PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS OF RECENT GRADUATES: 1978-PRESENT

 

Degree Year and Current Location

 

 

 

If anyone knows the whereabouts of any alumni whose address is listed as unknown or if any information is not current, or if anyone was inadvertently left off this list, please contact the Marsha Morin to update the data.

 

This site is currently being updated to contain M.S. students, the title of both Ph.D. and M.S. student's dissertation  and thesis title and the advisor.

 

Activities of the current graduate students may be found in the departmental newsletter at www-rci.rutgers.edu/~deenr/news.html.

 

If anyone would like the newsletter forwarded to them on a monthly basis, please contact Marsha Morin at mmorin@aesop.rutgers.edu or 732-932-3213.

 

2007 Ph.D.

 

Myla Aronson

 

Teaching Faculty
Biology Department
Luther College
Decorah, Iowa

Dissertation title: Ecological Change by Alien Plants in an Urban Landscape.
Advisor: Dr. Steven Handel

2007 M.S.

 

Jacalyn Toth Brown


Thesis title:Aspects of the Ecology of Bottlenose Dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, in New Jersey.

Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Able

 

Eric Simms

 

Education/Outreach Specialist
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
UCSD/IGPP - 0225
La Jolla, CA

Advisor: Dr. John Quinlan

 

2006 Ph.D.

 

Kevin Flesher

Consultant
Bahia, Brazil

 

Dissertation title: Explaining the Biogeography of the Medium and Large Mammals in a Human-dominated Landscape in the Atlantic Forest of Bahia, Brazil: Evidence for the Role of Agroforestry Systems as Wildlife Habitat.

Advisor: Dr. Andrew Vayda

 

Dennis Gray

Senior Research Technician

Pinelands Field Station

New Lisbon, NJ

 

Dissertation title: Low Intensity Prescribed Fire and the Fate of Fire Mobilized Nutrients.

 

Advisor: Dr. John Dighton

 

Robert Hamilton

Assistant Professor

Department of  Biological Sciences

Kent State University, Stark Campus

Canton, Ohio

 

Dissertation title: Assessing Ecological Integrity of Streams in Forested Wetlands in Urbanized Sites of northeastern New Jersey.
Advisor: Dr. Joan Ehrenfeld

 

Alexander Hernandez

Post-doctoral Fellow
Primate Research Institute
Kyoto University
Inuyama, Aichi 484-8506
Japan

 

Dissertation title: Parasitism, Food Webs and Biomass Patterns in Stream Ecosystems

Advisor: Dr. Michael Sukhdeo

 

 

Jay Kelly

Assistant Professor, Biology
Science & Engineering

Raritan Valley Community College


Various governmental and non-governmental agencies
working on endangered plant species.

Dissertation title: Explanations in the Biology and Restoration of the Endangered Plant Species, Schwalbea americana (American Chaffseed), in New Jersey.
Advisor: Dr. Andrew (Pete) Vayda

 

Nan Shao

Senior Biostatistician
AtheroGenics Inc.
8995 Westside Parkway
Alpharetta, GA 30004

 

Dissertation title: Invasibility and Vulnerability of Plant Communities to Biological Invasions: A Spatially Explicit Stochastic Modeling Approach.
Advisor: Dr. Colleen Hatfield

 

2006 M.S.

 

Eric Andersen

 

Advisor: Jean Marie Hartman

 

Clare Ng

Marine Science/Technology Instructor

Marine Academy of Science and Technology

Sandy Hook, NJ.

 

Thesis Title: Habitat utilization and movement patterns of adult striped bass, Morone saxatilis, in a southern New Jersey estuary using acoustic telemetry.

Advisor: Kenneth Able

 

Michael Sakatos

 

Thesis title: The small mammal community in a restored area of the Fresh KillsLandfill.
Advisor: Dr. Kathleen Scott

 

Alison Seigel

 

Continuing in Ph.D. program in E&E

Thesis title: Avian Response to Urban Marsh Restoration

Advisor: Dr. Colleen Hatfield

 

Robert Somes

 

Advisor: Dr. Julie Lockwood

 

2005 Ph.D.

 

Johanna Choo

              

Dissertation Title:The Avifuana And Wild Fruits of Two Equatorial Rainforests Sites:

An Inter-Tropical Comparison"
Advisor:Dr. Edmund Stiles

 

Robert Cox

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Biological Sciences

Dartmouth College

Hanover NH


Dissertation title: Integrating Proximate and Ultimate Causes of Sexual Size Dimorphism in Lizards

Advisor: Dr. Henry John-Alder

 

Amanda Dey

NJ Div of Fish and Wildlife
Trenton, NJ 08625-0400

Dissertation Title: The importance of spatial scale and non-forest habitats in predicting
occurrence of area-sensitive forest birds.
Advisor: Dr. Joanna Burger

 

Daniel Hernandez

Assistant Professor of Biology
Natural Sciences and Mathematics
The Richard Stockton State College of New Jersey
Pomona, NJ 08240

Dissertation title: Conservation  and foraging dynamics of migratory shorebirds.
Advisor: Dr. David Drake

 

Matthew Palmer

Lecturer
Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology
Columbia University
New York NY 10027

Dissertation title: Plant community structure in fens of the New Jersey Pinelands.
Advisor: Dr. Joan Ehrenfeld

 

Arjun Sivasundar

PostDoctoral Fellow
Hopkins Marine Station
Stanford University

Dissertation Title: Genetic variation, population structure and outcrossing in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Advisor: Dr. Jody Hey

 

Shannon Stohr


Dissertation Title: Patterns and Dynamics of Phylloplane Fungal Communities of Vaccinium Sp. in Response to Anthropogenic Disturbance.
Advisor: Dr. John Dighton

 

2005 M.S.

 

Michael Celestino

NJDEP
Nacote Creek Research Station
Port Republic, NJ

Thesis Title: Analysis of the abundances of Mercenaria mercenaria and other molluscs
on prospective aquaculture leased grounds in New Jersey.
Advisor: Dr. John Quinlan

 

Joseph Dunsay

Advisor: Dr. Edwin Green

 

Amy Long

Advisor:Dr. Steven Handel

 

Laura Robinson

Advisor: Dr. John Quinlan

 

Leigh Ann Wilson

Thesis title:Community Effects of Bacteria and Ectomycorrhizae Associated with Pinus rigida
Advisor: Dr.  John Dighton



2004 Ph.D.

Heather Bowman Cutway

Assistant Professor
Mercer University
Dept of Biology
1400 Coleman Ave.
Macon, GA 31207

Dissertation Title: The effects of urban land use and human disturbance on forested wetland invasibility.
Advisor:Dr. Joan Ehrenfeld

 

