Mentees

Kiah Gongaware (Mote REU 2022), Sara Williams, and Eurnett Christopher (NSF REU 2022) at the Mote Marine Laboratory summer intern poster session.

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