
Current Interns:
- Addison Love, College Intern (Winter 2025-2026)
Current Students:
- Allison Reish (University of Miami, MPS)
Current PhD Committees:
- Charles (Kiah) Gongaware (UNCW)
Past Students:
- Claire Sydeman (University of Bremen, MS)
- Alexi Pearson-Lund (International Masters of Science in Marine Biological Resources IMBRSea, 2024)
- Brianna Perino (International Masters of Science in Marine Biological Resources IMBRSea, 2024)
- Shannon McDonnell (MPS, University of Miami 2023)
- Lauren Uslin (MS, Northeastern University Three Seas Program 2017)
Past Interns:
- Angela Cecere, College Intern Fall 2023
- Coral Rodriguez, NSF REU Summer 2023
- Isabella Borges, Mote REU Summer 2023
- Charles (Kiah) Gongaware, College Intern 2023 & Mote REU 2022
- Bethany Ryder, College Intern Spring 2023
- Hannah Meade, College Intern Fall 2022 – Spring 2023
- Megan Dear, College Intern Fall 2022 – Spring 2023
- Eurnett Christopher, NSF REU 2022
- Emmanuel Perry, College Intern Spring 2022
- Ben Ballard, College Intern 2022
- Kyle Awalt, College Intern Spring 2022
- Stephanie Crooks, College Intern Spring 2022
- Kyra Lenderman, College Intern Fall 2021
- Oshean Lehrman, Mote REU 2021
- Elizabeth Cochrane, LEAF REU 2021
- Renee Grambihler, College Intern Summer 2021
- Molly Blake, College Intern 2021
- Chloe Manley, College Intern 2021
- Midori Mendoza, College Intern 2021
- Xavier Houston, MarSci-LACE REU Spring 2021
- Samara Zinman, College Intern 2020-2021
- Zoe Ruben, College Intern 2020
Teaching
Courses:
- Ocean and Coastal Processes for the Northeastern Three Seas Program (Undergrad Fall 2022, Masters Spring 2019)
Invited Seminars & Guest Lectures:
- Coral Microbiomes and Disease (Nova Southeastern University Coral Biology Course)
- Coral Disease Ecology (SEA Coral Reef Conservation: Caribbean Program)
- Coral Disease Ecology (Nova Southeastern University Coral Ecology Course)
- Network Science in Coral Biology (Boston University Seminar)
- Women in Network Science Seminar
- Brown Bag Seminars at Mote Marine Laboratory
Workshops:
- Science Communication (Two Day workshop for Northeastern Three Seas Program taught with Amanda Dwyer)
- Science Communication (Intern Alliance Event for Mote Summer Interns)
- Google Sheets and R for Research (Intern Alliance Event for Mote Summer Interns)
- Code Skills (Multiple workshops for Mote’s Coral Health and Disease Lab covering microbiome analysis, data exploration and visualization, & basic statistics in R)
Teaching Assistant while at Northeastern University:
- Biostatistics Lab (taught in R)
- Oceanography
- Ocean and Coastal Processes