Susan Elbin

Senior Program Officer
Wildlife Trust
61 Route 9W
Palisades, NY 10964

Dissertation Title: Mating Strategies in Two Species of Monogamously Breeding Colonial Birds (Scarlet Ibis, Eudocimus ruber and Waldrapp Ibis, Geronticus eremita) in Captivity.
Advisor: Dr. Joanna Burger

 

Zachary Long

Assistant Professor

Department of Biology

University of North Carolina – Wilmington

Wilmington, NC


Dissertation Title: Mechanistic Approaches to Understanding Complex Ecological Systems.
Advisor: Dr. Peter J. Morin

 

Paul Timon McPhearson

Assistant Professor

The New School

New York, NY

Dissertation Title: The Complexity of Cooperation in Ecological Communities.
Advisor: Dr. Peter J. Morin

 

Kristin Mylecraine

The Nature Conservancy

New Jersey


Dissertation Title:Geographic variation in Atlantic white-cedar(Chamaecyparis thyoides)
Implications for management, restoration, and biogeography.

Advisor: Dr. Peter Smouse

 

Jennifer Price

Biologist

South Carolina Department of Natural Resources

Fisheries Research Lab

1921 Vanboklen Road

Eastover, SC 29044

 

Dissertation Title: Intraguild Predation and the Formation of Alternate Community States
Advisor: Dr. Peter Morin

 

2004 M.S.

 

Polly Hicks

NOAA Restoration Center
7600 Sand Point Way NE

Seattle, WA 98115

Thesis title: Seed dispersal dynamics and vegetation community development in a restored brackish marsh: Implications for restoration and management.
Advisor: Dr. Jean Marie Hartman

 

Kelsey Sullivan

Wildlife Biologist

US Fish and Wildlife Service

Anchorage, Alaska

 

Thesis title: What factors influence nest site selection of black-legged kittiwakes in Alaska: using historical data to investigate scientific questions.
Advisor: Dr. Joanna Burger

 

2003 Ph.D.

 

David Bart

Assistant Professor

Department of Landscape Architecture

University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin

Dissertation Title: Environmental determinants of Phragmaites australis invasion in a New Jersey salt marsh: interactions among human activities, disturbance, and edaphic conditions.
Advisor: Dr. JeanMarie Hartman

 

Stacy Zimmerman Brosnan

Lecturer

Manhattan Community College

New York, New York

 

Dissertation Title: Phylogeny of the photosynthetic euglenoids with special reference to the loricate genera Trachelomonas and Strombomonas.

Advisor: Dr. Richard Triemer

Louis Cantafio

 

Land Steward

 

Dissertation title: Human olfactory communication of alarm and safety.

Advisor: Dr. Terry McGuire

 

Lin Jiang

Assistant Professor

Department of Biology

Georgia Tech

Atlanta GA


Dissertation Title: Studies of the extrinsic and intrinsic regulation of population dynamics and community structure using modeling and experimental approaches.
Advisor: Dr. Peter Morin

 

Yong-Jin Won

Full time Lecturer

Dept. of Life Sciences

Ewha Womans University

11-1 Daehyon-Dong, Sodaemun-KU

Seoul, 120-750,Korea

 

Dissertation title: Molecular systematics, population structure, and gene flow of deep-sea hydrothermal vent mussels (Mytilidae: Bathymodiolus) and associated sulfur-oxidizing endosymbionts.

Advisor: Dr. Robert Vrijenhoek

 

2003 M.S.

 

Michele Bakacs

NJDEP- Division of Watershed Management

E. State Street - Box 418
Trenton, NJ 08625

Thesis Title: A multi-scale study of current and historic land cover effects on riparian plant communities of headwater streams.
Advisor: Dr. Colleen Hatfield

 

Juanita Choo

Ph.D. Candidate
University of Arizona

Advisor: Dr. Edmund Stiles

Deborah Gries


Thesis title: Exploring the Use of Handheld Computer Technology in Promoting Student
Enthusiasm about Botany.
Advisor: Dr. Steven Handel

Gregg Sakowicz

Field Researcher
Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve
Rutgers University

Thesis Title: Comparative morphology and behavior of larval salt marsh fishes:
Fundulus heteroclitus and Cyprinodon variegates.
Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Able

2002 Ph.D.

Marlene Cole

Associate
ICF Consulting
33 Hayden Avenue, 3rd Floor
Lexington, MA 02421

Dissertation title: Effects of the spatial configuration of habitats on species distributions and population dynamics in unaltered and ditched salt marshes.
Advisor: Dr. Richard Lathrop

Helen Thompson

Restoration Ecologist
H.T. Harvey and Associates
3150 Almaden Expressway, Suite 145
San Jose, CA 95118

Dissertation title: Exotic and native vine effects on sampling regeneration in urban and rural forests.
Advisor: Dr. Steward T.A.Pickett

Luis Hurtado

Research Assistant Professor
Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences

Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences
Texas A&M University
TAMU 3258
College Station, TX 77843-3258

 

Dissertation title: Evolution and biogeography of hydrothermal vent organisms in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

Advisor: Dr. Robert Vrijenhoek

 

Mariana Mateos

Assistant Professor
Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences

Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences
Texas A&M University
TAMU 2258
College Station, TX 77843-2258

 

Dissertation title: Molecular systematics and biogeography of sexual and asexual forms of Poeciliopsis (Cyprinodontiformes; Poeciliidae).

Advisor: Dr. Robert Vrijenhoek

 

Denise Royle

Research Associate

GIS and Remote Sensing Division

Conservation Management Institute

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

 

Dissertation title: A landscape analysis of hemlock decline in New Jersey.

Advisor: Dr. Richard Lathrop

 

2002 M.S.

Christopher Boring

Kleinschmidt Associates
South Carolina

Thesis Title: Home range, habitat use, and radiocesium burdens in raccoons
(Procyon lotor) inhabiting the U.S. Department of Energy's
Savannah River Site.
Advisor: Dr. Joanna Burger

 

Margaret Fritze

Working with various avian research groups

Thesis Title: Age-specific survivorship and return rates of the Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis): A fourteen year mark-recapture study with a discriminant function analysis.
Advisor: Dr. John Kuser

 

Michael Haberland

New Jersey Dept. of Environmental Protection
Watershed Management Division

Thesis Title: Ontogenetic changes in the diet of young-of-year Windowpane, Scophthalmus aquosus.
Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Able

 

John Henrikson

 

Whereabouts unknown

 

Myla Johnson (Aronson)

PhD Candidate
Ecology and Evolution Graduate Program
Rutgers UniversityNew Brunswick.
NJ

Thesis Title: Floodplain Vegetation, Soils, and Land use of the Upper Passaic River Basin, New Jersey.
Advisor: Dr. Steven Handel

