Watling Lab

Current & Past Students

Current Students

Celeste Mosher

celeste.mosher@maine.edu

M.S. Oceanography Invertebrates Associated with Deep-water Octocorals

Mateja Nanovich

mateja.nanovich@umit.maine.edu

Dual Degree Program

M.S. Marine Biology

M.S. Marine Policy

Impact of Trawling on the Benthic Macrofaunal of Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary

Anne Simpson

anne.simpson@umit.maine.edu

Ph.D. Marine Biology Reproduction in Deep and cold-water Octocorals
Past Students
Knight, E. M.S. Oceanography 2005 Recovery of gravel bottom communities after cessation of trawling
Grannis, B. M.S. Oceanography 2004 Impact of bottom fishing and cable laying on Stellwagen Bank. 
Atherton T. EES degree, non-thesis 2004
Simpson, A. M.S. Oceanography 2002 Effects of fishing gear on a deep mud-bottom community. 
Haye, P. Ph.D. Biological Sciences 2002 Molecular phylogeny of cumacean families. 
Gonzalez, E. Ph.D. Marine Biology 2001 A revision of South American species of the amphipod genus Hyalella.  
Gerken, S. Ph.D. Oceanography 2000 The cumacean Family Gynodiastylidae. 
Sparks-McConkey, P. M.S. Oceanography 2000 Effects of shrimp trawling on the macrofauna of muddy sediments. 
Eckhardt, A. M.S. Oceanography 1999 Effects of mobile fishing gear on boulder faunas in the Gulf of Maine .  
Thiel, M. Ph.D. Oceanography 1997 Extended parental care in estuarine amphipods. 
Chavez, S. M.S. 1997 Microgeography of tidal flat macrofauna and the intertidal habitat characterization of the Damariscotta River estuary, Maine.
Bethune, D. M.S. 1995 Life history and production of the gammaridean amphipod Ampelisca agassizi
Sampson, S. Ph.D. 1995 Comparative anatomy of amphipod digestive systems.
MacLeod, I. M.S. 1994 Release of lead by digestive juices of two polychaetes.
Morrison, M. M.S. 1993 Life history and secondary productivity of Unicola inermis (Crustacea, Amphipoda).
Ward, K. M.S. 1988 Annual production, population structure, and biomass of some deep-water benthic polychaetes from the Gulf of Maine.
Packer, D. M.S. 1988 Community structure of macrobenthic fauna at an offshore Gulf of Maine site, with population structure analysis of the ophiuroid Ophiura sarsi and its trophic relationship to the American plaice (Hippoglosoides platessoides).
Hillyard, A. Ph.D. 1986 Microspatial distribution of the smaller intertidal macrofauna.
Gonzalez, F. M.S. 1984 Selection of sediment particles by intertidal deposit-feeders.
Shaw, D.V. M.S. 1983 The effect of decomposing macro-algae on the distribution of nematodes and harpacticoid copepods.
Messier, D. M.S. 1982 A comparative study of benthic community structure in the Saco and Kennebunk River estuaries.
Arbuckle, J. M.S. 1982 Effects of disturbance on the macrofauna of a mudflat community in eastern Maine.
Rahaim, P. M.S. 1980 Temporal and spatial variation in the distribution of organic matter on an intertidal mud flat.
Holman, H. M.S. 1980 The micromorphology of the amphipod genus Gammarus and its systematic implications.
Field, B.R. M.S. 1978 Structural analysis of fouling community development in the Damariscotta River estuary, Maine.
Smith, R.D. M.S. 1977 The feeding habitats of the sand dollar, Echinarachnius parma (Lamarck).