Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Evaluating Lethal and Sub-Lethal Effects of Catch-and-Release Angling in Florida's Central Gulf Coast Recreational Atlantic Tarpon (Megalops atlanticus) Fishery, Kathryn Yvonne Guindon
From Source to Sink: An Isotopic Perspective on the Biogeochemical Relationship between the Everglades and Florida Bay, Ana Maria Hoare
High-Resolution Event Stratigraphy of mm-Scale Laminated Sediments from Coastal Salt Ponds: St. John, US Virgin Islands, Rebekka Amie Larson
Impacts of Artificial Reefs on Surrounding Ecosystems, Sarine Manoukian
Seasonal Changes in the Sinking Particulate Flux and in the Nitrogen Cycle within the Euphotic and Twilight Zones of the Cariaco Basin, Venezuela, Enrique Montes-Herrera
Improvements to a Real-Time, Satellite-Derived Surface Current Product (OSCAR) and Evaluation in the Intra-American Sea, Mindy Jo Robinson
A Sedimentary Record of Regional Land-Use and Climate Change in the Manatee River, Manatee County, Florida, Patrick Schwing
Foraminiferal Assemblages on Sediment and Reef Rubble at Conch Reef, Florida USA, Christy Michelle Stephenson
Assessment of Fertility Potential in Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): An ELISA-based Biomarker Analysis, Leslie Schwierzke Wade
Dynamics of Stony Coral Assemblages on Patch Reefs of the Upper Florida Reef Tract, Including Biscayne National Park, Amy Wallace
Potential Habitat of Acropora spp. on Florida Reefs, Katherine Wirt
Sex and the Seas: Gene Transfer Agents, Elizabeth Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Molecular Detection of the Toxic Marine Diatom Pseudo-nitzschia multiseries, Jennifer A. Delaney
The Life History and Energy Budget of Hippocampus erectus in Tampa Bay, Florida, Nicole M. Dunham
Effects of a Shallow-Water Hydrothermal Vent Gradient on Benthic Calcifiers, Tutum Bay, Ambitle Island, Papua New Guinea, Brienne E. Engel
Assessing the Ability of Soils and Sediment to Adsorb and Retain Cs-137 in Puerto Rico, Warner Ithier-Guzman
Aspects of the Life History of the Snowy Grouper, Epinephelus niveatus, in the Gulf of Mexico, Kelley Kowal
Passive Acoustic Studies of Estuarine Fish Populations of Southwest Florida, James Vincent Locascio
The Economically Important Nitrogen Pathways of Southwest Florida, Elon M. Malkin
Sound Production and Behavior of Red Grouper (Epinephelus morio) on the West Florida Shelf, Misty D. Montie
Discovery of Novel Viruses From Animals, Plants, and Insect Vectors Using Viral Metagenomics, Terry Fei Fan Ng
Microbialites from the Freshwater System of Cuatro Ciénegas, Mexico: Genomic, Molecular Organic, and Stable Isotopic Perspectives, Anthony G. Nitti
Late Holocene Climate Variability From Northern Gulf of Mexico Sediments: Merging Inorganic and Molecular Organic Geochemical Proxies, Julie N. Richey
Enhancing Virus Surveillance through Metagenomics: Water Quality and Public Health Applications, Karyna Rosario-Cora
Linking Soil Loss to Sediment Delivery in Two Estuaries in Puerto Rico, Nekesha Bernadette Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Non-Calanoid Copepods at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series Study (BATS) Station: Community Structure and Ecology, 1995-1999, Hussain Ali Al-Mutairi
Characterization of the Underwater Light Environment and Its Relevance to Seagrass Recovery and Sustainability in Tampa Bay, Florida, Christopher J. Anastasiou
Can Colored Dissolved Organic Material Protect Coral Reefs by Reducing Exposure to Ultraviolet Radiation?, Lore Michele Ayoub
Development and Deployment of an Underwater Mass Spectrometer for Quantitative Measurements of Dissolved Gases, Ryan J. Bell
Ovarian Morphology, Oogenesis, and Changes through the Annual Reproductive Cycle of the Female Blue Crab, Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, in Tampa Bay, Catalina E. Brown