 

Jason Tesauro

Environmental Defense
257 Park Avenue South
New York NY 10010

Thesis Title: The effects of livestock grazing on the Bog Turtle (Clemmys muhlenbergi ).
Advisor: Dr. David Ehrenfeld

 

2001 Ph.D.

Anne (Bansemir) Keating

Lecturer
Division of Life Sciences
Nelson Hall, Room A-124
Busch Campus
Rutgers University
Piscataway, NJ 08855

Dissertation Title: Resource use and aggregation behavior in gastrointestinal nematode parasites.
Advisor: Dr. Michael Sukhdeo

Jennifer Johns

Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
Department of Biology
Willamette University
Salem, Oregon 97301

Dissertation title: The reproductive fate of the tropical tree, Tabebuia rosea, in a fragmented landscape.
Advisor: Dr. Steven Handel

Peter Kourtev

Assistant Professor

Central Michigan University
Department of Biology
Brooks Hall, Rm. 228
Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859

 

Dissertation Title: Effects of exotic plant species on soil and litter microbial communities.
Advisor: Dr. Joan Ehrenfeld

 

David MacFarlane

Assistant Professor
Department of Forestry
215 Natural Resources Building
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan 48824

Dissertation title: Ptaeda-light: a mechanistic light-competition model for predicting
the growth and survival of loblolly pine trees.
Advisor: Dr Edwin Green

David Nemerson

Conservation Biologist
Conservation Department
National Aquarium in Baltimore

Dissertation title: Trophic dynamics and habitat ecology of the dominant fish of Delaware Bay (USA) marsh creeks
Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Able

Beth Phelan

NMFS Sandy Hook Field Station
74 McGruder Rd.
Highlands, NJ 07732

Dissertation title: Habitat associations in shallow water fish and crustaceans in estuaries of the Northeastern U.S.
Advisor: Dr. Ken Able

Ekaterina G. Sedia

Associate Professor
Richard Stockton College Of NJ
P.O. Box 195
Pomona, NJ 08240

Dissertation title: The effects of lichens and mosses on vascular plants, soil microbial activity and nutrient cycling of the New Jersey Pinelands.

Advisor: Dr. Joan Ehrenfeld

Amy Tuininga

Associate Professor
Department Biological Science
148 Larkin Hall, Fordham University
Rose Hill Campus, Bronx
New York, NY 10458

Dissertation title: Fire effects of ectomycorrhizal diversity, community structure, and function in the New Jersey Pine Barrens
Advisor: Dr. John Dighton

Michael VanClef

Nature Conservancy
5 Third Ave.
Monroe Township, NJ 08821

Dissertation title: Early life stage performance of native and non-native congeners of Polygonum, Celastrus and Parthenocissus: assessing methods of screening new plant introductions for invasive potential.

Advisor: Dr. Edmund Stiles

Bradley Walters

Assistant Professor
Geography Department
Mount Allison University
65 York St.
Sackville NB EAL 1E4
Canada

Dissertation title: Event ecology in the Philippines : explaining mangrove  tree cutting and planting and their environmental effects.

Advisor: A. Vayda

2001 M.S.

 

Laura Branagan

Thesis Title: Behavioral and endocrine responses to "persistent" communicative signals in the eastern fence lizard, Sceloporus undulatus hyancinthinus.
Advisor: Dr. Henry John-Alder

 

Melinda Challis

 

Advisor: Dr. Steven Handel

 

Niki Learn

 

Advisor: Dr. Jean Marie Hartman

 

Robert Marsh

 

Advisor: Dr. Rick Lathrop

 

Christopher Martine

Ph.D. Candidate University of Connecticut
Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Storrs, Ct 066269

Thesis Title: Shrubs and vines: A field identification and natural history guide for New Jersey and the northeast.
Advisor: Dr. John Kuser

 

James McHugh

 

Advisor: Dr. John Dighton

 

Kristen Mylcraine

 

Thesis Title: Restoring Atlantic white-cedar, Chamaecyparis thyoides, on two disturbed
sites in the New Jersey Pinelands
Advisor:  Dr. John Kuser

 

Marian Norris

 

Advisor: Dr. Jean Maire Hartman

 

Diana Raichel

 

Thesis title: The influence of Phragmites dominance on marsh resident fish in the Hackensack Meadowlands, New Jersey
Advisor: Dr. Jean Marie Hartman

 

Jeanine Bayus

 

Advisor: Dr. Robert Trivers

 

Kristi Silber

 

Advisor: Dr. Steven Handel

 

Eric Stiles

 

Thesis title: A landscape analysis of migrant landbird stopover habitat on Cape May Peninsula, New Jersey from 1972 through 1995 using remote sensing data.
Advisor: Dr. Joanna Burger

 

Randi Winter

 

Advisor: Dr. Charles Leck

 

Mark Wong

 

Advisor: Dr. Jean Marie Hartman

 

2000 Ph.D.

Jeremy Fox

Associate Professor
Dept of Biological Sciences
University of Calgary
Calgary, BC

Dissertation title: Causes and consequences of community structure in experimental aquatic microcosms
Advisor: Dr. Peter Morin

Joanna Hebberger

Scientist
Dept. of Plant Biology
University of Minnesota
Biological Science Center
1445 Gortner Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55108

Dissertation title:
The effects of soil amendments on mycorrhizae and growth of Quercus rubra [L.] (northern red oak) seedlings.
Advisor: Jean Marie Hartman

Christina Kaunzinger

Research Associate

Center for Urban Restoration Ecology

Rutgers University

New Brunswick, NJ 08901

 

Dissertation title: Population responses to productivity, food chain length, and complexity in aquatic microcosms.
Advisor: Dr. Peter Morin

Kathleen LoGiudice

Assistant Professor
Biology Department
Science & Engineering Center, Room:331
Union College
Schenectady, NY 12308-3107

Dissertation title: Baylisascaris procyonis and the decline of the Allegheny woodrat (Neotoma magister)
Advisors: Drs. Richard Ostfeld and Kathleen Scott

Brian Palestis

Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Wagner College
Staten Island, NY 10301

Dissertation title: Common tern (Sterna hirundo) recognition systems: recognition of siblings, nest sites and nest predators.
Advisor: Dr. Joanna Burger

2000 M.S.

Marielle Anzelone

 

Advisor: Dr. David Ehrenfeld

 

Stephanie Barbeau

 

Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Able

 

James Chitty

 

Thesis title: The response of a resident marsh killifish, Cyprinodon variegatus, to marsh restoration in southern New Jersey.
Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Able

 

James McNelly

 

Advisor: Dr. Michael May

 

Anthony Petrongolo

 

