Alumni
Graduate Students
Name |
Degree |
Program |
Dissertation/Thesis Title |
| Skye Morét | Ph.D. 2025 | Northeastern University; College of Arts Media and Design | The Scalar Complexity of Climate Visualization: Exploring research-through-design strategies within climate change knowledge exchange |
| Aubrey Foulk | M.S. 2024 | Northeastern University; Department of Marine & Environmental Sciences | Quantifying Extreme Temperatures From the Perspective of an Organism |
| Reena John | M.S. 2023 | ||
| Jeriyla Kamau-Weng | M.S. 2023 | ||
| David Sittenfeld | Ph.D. 2022 | Northeastern University; School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs | Citizen Science, Civics, and Resilient Communities: Co-Created Science-to-Civics to Facilitate Equitable Climate Resilience Planning |
| Sophia Ly | M.S. 2022 | Northeastern University; Environmental Science & Policy | |
| Joshua Nooij | M.S. 2022 | Northeastern University; Environmental Science & Policy | |
| Jessica Torossian | Ph.D. 2020 | Northeastern University; Department of Marine & Environmental Sciences | Seasonal Temperature Stress, Biotic Interactions and Their Effects on Blue Mussel Physiology in the Gulf of Maine |
| Ashley Cryan | M.S. 2019 | Northeastern University; Department of Marine & Environmental Sciences | Material Matters: A thermal habitat suitability model of shoreline infrastructure in an urban harbor |
| Mark Losavio | M.S. 2019 | Northeastern University; Three Seas Marine Biology Program | Observing outcomes of outreach methods across generations in coastal China |
| Allison Matzelle | Ph.D. 2018 | Northeastern University; Department of Marine & Environmental Sciences | Linking environment to performance: A bioenergetics approach to understanding the effects of environmental variability across scales |
| Marissa Varade | M.S. 2018 | Northeastern University; Three Seas Marine Biology Program | Through the Eye of the Stakeholder: Disentangling Interactions Between Climate Communications, Environmental Attitudes, and Behaviors |
| Lauren Giglio | M.S. 2017 | Northeastern University; Three Seas Marine Biology Program | Connecting inland communities to coastal issues: Using virtual reality to increase interest level and knowledge retention in the classroom |
| Kirinne Slaughter | M.S. 2017 | Northeastern University; Three Seas Marine Biology Program | The Effects of Virtual Reality in a Zoological Setting on Visitors’Empathy and Pro-Environmental Behavior |
| Emily Duwan | M.S. 2016 | Northeastern University; Three Seas Marine Biology Program | Assessing The Use of Virtual Reality Technology in Teaching Ecological Concepts |
| Nicholas Colvard | Ph.D. 2016 | Northeastern University; Department of Marine & Environmental Sciences | Eco-physiological and ecological responses of Fucus algae to changes in the surrounding environment |
| Kelsey Tuminelli | M.S. 2015 | Northeastern University; Three Seas Marine Biology Program | Acclimation and physiological performance measured through heartrate and oxygen consumption rate in Septifer virgatus under acute thermal stress |
| Charlee Corra | M.S. 2015 | Northeastern University; Three Seas Marine Biology Program | Exposure to future climate conditions suggests variable capacity for metabolic plasticity but alters metabolic function and optimal thermal performance in two species of temperate gastropod |
| Cristian Monaco | Ph.D. 2014 | University of South Carolina; Biological Sciences | Thermal Ecology and Physiology of an Intertidal Predator-Prey system: Pisaster ochraceus and Mytilus californianus |
| Shadow Gulledge | M.S. 2014 | University of South Carolina; Earth and Environmental Resources | |
| Nicole Kish | M.S. 2013 | University of South Carolina; Marine Science Program | Modeling approaches, physiological responses, and climate change: How good is “good enough”? |
| Josephine Iacarella | M.S. 2011 | University of South Carolina; Marine Science Program | Behavioral and Physiological Responses of the Salt Marsh Snail,Littoraria irrorata, to Thermal and Dessication Stresses |
| Shilpi Chhotray | M.S. 2010 | University of South Carolina; MEERM Program | An Assessment of the Perceptions, Level of Involvement, and Needs of User- Groups for Marine Protected Areas in the Carolinas |
| K. Allison Smith | Ph.D. 2010 | University of South Carolina; Biological Sciences | Measuring and Forecasting Environmental Conditions from the Perspective of Rocky Intertidal Organisms |
