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UMass Boston Nantucket Field Station

Student Research Projects in Maritime Ecology (Biol. Z346)

2001

researchers in ocean with net"The Diversity of the Micro Community Associated with the Alga Codium fragile in Relation to Depth in Nantucket Harbor:  Janipher and the Green Fleece
Janipher Chan

"The Lichen Community of Juniper Trees in Relation to Maritime Climatic Conditions: Surviving a Real Blast"
 Helen Vassiliev

"The Cultured Mold on Nantucket Island:  The Fungus Among Us
Lidia Faverman                        

"Scalar Distribution of Body Sizes in Arthropods and Plants: "The Different Size Bodies I Found on Nantucket"
John Hilgeman    

"Lyme Disease on Nantucket:  Ticked off on Nantucket"
Micah Benson

"A Comparison of Quantification Techniques of Varroa jacobsoni:  The Mite of the Bee"       
Sheree Beane

Osprey nest"Nantucket Osprey Prey: A Short Look into Prey Remains at Two Nesting Poles:  ACK Sushi - Osprey Style"  
Andrew McElwain         

"Site Fidelity of Gray Catbirds (Dumetella carolinensis): Bird Banding through MAPS (Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship) with Edith Andrews:  Three strikes, You're Out"   
Michele d'Hemecourt

2000

"Nantucket Mosquitoes - Traps, Baits and Species:  Do you know who is eating you?"
Leandro Passos 

"Small Mammal Populations in Maintained Heathland, Small Mammal Tax Brackets: Where does Nantucket's population lie?"         
Melissa Moles 

"Plankton of Nantucket's Diverse Waters:Small snacks
Lisa McNamara

"Marine Biodiversity of the Gulf of Maine a program outline: Waves of Knowledge"
Amy Cline  

a pond on nantucket1999

"Bioluminescent bacteria (Photobacterium and Vibrio spp.) in Nantucket's seawater?  Gotta light?"     
Nuno Gonsalves 

"Red bacterial symbionts of the native squid, Loligo pealei: Gentlemen prefer redheads?"        
Hilda Norris       

"A Soil Analysis of Burned and Natural Heathlands: To Burn or Not To Burn? How best to preserve Nantucket's Heathlands is the Question"  
Sarah Colby  

"A Census of Uca pugilator of Folger's Salt Marsh: Where the Fiddlers Roam"
Leah Butkiewicz   

"Reactions to Light Intensity and Study of Motor Skills of Asterias forbesii: Subtle seastar secrets"
Efstathia Kitsou                                                             

"Surface and diving behavior of double-crested cormorants (Phalocrocorax auritus): Ducking for Dinner"   
Peter Flood

dune flowers1998

"A summer study of erosional and depositional beaches of southeastern Nantucket Island: To be or not to be? Is this really a question? "
Eva Moran

"Lepidoptera of Nantucket: A Guide to the Nantucket Net"
Nicole Wallin  

"Saxicolous Lichens in relation to Gravestone Texture and Composition: Why is it a Clean Slate?
Jenny Foster                                                     

"Vision in Argopecten irradians irradians: The Ayes have it"  
Alex de Saint Sardos

"Habitats of Lady Crabs (Ovalipes ocellatus) on Nantucket: Madam, do you have a soft bottom?
Chris Tunkey

1997

"Corticolous Lichens in Nantucket Town: Dyeing Decorators or Dying Detectors? "         
Sunao Iwata

"The Wildlife Refuge Potential of Grave Yards on Nantucket or: Bird Watching on The Graves of My Ancestors
Liesl Bross

"Wasting disease in Nantucket Harbor Eelgrass Populations: What's ailing the eelgrass?"
Dan Cromidas

"Arthropods in Nantucket Heathlands: A Survey or The Adventures of Bug and the Bag Lady"
John Beagan

"Protozoan Succession in Winogradsky Columns: Photographing floating flatulating flagellates"  
Benjamin Bakondi