Advisor: Dr. James Applegate

 

Justine Trinidad

 

Advisor: Dr. James Quinn

 

Sabine Zenzola

 

Advisor: Dr. David Ehrenfeld



1999 Ph.D.

Sylvan Kaufman

Conservation Curator
Adkins Arboretum
12610 Eveland Road
PO Box 100
Ridgely, MD 21660

Dissertation title: The effect of habitat and species characteristics on invasiveness of Melaleuca quinquenervia cav. (Blake)
Advisor: Dr. Peter Smouse

Debra Linton

Address Unknown

Dissertation Title: Feeding rate, growth, and reproduction responses of the polychaetes Abarenicola pacifica and Capitella sp.I to variations in food concentration.
Advisor: Dr. Gary Taghon

Robert Manson

Lecturer
Instituto de Ecologia, A.C.
Km 2.5 Antigua Carretera a Coatapec, A.P. 63
Xalapa, 91000 Veracruz
MEXICO

Dissertation title: Plant-herbivore interactions along forest edges: clarifying the role of herbivory by small mammals in tree invasion dynamics in old-fields
Advisors: Drs. Richard Ostfeld and Steward T.A. Pickett

Scott Meiners

Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Eastern Illinois University
600 Lincoln Avenue
Charleston, IL 61920-3099

Dissertation title: Multiple effects of the forest edge on the structure of an old field plant community.
Advisors: Drs. Steven Handel and Steward T.A. Pickett

Melissa Neuman

Recovery Coordinator
NOAA
Long Beach, CA

Dissertation Title: Early life history and ecology of windowpane, Scophthalmus aquosus, in the middle Atlantic Bight:  ontogenetic transitions during the first year of life in a bi-modal spawner.
Advisor: Dr. Ken Able

Nellie Tsipoura

Staff Scientist
Natural Resources Defense Council
40 West 20th Street
New York, NY 10011

Dissertation Title: Ecophysiological and hormonal aspects of wintering and migration in shorebirds.
Advisor: Dr. Joanna Burger

Lisa Marie Windham

USGS
California

Dissertation Title: Effects of an invasive reedgrass, Phragmites australis, on nitrogen cycling in brackish tidal marsh of New York and New Jersey.
Advisor: Dr. Joan Ehrenfeld

1999 M.S.

 

Michelle Arbogast

 

Thesis Title: The use of raccoons as bioindicators of radiocesium contamination
Advisor: Dr. Joanna Burger

 

Albert Gates

 

Thesis title: The impact of intensive deer browse and invasive alien plants on breeding bird communities at Morristown National Historical Park
Advisor: Dr. Charles Leck

 

Eliza Goodwin

 

Thesis title: The influence of some environmental factors on germination and early seedling growth of Narthecium americanum Ker Gawler (Liliaceae)
Advisor: Dr. Jean Marie Hartman

 

Stacy Hagan

 

Thesis title:Temporal variations of the pelagic fish assemblage in a southern New Jersey estuary.
Advisor: Dr. Ken Able

 

Christine Lord

 

Thesis Title: Raccoon (Procyon lotor) as a bioindicator of mercury contamination at the United States Department of Energy's Savannah River site.
Advisor: Dr. Joanna Burger

 

Sherry Meyer

 

Thesis title: Habitat use, spatial dynamics, and stopover ecology of red knots on Delaware Bay.
Advisor: Dr. Joanna Burger

 

Rena Price

 

Advisor: Dr. Joanna Burger

 

Amy Tamulevicus

 

Advisor: Dr. Kathleen Scott

 

1998 Ph.D.

James Baxter

Associate Professor
Sacramento State Univeristy
Sacramento, CA

Dissertation title: Ectomycorrhizal community structure and host tree performance in human-altered forest ecosystems.
Advisor: Dr. Steward T.A. Pickett

 

Margot R. Bram

Postdoc
Philadephia Academy of Natural Sciences
1900 Ben Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 1103

Dissertation title: Sex expression, sex-specific traits, and inbreeding depression in freshwater and salt marsh populations of Amaranthus cannabinus (L.) Sauer (Amaranthaceae), a dioecious annual.

Advisor: Dr. James Quinn

 

Mary Cadenasso

Assistant Professor of Urban Ecology
Department of Plant Sciences
University of California, Davis

Dissertation title: Linking forest edge structure to edge function: An experimental and synthetic approach.

Advisor: Dr. Steward T.A. Pickett

Laura Lynch

Sierra Club
Mercer County, NJ

Dissertation Title: Sulfate and carbon limitation at McDonald's Branch cedar swamp, Lebanon State Forest, New Lisbon, New Jersey
Advisor: Dr. Mark Morgan

Jill McGrady-Steed

Parent and Potter
Chapel Hill, NC

Dissertation title: Causes and consequences of biodiversity in experimental aquatic microcosms
Advisor: Dr. Peter Morin

Andrew Peek

Director of Bioinformatics
Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc.

Coralville, IA 52241

Dissertation title: Phylogenetic analyses of clams in the family Vesicomyidae and their chemoautotrophic gill symbionts 
Advisor: Dr. Robert Vrijenhoek

Scott Ruhren

Director of Properties
Rhode Island Audubon Society

Dissertation Title: The role of extrafloral nectaries in mutualisms, herbivory, and plant defense of Chamaecrista nictitans .
Advisor: Dr. Steven Handel

Linda C. (Seitz) Smith

Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
The Richard Stockton College of NJ
PO Box 195
Pomona, NJ 08240

Dissertation title: Hormones, behavior, and integumental coloration of a male lizard (Scelporus undulatus) in response to conspecific social interactions
Advisor: Dr. Henry John-Alder

Timothy Shank

Assistant Scientist in Biology
Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst
Woods Hole, MA 02543

Dissertation title: Temporal and spatial development of communities at nascent deep-sea hydrothermal vents and evolutionary relationships of hydrothermal-vent caridean shrimp (Bresiliidae)
Advisor: Dr. Richard Lutz

 

Eric Weissberger

U.S. Envvironmental Protection Agency
Atlantic Ecology Division
27 Tarzwell Drive
Narragansett, RI 02882

Dissertation title: The effects of predation on recruitment of the surfclam, Spisula solidissima
Advisor: Dr. Judith Grassle

Mary Yurlina

Certification Specialist
Maine Organic Framers and Gardeners Association
Unity, Maine

Dissertation title: Bee mutualists and plant reproduction in urban woodland restorations
Advisor: Dr. Steven Handel

1998 M.S.

 

Rajaseki Bandaru

 

Advisor: Dr. Jody Hey

 

Kier De Leo

Thesis Title: Responses of herring gull chicks to simulated predators, and lead's effects on those responses
Advisor: Dr. Joanna Burger

