Recent Graduates of the Florida Atlantic University Department of Biology

Anthony D. Cornett (2006). Ecomorphology of Shark Electroreceptors.
Currently teaching at Valencia Community College in Kissimmee. Advisor: Stephen Kajiura

Brian Garrett (2007).Factors Affecting Wading Bird Prey Concentrations in the Everglades During Dry Season.
Currently an Environmental Scientist with South Florida Water Management District.
Advisor: Dale Gawlik

Heidi K. Herring (2007). Foraging Habitat Selection Modeling and Nesting Ecology of Wood Storks in Everglades Nation Park.
Currently an Environmental Scientist with South Florida Water Management District.
Advisor: Dale Gawlik

David McGowan (2008). Electrorecption in the Euryhaline Stingray, Dasyatis Sabina.
Currently employed with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Advisor: Stephen Kajiura

Louis J. Ambrosio (2008). The Role of Chemorecption and Host-use on the Behavioral Ecology of the Pea Crab Tunicotheres Moseri (Rathbun, 1918) In Tampa Bay, Florida.
Advisor: William R. Brooks

Jeremy R. Conrad (2008). The Effects of Vegetation (Ipomoea Pes-Caprae) on Leatherback (Dermochelys Coriacea) Nest Productivity.
Advisor: Jeanette Wyneken

Alissa C. Deming (2008). Stress Protein and Anti-Apoptotic Protein Expression in Green Turtle (Chelonia Mydas) Fibropapillomatosis.
Advisor: Sarah Milton

Jennifer N. Feagans (2008). Trophic Ecology of the Slender Snipe Eel, Nemichthys Scolopaceus (Anguilliformes: Nemichthyidea).
Advisor: Tracey T. Sutton

Michelle Lynn Green (2008). Assessment of Genetic Population Structure, Promiscuity, and Paternity in Free-Ranging Atlantic Spotted Dolphins, Stenella Frontalis, in the Bahamas.
Advisor: John Baldwin

Rebecca Lean (2008). Taurine Inhibits Glutamate-Induced Excitotoxicity Through a Calpain Dependent Pathway.
Advisor: Howard Prentice

Pushpa G. Soti (2008). Does Water Hyacinth (Echornia Crassipes) Compensate to Defoliation? Implications for Effective Biocontrol.
Advisor: John Volin