GRADUATE STUDENTS: CURRENT

Name (Degree sought) Project
Pagano, Angela (Ph.D.) CO2 enrichment effects on freshwater macrophytes of different functional groups; sediment heterogeneity and root growth patterns in submersed macrophytes
Recipient, University Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2000

Urban, Rebecca (M.S.) Effects of an invasive aquatic plant in Adirondack Mountain lakes.

Munley, Nathan (M.S.) Freshwater wetland ecology (specific topic to be determined)

Angela Pagano deploying litter bags
for in situ decomposition study

GRADUATE STUDENTS: LAB ALUMNI with degree, date, and thesis title (+ current position for Ph.D. students)

Daniel J. Wagner, M.A. 1981. Comparative desiccation tolerances of two Sphagnum mosses growing along hummock-hollow gradients.

R. Cabot O'Brien, M.A. 1982. Environmental determinants of the reproduction allocation pattern of Glecoma hederacea (Labiatae)

Vivian Russell-Hill O'Brien, M.A. 1982. A comparison of two populations of Utricularia vulgaris L. native to contrasting pH regimes.

David J. Grisé, M.A. 1983. Growth and tissue chemistry of Vallisneria americana Michx. in three pH regimes.

David T. Hoover, M.A.. 1984. Reproductive ecology of two submersed macrophytes in varying pH regimes.

Karen M. Olson, M.A. 1987. Photosynthetic response of Sphagnum cuspidatum and Najas flexilis to varying pH and inorganic carbon concentrations.

R. Deborah Overath, M.A. 1987. Aquatic macrophyte growth methods and tissue analysis.

Katharina S. Milliken, M.A. 1990. Influence of lake sediment fertilization on insect herbivory of an aquatic macrophyte, Potamogeton amplifolius.

Richard S. Feldman, Ph.D. 1993. PCB accumulation in Hudson River pumpkinseed sunfish and bullhead: influences of invertebrate prey. (Division of Science, Marist College,
Poughkeepsie, NY; currently Chair of the Department of Environmental Science)

John H. Andorfer, M.A. 1993. The effects of carbon dioxide enrichment and pH on tissue nitrogen concentrations in Vallisneria americana.

P. Gary Sullivan, Ph.D. 1995. A tradeoff between sexual and asexual reproduction in the dioecious clonal macrophyte Vallisneria americana: environmental and genetic influences. (The Wetlands Initiative, Chicago, IL)

Linda A. Taylor, M.A. 1997. Intraspecific variations of the allelopathic potential of three species from different wetland habitats.

Kerry J. Planck, M.A. 2000. Submersed macrophytes in acidic environments: testing effects of calcium and developing carbon dioxide enrichment methodology.

Jenny Kao, M.S. 2002. Nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment attenuation capacities of wetland plants.