 

Dale Haroski

 

Thesis title: Fish assemblages of inlet beaches in a southern New Jersey estuary
Advisor: Dr. Ken Able

 

Yuan He

 

Advisor: Dr. Joan Ehrenfeld


1997 Ph.D.

Elizabeth Elle

Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
Canada

Dissertation title: Sex allocation and reproductive success in an andromonoecious perennial plant, Solanum carolinense L. (Solanaceae)
Advisor: Dr. Thomas Meagher

Gabrielle Vivian-Smith

Senior Scientist
Alan Fletcher Research Station
PO Box 36
27 Magazine Street
Sherwood QLD 4075
Australia

Dissertation title: Small-scale spatial heterogeneity, diversity and community structure in regenerating plant communities.
Advisor: Dr. Steward T.A. Pickett

Susan Watts

 

Address Unknown

Dissertation title: Denitrification, organic matter decomposition, and N mineralization in organic and mineral soils of two riparian ecosystems
Advisor: Dr. Mark Morgan

 

Joseph Zurovchak

Associate Professor
Orange County Community College
115 South Street
Middletown, NY 10940

Dissertation title: Nutritional role of high-lipid fruits in the diet of migrant thrushes
Advisor: Dr. Edmund Stiles

1997 M.S.

 

Marnita Chintala

 

Advisor: Dr. Judy Grassle

 

Catherine Devlin

 

Thesis title: Population Dynamics and Habitat Selection of EasternWild Turkeys in the Southern Pinelands of New Jersey
Advisor: Dr. Donald Caccamise

 

Nancy Juette

 

Advisor: Dr. Terry McGuire

 

Steven Litvin

 

Thesis title: Trophic linkages between juvenile fishes and organic sources in three northeastern estuaries as indicated by stable isotope ratios
Advisor: Dr. Samuel Wainwright

 

Malcolm Martin

 

Thesis title: Trace metals in pinnipeds from Long Island, NY and surrounding waters.
Advisor: Dr. Joanna Burger

 

Leslie Shank

 

Thesis title: Seedling emergence and growth, and avian fruit removal of eight crabapple (Mallus spp.) cultivars proposed for woodland restoration.
Advisor: Dr. Steven Handel

 

Jason Stout

 

Thesis title: Mercury patterns in wood duck eggs and features from contaminated reservoirs of the Savannah River site
Advisor: Dr. Joanna Burger

 

Aviva Zuller

 

Thesis title: Natural re-establishment of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae in five closed municipal landfills
Advisor: Dr. Joan Ehrenfeld

 

 

1996 Ph.D.

Michael Black

Faculty
Academic Computing Health Sciences
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22908-0555

Dissertation title: Population and evolutionary genetics of hydrothermal vent and cold-seep tube worms: phylum Vestimentifera Jones.
Advisor: Dr. Robert Vrijenhoek

Jerald Dosch

Visiting Assistant Professor of Ecology and Environmental Science
Biology Department

Macalester College
1600 Grand Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55105

Dissertation title: Influence of nestling diet and salt tolerance on adult movement and foraging patterns : field studies of the laughing gull (Larus atricilla).
Advisor: Dr. Donald Caccamise

Robert W. Gerwien

Project Leader
Pharmacogenomics
555 Long Wharf Drive, 13th Floor
New Haven, CT 06511

Dissertation title: Thyroid regulation of growth and behavior in lizards
Advisor: Dr. Henry John-Alder

Holly Hilton

Principal Scientist
Hoffman-LaRoche, NJ

Dissertation title: Speciation and molecular evolution in the Drosophila virilis species group
Advisor: Dr. Jody Hey

 

Mark Laska

CEO
Great Eastern Ecology, Inc
666 Broadway, Suite 820
NY, NY 10012

Dissertation Title: Predicting the strength of competitive interactions from body sizes of zooplankton: Tests using experimental microcosms.
Advisor: Dr. Peter Morin

Paul McMillan

Chair
Pure and Applied Sciences Division - Biology
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
British Columbia, Canada V7J 3H5

Dissertation title: Ecological interactions and the maintenance of sex: studies with experimental populations of the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila.
Advisor: Dr. Peter Morin

Paula Maas

Assistant Dean
College of New Jersey
2000 Pennington Road
Ewing, NJ

 

Dissertation Title: Genetic and Phenetic Differneces in Two Biotypes of the Fall Armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
Advisor: Dr. Timothy Casey

Lawrence Niles

Chief (retired), Non-Game and Endangered Species Program
NJ Division of Fish and Wildlife
P.O. Box 400
Trenton, NJ 08625-0400

Advisor: Dr. Joanna Burger

Victoria Schmalhofer 

Parent

Dissertation  title: The effects of biotic and abiotic factors on predator-prey interactions in old-field flower-head communities
Advisor: Dr. Timothy Casey

 

1996 M.S.

 

Lisa Sue Boyles

 

Thesis title: The use of compost amendments and seed additions for the establishment of permanent vegetation.
Advisor: Dr. Jean Marie Hartman

 

Susannah Graedel

 

Advisor: Dr. Charles Leck

 

Suifen Lyu

 

Thesis title: Attempted hybridization between the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin) and two Asian oysters, C. gigas (Thunberg) and C. rivularis (Gould) using bridging crosses.
Advisor: Dr. S. Allen

 

Denise Royle

 

Thesis title: Monitoring hemlock decline in northern New Jersey
Advisor: Dr. Richard Lathrop



1995 Ph.D.

Clark Craddock

Instructor
Univ. South Florida
4303 E. Fowler Ave.
Tampa, FL 33620

Dissertation title: Molecular systematics and gene flow of deep-sea hydrothermal vent and cold-water methane/sulfide seep mollusks
Advisor: Dr. Robert Vrijenhoek

Balachander Ganesan

Representative and Head of South Asia Programs
Ford Foundation
New Delhi,
India

Dissertation title: Fire, grazing, and extraction of non-timber forest products in the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve, southern India : implications for forest policy, sustainable use and local economies
Advisor: Dr. David Ehrenfeld

 

Ellen Pehek

Ecologist
City of New York Parks & Recreation
Natural Resources Group
Arsenal North, Room 237
1234 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10029

Dissertation title: The ecology of larval Hyla andersonii (Anura: Hylidae): the effects of predation by aquatic insects, competition with larval anurans and pH
Advisor: Dr. Peter Morin

Jorge Saliva

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
PO Box 491
Carr 301 KM 5.1, BO Corozo
Boqueron 00322, Puerto Rico

Dissertation title: The importance of vegetation in the ecology and behavior of Sooty Terns in a Caribbean colony.
Advisor: Dr. Joanna Burger