"Population Declines in Grassland and Scrub-Successional Bird Species"
Andrew Imrie

1996

"Populations of Microtus pennsylvanicus (the Meadow Vole) in Burned and Unburned Heathland:  Where there's a hole, there's a vole!"
Bethany Clemmey

"Comparative Foraging Behaviors and Success Rates of the Snowy and Great Egrets: Slow and Steady Doesn't Always Win the Race"   
Karen Ameele

"Population dynamics of Busycotypus canaliculatus around Nantucket: The Wonderful Whimsical World of the Whelk"            
Caroline Sexton

"Idotea baltica: A Colorful Nantucket Resident - Phenotypic Variation in Idotea baltica Living on the Shores of Nantucket
Lawrence Connolly and Sherry Reynolds

"Are Size and Weight the Control Factors of Protandry in Crepidula fornicata : The Fornicated Change
Lillian E. Stone

"Osmoregulation and Phototrophism of Asterias forbesi: The Search for the Stars"
Christopher A. Gorski

"An Examination of the Short Range Movement Patterns of Pagurus longicarpus in Nantucket Harbor"  
Jason S. Ezekiel

"A Survey Of Opsanus tau In Nantucket Harbor: Where The Toadfish Are"
Crispian Flood

1995

"Getting to the Root of it all: Mycorrhizae in Salt Marsh Plants"
Janet L. Dillingham

"Fungal Populations on Nantucket Shingles -- A Proposed Relationship to "Weathered"Coloring"
Lisa A. Cronin

"Re-establishing Sesachacha Pond as a Stable Salt Pond Environment: Of Openings and Oysters"
Sue Ann Richardson

"Microbial Mats, Don't Wipe Your Feet on Them: A Survey of Pigments Extracted from Photosynthetic Sulfur Bacteria in Folgers Salt Marsh and from Laboratory Cultures"
Neena Josen

"Xanthoria, Pseudoparmelia and Cladina: On the Trail of Some Nantucket Pioneers: A 1195 Status Report of Island Lichens"
Mary C. Wynne

"Surf's up! Do Fiddler Crabs Actually Know When the Tide Comes in and Out?"
Matthew D. Cross

"A Control Issue: Do the Shoals Feel Like Moving?"
Kevin Mack

"A Survey of Marine Tardigrades on Coatue Beach: Micro-Game Hunting in Nantucket"
Carol Bezanker

"Babes and Baleen: Women on Whaling Ships"
Michelle Ferrar

"What's Eating the Man-Eaters? A Comparative Analysis of External and Internal Parasites in Three Species of Elasmobranchs"
Brook Flanagan & Kristina Mullin

1994

"Food for Here and There"
Christine Bohn and Valerie Patsky

"A Study of Growth and Sinking rates of Pseudonitzschia pungene f. multiseries and Skeletonema costatum Under Stressed Nutrient Conditions: Diet Aids of Diatoms"
Leanne Joseph

"Effects of Exclosures on Piping Plovers"
John J. Oakray III

"Disturbance to an Exclosed Least Tern Colony by Off-Road Vehicles on Nantucket Island: Or as one tern said to the other "There goes the neighborhood!"
Evan Mulligan

1993

"Brood Caring Behaviors in the Eusocial Society of Formica exsectoides (A Nantucket Sundplain Ant): One For All and All for One"
MaryAnn Mastrangelo

"Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? Factors Which Affect Web Site Selection and Permanence in Agelena navia, a Funnel Weaving Spider"
Linda E. Hendry

"What is on Nantucket's Grass?: An Index of the Colonizing Organisms and the potential of Wasting Disease on the Eelgrass (Zostera marina) in Nantucket Harbor"
Elizabeth L. Hobby

"Culturing Photosynthetic Anaerobic Purple (Chromatiaceae) and Green (Chlorobiaceae) Sulfur Bacteria, using the Winogradsky Column Enrichment Technique: A Recipe for Nantucket Mud Pie"
Kassia Wendel Reynard

"The Zooplankton of Three Nantucket Ponds: Daphnia and CyclopsI - A Love Story"
Richard D. Facemycer

"Health Today, Gone Tomorrow: An Examination of Scrub Oak on Nantucket Heathlands"
Mark Bulger

"Oystercatcher Buffet: A Moveable Feast"
Lawry Sager

"Primary Productivity and Nutrition Loading in Shallow Coastal Systems"
Phaedra Doukakis

1992

"Life on the Rocks: An Algal Survey of Nantucket's East Jetty"
Mark P. Asseta

"Spider Crabs Decorate as an Act of Camouflage: Now You See Me, Now You Don't"
Rebecca Gee

"Predation on Bivalves by Whelks: The Shell Game"
Eddie Woo

"Dynamics of the Milk Snake Population at the Siasconset Dump"
Ellen Coutts

"Habitat and Distribution Among Carrion Beetles or: Where Does All the Dead Meat Go?"
Sam Hightower

"A Survey of the Lepidoptera of Nantucket Island, 1992, or: Where Have All The Flowers Gone and Have They Taken The Butterflies With Them? "
Jennifer Cuneo

"Bringing Home the Bacon:  A Comparative Study of Osprey Hunting Behaviors"
Michael A. Cahill

"The Feeding Behaviors of the Snowy Egret and the Black Crowned Night Heron within Folger's Marsh, Nantucket"
Kathleen M. Hill

1991

"Stimulation of Growth of Ulva lactuca - a Small Miracle"
Samantha Woods and Anthony Burniewicz

"Eutrophication of Bog and Harbor - Real or Perceived"
Edward F. Walsh III

"Burned Heaths: One of the Criteria in Maintaining Rockrose"
Marie Buonopane and Heather Ovian

"The Mycorrhizae of Planted and Natural Dunes"
Siobhan McGurk

"Pond Opening - Human Benefit or Ecological Disaster"
Prudence Duff

"Shell Species Preference of the Hermit Crab Pagurus Longicarpus: House Hunting for Hermits"
Linda Pereira

"Is Emerita talpoida a Protandrous Sequential Hermaphrodite? or: Are Nantucket Beaches Populated with Trans-sexuals? "
Stephen Fitzgerald and Alexander D. Laufer

"The Effects of Hydractinia on the Predation of Pagurus pollicaris by Callinectes sapidus?"
Robert C. Campbell

"Plant Distribution on the Upper Folgers Marsh - Salinity and Elevation"
Jacqulyn M. McNeill

1990

"A Teaching, Research and Community Resource Guide"
Joan Ho

"Home on the Run - Does Hydractinia echinata Show Preference in Colonization of One Species of Gastropod Shell or Hermit Crab Species Over That of Another"
Ethan Thomas O'Malley

"Food for Thought - A Study of the Feeding Behaviors of Egretta thula (Snowy Egrets)"
Lisa Rioles

"An Investigation of the Control of Rattus novegicus Populations by Taste Aversion"
Scott Lloyd

"The Arthropod Cook Book: Controlled Fire on the Heath:  Impact on Terestrial Anthropods"
David Weir

"Nitrate and Phosphate Concentration Analysis of two Nantucket Water Systems:  Have You Hugged Your Nutrients Today?"
Robert D. Guenard and Robbin Kozlowski

1989

"Zooplankton in the Quaise Marsh Creek, Nantucket Harbor and Quaise Marsh Wet Highlands"
L. Doherty

"Grasses, Grazing, and Gaylussacia"
L. Dvorak

"The Effects of Salinity on Growth and Viability of Chromatiaceae and Chlorobiaceae in a Salt Marsh"
A.-M. Foley

"Dietary Preference of Prey Species Used by the Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) on Nantucket Island"
J. M. Forde

"Species Diversity of the Mycorrhizal Spore in the Dunes at Dionis Beach and Smith Point, Nantucket, MA"
J. A. Lynch

