Research Projects 2003

STUDENT		PROJECT TITLE
	Jill Bible	Changes in Coral Morphologies and Total Coral Cover with Depth: Kingman Reef and Palmyra Atoll
	Lynda Browning	Coral: Calculation of DevastationDisease, Bleaching, and Health of the Palmyra Back Reef
	Lacy Caruthers and Shannon Wood	Water Flow Rates and Coral Morphology at Palmyra Atoll
	Russel Chaput, Andrew Modlin, Chris Rydz and Jaime Budzynkiewicz	'Island-Mass Effect' and its Role in Increasing Biological Production of the Water Surrounding Hawaii, Christmas Island and Jarvis Island
	Alice Chiu	Physical Properties of Lagoonal Waters at an Atoll 60 Years after Antrophgenic Disturbance
	Alec Clowes and Ben Reineman	The Effect of Island Generated Flow Disturbances on Chlorophyll Distribution: A Study in the Vicnity of Palmyra Atoll
	Allison Dellner	Bathymetric Slope Comparison of the Hawaiian Islands and the Palmyra Atoll
	Will Diamond, Giovanni Poles, Roman Shor and Lieva Whitbeck	Seamount Growth and Collapse, An Investigation of Pacific Seamount Morphology
	Shanna Dunn, Rebecca Bartlett and Eric Eilbacher	Seamounts of the Central Pacific:A study of the Effects of Upwelling and Taylor Columns on the Thermocline andPhytoplankton Abundance at Pensacola, Seadragon, and Spike Seamounts
	Cara Ellis	The Concentration of the Deep Chlorophyll Maximum (DCM), its VerticalLocation in Reference to Light, Nutrient Availability and Thermocline Depthin the Central Pacific
	Nicole Fancher	Physical and Chemical Influences on Halobates micans and Halobates sericeus in the Central Pacific
	Val Hastings, Rachel Philbrick, Jenna Marie Sullivan and Seisei Tatebe-Goddu	Regional Variation in Primary and Secondary Production within the Central Pacific Water Column
	Whitney P. Hopkins	Habitat Mapping of Palmyra
	Jared Kosin and Abby Lowell	A Regional and Depth Analysis of Photosynthetic Efficiency in Phytoplankton in the Central Pacific Ocean
	Rachael Kefalos	The Formation of the Barrier Layer in the Subtropical Waters of the Central Pacific Ocean
	Orion Lakota	Correlation of TOPEX/Poseidon Satellite Altimetry Data and In Situ Measurements of Physical Oceanographic Characteristics Between Hawaii and Palmyra Atoll
	Scott MacLellan, Rhea Davis, Daniel Silva, Drew Horsburgh, Chanel Jencks, Natasha Horvath	The Effects of Major Currents on Biota and Nutrient Distribution in the Equatorial Pacific
	Helen McLendon	High Abundance and Low Diversity in Conus Populationson the Intertidal Benches of Palmyra Atoll
	Amanda Netburn	Patterns of Prey Selectivity by Myctophidae in the North Pacific Gyre and Equatorial Countercurrent
	Laryssa Ohlson and Alexandra Frank	Nutrient Levels Effect on Zooplankton Between the Islands of Hawaii and Palmyra
	Sarah J. Pilzer, Rachel A. Reynolds, Nickie A. Scesny, and Marit D. Wilson	Correlation Between Increased Productivity and Vertical Water Mass Movement as Affected by Mesoscale Eddy Size and Velocity
	Simon Pyle	Chromatophore Patterning and Flashing in Sthenoteuthis oualaniensis
	Amber Rais	Implications of Surface Chlorophyll Concentrations Along A Northern Tropical Pacific Transect
	Dani Richey	Radiolarian Distribution in the Central Pacific Ocean
	Allison Robinson	The Influence of Pigment and Color on Diel Vertical Migration of Copepods in the North Equatorial Pacific
	Erin Rodgers, Ryan Joyce and Tim Pusack	Feeding Selectivity and Diel Vertical Migration of the Myctophidae in the Central Pacific
	Ramón Roullard	An Examination of Variation in Phytoplankton Productivity Between Palmyra Atoll and the North Pacific Gyre
	Valery Scharf	Diets of Scombrid Fishes in the Central Pacific
	Laura R. Sharpless	Test size of Orbulina universa in Sediment Cores as an Indicator of Hawaiian Paleoclimates
	Sarah Skikne	Horizontal and Vertical Distribution of Gelatinous Zooplankton
	Charlotte Stevenson	The Apex Predator Biomass of Palmyra Atoll
	Visra Vichit-Vadakan	The Relationship Between Algal Cover and Coral Recruitment: A Study of Palmyra Atoll
		Predation and Community Structure: Conus and Strombus at Palmyra Atoll

2003 EXPEDITION