Masters and Ph.D. Thesis
Below are the Masters and Ph.D. theses by students of the Center for Ocean Observing Leadership (Formerly the Coastal Ocean Observation Lab). They are listed in chronological order.- Schuyler Nardelli (January 2022) Ph.D.: Seasonal Dynamics of Plankton Ecology in Coastal Antarctica
- Liza Wright-Fairbanks (January 2022) Ph.D.: Observing seasonal cycles, drivers, and potential biological impacts of ocean acidification in the Mid-Atlantic Bight
- Emily Slesinger (January 2022) Ph.D. : Black Sea Bass Physiology and Life History in the Context of Seasonal and long-term Climate Change
- Ailey Sheehan (October 2021) Masters of Operational Oceanography: Developing an Open-Source Analysis Pipeline For a Glider-Based Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler (AZFP)
- Theodore Thompson (September 2021) Masters of Operational Oceanography: Best Practices for Sea-Bird Scientific deep ISFET-based pH sensor integrated into a Slocum Webb Glider
- Clifford Watkins (December 2020) Ph.D.: Mixed Layer Dynamics: Exploring the Impacts of Storms in the Mid Atlantic Bight
- Sarah Murphy (December 2020) Masters: Mid Atlantic Bight: Coastal Upwelling & the Offshore Wind Environment
- Julia Engdahl (August 2020) Masters of Operational Oceanography: Developing an Automated Analysis of Fish Migration Video using Computer Vision Algorithms
- Joe Anarumo (July 2020) Masters of Operational Oceanography: An Open Source Software Application for Drifter Trajectory Prediction in the Mid-Atlantic Bight
- Michael Brown (May 2020) Ph.D.: Drivers of phytoplankton dynamics and corresponding impacts in biogeochemistry, along the West Antarctic Peninsula
- Nicole Couto (September 2017) Ph. D.: Circulation and heat Transport on the West Antarctic Peninsula Continental Shelf
- Filipa Carvalho (May 2017) Ph. D.: Coupled Physical and Phytoplankton Dynamics in Coastal Antarctica
- Nicole Waite (May 2015) Master: The Role of Sedimentary Sulfide in Seagrass Decline in Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey
- Greg Seroka (September 2016) Ph. D.: Stratified Coastal Ocean Interactions with Hurricanes and the Sea Breeze in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic
- Travis Miles (March, 2014) Ph. D.: Observations and Modeling of the Coastal Ocean Beneath Tropical and Extra-Tropical Cyclones
- Yi Xu (January, 2013) Ph.D.: Phytoplankton Dynamics Studying Using Observation and Bio-Physical Modeling
- Laura Palamara (May 2011) Masters: Improving Models of Covariation Between Marine Communiities and their Habitats by Incorporating Pelagic Features Captured by Coastal Ocean Observatories
- Rachel Sipler (October, 2009) Ph.D.: The Role of Dissolved Organic Matter in Structuring Microbial Community Composition
- Leonard Alexander Kahl, Jr. (October 2008) Ph.D.: Phytoplankton Physiology and Export Flux
- Ramya Ramadurai (October 2008) Masters: Water Mass Classification Using Band Ratios
- Matthew Oliver (July 2006) Ph.D.: Towards a Synthesis of Continental Shelf Dynamics and Eukaryotic Phytoplankon Evolution
- Felisa Lauren Wolfe-Simon (May 2006) Ph.D.: The Role and Evolution of Superoxide Dismutases in Algae
- Zoe Vanessa Finkel (May 2005) Ph.D.: Physiological Basis for Environmentally-Driven Change in Phytoplankton Communities
- Louis Bowers (September, 2004) (Written Thesis Part 1) (Written Thesis Part 2) Masters: The Effect of Sea Surface Temperature on New Jersey Sea Breeze Dynamics
- Trisha Bergmann (January, 2004) Ph.D.: The Physiological Ecology and Natural Distribution Patterns of Cryptomonad Algae in Coastal Aquatic Ecosystems
- Josh Kohut (June, 2002) Ph.D.: Spatial Current Structure Observed with a Calibrated HF Radar System: The Influence of Local Forcing, Stratification, and Topography on the Inner Shelf
- Joe Grzymski (December, 2001) Ecosystem, Cellular and Sub-Cellular Dynamics of The Marine, Diatom Plastid
- Richard Styles (May, 1998) Ph.D.: A Continental Shelf Bottom Boundary Layer Model Development, Calibration and Applications to Sediment Transport in The Middle Atlantic Bight
- Michael Crowley (May, 1993) Masters: Monitoring the Gulf Stream: An Application of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems