2002research

2002 Student and Faculty Summer Research Projects

Name of Student	Year	Faculty Advisor	Subject of Project	Type of Project
Bethany Lucas Marjorie Lundgren Susan Munger Daisy Small Emily Weidner	2004 2002 RTC 2003 2005	Professor Christine Small, Botany	1) Vegetation dynamics on long-term study transects in the Bollswood Natural Area, Connecticut College Arboretum.	Summer Research
Bethany Lucas Marjorie Lundgren Susan Munger Daisy Small Emily Weidner	2004 2002 RTC 2003 2005	Professor Christine Small, Botany	2) Effects of prescribed burning on the restoration of regionally rare Pitch Pine Sand Plain communities at the Hopeville Pond Natural Area Preserve, Griswold, CT.	Summer Research
Bethany Lucas Marjorie Lundgren Susan Munger Daisy Small Emily Weidner	2004 2002 RTC 2003 2005	Professor Christine Small, Botany	3) Impacts of intensive white-tailed deer browse in natural plant communities of the Burnham Brook Preserve, East Haddam, CT	Summer Research
Annie Curtis Erin Steiner Maggie Gentz Kelton McMahon	2004 2003 2004 Bates College	Professor Scott Warren, Botany, and Professor Paul Fell, Zoology	Assessing the effectiveness of a reedgrass control method and the impact of this method on macroinvertebrate and fish use of the treated marshes.	Summer Research
Hanna Shayler	2002	Professor Peter Siver, Botany	Biodiversity of the diatom genus Brachysira in the Ocala National Forest, Florida.	Summer Research
Corrie Pesczar	2002	Professor Peter Siver, Botany	Water chemistry and trophic conditions of lakes located in the Eastern United States on Cape Cod, Ocala National Forest, North Carolina and Connecticut.	Summer Research
George Baskette	RTC	Professor Peter Siver, Botany	Investigations of Frustulia rhomboids morphology.	Summer Research
Christine Culver Sean LaBrie	2004 2003	Professor Peter Siver, Botany	Old Dominion Environmental Internship	Summer Research
Adam Weinberg	2004	Professor Douglas Thompson, Physics	Characterization of channel morphology and hydraulics for stream-restoration design.	Summer Research
Meredith Greene Denise Lee	2003 2004	Professor Phillip Barnes, Zoology	Migration and dispersal among island and mainland populations of Peromyscus leucopus in southeastern Connecticut.	Summer Research
Elinor Pisano	2004	Professor Phillip Barnes, Zoology	The effect of long-term laboratory culture on the flight performance of Drosophila melanogaster.	Summer Research

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