| Past Graduate Students
Robert (Bobby) Gutierrez, MS: 2006- 2009 The effects of increased nutrients via bird guano on seagrass macroinfaunal communities
Kelly McKay, MS: 2005-2008 The effects of prior grazing by the variegated sea urchin and the bucktooth parrotfish on the palatability of turtlegrass
Carly Steeves, MS: 2005 - 2007 The effect of habitat complexity on predation rate: Re-evaluating the current paradigm in seagrass beds
Matthew Johnson, PhD: 2006 The Role of Habitat Fragmentation on the Structure and Function of Seagrass Ecosystems in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
Dale Booth, MS: 2006 The impacts of the American Oyster (Crassostrea virginia) on growth and recruitment of Halodule wrightii
Bradley Furman, MS: 2006 Effects of nutrient enrichment and herbivore density on macroalgal diversity and abundance in a tropical reef ecosystem using Diadema antillarum as the model herbivore
K. Lindsey Kramer, MS: 2005 Have marine reserves made a difference? Fish community structure, grazing intensity and coral recruitment on protected patch reefs
Margene "Meg" Goecker, MS: 2003 The effects of nitrogen content of turtlegrass, Thalassia testudinum, on rates of herbivory by the bucktooth parrotfish, Sparisoma radians
Deborah Kilbane, MS: 2003 Intra-year class cannibalism in early juvenile blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus)
Stacy Harter, MS: 2002 The effects of predation risk on growth rates of juvenile pinfish (Lagodon rhomboides) in Big Lagoon, Florida
Leslie Gallagher, MS: 2001 An evaluation of potential artifacts associated with caging experiments
Jason Stutes, MS: 2000 The relative importance of vertebrate and invertebrate grazing on epiphytes in a seagrass bed in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: an experimental assessement Kristen Walker, MS: 1998
Bradley Peterson, PhD: 1998 Interactions between semi-infaunal suspension feeding bivalves (Modiolus americanus) and seagrass assemblages (Thalassia testudinum)
Patricia Spitzer, MS: 1998 The effects of vegetations density on the relative growth rates and foraging behavior of pinfish, Lagodon rhomboides (L.), in Big Lagoon, Florida
Katherine Canter, MS: 1998 Foraging effects of gulf oyster toadfish, Opsanus beta, on juvenile xanthid and portunid crabs during altered habitat complexity and light
Paul Bologna, PhD: 1997 The effects of seagrass habitat architecture on associated fauna
Patric Harper, MS: 1994 Seagrass community regulation: effects of manipulating top predators and dominant macrograzers
Laurie Sullivan, MS: 1994 Ecological studies of the mangrove gastropod Littoraria angulifera (littorinidae): distribution, predation, and algal interactions
Susan Sklenar, MS: 1994 Interactions between sea urchin grazers (Lytechinus variegatus and Arbacia punctulata) and mussels (Modiolus americanus): a mutualistic relationship?
Barbara Randall Gibbs, MS: 1994 Experiments on shelter availability and interactions on juvenile stone crabs, Menippe adina
David Nadeau, MS: 1991 Relative growth rates of predatory fishes in vegetated and unvegetated habitats: field experiments with juvenile red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus |