Graduate Students

Ann Goewert cruising down the Alabama River.	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.
Mike Mobilia helping on a dig at a Viking Age site, Broch of Deerness, Orkney Islands.	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 Sr:Mg in the shell of the Mediterranean mollusc, Pinna nobilis, to reconstruct preinstrumental sea surface temperature archives in the Mediterranean Sea.

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Current:

Ann Goewert, PhD ABD: The relationship between climate change and morphologic evolution of Miocene and Pliocene scallop, Chesapecten, from the US Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain.
Joel Hudley, PhD student: Paleoceanography in the western North Atlantic during the Mid Pliocene Warm Interval.
Mike Mobilia, MS student: Climate archives during the Medieval Warm Period preserved in limpet shells (Patella vulgata) from Viking Age deposits, Orkney Islands, UK
Ting Wang, PhD student: Comparison of Late Holocene climate records from archaeological shells with model results, southwest Florida and Scotland.

Former:

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.