Graduate Students

Jenny Allen (Baldwin)
Research Topic: Evaluating the effects of sea level rise on tidal freshwater and oligohaline marshes.

Vitalia Baranyai (McGrath)
Research Topic: Minimizing nutrient loss from field stored poultry litter.

Jose Barrios (Adams)
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Wes Bickford (Weil, Needelman)
Research Topic:Above and below-ground biomass response to prescribed fire in Mid-Atlantic brackish marshes.

Saptashati Biswas (McGrath)
Research Topic: Multi-scale investigation of Ionophores in poultry litter and litter amended soil as emerging contaminant and optimization of method using a liquid chromatograph coupled to a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer for quantification.

David Blerch (Kangas)
Research Topic:Engineering an autonomous algal turf scrubber technoecosystem using ecosystem-level metabolic parameters for feedback control.

Christopher Brosch (Hill)
Research Topic: Nutrient efficiencies of manure sources on agricultural fields using rainfall simulation.

Dominic Brose (James)
Research Topic:Investigating the use of low, molecular weight organic acids and electron shuttles in the reduction of hexavalent chromium from chromium enriched waste material.

Michael Brown (Harrell)
Research Topic: The potential production of useful byproducts (duckweed and algae) in recirculating aquaculture systems.

Jennifer Brundage (Baldwin)
Research Topic: Goat grazing as a management tool to control the invasive grass Phragmites australis in wetlands.

Elliott Cambell (Tilley)
Research Topic: Valuing ecosystem services provided by Maryland's forests using environmental accounting.

Cheryl Carmona (McGrath)
Research Topic: Nutrient mineralization in fresh and pelletized poultry litter.

Guihua Chen (Weil)
Research Topic: Alleviation of soil compaction by Brassica cover crops.

Jenna Clark (Baldwin)
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Cary Coppock (Rabenhorst)
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Zara Dowling (Leisnham)
Research Topic: Global environmental changes and phenotypic adaptability among competing mosquitoes.

George Geatz (Needelman)
Research Topic:Organic matter decomposition response to prescribed fire in Mid-Atlantic brackish marshes.

Adam Gray (Rabenhorst)
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Karen Grubb (McGrath)
Research Topic: Phosphorus removal from agricultural drainage ditches using gypsum filter structures.

Margaret Guthrie (Weil)
Research Topic: Cover crop effects on soil born plant disease.

Susan Hagood (Adams)
Research Topic: The extent to which eastern box turtle populations are genetically isolated by roads, as well as the extent of road-based mortality.

David Hamrum (Hill)
Research Topic: Temperature effects on the kinetics of phosphorus sorption.

Michelle Hetu (Rabenhorst)
Research Topic:Assessing factors that influence reducing conditions in soils along a topohydrosequence.

Erica Hutchings (Tilley)
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Philip Klavon (Kangas)
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Yen-Jung Lai (Becker)
Research Topic: Tetrachloroethene-respiring kinetics control competition among dehalobacter, desulfitobacterium and dehalococcoides strains.

Dail Laughinghouse, IV (Kangas)
Research Topic: Taxonomy of cyanobacteria and algae.

Yvonne Lawley (Weil)
Research Topic: Understanding the mechanism of forage radish cover crops to improve suppress weeds in agricultural crops.

Aaron Lewis (Tilley)
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Taras Lychuk (Hill)
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Diana Maimone (Felton)
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Leah Menzies Beckett (Baldwin)
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Andy Moss (Lansing)
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Rosalynd Orr (Rabenhorst)
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Beth Olsen (Momen)
Research Topic: Hurricane risk reduction.

Preston Postl (Becker)
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Jeff Price (Tilley)
Research Topic:Summer heat transfer reduction using green facades.

David Ruppert (Needelman)
Research Topic: Hydrology and organic matter impacts on phosphorus surption in drainage ditch soils.

Annie Rossi (Rabenhorst)
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Brandon Scott (Leisnham)
Research Topic: Biodiversity, water quality and mosquitoes in stormwater wetlands.

Ramy Serour (Tilley)
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Cassandra Smith (Leisnham)
Research Topic: Climate change impacts on container-dwelling mosquito communities.

Rebecca Stack (Baldwin)
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Katherine Strass (Lansing)
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Khin Thaung (James)
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John White (Coale)
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Brandon Winfrey (Tilley)
Research Topic: Emergy evaluations of wastewater treatment technologies.

Julie Wolf (Needelman)
Research Topic: The effects of increased carbon dioxide and temperature on soil carbon and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in urban soils.

Elizabeth Zinecker (Kangas)
Research Topic: Innovation of SAV restoration using biodegradable plastic.

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Last updated: 10/19/2009

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