2004 Student and Faculty Summer Research Projects

Name of Student 

 Year

 Faculty Advisor

 Subject of Project

 Type of Project

Brandon Richards

2006

Professor Robert Askins, Biology

Training of captive Beluga whales for husbandry at Mystic Aquarium.

Summer Research

Susan Munger

RTC

Professor Christine Small, Botany

Floristic inventory of the West Farms Land Trust Avery tract in Waterford, CT.

Summer Research

Amanda Mohammed 2007

Susan Munger

RTC

Professor Christine Small, Botany Ongoing study of prescribed burning in restoration of regionally rare pitch pine sand plain ecosystem at Hopeville Pond Natural Area in Griswold, CT. Summer Research

 

Amanda Mohammed 2007
Amy Phelan 2005
Sara Jayanthi
2007

Professor Peter Siver, Botany

Observation of the scaled Chrysophyceae and Synurophycean flora on several Cape Cod, MA ponds and their relationship to environmental gradients. Summer Research
Jeffrey Pelczar
2005 Professor Peter Siver, Botany Morphological examination of Frustulia along the eastern U.S. coast.

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

Carrie Hackett

 

2005

Professor Peter Siver, Botany Climate and water color analyses of regions for NSF Biotic Survey and Inventory Grant.

Summer Research

Adam Weinberg

 

2004

Professor Doug Thompson, Physics Hydrology of erosion dominated channels.

Summer Research

Randy Jones

2006

Professor Scott Warren, Botany Trophic cascades and interacting control processes in a detritus-based aquatic ecosystem.

Summer Research

Erin Shields 2004
Erin Miller Grad

Annie Curtis

2004

Professor Scott Warren, Botany Monitoring tideland restoration in the lower Connecticut River Estuary.

Summer Research

Katherine Dugas 2005
Ashley Booth 2006
Michael Wrubel 2006

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