Tracing Anthropogenic Wastes: Detection of Fluorescent Optical Brighteners in a Gradient of Natural Organic Matter Fluorescence, Laura Kellie Dixon
Addressing the Problem of Land Motion at Tide Gauges, Kara J. Doran
Ecological Dynamics of Livebottom Ledges and Artificial Reefs on the Inner Central West Florida Shelf, Jennifer Maria Dupont
Towards the Development of a Coastal Prediction System for the Tampa Bay Estuary, Heather Holm Havens
Closure Between Apparent and Inherent Optical Properties of the Ocean with Applications to the Determination of Spectral Bottom Reflectance, James Edward Ivey
Cephalopods of the Broad Caribbean: Distribution, Abundance, and Ecological Importance, Heather L. Judkins
Foraminiferal responses to arsenic in a shallow-water hydrothermal system in papua new guinea and in the laboratory, Bryan McCloskey
Particulate carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus stoichiometry of south west Florida waters, Susan Mary Murasko
Depredation and angler interactions involving bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Sarasota Bay, Florida, Jessica R. Powell
Shell Abnormalities in Archaias Angulatus (Foraminifera) from the Florida Keys: An Indication of Increasing Environmental Stress?, Heidi Lynne Souder
The Characterization and Interpretation of the Spectral Properties of Karenia brevis through Multiwavelength Spectroscopy, Adam H. Spear
Age, Growth, and Reproduction of Calamus proridens the Littlehead Porgy, from the Northeast Gulf of Mexico, Amanda J. Tyler-Jedlund
Nutrient Distribution Effects from Freshwater Discharge at Franklin Lock and Dam (S-79) in 2005 and 2006 on the Caloosahatchee Estuary and San Carlos Bay, Fort Myers, Florida, Kristan M. Uhlenbrock
Meltwater and Abrupt Climate Change During the Last Deglaciation: A Gulf of Mexico Perspective, Clare C. Williams
Comparing Reef Bioindicators on Benthic Environments off Southeast Florida, Ryann A. Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Can Waters Around Durney Key, Pasco County, Florida, Support Coral Recruitment to Artificial Substrates?, Kelley L. Anderson
Brevetoxin Body Burdens in Seabirds of Southwest Florida, Karen E. Atwood
Distribution Patterns of Larger Symbiont-Bearing Foraminifera of the Florida Reef Tract, USA, Rebekah Duncan Baker
Temporal and Spatial Patterns in Optical Properties of Colored Dissolved Organic Matter on Florida’s Gulf Coast: Shelf to Stream to Aquifer, Robyn Nicole Conmy
Antifreeze Proteins in Pelagic Fishes from Marquerite Bay (Western Antarctica), Tammy L. Cullins
Investigating Environmental Change Due To Hypoxic Conditions On The Louisiana Continental Shelf: A Geochemical Approach, Marianne E. Dietz
Epifaunal assemblage of a newly established oyster reef with two substrates, Ian M. Dow
A 1400 Year Multi-Proxy Record of Hydrologic Variability in the Gulf Of Mexico: Exploring Ocean-Continent Linkages During the Late Holocene, Jennifer A. Flannery
Vectors of Brevetoxins to Marine Mammals, Leanne J. Flewelling
Determining the Usefulness of Aerobic and Anaerobic Enzyme Assays as Proxies for Rockfish Ecological Data., Erica M. Hudson
Characterization of the Western Antarctic Peninsula Ecosystem: Environmental Controls on the Zooplankton Community, Marina Marrari
Extracting a Climate Signal from the Skeletal Geochemistry of the Caribbean Coral Siderastrea siderea, Christopher Robert Maupin
Benthic Microalgae and Nutrient Flux in Florida Bay, USA, Merrie Beth Neely
Evolution and Field Application of a Plankton Imaging System, Andrew Walker Remsen
Heat Fluxes in Tampa Bay, Florida, Kristin L. Sopkin
Viruses Found in Raw Sewage and Their Potential to Indicate Fecal Pollution in Coastal Environments, Erin M. Symonds
Orbital- to millennial-scale variability in Gulf of Mexico sea surface temperature and salinity during the late Pleistocene, Jessica L. Whitaker
