Archive for December 2021

On November 17, Taylor Sehein successfully defended her thesis, entitled “Trojan Horses in the Marine Realm: Characterizing Protistan Parasite Ecology in Coastal Waters.” Taylor combined high-resolution sampling with microscopy, molecular approaches and modeling to study the ecology of Syndinian parasites within protist communities. Her defense followed a hybrid model in which some committee members attended…

Nadège Aoki and Kharis Schrage were both awarded Ruth D. Turner Scholarships for 2021. Nadège’s proposal was titled “Documenting the effect of exposure to impulsive pile-driving noise on behavior of a temperate coral species, Astrangia poculata”. She’ll be exposing local corals to noise recorded from an offshore wind farm construction project and measuring their behavioral…