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Past lab members
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| Erin Siska, MS (FIT), 1998. "A
biogeographic comparison of plant defenses in Georgia and Rhode
Island salt marshes". Erin’s work was done in my lab. Her
official advisor at FIT was Dennis Hanisak. Erin went on to
work as a technician and then to teach high school science in
Canada. Her MS work was published in Ecology.
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| Caroline McFarlin, MS, 2004. "Impact
of fertilization on a salt marsh food web in Georgia".
Caroline went on to the Ph.D. program in Marine Sciences at UGA. Her
MS work was published in Estuaries and Coasts.
The photo shows her sampling invertebrates with Dale Bishop and
Cristiano Salgado as part of the GCE monitoring program
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| Cristiano Salgado, MS, 2004.
"Latitudinal variation in palatability of salt-marsh plants:
constitutive or induced?" Cristiano is working for
StatoilHydro (a Norwegian oil company) in Brazil as an environmental
analyst. His MS work was
published in Ecology.
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| Amy Kunza, MS, 2006. "Patterns of
plant diversity in two salt marsh regions." Amy is working as
a Staff Biologist at Tolunay-Wong Engineers, Inc., in Houston. Her
MS work was published in Estuaries and Coasts.
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| Lisa Iwahara, MS, 2006. Lisa took a
position as a NOAA Knauss Fellow, working for Representative Wayne Gilchrest in
Washington DC. She currently works for NOAA as a Regional
Integration Specialist. Her MS work on algal subsidies in coral reef habitats
is in preparation for publication.
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| Chuan-Kai Ho, PhD, 2008. Chuan-Kai
took a postdoctoral position with Anna Armitage at Texas A&M
Galveston. His PhD work on salt marsh food webs has been published
in Ecology, Oecologia, and Oikos, with other
papers in preparation for publication.
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| Juan Jimenez, PhD, 2008. Juan is
finishing up some loose ends with his PhD work on salt marsh food
webs, and looking for work opportunities.
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| Alana Lynes, MS, 2008. Alana won the
Graduate Teaching Assistant Award in 2008, and is currently teaching
introductory biology at the University of Houston.
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| Past technicians (in alphabetical order)
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| Tracy Buck. Tracy (on right, with
Christina Richards) went on to take a technical position at the
North Inlet National Estuarine Research Reserve.
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| Darrin Moore. Darrin went on to take a
number of technical positions, and currently is employed at Texas
A&M, College Station.
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| Ben Nomann. Ben went on to the Ph.D.
program at Florida State University.
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| Kurt Reinhart. Kurt went on to get a
Ph.D. at the University of Montana, did a postdoc at the University
of Indiana, and took a Research Ecologist position with the USDA-ARS in
Montana.
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| Past Undergraduates (in alphabetical order, list is incomplete)
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| Greg Breed. Greg earned an MS degree
at Texas A&M and a Ph.D. at Dalhousie University.
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| Sarah Corbett. Sarah got an MS
degree at the University of Florida, and is working for the
Department of Environmental Protection in Florida as an
Environmental Scientist and Botanist.
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| Nilam Dave. Nilam went on to graduate
school in nutrition and currently is working in North Carolina.
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| JR Flanders. JR went on to a Ph.D.
program at UC Santa Cruz, and is currently working for United
Research Services in Philadelphia.
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| Nadia Deeb. Nadia is getting an MPH in
Global Health at USF.
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| Carol Goranson. Carol earned an MS at
the University of Georgia and is working as a technican at UMass in
Boston.
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| Mary-Bestor Grant. Mary-Bestor went
into social work in Alabama.
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| Liza Johnson. Liza went on to an MS
program at the College of Charleston, and worked for the NOAA Coral
Reef Conservation Program in Washington DC.
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| Audra Luscher. Audra went on to an MS
program at UNC Wilmington.
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| Christina Richards. Christina (on
left, with Tracy Buck) earned a Ph.D. at UGA, went on to a postdoc at SUNY-Stony
Brook and is currently doing a postdoc at NYU in the Biology
Department's Center for Genomics and Systems Biology.
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| Juliet Simpson. Julie got a Ph.D. at UCSB and is now doing a postdoc at Brown University. |
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| Elizabeth Wason. Liz's undergraduate thesis
was published in Estuaries and Coasts. She has
entered a Ph.D. program at the University of Michigan.
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| Margee Will. Margee is working on a PhD at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. | |
| Pennings lab party 2006. |
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| GCE-LTER field crew on sawdust pile at old saw mill, Sapelo Island, 2005 or 2006. |
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| Please contact me if you're not listed (probably because I don't know where you are now, and I'd love to hear from you) or if your information needs updating. Send me a photograph of yourself if I don't have one posted. |
Updated 9/08 |