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Oceanic Interfaces: Investigations of Biogeochemical Changes Across Nutriclines and Frontal Boundaries, Lori R. Adornato
The Use of Microarrays in the Detection of the Gene Expression of Ribulose- 1,5- Bisphosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase (RubisCO) in the Marine Environment, Kathryn Lafaye Bailey
Trace Metals and Stable Isotopes as Tracers of Life History and Trophic Connections in Estuarine-Dependent Fish from Tampa Bay, Florida, Linae Marie Boehme-Terrana
The Relationship of Initial Flooding Depositional Facies to Global Sea Level and Climate on The Marion Plateau, NE Australia (ODP Leg 194), Katherine T. Ciembronowicz
Effects of Nutrients From the Water Column on the Growth of Benthic Microalgae in Permeable Sediments, Brian P. Darrow
Acoustic Classification of Benthic Habitats in Tampa Bay, Shane C. Dunn
Assessing the Health of Coral Reef Ecosystems in the Florida Keys at Community, Individual, and Cellular Scales, Elizabeth Fisher
Comparative effects of the toxic dinoflagellate, Karenia brevis, on bivalve molluscs from Florida, James R. Leverone
Bathymetric Alterations Due to Urbanization and Their Effects on Residual Salinity, Flow Field and Transport Time for Tampa Bay, Florida, Amanda J. Linville
Molecular and genomic studies of temperate phages from Halomonas aquamarina and Bacillus spp. isolates from the Gulf of Mexico, Jennifer M. Mobberley
The influence of the Loop Current on the diversity, abundance, and distribution of zooplankton in the Gulf of Mexico, Katie Rathmell
A 1400-year multi-proxy record of climate variability from the northern Gulf of Mexico, Julie N. Richey
Geomorphology of Submarine Spring West of Fort Myers, Florida, Shihadah M. Saleem
Assessing the reproducibility of skeletal geochemistry records in Atlantic corals using Montastraea annularis coral heads from the Dry Tortugas, Florida, Kristine L. Stair
Changes in abundance and distribution of humpback whales Megaptera novaeangliae in Hervey Bay Marine Park, Australia, based on aerial surveys conducted in 1992 and 2004, LucÃa de la Paz Suzacq
Brevetoxins in marine birds: Evidence of trophic transfer and the role of prey fish as toxin vector, Michelle Van Deventer
Effects of extreme events on residual circulation for Tampa Bay, Florida, Monica Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Chlorophyll on the West Florida Shelf, Danylle N. Ault
Micronektonic community composition and trophic structure within the bathypelagic zone in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, Scott E. Burghart
An Evaluation of the Along Track Reef Imaging System (ATRIS) for Efficient Reef Monitoring and Rapid Groundtruthing of EAARL Lidar, Nicole O. Caesar
The hearing abilities of elasmobranch fishes, Brandon M. Casper
Monitoring water quality in Tampa Bay: Coupling in situ and remote sensing, Zhiqiang Chen
Behavioral and auditory evoked potential (AEP) hearing measurements in odontocete cetaceans, Mandy Lee Hill Cook
Reconstructing 20th century SST variability in the southwest pacific: A replication study using multiple coral Sr/Ca records from New Caledonia, Kristine L. DeLong
Modeling the Advantages and Disadvantages of the Coral-Algal Symbiosis, Dana Joy Gaydos
Assessment of Image Analysis as a Measure of Scleractinian Coral Growth, Steven K. Gustafson
Strategic geographic positioning of sea level gauges to aid in early detection of tsunamis in the Intra-Americas sea, Joshua I. Henson
Abrupt climate change during the last glacial period: A Gulf of Mexico perspective, Heather W. Hill
Tropical Atlantic and Caribbean climate variations during the past eight centuries, Kelly Halimeda Kilbourne
Saharan dust and phosphatic fidelity: A three dimensional biogeochemical model of Trichodesmium on the West Florida shelf, Jason M. Lenes
Patterns and dynamics of ocean circulation variability on the West Florida shelf, Yonggang Liu