Although it’s still early days in building up the ‘Echinonerd Lab“, I’m excited to introduce you to my fantastic team of enthusiastic & dedicated marine scientists.
Current Undergraduate Students:
Lindsey Reimels – Research Student, Coastal & SURF Fellow, URI2 funding recipient, NSF GRFP Recipient – Microplastics – 2023-2025.
Erin Sweeney – SURF Fellow – urchin fisheries & aquaculture – 2025
Alex Shore – NSF REU Fellow – marine organismal interactions of microplastics – 2025.
Bella Southwood – Research Technician – Sea urchin & shellfish integration – 2023-2025.
Post-Doctoral Researchers:
Brian Preziosi – Developing methodologies for isolating microplastics – 2020-2022.
Research Technicians:
Emily Becker – Microalgal & benthic diatom culture establishment of Dunaliella, Phyaeodactylum, Nitzschia sp. & Cylindrotheca closterium & supporting routine animal husbandry for a range of invertebrates at various parts of their life cycles – 2021.
Anna Byczynski – Animal reproductive effort under future climate change conditions using histology and image analysis. Previously an Undergraduate Research Assistant & a URI2 funding recipient – 2019-2020.
Danielle Jorge – Technical support for fish climate change lab research – 2020.
Graduate Students:
Sarah Davis – PhD – Research Assistant – Distributions, characteristics, and impacts of microplastic pollution in rhode island’s waterways – 2020-2024.
Hannah Haskell – MS – Teaching Assistant – Assessing how Eastern Oysters respond to environmentally relevant concentrations of synthetic fibers – 2020-2022.
Madeline Malloy – Professional MS – Developing methodologies for isolating microplastics – 2019-2021.
Tara Plee – PhD – Research & Teaching Assistant – Sustaining green sea urchin production – 2020-2024.
Undergraduate Students:
Hannah Balquist – Coastal Fellow – Microplastics & sea star larvae – 2019.
Logan Beattie – SURF Fellow – Microplastics – 2022.
Laura Berard – Surf Fellow – Climate change animal husbandry & histology image archiving – 2019-2020.
Chris Boylston – SURF Fellow – Sea urchin aquaculture – 2022.
Anna Byczynski – URI2 funding recipient – Animal reproductive effort under future climate change conditions using histology and image analysis. 2019-2020.
Erin Carlson – Climate change animal husbandry & animal predation behavior image analysis – 2019.
Amy Deatherage – Semester Abroad from Hawaii – Sea urchin & shellfish integration – Spring 2024.
Ava Eckman – Research Technician – Microplastics research – 2024-2025.
Jessi Florendo – Climate change animal husbandry – 2019.
Kayla Fraser – Research Student – Sea urchin husbandry & oyster microfibers research support – 2023.
Joe Galdieri – Research Technician – Urchin husbandry – 2024-2025.
Danielle Jorge – Climate change animal husbandry – 2019.
Maureen Kennedy – Research Technician – Microplastics from Narragansett Bay – 2021-2023.
Shelby Lefoley – Research Student – Sea urchin husbandry & oyster microfibers research support – 2023.
Elli Madigan – Coastal Fellow – Sea urchin Aquaculture – 2021.
Alli McKenna – URI2 funding recipient – Laboratory start up assistance – 2019-2020.
Cara Megill – Biological Sciences Research Grant Recipient & Surf Fellow – Sea urchins & microplastics – 2019-2021.
Madison Milander – Litter surveying – 2022.
Marguerite McNamara – SURF Fellow – Sea urchin aquaculture – 2022.
Brooklyn Mitchell – Research Technician, Coastal & SURF Fellow – Microplastics & marine animal husbandry – 2023-2024.
Naomy Moreno – SURF Fellow – Sea urchin feeding in aquaculture – 2024.
Kelsey Mudry – Coastal Fellow – Fish, sea urchin & oyster husbandry – 2020-2021.
Mallory Lentz – Coastal Fellow & Research Assistant – Sea urchin Aquaculture – 2021-2022.
Cara Megill – Coastal Fellow – Microplastics & animal husbandry support – 2020.
Zac Robinson – SURF Fellow – Sea urchin aquaculture – 2022.
Isabella Dos Santos – Research Technician – Microplastics research – 2024-2025.
Lilah Saunders – Research Technician – Urchin husbandry & recirculating technical systems – 2024-2025.
Erin O’Toole – Research Technician – Laboratory & marine animal husbandry – 2024.
Karina Torres (Rhode Island College) – SURF Fellow & Research Technician – Sea urchin integration with shellfish aquaculture – 2024-2025.
Ashley Velzis – Research Technician – Microplastics from Narragansett Bay – 2021-2023.
Kelsey Wells – Surf Fellow (Roger Williams University) – Microplastics animal husbandry support & climate change sample image analysis – 2021-2022.
Brooke Withers – Research Technician – Animal husbandry support & image capture – 2022-2023.
Max Zavell – URI2 funding recipient – Determining the potential commercialization of new sea urchin species – 2019-2020.
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