2024
- Joanna Lee
Population Genetics, Environmental Tolerances, and Natural Variation in Infection Frequency of the Parasitic Anemone, Edwardsiella Lineata
Advisor: Finnerty
- Daniel Wuitchik
Effects of Temperature on Stress, Symbiosis, and Patterns of Diversity in Marine Invertebrates
Advisor: Davies
2023
- Hannah Aichelman
Exploring Coral Symbiosis Under Climate Change Stress Across Spatial and Temporal Scales
Advisor: Davies
- James Fifer
Coral Adaptations Across Ecological and Evolutionary Scales
Advisor: Davies
- Robin Francis
The Effects of Variation in Habitat Quality on Reproduction and Dispersal of Two Model Systems For Coral Reef Fish Metapopulation Ecology
Advisors: Buston
- Steven Gougherty
Nutrient Allocation and Conservation Mechanisms in Trees: Intraspecific Variation, Reproductive Costs, and Global Scale Comparisons
Advisor: Templer
- Brandon Güell
Explosive Breeding and Its Consequences for Critical Adult and Embryo Behaviors in Gliding Treefrogs
Advisor: Warkentin
- Brian Kennedy
Investigating Patterns of Deep Sea Coral and Sponge Diversity and Abundance Across Multiple Spatial Scales in the Central Pacific
Advisors: Rotjan
2022
- Nicola Kriefall
Environmental Drivers of Structure, Resilience, and Resistance in Coral Holobionts
Advisor: Davies
- Tara Miller
Effects of Climate Change and Other Anthopogenic Impacts on Plant Phenology and Wildlife Health in North America
Advisor: Primack
- John Okechi
An ecosystem-based approach to balancing cage aquaculture, capture fisheries, and biodiversity conservation in Lake Victoria, Kenya
Advisors: Kaufman
2021
- Rebecca Branconi
The Role of Ecological and Social Constraints in Social Evolution of Coral Reef Fishes
Advisor: Buston
- Julie Jung
Developmental Changes in Vibration Sensing and Vibration-Cued Hatching Decisions in Red-Eyed Treefrogs
Advisor: Warkentin
- Javier Mendez Narvaez
The Role of Phenotypic Plasticity in Reproductive Colonization of Land By Frogs: Urea Excretion and Mechanisms to Prevent Ammonia Toxicity During Terrestrial Development
Advisor: Warkentin
- Isabella Muratore
Morphology, Neuroanatomy, Brain Gene Expression, and The Evolution of Division Oof Labor in The Leafcutter Ant Atta Cephalotes
Advisor: Traniello
- Karina Scavo
The Importance of Mangroves as Coral Habitat in A Deteriorating Ocean – An Ecological, Demographic, and Genomic Research Program on Model Mangrove Corals in The Genus Porites
Advisor: Finnerty
- Alexandra Vivelo
The Pattern and Drivers of Fungal Decomposer Succession
Advisor: Bhatnagar
2020
- Tina Barbasch
How Do Parents Respond to Changing Ecological and Social Environments: Insights from a Coral Reef Fish with Biparental Care
Advisor: Buston
- Jamie Harrison
Water and Carbon Uptake and Soil Nitrogen Cycling in a Northern Hardwood Forest Under a Changing Climate
Advisor: Templer
- Kathryn Lesneski
Phenotypic and Transcriptomic Differences Between Colonies of Staghorn Coral Inhabiting Disparate Microenvironments – Implications for Coral Restoration
Advisors: Kaufman & Finnerty
- Nicholas Ray
Oyster Regulation of Biogeochemical Cycling in Temperate Estuaries
Advisor: Fulweiler
- Lucille Zipf
Effects of Climate, Habitat, and Conservation Management on an Aerial Insectivore, the Tree Swallow, and its Insect Prey in Massachusetts, USA
Advisor: Primack
2019
- Evan Kristiansen
The Causes and Consequences of Mimicry in Limenitis Butterflies in Western North America
Advisor: Mullen
- David Minkoff
Mechanisms and Timing of Olfactory and Magnetic Imprinting and Homing in Atlantic Salmon (Salmo Salar)
Advisor: Atema
2018
- Stephen Decina
Biogeochemical Cycling of Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus Across the Greater Boston Area
Advisor: Templer
- Amanda Gallinat
Effects of Climate Change and Invasive Plants on Autumn Phenology in Massachusetts, USA
Advisor: Primack
- Benjamin Carr
Analysis of the Western and Central Pacific Tuna and Billfish Fisheries Through Examination of Historical Catch Records
Advisor: Kaufman
- Jesse Delia
Ecology and Evolution of Parent-Embryo Interactions in Neotropical Glassfrogs
Advisor: Warkentin
- Mustafa Saifuddin
Relationships Between Soil Microbial Physiology, Community Structure and Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in Temperate Forest Ecosystems
Advisor: Finzi
2017
- Elizabeth Burmester
Insights Into Coral Recovery Based on Symbiont State and Environmental Conditions in the Temperate, Facultatively Symbiotic Coral Astrangia Poculata
Advisor: Finnerty
- Caitlin McDonough
Climate Change, Species Loss, and Spring Phenology in and Around Acadia National Park, Maine
Advisor: Primack
- Kristina Cohen
Anuran Hatching Mechanisms and Their Role in Adaptive Plasticity
Advisor: Warkentin
- Allison Gill
Coupling of Belowground Biogeochemical Cycles and Plant Carbon Allocation Strategies Highlight Global Patterns in Resource Limitation and Ecosystem-Level Responses to Global Change
Advisor: Finzi
- Darcy Greer Gordon
Evolutionary Neurobiology of Exceptionally Polymorphic Ants
Advisor: Traniello
- Timothy Maguire
Anthropogenic Perturbations to the Biogeochemical Cycle of Silicon
Advisor: Fulweiler
- John Majoris
An Integrative Investigation of Larval Behavior Using a Coral Reef Fish
Advisor: Buston
- Rebecca Sanders-DeMott
Interacting effects of growing season and winter climate change on nitrogen and carbon cycling in northern hardwood forests
Advisor: Templer
2016
- Patrick O. Sorensen
Effects of winter snowpack on microbial activity, community composition, and plant-microbe interactions in mixed-hardwood temperate forests
Advisor: Templer and Finzi
- Nathan W. Fuller
Pathophysiology and recovery of myotis lucifugus affected by white nose syndrome
Advisor: Sorenson
2015
- Cassidy D’Aloia
Patterns, Causes, and Consequences of Connectivity within a Coral Reef Fish Metapopulation
Advisor: Buston
- Katherine Faust Stryjewski
Speciation Genomics and Morphological Evolution in an Extraordinary Avian Radiation, the Lonchura Munias of New Guinea and Australia
Advisor: Sorenson
- Tristan Lubinski
Insights into the Early Evolution of NF-Kappab Signaling based on Computational Analyses of Cnidarian Genome and Transcriptomes
Advisor: Finnerty
- Nathan Rycroft
Identifying Population Structure and Local Adaptation in the American Lobster Using Behavioral, Morphometric, and Genetic Techniques
Advisor: Atema
- Rose Zheng Abramoff
Phenology and Allocation of Belowground Plant Carbon at Local to Global Scales
Advisor: Finzi
2014
- Elizabeth Braun de Torrez
Bats, insects, and pecans: habitat use and ecosystem services of insectivorous bats in a pecan agroecosystem in central Texas
Advisor: Sorenson/Kunz
- Jeffrey DaCosta
Behavioral, morphological, and genomic analyses of population structure in brood parasitic indigobirds (Vidua spp.)
Advisor: Sorenson
- Valentina Di Santo
Ecophysiological responses of fishes to increased ocean acidification and warming
Advisor: Lobel
- Ysabel Giraldo
Neuroanatomical and neurochemical correlates of senescene and social role in the ant Pheidole dentata
Advisor: Traniello
- Tristan Lubinski
Insights into the early evolution of NF-Kappab signaling based on computational analyses of cnidarian genome and transcriptomes
Advisor: Finnerty
- Andrew Reinmann
Effects of winter climate change on carbon and nitrogen losses from temperate forest ecosystems
Advisor: Templer
- Aryn P. Wilder
Spatial, ecological, and genetic correlates of the geographic expansion of an infectious disease, white-nose syndrome in bats
Advisor: Sorenson/Kunz