ED14B:
Undergraduate Research in Marine and Aquatic Sciences Posters


Session ID#: 11207

Session Description:
The Student Poster Session Session is designed for under-graduate and beginning graduate student who will be participating in their first scientific society meeting and choose not to present in one of the regular topical sessions.

Research opportunities are increasingly offered to undergraduate students in an effort to help them understand marine and aquatic sciences and to offer them an opportunity to consider this field as a career. Undergraduates and beginning graduate students who have conducted research are invited to present their results in this general session that will highlight the wide variety of student research and provide an opportunity for interested faculty to discuss your project with you. The Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) program brings large numbers of undergraduate students to marine institutions for summer research programs, and students who have participated in REU programs are particularly invited to submit to this session. Students are not limited to this session, and we encourage any undergraduate student who wishes to submit an abstract to a specialized science session in the subject of her/his research to consider that option as well.

Primary Chair:  David Fields, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States
Chairs:  Benjamin Cuker, Hampton University, Marine and Environmental Science, Hampton, VA, United States and David Fields, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States
Moderators:  Benjamin Cuker, Hampton University, Marine and Environmental Science, Hampton, VA, United States and David Fields, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  David Fields, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States
Index Terms:

4299 General or miscellaneous [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Remineralization ratios in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current using profiling float data (88974)
Anna E Simpson, Oregon State University, CEOAS, Corvallis, OR, United States, Sarah T Gille, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, United States, Matthew R Mazloff, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States and Ellen Briggs, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
Fortnightly Variability of Sediment Dynamics in Tidal Freshwater and Saltwater marshes of the Chesapeake Bay (89274)
Connor James Reyer, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
 
Exploring the Microbial Community of Shell Disease in Homarus americanus (89312)
Andrea Unzueta Martinez1, Sarah G Feinman2, Jennifer L Bowen2 and Michael F. Tlusty3,4, (1)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)University of Massachusetts Boston, Biology, Boston, MA, United States, (3)University of Massachusetts Boston, School for the Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (4)New England Aquarium, Boston, MA, United States
 
Role of Temperature and Depth in Atlantic Reef Fish Habitat Selection (89675)
Jarrett Franklin, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Pine Bluff, AR, United States and Amanda Kaltenberg, Savannah State University, Marine and Environmental sciences, Savannah, GA, United States
 
Persistence and Bioavailability of DDT in a Coastal Salt Marsh (89882)
Katie Rowlett, Nora Weathers, Alexandra Morrison and Helen K White, Haverford College, Haverford, PA, United States
 
Understanding the Effects of Diet on Larval Crassostrea virginica: A Comparison of Commercial Concentrates and Live Algal Feed (89967)
Collin Taylor Williams1,2, Jeffrey W Krause1,3 and William C Walton1,2, (1)Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, AL, United States, (2)Auburn University, Aquatic Sciences, Dauphin Island, AL, United States, (3)University of South Alabama, Department of Marine Sciences, Mobile, AL, United States
 
Nursery Habitats for Early-Life Stages of American Horseshoe Crabs in Great Bay-Little Egg Harbor, NJ (89976)
Joseph Zottoli1, Paola C. Lopez-Duarte2 and Kenneth Able2, (1)University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA, United States, (2)Rutgers University Marine Field Station, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Tuckerton, NJ, United States
 
Physiological Response of Siderastrea siderea to Thermal Stress (90007)
Yesenia Bruno-Laureano, Alex E. Mercado-Molina and Jaime S. Fonseca, University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus, San Juan, PR, United States
 
CDOM Effects on Spectral Quality and Phytoplankton Community Composition in North Inlet and Winyah Bay, SC (90128)
Rachael Young, Rutgers University, Department of Marine and Coastal Science, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, Erik Tyler Smith, Belle W. Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science, Georgetown, SC, United States; University of South Carolina, Baruch Institute for Marine & Coastal Sciences, Georgetown, SC, United States and Tammi L Richardson, University of South Carolina, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia, SC, United States
 
Examining the association of DDX compounds to sedimentary organic matter (90164)
Nora Weathers, Katie Rowlett, Zexi Geng, Alexandra Morrison and Helen K White, Haverford College, Haverford, PA, United States
 
Validation and Analysis of MW_IR OI SST product over the Indian Ocean (90282)
Angela Lynn Ditri, Nathan Murry, Kyle Morganti, Cara Lynn Geiger and Ajoy Kumar, Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Millersville, PA, United States
 
Exploring the lipid profiles of three marine fungi (90292)
Alana Thurston1, Helen K White2 and Owen Janson2, (1)Haverford College, (2)Haverford College, Haverford, PA, United States
 
The Effect of Oil Spills on Marine Microbes: The Importance of Where, When, and How (90399)
Melissa L Brock1, Melissa Ederington-Hagy1, Rachel L Richardson1, RIchard Snyder2 and Wade H Jeffrey1, (1)University of West Florida, Center for Environmental Diagnostics and Bioremediation, Pensacola, FL, United States, (2)Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Eastern Shore Laboratory, Wachapreague, VA, United States
 
Naturally-Occurring DMSP Analogs as Potential Precursors of Dimethyl Sulfide (DMS) and Methanethiol (MeSH) in Coastal Seawater (90425)
Diana Cordero, Barry University, Miami, FL, United States and Ronald P Kiene, University of South Alabama and Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Marine Sciences, Mobile, AL, United States
 
Impact of Vitamin B12 and Nitrate Availability on the Concentration of Particulate Dimethylsulfoniopropionate in Phytoplankton (90430)
Jeanette Zavala1, Peter A Lee2, Nicole Lyn Schanke2, Helena Pound2, William Bryce Penta3 and Sarah-Kate Shore2, (1)Loyola University New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, United States, (2)College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, United States, (3)University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States
 
Dissolved Oxygen (DO) and Nutrients Analysis in the Río Piedras River, San Juan, Puerto Rico (90456)
Iliansherry Santiago and Gabriel Infante, Universidad Metropolitana, Cupey Campus, School of Science & Technology, San Juan, PR, United States
 
Nutrients, High Light and Shallow Depths Favor the Expansion of the Brown Macroalgae Turbinaria ornata in the Coral Reefs of Mo'orea, French Polynesia (90603)
Manuel Nieves1, Guadalupe Cordoba1,2 and Jonathan Rogers1, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)St. Mary's University, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
Metagenomic Survey of a Military-Impacted Lagoon in Puerto Rico (91684)
Lizbeth Davila-Santiago1, Natasha DeLeon-Rodriguez2, Katia Y. LaSanta-Pagan1, Zohre Kurt2, Elizabeth Padilla-Crespo1, Janet Hatt2, Jim Spain2, Konstantinos Konstantinidis2 and Arturo Massol-Deya1, (1)University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR, United States, (2)Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
 
Using Foraminifera Shell Geochemistry to Test Proxies for Paleoclimate Reconstruction (91861)
Catherine Yvonne Hudson and Achim Dirk Herrmann, Louisiana State University, Geology and Geophysics, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
 
Zooplankton Community in Delaware Bay During Summer: Spatial Distribution and Environmental Correlates (91936)
Nathan Andrew Tillotson, Murray State University, Murray, KY, United States, Adam Wickline, University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Lewes, United States and Jonathan Cohen, University of Delaware, Lewes, DE, United States
 
Validation of Model Output versus ADCP Observations on the PR Insular Shelf, Part 2: Are all Sites the Same? (92590)
Alexandra Ramos Valle, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
 
Genetic Variation in Populations of a Tropical Mysid, Mysidium gracile (92650)
Rosaura Chapina, Jennifer Ramos-Chavez and Elizabeth Walsh, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States
 
Where’s the P in Plankton? Phosphorus Allocation to DNA across Diverse Marine Picoplankton (92725)
Sarah Elizabeth Raney, Eckerd College, Marine Science, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, Kim Popendorf, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Biology & Paleo Environment, Palisades, NY, United States and Solange Duhamel, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Deep-Sea Coral Image Catalog: Northeast Pacific (92923)
Jim Christopher Freed, Santa Rosa Junior College, Life Sciences, Santa Rosa, CA, United States; University of California, Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
 
The Atlantic Ocean: An Impassable Barrier for the Common Octopus, Octopus vulgaris (92987)
Jimena Perez-Viscasillas1, Nikolaos V Schizas2 and Alexandre Jassoud2, (1)University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR, United States, (2)University of Puerto Rico, Department of Marine Sciences, Mayaguez, PR, United States
 
Low Cost Real Time Autonomous Remote Monitoring Platform (93021)
Joseph Raul Rodríguez1, Pedro M Maldonado1, James J Pierson2 and Lora Harris3, (1)Metropolitan University of Puerto Rico, Science & Tecnology, San Juan, PR, United States, (2)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, MD, United States
 
Climate Coping: Investigating Metabolic Responses in Crocosphaera watsonii (93134)
Koran Harris, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
 
A low-cost and reliable technique to monitor the spread of an invasive seagrass in the Caribbean Sea (93327)
Dylan Jobsis and Sandy Wyllie-Echeverria, University of the Virgin Islands, St Thomas, United States Virgin Islands
 
Ostracod Geochemistry as a Proxy for Paleoenvironmental Change (93769)
Agathe Carrier, Louisiana State University, Geology and Geophysics, New Orleans, LA, United States and Achim Dirk Herrmann, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States