Current Graduate Research Fellows
| Term |
Name |
Affiliation |
Research |
| 2011 - 2013 |
Ramona Stammermann |
Drexel University |
The effect of sediment availability and climate change on marsh development in the Delaware Estuary |
| 2011 - 2013 |
Brandon Boyd |
University of Delaware |
Quantifying sediment accretion in impounded marshes of Delaware Estuary using radionuclide chronologies |
Past Graduate Research Fellows
| 2010 - 2011 |
Joshua Moody |
Rutgers University |
The relationship between ribbed mussel (Guekensia demissa) density and salt marsh shoreline erosion. |
| 2008 - 2011 |
Stephanie Stotts |
University of Delaware |
Riparian Restoration of the Blackbird Creek Reserve, New Castle, Delaware
|
| 2008- 2010 |
Susanne Moskalski |
University of Delaware |
Hydrologic and Oceanic Influences on Inter-annual Sea Level and Turbidity in the St Jones River Estuary, Delaware |
| 2005 - 2008 |
Jill Brown |
University of Delaware |
Life and death of the sandbuilder worm: recruitment, tube growth, and winter mortality as determinants of reef formation by Sabellaria vulgaris in Delaware Bay.
|
| 2005 - 2008 |
Brian Boutin |
University of Delaware |
Evaluation of essential fish habitat for juvenile weakfish: comparison of habitat-specific density, growth, feeding and production in selected Delaware marsh creeks and adjacent Delaware Bay.
|
| 2003-2005 |
Anne Mundel |
University of Delaware |
Water quality monitoring in the upper Blackbird Creek component of the Delaware Reserve.
|
| 2003 - 2005 |
Michael League |
University of Delaware |
A comparative study of rhizome growth dynamics of native and non-native stands of Phragmites australis in Delaware, with emphasis on the population dynamics in the Delaware Reserve.
|
| 2001 - 2003 |
Bartholomew Wilson |
University of Delaware |
Late holocene evolution of the St Jones Estuary in the Delaware NERR. Implications for sustaining resources in response to antropogenic impacts.
|
| 2000 - 2003 |
Alexander Parker |
University of Delaware |
Stable isotope tagging to assess the importance of the microbial loop in the Delaware Estuary.
|
| 1999 - 2001 |
Carrie Kopin |
University of Delaware |
Settlement of non-indigenous crabs in Middle Atlantic estuaries.
|
| 1998 - 2000 |
Katherine Bunting-Howarth |
University of Delaware |
Pfisteria piscicida and risk perception in Delaware's estuarine systems: Understanding user group reactions and developing policy strategies.
|
| 1997 - 1999 |
Vinton Valentine |
University of Delaware |
Accelerated sea level rise: its impact on DNERR management
|
| 1997 - 1999 |
Darby Forbes |
University of Delaware |
Managing introductions of marine exotic species to the Lower St Jones River and Delaware Bay region
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For more information about Graduate Research Fellowships and opportunities at the Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve, please contact Dr. Robert Scarborough, Research Coordinator, bob.scarborough@state.de.us and visit: http://www.orcm.nos.noaa.gov/nerr/fellow.html
