Current
Lab Members
Joy Smith
 | Joy
is a graduate student at SoMAS working in my lab. Her thesis work
involved collecting material property measurements on live zooplankton
in the Bering Sea. While on the boat, she spent some time helping
process and sort pollock. |
Lauren Bohrer
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Lauren is a summer student in the REU program at Stony Brook University. She currently attends Coastal
Carolina University.
Her research project involves examining gas production by submerged
aquatic vegetation. These data are important for developing acoustic
models of the scattering from seagrasses, as well as biologically and
ecologically important for the animals that live in, beneath, and
amongst the seagrass meadows.
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Team
Dolphin
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Several students are/have
volunteering in my
lab to analyze several months worth of recordings from a rescued
dolphin that was rehabilitated at the Riverhead
Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation.
We are working with Rob DiGiovanni and others at the foundation to see
if the dolphin's vocalizations varied with time, stimulus and other
factors.
There are lots of sounds to be listened to and analyzed so if you are
interested in this project, please let me know.
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Former
Lab Members
Krissy Forman
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I am a Master’s
student at Stony
Brook
University
and am interested in using acoustics to look at different biological
aspects of the ocean. I
am conducting a data analysis of Antarctic zooplankton
populations collected through acoustics and net samples. I also am
collecting local invertebrates and measring their material properties
to improve acoustic models of these animals. |
Rachel Goodale
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Rachel
and
Emily were Team Ctenophore and worked on ctenophore and other
zooplankton abundances in the local bays of Long Island as part of a
SCERP project. They measured feeding rates for ctenophores as well as
how their abundance changed over the course of the summer. Rachel is
continuing her studies at Stony Brook University, while Emily has moved
on to the Univ. of Massachusetts (Go Red Sox !).
[Summer 2007]
I am also looking for students interested in continuing and expanding
this research project.
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Emily Olesin
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Libby Beckman
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I am a recent graduate of Harvey Mudd
College
and plan to continue on to graduate school in ecology in the
near future. However, before pursuing further education, I am taking
some time to explore different aspects of ecology, like acoustics,
through direct research experience. This winter I am investigating the
impact of biological and physical factors on the distribution of
Antarctic Krill around Livingston Island, Antarctica. To do this, I
identify krill patches from acoustic survey data and look for patterns
in the distribution. [Fall 2006 - Spring 2007, Libby is
currently in the Sierra Nevada Mountains conducting bird
research.] |
Joy Smith
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I'm a senior marine science
major at Coastal
Carolina University
who has wanted to be a marine scientist since the age of five. Now I'm
fulfilling that dream! I'm interested in using acoustics to understand
water column ecology and how physical properties may influence the
surrounding biology. The project I worked on in the lab during the
summer of 2006 includes measuring the density of different
zooplankton groups and the speed at which sound travels through their
bodies. Both measurements will be used acoustically to more accurately
estimate the population of zooplankton in a given area. [Summer 2006]
Joy's research has resulted in an upcoming publication in the Journal
of the Acoustical Society of America ! Congratulations Joy.
Joy
escaped for a year and worked for the Navy Oceanographic office,
however her love of zooplankton was strong and she has returned to New
work and is now a graduate student working in my lab. |
Jordan Mertes
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I am begining my senior year in
the physics program at the University
of Nebraska at Omaha and minoring
in geology. During the summer of 2006, I worked in the field of
Acoustic
Oceanography here at Stony
Brook Southampton. My work focuses on detecting the
photosynthetically caused backscatter fluctuations within the water
column caused by eelgrass and phytoplankton, and getting a real nice
tan. In the future I plan to become a professor in some field of
oceanography or geoscience. [Summer 2006] |
Alexandre Nicolas
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A
French student at the Lycee
Louis le Grand, Paris ,
I have
completed my first year in Higher Education,. I study Maths and
Physics and I am due to take examinations to enter an Engineering
School (“Grande Ecole”) at the
end of next year. Beside
my study, I am also interested in reading and doing sport.
During
the summer of 2006, I was involved in a two-month long REU (Research
Experience
for Undergraduates) program. My research program deals with
acoustics and its
application to Marine Science. My first objective is to construct an
array of transducers that can be immersed in seawater.
Thereafter I shall run some experiments so as to determine the
backscatter of some aquatic species under different angles of
orientation and for various frequencies. The final aim of those
experiments consists in being able to exploit field data thanks to
the results they have provided us with. [Summer 2006]
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Elissa Ford
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Elissa was a student at
Southampton
College who worked in the lab for the 2003 and 2004 summers. She used
an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler and a CTD to conduct bathymetric,
hydrographic, and physical oceanographic data in the Long Island
Southern Shore Estuary system as part of a project funded by NY Sea
Grant. In addition, she collected field measurements of the
scattering from submerged aquatic vegetation and collected samples of
eel grass. Elissa and Stephanie were in charge of all field
operations during summer 2004. [Summer and Academic Year 2003 - 2004] |
Stephanie Grassia
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Stephanie was a student at
Southampton College who worked in the lab for
the 2004 summer. She used an Acoustic Doppler Current
Profiler and a CTD to conduct bathymetric, hydrographic, and physical
oceanographic data in the Long Island Southern Shore Estuary system as
part of a project funded by NY Sea Grant. In addition, she
collected
field measurements of the scattering from submerged aquatic vegetation
and collected samples of eel grass. Elissa and Stephanie were
in
charge of all field operations during summer 2004. [Summer and Academic
Year 2004-5] |
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