
Current Committees:
- Charles (Kiah) Gongaware (UNCW, PhD)
- Tristan Buckell (NSU, MS)
Past Students:
- Allison Reish (University of Miami, MPS)
- 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:
- Ava Santos-Volpe (Mote REU 2026)
- Keegan Madigan (Mote REU 2025)
- Isabella Borges (Mote REU 2023)
- Coral Rodriguez (NSF REU 2023)
- Charles Gongaware (Mote REU 2022 & College Intern 2023)
- Eurnett Christopher (NSF REU 2022)
- Oshean Lehrman (Mote REU)
- Elizabeth Cochrane (LEAF REU)
- Shanell Bosch (Mote 2026)
- Hannah Aguinis (Mote 2026)
- Sydney Hilt (Mote 2026)
- Addison Love (Mote 2025)
- Sara Leon (Mote 2025)
- Christopher Kelzer (Mote 2025)
- Maggie Nestor (Mote 2025)
- Adam Lambright (Mote 2024)
- Angela Cecere (Mote 2023)
- Bethany Ryder (Mote 2023)
- Hannah Meade (Mote 2023)
- Megan Dear (Mote 2022-2023)
- Emmanuel Perry (Mote 2022)
- Ben Ballard (Mote 2022)
- Kyle Awalt (Mote 2022)
- Stephanie Crooks (Mote 2022)
- Kyra Lenderman (2021)
- Renee Grambihler (2021)
- Molly Blake (2021)
- Chloe Manley (2021)
- Midori Mendoza (2021)
- Samara Zinman (2020-2021).
- Zoe Ruben (2020)
- Wyatt Weaver (URE PReP 2025)
- Kamaile-rose Formica (URE PReP 2025)
- Madeleine Yang (URE PReP 2025)
- Lani Brand (URE PReP 2025)
- Sabrina Ferrand (URE PReP 2024)
- Dkaria Bascom (URE PReP 2024)
- Ester Markulike (URE PReP 2024)
- Xavier Houston (MarSci-LACE REU 2021)
Teaching
Courses:
- Northeastern University
- Ocean and Coastal Processes Field Course (Three Seas Program)
- 2022 Fall: Part-time Lecturer & Instructor of Record (Undergraduate)
- 2019 Spring: Instructor of Record (Masters)
- 2018 Spring: Teaching Assistant (Masters)
- 2017 Spring: Teaching Assistant (Masters)
- Biostatistics Laboratory
- 2020 Spring: Teaching Assistant (Undergraduate)
- Oceanography
- 2016 Fall: Teaching Assistant (Masters)
- Ocean and Coastal Processes Field Course (Three Seas Program)
- College of William and Mary
- Invertebrate Zoology Laboratory
- 2012 Fall: Teaching Assistant (Undergraduate)
- Invertebrate Zoology Laboratory
Invited Seminars & Guest Lectures:
- Resilient Coral Restoration (Past, Present, and Future of Coral Reefs; Eckerd College)
- 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)