| Lauren Yamane | M.S. 2008 | University of South Carolina; Marine Science Program | Contrasting Responses of an Intertidal Predator to Aerial and Aquatic Body Temperatures |
| Karl Castillo | Ph.D. 2008 | Effects of elevated seawater temperature on the Scleractinian Coral Montastraea annularis from the inner and outer reefs of Southern Belize | |
| Jennifer Jost | Ph.D. 2007 | The morphological determinants of body temperature in the Atlantic Ribbed Mussel, Geukensia demissa, and their effects on mortality and growth rate | |
| Kimberly Schneider | Ph.D. 2006 | The role of abiotic factors in intertidal selection: A comparison between an invader and its sibling species | |
| Lauren Szathmary | M.S. 2006 | University of South Carolina; Biological Sciences | Predicting direct and indirect effects of climate change on a predator-prey pair in the rocky intertidal eocsystem |
| Maxine Henry | M.S. 2005 | Modeling environmental effects of body temperature of an intertidal saltmarsh snail (Ilyanassa obsoletaSay) |
Post-Doctoral Researchers
Name |
Years |
Current Position |
| Mackenzie Zippay | 2011-2014 | Professor of Biology, Sonoma State University |
| Sylvain Pincebourde | 2006-2007 | CNRS Research Scientist, IRBI |
| Sarah Gilman | 2004-2005 | Professor of Biology, Joint Science Department of the Claremont Colleges |
Undergraduate Researchers
,
Name |
Years |
Lab Positions |
| Grace Nyberg | 2025 | Research Coordinator (Co-op) |
| Tasha Malcolm | 2025 | Research Coordinator (Co-op) |
| Olivia Sward | 2023 | Undergraduate Researcher |
| Yulieth Rodarte | 2023 | Undergraduate Researcher (Co-op) |
| Annabel Fiero | 2023 | Undergraduate Researcher |
| Sarah Beecy | 2022 – 2023 | Undergraduate Researcher (Capstone) |
| Caitlin Vinton | 2022 | Undergraduate Researcher (Capstone) |
| Ian Battles | 2022 | Undergraduate Researcher |
| Andrew Barnett | 2022 | Undergraduate Researcher |
| Jade Lin | 2019 – 2020 | Undergraduate Researcher (Co-op) |
| Lark Pamalee | 2020 | Undergraduate Researcher |
| Lindsey Forg | 2019 | Undergraduate Researcher |
| Luke Briccetti | 2019 | Undergraduate Researcher |
| Mia DeSanctis | 2018 – 2019 | Undergraduate Researcher |
| Vivienne Gao | 2019 | Undergraduate Researcher |
| Zoë Hockenberry | 2018 | NSF Sponsored Research Experience Undergraduate Intern |
| Sahana Simonetti | 2017 – 2023 | Undergraduate Researcher, Lab Manager |
| David Stein | 2017 – 2019 | Undergraduate Researcher |
| Richard Judge | 2016 – 2018 | Undergraduate Researcher |
| Bradley Phelps | 2018 | HMC-Northeastern Summer Research Partnership Fellow |
| Mark Himes | 2018 | High School Intern |
| Taylor Irwin | 2018 | Summer Intern |
| Praise Adewale | 2018 | NSF Sponsored Research Experience High School Intern |
| Daniel Litchmore | 2015 – 2017 | Undergraduate Researcher |
| Tim Briggs | 2015 – 2018 | Undergraduate Researcher |
| Isabella Backman | 2017 | NSF Sponsored Research Experience Undergraduate Intern |
| Dianjenis Abreu | 2017 | NSF Sponsored Research Experience High School Intern |
| Gabriela Payano | 2016 | High School Intern |
| Megan Reilly | 2015 – 2016 | Undergraduate Researcher |
| Lindsay Peter | 2015 | Undergraduate Researcher |
| Anthony Lamattina | 2015 | Undergraduate Researcher, Independent Project |
| Paola Salas | 2015 | High School Intern |
| Nick Burnett | 2009 – 2012 | Undergraduate Researcher, Independent Project |
| Rachel Herrin | 2010 | Magellan Research Grant, Independent Project |
| Rachel Price | 2012 | Undergraduate Researcher, Indpendent Project |
| Catherine Bowler | 2011 – 2012 | Undergraduate Researcher, Indpendent Project |
| Alyson Tockstein | 2008 – 2010 | Lab Technician, Research Assistant |
| Maggie Brilhart | 2008 – 2009 | REU Student |
| Karly Miller | 2008 – 2009 | Senior Honors Thesis |
| Lauren Van Thiel | 2006 | Howard Hughes Undergraduate Fellow |
| Anne-Marie Laura | 2005 – 2006 | Honors Thesis |
| Lindsay Watson | 2005 | REU Student, Rising Tide Program |
| Jake Adams | 2004 – 2006 | Independent Project |
| Nouran Ragaban | 2004 | Rising Tide Program |
| Callie Van Koughnet | 2004 | REU Student |
| Lisa Wickliffe | 2003 | Independent Project |
| Denise Strickland | 2002 – 2003 | Honors Thesis, REU Student |
| Katrina Nylund | 2002 | Howard Hughes Undergraduate Fellow |
| Justin Tisdale | 2002 | REU Student |
| Tara Fitzhenry | 2001 – 2002 | Howard Hughes Undergraduate Fellow |
| Christie Stephans | 2001 | REU Student |
| Nicole Moore | 2000 – 2001 | Honors Thesis, Howard Hughes Undergraduate Fellow |