Mentees

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

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)
  • College of William and Mary
    • Invertebrate Zoology Laboratory
      • 2012 Fall: Teaching Assistant (Undergraduate)

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)