Graduate Students

Ian Winkelstern sampling the Pliocene Chowan River Formation on the Chowan River in North Carolina.	Joel Hudley mucking around the mangroves in south Florida.
Rafa Garcia-March at the entry of a Cenote in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, shooting a documentary on marine biology.	Ting Wang under a gumbo limbo tree on an archaeological mound in southwest Florida.

POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW

Jose Rafael ("Rafa") Garcia-March, Post-doctoral Fulbright Scholar: Study of δ¹⁸O and δ¹³C in the shell of the Mediterranean mollusc, Pinna nobilis, to reconstruct preinstrumental sea surface temperature archives in the Mediterranean Sea.

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Current:

Joel Hudley, PhD candidate: Paleoceanography in the western North Atlantic during the Mid Pliocene Warm Interval.
Ting Wang, PhD candidate: Comparison of Late Holocene climate records from archaeological shells with model results, southwest Florida and Scotland.
Ian Winkelstern, MS student: Reconstructing mid-latitude seasonality in the western North Atlantic during Pliocene warm and cool climate states.

Former:

Ann Goewert, PhD (2010, UNC): The relationship between climate change and morphologic evolution of Miocene and Pliocene scallop, Chesapecten, from the US Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain.
Mike Mobilia, MS (2009, UNC): Climate archives from a Viking Age site, Scotland: Seasonal temperature variability during the Medieval Warm Period
Ting Wang, MS (2008, UNC): Isotopic evidence for climate change during the Vandal Minimum from archaeological shells (Mercenaria campechiensis) and otoliths (Ariopsis felis), southwest Florida
Tracy Fenger, MSc (2007, UNC): Isotope sclerochronology and climate archives in modern limpet shells (Patella vulgata), UK
Matt Dvorak, MSc (2006, Iowa State): Effects of land use on carbon cycling in estuaries of southwest Florida
Ann Goewert, MSc (2005, Iowa State): Isotope sclerochronology of Lampsilis cardium (Unionidae): deciphering ontogenetic history

A dramatization of what happens to very bad graduate students. Thanks, Tracy, for demonstrating.