UMCES Commencement 2018

WELCOME
Dr. Michael Roman
Professor and Director, Horn Point Laboratory

GREETINGS
Dr. Peter Goodwin
President

PRESENTATION OF PRESIDENT EMERITUS: Donald Boesch
Dr. Joann Boughman
Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs

PRESENTATION OF FACULTY EMERITI: Walter Boynton, J. Edward Gates, W. Michael Kemp
Dr. Peter Goodwin

REMARKS TO GRADUATES
Mr. William A. “Will” Shorter, Jr.
Student Regent, University System of Maryland

INTRODUCTION OF SPEAKER
Dr. Peter Goodwin

COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS
RDML Tim Gallaudet, Ph.D., USN Ret.
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere
Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere 

PRESENTATION OF CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES
Dr. Lawrence Sanford
Interim Vice President for Education

CHARGE TO GRADUATES
Dr. Peter Goodwin
 

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Maira Bezarra

Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences/Environmental Science

Sugarcane agriculture as an agent of geomorphic change and stream

degradation in Brazil

Adviser: Dr. Margaret Palmer, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory

 

Hillary Lane Glandon

Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences/Fisheries

Organismal and population level effects of climate change on

juvenile blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) in the Patuxent River,

Chesapeake Bay

Advisers: Drs. Tom Miller and Kennedy Paynter, Chesapeake

Biological Laboratory

 

Chih-Hsien Lin

Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences/Oceanography

Harmful algae in Chesapeake Bay: A study focused on Karlodinium

veneficum applying time series, physiological, and modeling approaches

Adviser: Dr. Patricia Glibert, Horn Point Laboratory

 

Jenna L. Luek

Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences/Chemistry

Characterization of organic compounds in hydraulic fracturing fluid

Adviser: Dr. Michael Gonsior, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory

 

Erin Markin

Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences/Fisheries

Atlantic sturgeon Acipenser oxyrinchus growth responses to dual seasonal spawning, latitudinal thermal regimes, and Chesapeake Bay environmental stressors

Adviser: Dr. David Secor, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory

 

 

Yuanchao Zhan

Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences/Environmental Biology

Isolation, genomics and ecology of bacteriophages infecting marine

roseobacters

Adviser: Dr. Feng Chen, Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology

 

Fan Zhang

Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences/Oceanography

Response of the coastal ocean and estuaries to tropical cyclones

Adviser: Dr. Ming Li, Horn Point Laboratory

 

 

MASTER OF SCIENCE

 

Matt Damiano

Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences/Fisheries

Population dynamics of eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica)

in the Choptank River Complex, Maryland, during 1989-2015

Adviser: Dr. Michael Wilberg, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory

 

Agraj Khare

Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences/Chemistry

The potential impact of variation in seawater strontium to calcium

ratio on coral paleothermometry in the Florida Keys, USA

Advisers: Drs. K. Halimeda Kilbourne and Johan Schijf,

Chesapeake Biological Laboratory

 

Emily Liljestrand

Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences/Fisheries

Mortality and movement of adult Atlantic menhaden during

1966-1969 estimated from mark-recapture models

Adviser: Dr. Michael Wilberg, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory

 

Leah Maurer

Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences/Environmental Biology

Influence of prey density and dietary supplementation on the early

development of the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus

Adviser: Dr. Sook Chung, Institute of Marine and Environmental

Technology

 

Jacob Oster

Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences/Ecology

Temporal and spatial variability in methylmercury accumulation

rates in aquatic ecosystems.

Advisers: Drs. Laura Lapham and Andrew Heyes, Chesapeake

Biological Laboratory

 

Chistopher Paver

Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences/Oceanography

Sampling errors arising from entrainment and insufficient flushing

of oceanographic sampling bottles  

Adviser: Dr. Lou Codispoti, Horn Point Laboratory

 

Kavya Pradhan

Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences/Ecology

Impacts of weighting schemes and transformed environmental

variables on biodiversity modeling

Adviser: Dr. Matthew Fitzpatrick, Appalachian Laboratory

 

Zoe Vulgaropoulos

Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences/Environmental Science

Reservoir scour as a major source of bioavailable phosphorus to a coastal plain estuary?

Adviser: Dr. Jeffrey Cornwell, Horn Point Laboratory