Research Projects 2017

STUDENT		PROJECT TITLE
	Lindsay Allison	Examination of Cardiac Function Across Fish Species through NCX and SERCA2 (aka. using PCR on a boat)
	Natasha Batista and Daela Tipton	Parrotfish as an Indicator of Coral Reef Resilience
	Amy Bolan	The Effects of Temperature on Chromatophore Expression of Purpleback, Flying Squid (Sthenoteuthis oualaniensis) in the South Pacific Gyre
	Michael Burnett and Lia Ferguson	The Effects of the Western Pacific Warm Pool on Water Column Structure in the South Pacific Subtropical Gyre
	Nick Chow	Survey of Shark Population in The South Pacifc Subtropical Gyre Using Baited Remote Underwater Video Systems (BRUVs)
	Andrea Contreras and Hanna Payne	Assessing the Extent of Coral Bleaching in Lagoon and Forereef Ecosystems in the South Pacific
	Marianne Cowherd, Daniel Cryan, and Chris Leboa	Evaluating environmental drivers of zooplankton and micronekton communities in the Southwest Pacific Subtropical Gyre
	Emma Gee and Sam Weyen	Bleaching in the Coral Clam Hotspot (BITCCH): Correlations in Bleaching Patterns between Coral and Giant Clams
	R.J. Haag	Aquatic Qualitative Underwater Assessment: Studying Swimming Through Wake Structures
	Sierra Killian	Plastic ingested by fish and squid and collected in net tows: Spatial distribution and comparison to models of plastic convergence in the South Pacific subtropical gyre
	Diego Sancho	Pockets of life in the desert: Island-driven biological hotspots in the South Pacific Subtropical Gyre