 

David Shealer

Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
Loras College
Dubuque, Iowa 52004-0178

Dissertation title: Comparative foraging ecology of roseate and sandwich terns in Puerto Rico and its relation to breeding performance
Advisor: Dr. Joanna Burger

Kelly Smith

Assistant Professor
Biology Department
University of N. Florida
4567 St. John's Bluff Rd.
South Jacksonville, FL 32224

Dissertation title: Processes regulating habitat use by salt marsh nekton in a Southern New Jersey estuary.
Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Able

David Witting

Fish Ecologist NOAA/MSRP
501 West Ocean Blvd, Suite 4470
Long Beach, CA 90802

Dissertation title: Settlement of winter flounder, Pleuronectes americanus, in a southern New Jersey estuary: spatial and temporal dynamics and the effect of decapod predation.
Advisor: Dr. Ken Able

Weixing Zhu

Associate Professor
Department of Biological Science
SUNY Binghamton
PO Box 6000
Binghamton, NY 13902

Dissertation title: The effects of mycorrhizal roots on soil organisms ,litter decomposition and nutrient dynamics in the New Jersey Pinelands.
Advisor: Dr. Joan Ehrenfeld

1995 M.S.

 

Constantine Georgiadis

 

Advisor: Dr. Joanna Burger

 

Nicholas P.A. Leahy

 

Advisor: Dr. Jody Hey

 

Kathleen LoGiudice

 

Thesis title: Control of Baylisascaris procyonis (Nematoda) in racoons (Procyon lotor) through the use of anthelminthic baits : a potential method for reducing mortality in the Allegheny woodrat (Neotoma floridana magister).
Advisor: Dr. Kathleen Scott

 

Elizabeth Obee

 

Thesis title: Comparative phenotypic plasticity and life history of Schizachyrium scoparium from grassland and forest biomes
Advisor: Dr. James Quinn

 

Daniel Russell

 

Advisor: Dr. Charles Leck

 

Angela Salvemini

 

Thesis title: Wetland plant community response to elevated nutrients associated with septic systems in the New Jersey Pinelands
Advisor: Dr. Thomas Meagher

 

Sarada Sangameswaran

 

Thesis title: Nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics in white-cedar, hardwood and pine wetlands in the New Jersey Pinelands
Advisor: Dr. Joan Ehrenfeld

 

Janet Wang-Lee

 

Thesis title: DNA fingerprinting for the determination of paternity in a natural population of lizards (Sceloporus undulatus).
Advisor: Dr. Henry John-Alder



1994 Ph.D.

John Brzorad

Assistant Professor
Forsyth Technical Community College
2100 Silas Creek Parkway
Winston-Salem, NC 27103

Dissertation title: Resource predictability and the information center hypothesis
Advisor: Dr. Joanna Burger

 

David Bushek

Associate Professor
Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Haskins Shellfish Laboratory
Rutgers University
6959 Miller Avenue
Port Norris, NJ 08349

Dissertation title: Dermo disease in American oysters : genetics of host-parasite interactions
Advisor: Dr. Standish Allen

 

Thomas Fikslin

Branch Head
DRBC Modeling and Monitoring
Delaware River Basin Commission
P.O. BOX 7360
West Trenton, NJ 08628-0360

Dissertation title: Modeling toxicity to aquatic life in the tidal Delaware River 

Advisor: Dr. Joanna Burger

 

Oscar Gaggiotti

Senior Scientist
Metapopulation Research Group
Department of Ecology and Systematics
PO Box 65 (Viikinkaari 1)
00014 University of Helsinki
FINLAND

Dissertation title: Non-equilibrium models in population genetics : stochastic migration and source-sink metapopulations
Advisor: Dr. Peter Smouse

Steve Garber

Field Ecologist
Westchester Parks, Recreation and Conservation
12 Cedarwood Road
White Plains, NY 10605

Dissertation title: Reproductive strategies : winter behavior and ecology, and conservation of the North American wood turtle (Clemmys insculpta)
Advisor: Dr. Joanna Burger

 

Dennis Gemmell

 

Address Unknown

Dissertation title: The natural history and ecology of the bog turtle (Clemmys muhlenbergii)

Advisor: Dr. Timothy Casey

Lynn Kurzava

 

Postdoc
University of Wisconsin

Dissertation Title: The structure of prey communities: Effects of predator identity and geographic variation in predators.
Advisor: Dr. Peter Morin

 

Richard McBride

Assoc. Res. Scientist
Florida Marine Research Institute
100 8th Avenue S.E.
St. Petersburg, FL 33701-5095

Dissertation title: Comparative ecology and life history of two temperate, northwestern
Atlantic Searobins, Prionotus carolinus and P. evolans (Pisces: Triglidae)
Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Able

1994 M.S.

Scott Castro

 

Advisor: Dr. Joan Ehrenfeld

 

Ole Folmer

 

Thesis title: DNA primers for amplification of mitochondrial cytochrome C oxidase
subunit I from diverse metazoan invertebrates
Advisor: Dr.Robert Vrijenhoek

 

Helen Forgione

 

Advisor: Jean Marie Hartman

 

Jacques Hill III

 

Thesis title: Factors influencing the structure of Pine Barrens snake communities
Advisor: Dr. Joanna Burger

 

Eileen Maher

 

Advisor: Dr. Charles Leck

 

James McDougal

 

Advisor: Dr. David Ehrenfeld

 

Robert Manson


Thesis title: Factors influencing the foraging behavior of white-footed mice : consequences for tree seed survival in old-fields .
Advisor: Dr. Edmund Stiles

 

Joan Roth

 

Advisor: Dr. Steven Handel


1993 Ph.D.

Meryl Camhi

Acting Director, Living Oceans Program
National Audubon Society
550 South Bay Avenue
Islip, NY 11751

Dissertation title: The role of nest site selection in loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) nest success and sex ratio control.
Advisor: Dr. David Ehrenfeld

Martin Christ

 

Address Unknown

Dissertation title: Investigating the role of base cation and ammonium deposition in soil and soil-water acidification at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, New Hampshire.
Advisor: Dr. Gene Likens

Andrew Draxler

Scientist
NMFS Howard Labs, Sandy Hook, NJ
74 McGruder Rd.
Highlands, NJ 07732

Dissertation title: The influence of sediment biogeochemistry on soft-bottom marine benthos.
Advisor: Dr. Robert Loveland

Robert Jordan

Regional Biologist, Ducks Unlimited
One DeKorte Park Plaza
Lyndhurst, NJ 07071

Dissertation title: The ecology of Clethra alnifolia L. (Clethraceae) in wetland forests of central New Jersey
Advisor: Dr. Jean Marie Hartman

