Graduate Student Directory
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Rachel Allee B.S. Biology, Palm Beach Atlantic University Thesis topic: Effects of anoxia on temperature tolerance in four local bivalves |
Tristen Biando B.S. Biology, Western Washington University Thesis topic: Plankton physiology in response to ocean acification Year started: 2009 |
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Daniel Bronny B.S. Biology, Loyola University Thesis topic: Evolutionary biology Year started: 2009 |
Nicole Casper B.A. Environmental Science, Oberlin College Thesis topic: Feeding ecology of larval crabs Year started: 2009 |
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Phillip Dugger Thesis topic: Community ecology and plant/herbivore/pollinator interactions. |
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Avram Feld B.S. Biology, Castleton State College Thesis topic: Effects of temperature and brood size on oxygen supply to crab embryos |
Matthew Fisher B.S. Environmental Studies, University of Oregon Thesis topic: Lepidopteran communities as biological indicators of forest habitat quality in Western Washington |
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Amelia Fort B.S. Biology, St. Mary's College Thesis topic: Plankton ecology and predator-prey interactions Year started: 2009 |
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Emily Grason BA in Biology, Bowdoin College Thesis topic: I will be studying invasive species in intertidal ecosystems and exploring potential changes in ecosystem dynamics as a result of novel trophic relationships and trait mediated interactions. |
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Carmen Guerra B.S. Biology, Seattle Pacific University Thesis topic: Identification of Cell Membrane Proteins of the dinoflagellate Symbiodinium bermudense. |
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Samantha Hamlin B.A. with Biology emphasis, Evergreen State College Thesis topic: Predation and heat stress in Aiptasia sp.: A model for coral bleaching. |
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Tasha Johnson B.A. Environmental Studies, Mount Holyoke College Thesis topic: The role of invasive blackberry in native pollination systems Year started: 2008 |
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Mike Levine B.S. Biology, University of Vermont Thesis topic: The effects of season and microhabitat on the distribution and nutritional contributions of two algal symbionts in the intertidal anemone Anthopleura xanthogrammica |
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Chandra Llewellyn B.A. Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz Thesis topic: Climate change modeling and the phylogeography of Eritrichum |
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Sean McAllister Thesis topic: Microbial Ecology at the Mariana forearc Year started: 2008 |
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Sasha McFarland B.A. Biology, University of Colorado Thesis topic: Influence of sex and body mass on harbor seal dive behavior |
Chris Morgan B.S. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Thesis topic: Hatching plasticity of marine snails Year started: 2009 |
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Sean Powers B.S. Biology, George Fox University Thesis topic: The effects of spatial variation in climate on spatiotemporal patterns of energetics in the Western Fence Lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis) |
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Mark Price Office: BI 254 Office phone: 650-3928 Email: Mark.Price@wwu.edu B.S. Biology, Appalachian State University Thesis topic: |
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Virginia Selz B.S. Ocean Earth Sciences, Old Dominion University Thesis topic |
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Zachary Siegrist B.S. in Biology and French, University of Wisconsin-Madison Thesis topic: Temperature and salinity tolerances of the invasive purple varnish clam Nuttallia obscurata, the native littleneck clam Protothaca staminea and the commercially-important Manila clam, Venerupis philippinarum Year started: 2007 |
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Daniel Slakey B.S. Natural Resource Management, University of Alaska Fairbanks Thesis topic: Native-exotic success relationships in view of environmental variables in the vegetation of a Calfornia serpentine grassland. |
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Austen Thomas B.S. Biology, Western Washington University Thesis Topic: The directed movements of harbor seals in the Georgia |
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Megan Twomey Thesis topic:Protein tracking in Petunia pistils Year started: 2006 |
Dan van Hees B.S. Biology, University of Wyoming Thesis topic: Oxidative stress in marine algae Year started: 2009 |
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Colin Wahl B.S. Biological Anthropology, Western Washington University Thesis Topic: The biotic, abiotic, and chemical effects of specific anthropogenic disturbance regimes on the biological integrity of lowland streams and the efficacy of riparian buffers in mitigating detrimental stream conditions. |




















