to explore the diversity and functioning of benthic microbes in Narragansett Bay and Rhode Island coastal ponds, with a particular focus on carbon cycling and anaerobic ciliates. Data collected […]
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Mentor: Alessandra D’Angelo (University of Rhode Island) Co-Mentor(s): Brice Loose (University of Rhode Island) Project Location University of Rhode Island – Bay Campus Project Description During the summer of 2019 we collected five ice cores to investigate the occurrence of microplastics (MP) in the sea ice within the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (CAA). The samples were […]
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Mentor: Steven Weicksel, Bryant University Project Location Bryant University Project Description An emerging problem in aquatic ecosystems is the pollution of these habitats with microplastics. Microplastics impact every level of the food web and lead to the accumulation of chemicals such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) which have been shown to be carcinogens and affect organismal […]
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Küster, T. & Bothun, G.D. (2021). Nanoscale Adv. 3. (LINK)
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Chevalier, R.B. & Dwyer, J.R. (2021). J Raman Spectrosc. 52. (LINK)
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Charbaji, A., Smith, W., Anagnostopoulos, C. & Faghri, M. (2021). Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal 24(2). (LINK)
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Charbaji, A., Heidari-Bafroui, H., Anagnostopoulos, C. & Faghri, M. (2021). Sensors 21(1). (LINK)
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Heidari-Bafroui, H., Charbaji, A., Anagnostopoulos, C. & Faghri, M. (2021). Journal of Minerals and Materials Characterization and Engineering 9. (LINK)
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