Kathleen Weathers

Associate Scientist
Head of Laboratory Services
Inst. of Ecosystem Studies
Box AB
Millbrook, NY 12545-0129

Dissertation title: The effect of four landscape features on atmospheric deposition to Hunter Mountain, New York
Advisor: Dr. Gene Likens

 

Dushyantha Wijesinghe

Lecturer
School of Biological Sciences
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton BN19QG
UK

Dissertation title: The population Ecology of Clonal Growth in the Herb Potentilla simplex.
Advisor: Dr. Steven Handel

1993 M.S.

Elizabeth Haynes

 

Advisor: Dr. Judy Grassle

William Walton

 

Thesis title: Invasion of the Hudson River Estuary (N.Y., U.S.A.) by the zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha.
Advisor: Dr. Fred Grassle

 

Martha Windisch

 

Thesis title: Macrophyte tissue cation concentrations and their relation to stream surface water chemistry and interstitial water chemistry in the New Jersey Pinelands
Advisor: Dr. Mark Morgan

1992 Ph.D.

William Boarman

Research Wildlife Biologist
USGS, Western Ecological Research Center
San Diego Field Station
5745 Kearny Villa Road, Suite M
San Diego, CA 92123

Dissertation title: The evolution of avian song : a study of the impact of sound propagation on animal communication
Advisor: Dr. Joanna Burger

 

Kashane Chalermwat

Chair
Department of Aquatic Science
Burapha University Bangsean
Chonburi,,Thailand

Dissertation title: Utilization of marine bacteria as a food source by Mulinia lateralis (Say) (Bivalvia: Mactridae)
Advisor: Dr. Richard Lutz

 

Hélène Cyr

Professor
Department of Zoology
University of Toronto
25 Harbord Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G5

Dissertation title: Magnitude and patterns of herbivory in aquatic communities
Advisor: Dr. Gene Likens

Ya-Ping Hu

Research Technician
Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine
Shen Lab, Room 225/227
679 Hoes Lane
Piscataway, NJ 08854

Dissertation title: Identification and genetic analysis of early life history stages of oysters
Advisor: Dr. Richard Lutz

José Facelli

Senior Lecturer
Environmental Biology
The University of Adelaide
SA 5005
AUSTRALIA

Dissertation title: Plant litter : direct and indirect effects in oldfield plant communities
Advisor: Dr. Steward T.A. Pickett

 

Sharon Lawler

Professor
Department of Entomology
University of California, Davis
1 Shields Ave.
Davis, CA 95616

Dissertation Title: Effects of community structure on protist population dynamics in experimental microcosms.
Advisor: Dr. Peter Morin


Chris Peterson

Professor
Department of Botany
2502 Plant Sciences
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602 - 7271

Dissertation title: The role of history and patch dynamics in the revegetation of a catastrophic windthrow in an old-growth Beech-Hemlock forest
Advisor: Dr. Steward T.A. Pickett

 

Richard Pouyat

USDA Forest Service
Room #134, Technology Research Center Building
5200 Westland Boulevard
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Baltimore, Md. 21227

Dissertation title: Soil characteristics and litter dynamics in mixed deciduous forests along an urban-rural gradient
Advisor: Dr. Steward T. A. Pickett

 

Rodney Rountree

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Natural Resources Conservation
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003-9285

Dissertation Title: Fish and macroinvertebrate community structure and habitat use patterns in salt marsh creeks of southern New Jersey, with a  discussion of marsh carbon export.

Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Able

1992 M.S.

Paul Bovitz

 

Advisor: Dr. Charles Leck

 

Elizabeth Johnson

 

American Museum of Natural History
New York, NY

Thesis title: Effects of grazing by anuran tadpoles on periphyton assemblages
in experimental pond communities.
Advisor: Dr. Peter Morin

 

David Shealer

 

Thesis title: Behavioral and ecological factors affecting reproductive success
in a threatened population of tropical Roseate Terns
Advisor: Dr. Joanna Burger

 

Jeffery Sigadel

 

Advisor: Dr. Edmund Stiles

 

Laura Wagner

 

Thesis title: Equitability of parental investment in laughing gulls
Advisor: Dr. Joanna Burger

1991 Ph.D.

Martin Cipollini

Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Biology
Berry College
PO Box 430
Mount Berry, GA 30149

Dissertation title: Chemical defense of ripe fruits : antifungal defense versus frugivore
attraction in the family Ericaceae
Advisor: Dr. Edmund Stiles

 

Mark Powell

Fellow, Center for Risk Management
Resources for the Future
1616 P Street NW
Washington, DC 20036-1400

Dissertation title: An M-estimator model for federal forest policy decision-making:
an example of quantitative decision analysis with a normative basis
Advisor: Edwin Green

 

Gudrun Marteinsdottir

Scientist
Marine Research Institute
Reykjavík, Iceland

Dissertation title: Early life history variation of the Mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus):
egg size variation and its significance in reproduction and survival of eggs and larvae
Advisor: Dr. Robert Vrijenhoek

 

Joseph Quattro

Associate Professor
Biological Sciences and Marine Science
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208

Dissertation title: Modes of origin and relative evolutionary ages of unisexual
fish clones (Poeciliopsis: Poeciliidae)
Advisor: Dr. Robert Vrijenhoek

 

Stephen Weeks

Associate Professor
Department of Biology
185 ASEC-W
University of Akron
Akron, OH 44325-3908

Dissertation title: The short term advantages of sexual reproduction : theoretical and experimental tests
Advisor: Dr. Robert Vrijenhoek 

 

1990 Ph.D.

 

Khadga Basnet

Professor
Department of Zoology
Tribhuvan University
Kathmandu, Nepal

Dissertation title: Studies of ecological and geological factors controlling the pattern of tabonuco forests in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico
Advisor: Dr. Gene Likens

 

Jill Pecon Slattery

Staff Scientist
Laboratory of Genomic Diversity
National Cancer Institute
Building 560, Room 21-105
Frederick, MD 21702-1201

Dissertation title: Genetic diversity, growth and survival in differentially distributed populations of the hard clam, Mercenaria mercenaria .
Advisor: Dr. Richard Lutz

 

Herweasono Soedjito

Researcher
Herbarium Bogoriense
Bogor, Indonesia

 

Susan Sogard
Chief, Ecology Branch
National Marine Fisheries Service, Santa Cruz Laboratory
110 Shaffer Road
Santa Cruz, CA 95060

 

Dwight Stoltzfus
Science Teacher
Plymouth Whitemarsh High School
201 Germantown Pike
Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462

 

Robert Zampella
Chief Scientist
New Jersey Pinelands Commission
PO Box 7
15 Springfield Road
New Lisbon, New Jersey 08064

