Current Graduate Students

  • Henry Raab - PhD  student Coastal Resources Management (Fish ciguatoxin foodweb modeling and human health)
  • Tyler Peacock - PhD  student Coastal Resources Management Southern flounder, SAV and wave glider) 

Former Graduate Students

  • Lyndell Bade - M.S. Biology. Use of genetic techniques to identify the diet of cownose rays, Rhinoptera bonasus, in North Carolina and Virginia: an analysis of shellfish prey items. May, 2013.
  • Deirdre B. Barry – M.S. Biology. Using visual censuses to estimate biomass of marine fishes for an Ecopath model of coral reef, seagrass and mangrove habitats surrounding Calabash Caye, Belize.   July, 2006.
  • Gary S. Burr. M.S. Biology. Cellulose metabolisms by the intestinal microbiota of the pinfish, Lagodon rhomboides. June 1999. 
  • David D. Chagaris - M.S. Biology.   Diet Analysis of selected fishes in a Belizian Coral Reef Ecosystem and development of an Ecopath food web model. May, 2006.
  • Rebecca Deehr - PhD, Coastal Resources Management.   The Use of Ecopath Food Web Networks to Identify Indirect Effects of Shrimp Trawling in Core Sound, North Carolina, USA. July, 2012.
  • David R. Gloeckner. M. S. Biology.   Tri-Level trophic Interactions in a North Carolina Seagrass Bed.   May, 2003.
  • Kevin J. Hart – M.S. Biology. Comparison of Abundance and Diets of Selected Fishes in Trawling and Non-Trawling Zones in Core Sound, NC, USA. June, 2008.
  • Cecilia S. Krahforst - M.S. Biology. Can passive acoustics be used to estimate the length of Atlantic croaker (Micropogonias undulatus) within the Pamlico Estuary? June, 2010.
  • Cecilia S. Krahforst – PhD, Coastal Resources Management. Impact of Vessel Noise on Oyster Toadfish (Opsanus tau) Behavior and Implications for Underwater Noise Management. May, 2017.
  • Greg F. R. Meyer - PhD, Coastal Resources Management.   Effects of Land Use Change on Juvenile Fishes, Blue Crab, and Brown Shrimp Abundance in the Estuarine Nursery Habitats of North Carolina. December, 2011.
  • R. Christopher Pullinger.   M. S. Biology.   Acoustic characterization of soniferous fishes in the family Sciaenidae of North Carolina Estuaries.   July, 2001
  • Jason Rueter. M. S. Biology.   A Multivariate Approach to Establish Habitat Classifications in a Coral Reef Ecosystem Using Landsat 7 Imagery at Turneffe Atoll, Belize, Central America. April, 2004.
  • Christine Voss. M.S. Biology. Effects of various thicknesses of thin-layer dredged material applied to a Juncus roemerianus- dominated brackish marsh.  December, 2005.
  • Garcy P. Ward.   M.S. Biology.   The effects of selective predation on fish community structure in seagrass meadows in Apalachee Bay, Florida.   July 1998.