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Current Graduate Students


Major Professor
PhD
Dianne Kopec Ph.D. candidate, Biological Sciences, (co-advisor w/ R. Van Beneden), UMaine
Crista Straub Ph.D. candidate, Biological Sciences, UMaine

Graduate Student Committee Member
PhD
Tyler Sager PhD candidate, Biological Sciences, University of Kentucky
David Price PhD candidate, Biological Sciences, University of Kentucky
Barry Mower PhD candidate, School of Marine Sciences, UMaine
MS
Lauren Crawford Biological Sciences, MS, advisor Dr. R.Van Beneden (completed 2005)


Previous Graduate Students

Major professor
Xabier Arzuaga Ph.D., UK Graduate Center for Toxicology (GCT), 2004
Ben Brammell Ph.D. UK Biology, 2005
Kamalika Saha M.S., UK Biology, 2003
Eleana Harmel M.S., UK Biology, 2004

MS
John Zielinski Marine Sciences Research Center (MSRC), SUNY Stony Brook, 2001
Margaret McArdle MSRC/SUNY Stony Brook, 1999
Amanda Fay MSRC/SUNY Stony Brook, 1999
Tony DeLuca UK Entomology & GCT, 2003

Rotation Graduate Students
Divinia Stemm PhD student, GCT Spring 2000
Xabier Arzuaga PhD student, GCT Spring 2000
Ben Brammell PhD student, Biology Fall 2000
Kamalika Saha PhD student, Biology Fall 2001
Elizabeth Osterling PhD student, GCT Fall 2003
Eleana Harmel MS student, Biology, Spring/Summer 2004

Graduate Student Research Assistants (FUNDING SOURCE)
Ben Brammell 2001 - 2005 (EPA)
Xabier Arzuaga 2000 - 2004 (NIEHS Predoctoral Fellowship)

Undergraduate Student Researchers (University of Kentucky)
Andrew Hitron Independent Study BIO395, Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Summer 2004
Carrie Fleming Independent Study BIO395 Fall 2002
Kimberly Powers Volunteer, Summer 2002
Tiffany Schenk Volunteer, Summer 2002
Michael Farmer Independent Study BIO395 Spring 2001

Undergraduate Interns (FUNDING SOURCE)
Yaritza Hernandez UK/GCT Puerto Rico Outreach Program, Summer 2003
Heather Fisher UK Summer Employment Research Apprenticeship 2002
Wanda Calcano UK/GCT Puerto Rico Outreach Program, Summer 2002
Christie Shrestha UK Summer Employment Research Apprenticeship 2001


National Service
Manuscript Reviewer
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Environmental Health Perspectives
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology
Toxicological Sciences
Marine Environmental Research
Aquatic Toxicology
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Guest Editor
Marine Environmental Research SPECIAL ISSUE Pollutant Responses in Marine Organisms
(PRIMO 10) 2000, 50(1-5), 592 pp.

Marine Environmental Research SPECIAL ISSUE: Pollutant Responses in Marine Organisms
(PRIMO 12) 2004, 58 (2-5), 615 pp.

Book Reviewer
Comparative Physiology, WCB/McGraw-Hill
Effects of Pollution on Fish: Molecular Effects and Population Responses, Blackwell Publishing

Committees/Boards
Board of Directors The Lobster Conservancy 1997-present
Committee member National Research Council Committee to Review the Gulf of
Alaska Ecosystem Monitoring Program 2000-2002
Program Sub-Committee Tenth International Symposium on Pollutant Responses in Marine
Organisms (PRIMO 10) 1998-99
Publications Sub-Committee Tenth International Symposium on Pollutant Responses in Marine
Organisms (PRIMO 10) 1999-2000
Co-Chair Women's Aquatic Network, LI chapter 1998- 1999
Committee member Equal Employment Opportunity Committee, SUNY 1997- 9
Coordinator Mini-symposium, Center for Reproduction, Northwestern University, 1993
Session Co-Chair Adaptation to Chemical Contaminants, SETAC 1996
Education Task Force Marine Sciences Research Center (MSRC), SUNY 1995-96
Executive Committee MSRC, SUNY 1996-98
Executive Board North Atlantic Chapter, Society of Environmental Toxicology and
Chemistry (SETAC) 1996-99

Proposal Reviewer
National Institutes of Health
Connecticut Sea Grant
Hudson River Foundation
National Sea Grant College Program
Massachusetts Bays Program
Maryland Sea Grant
Cooperative Institute for Coastal & Estuarine Environmental Technology
New York State Sea Grant
City University of New York

Professional Societies
American Fisheries Society
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Society of Toxicology
Sigma Xi

Teaching

Graduate
Marine Pollution
Pollutant Responses in Marine Organisms
Integrated Environmental Biology
Oral Presentation Techniques
Graduate Seminar in Physiology

Undergraduate
Animal Physiology
Topics in Marine Pollution
Environmental Biology
Marine Biology & Ecology


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