1989 Ph.D.

Dale Kennedy
Professor and Chair
Department of Biology
Albion College
611 E. Porter St.
Albion, MI 49224

 

Richard Orson

Address Unknown

 

Philip Stouffer
Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Box 10736
Southeastern Louisiana University
Hammond, Louisiana 70402

 

Dissertation Title: Asynchronous hatching, brooding reduction, and the adaptive significance of early incubation in the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
Advisor: Dr. Harry Power

Greggory Transue
Director, Gateway Program
Division of Life Sciences, Rutgers
Allison Rd., Classroom Bldg.214
618 Allison Rd., Busch Campus
Piscataway, NJ 08855

Douglas White
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
Albion College
611 E. Porter St.
Albion, MI 49224

 

1989 M.S.

 

Charles Bristow

Thesis title: Interactions between phylogenetically distant predators:a salamander (Notopthalmus viridescens) and a fish (Enneacanthus obesus)
Advisor: Dr. Peter Morin

 

Beverly Hahn

Thesis Title: The effects of water deficit stress on wetland plant species.
Advisor: Dr. Joan Ehrenfeld

Sami Kahn
Science Supervisor

Collegiate School

New York City, NY

 

Advisor: Dr. Robert Loveland

1988 Ph.D.

Raymond Grizzle
Research Associate Professor of Zoology

Director. Jackson Estuarine Lab

85 Adams Point Road

Durham, NH 03824

 

Dissertation Title: The relative effects of tidal currents, seston and bottom sediments on individual growth of Mercenaria mercenaria (Linne): Feeding ecology and aquacultural implications.
Advisor: Drs. Richard Lutz and Judith Weis

 

Joel Muraoka

Address Unknown

 

Francis Roesch
Mathematical Statistician

USDA Forest Service

Southern Research Station

1 60A Zillicoa St.

P.O. Box 2750

Asheville, NC 28802

 

Russell Schenck

Address Unknown

Jeffrey Wetherington
Director

Non Clinical/Phase I Biometrics

DuPont Pharmaceuticals Company

Wilmington, DE 19880

Wade Worthen
Professor
Biology Department
Furman University
Greenville, SC 29613

Dissertation Title: The Effects of Resource Distribution, Facilitation and Predation
on the Structure of Mycophagus Fly Communities: Manipulations of  Model System.
Advisor: Dr. Terry McGuire

1988 M.S.

Walter Carson
Associate Professor
Biological Sciences
University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA

 

Thesis title: The role of resources and disturbance in the organization of an oldfield plant community

Advisor: Dr. Steward T.A. Pickett

 

1986 M.S.

Sharon Lawler (Ph.D 1992)

Professor
Department of Entomology

University of California, Davis

1 Shields Ave.

Davis, CA 95616

Thesis title: Behavorial responses of four species of anuran larvae to predators.
Advisor: Dr. Peter Morin

Margaret Mc Alary

Thesis Title: Predicting measured heights from Diameters: An evaluation of various rules for subsampling hardwood tree heights.
Advisor: Dr. Edwin Green

1987 Ph.D.

 

Robert Hedin
President

Hedin Environmental

195 Castle Shannon Boulevard

Pittsburgh, PA 15228

 

Linda Romagnano
Product Mananger

National Labnet Co., Inc.

Woodbridge , NJ

 

Carl Safina
Founder and President

Blue Ocean Institute

Box 2383

Amagansett, NY 11930

 

1986 Ph.D.

 

Mary Gastrich
Division of Science, Research and Technology

NJ Department of Environmental Protection

PO Box 409

Trenton, NJ 08625-0409

 

John Graham
Reid Professor of Biology

Department of Biology

Berry College

P.O. Box 430

Mount Berry, GA 30149-0430

 

Dissertation Title: Niche otogeny and progressive deviation in two congeneric sunfishes, Enneacanthus obesus and E. gloriosus (Centrarchidae).
Advisor: Dr. Robert Vrijenhoek

 

Mark Kraus
Deputy Director

Audubon of Florida

444 Brickell Ave., Suite 850
Miami, Florida 33131

 

Cynthia Mackie

Address Unknown

 

Stephen Turner

Address Unknown

 

1986 M.S.

John Nemjo

Thesis Title: The impact of colonization history  and vertebrate predation on larval odonates (Odonata: Anisoptera) in a Central New Jersey farm pond.

 

1985 Ph.D.

 

Katharine Parsons

Address Unknown

 

David Smart

Address Unknown

 

Sharon Wander
Wander Ecological Consultants

28 Warner Road

Newton, NJ 07860-5059

 

1984 Ph.D.

 

Jon Gabry

Address Unknown

 

Michael Lombardo
Professor

Biology Department

Grand Valley State University

1 Campus Drive.

Allendale, MI 49401

 

Gary Shugart
Curator of Collections

Slater Museum of Natural History

University of Puget Sound
Tacoma, WA 98416

1983 Ph.D.

 

Stephen Brown
Research Scientist,
Environmental Protection Agency
MD

Mary Fitch

Address Unknown

 

MaryAnn Foote
Director, Global Regulatory Writing
Amgen, Inc.
One Amgen Center Drive, M/S 24-1-C
Thousand Oaks, CA 91320-1799

Dissertation title:

Advisor: Dr. Robert Loveland

 

Walter MacDonald

Address Unknown

 

Thane Pratt
Wildlife Biologist

Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center
Biological Resources Division
U.S. Geological Survey
Volcano, Hawaii

Patrick Slavin

Address Unknown

1982 Ph.D.

 

Jill Grover Olla

Address Unknown

 

Alice Tempel

Env. Officer for S. Plainfield, NJ

1981 Ph.D.

Thomas Lemke

Address Unknown

 

Andrew Marinucci
Research Scientist I

New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection

Division of Mitigation, Remediation, and Monitoring

Bureau of Environmental Evaluation and Risk Assessment

P.O. Box 413

Trenton, NJ 08625-0413

 

Teruo Sugihara
Section Chief, Bureau of Environmental Evaluation and Risk Assessment New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
401 East State St.

PO Box 413

Trenton NJ 08625

 

Raymond Walker

Address Unknown

Bonnie Zimmer
Division of Science and Research
NJ DEP

1980 Ph.D.

Sharona Barazilay

Address Unknown

Barry Fraso
Assistant Director
Division of Remediation Management and Response
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
401 E. State Street

Box 413
Trenton, NJ 08625

 

Didahally Govindaraju

Address Unknown

Anne Reynolds

Address Unknown

1979 Ph.D.

 

Frederik Schlauch

Address Unknown

1978 Ph.D.

Robert Kosinski

Address Unknown