"Interspecific Competition for Shells Between Pagurus longicrpus and Pagurus pollicaris in Nantucket Harbor"
T. P. Reilley

"A Survey of the Quaise Salt Marsh Aviary"
L. M. Scarcella

"The Prevalence of the Three Known Species of Hermit Crabs in Nantucket Harbor as a Function of Depth"
R. Seidel

1988

"Hermit Crab Census of Nantucket Harbor - July 1988"
Francesco D. Melandri

"Variation of Carapace Dimensions Between Two Species of Crabs (Order - Decapoda) : Neopanope sayi and Ovalipes ocellatus (Lady Craby): Why Swim When You Can Walk?"
David Carlon

"Relative Growth of Chela, Leg Joint, and Carapace Dimension in the Male Fiddler Crab, Uca pugilator"
Lydia M. Maniatis

"Mycorrhizae of Calluna vulgaris (Heather): Correlation of Types and Amount to Ecosystem/History"
George W. Caldwell, III

"Study of Mycorrhizal Fungi Population in two Sand Dune Systems by Spore Analysis: Explore a Spore Perserve a Dune!"
Elizabeth A. Anderson

"Isolation of Vesicular-Arbuscular (VA) Mycorrhizae in Plant Roots - Approaches via General Characterization and Protoplasting"
Richard A. Decastro

"A Short Term (3 week) Study of Fouling Organisms in Nantucket Harbor in Relation to Substrate Composition, Submergence Depth, and Substrate Texture"
John P. Ryan

"A Study of Sand on Eight Beaches in Nantucket"
Mary M. Cleveland

"Seeing the Future of a Nantucket Salt Marsh (Mapping of a Saltmarsh:  Topography, Species, Diversity, and Evaluations of Successional Status)"
George J. Vezina

"Some Factors Affecting Webb Site Selection in the Orb-Weaving Spider Araneus marmoreus on the Peabody House UMass Boston Field Station"
Timothy Dane

"Final Report on a Bog and Surrounding Hillside Area"
William Liss and Laura Arbia

1987

"Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Plastic Found on Nantucket Beaches"
Tracy Lynn Curley

"Spatial Patterns of the Sand Fiddler Crab, Uca pugilator on Quaise Marsh Beach, Nantucket"
Leslie Gordon

"Shell Selection and Behavior of Pagurus longicarpus"
Susan Rae Hoffman

"A Short Term Study of the Vegetation Requirements of the Nesting Territories of the Short Eared Owl on Nantucket"
Robbyn Issner

"Within-Habitat Spatial Distribution in the Sand Fiddler Crab (Uca pugilator)"
Janet Jones

"Plant Succession on Coatue as Seen Representing Barrier Beach Growth"
Pamela Killen

"Plant Succession on Coatue"
Christopher Lamkins

"Factors Involved in Shell Fighting Behavior of Pagurus longicarpus"
Carol A. Rainville

"Shell Selection on Pagurus longicarpus"
Sue Ann Richardson

"Hunting Habits of the Northern Harrier (Circus cyaneus) and Prey Preference of the Northern Harrier With a Comparison to That of the Short-Eared Owl (Asio Flameus)"
Stephen J  Russell

"Ritualized Behavior of the Blue Crab, Callinectes sapidus Rathbun"
Andera Steffek

"Acid Rain and Aquatic Communities of Quaise, Nantucket"
Antonio Wendland

1985

"The Hierarchy of Orientation Cues in the Sand Flea Telorchesta megalopthalmus"
Cathy Dooley and Eileen Kelley

"Dragonflies"
Stelios Delidakis and Jeanne Rankin

"An Analysis of Nantucket's Changing Shoreline"
Anne T. Howard

"Plant Succession on a Coatue as Seen Representing Barrier Beach Growth"
Pamela Killen

1979

"An Examination of Microtus pennsylvanicus for a Babesia microti vector, Ixodes muris"
Kevin Allen

"The Feeding Selectivity and Behavior of the Eastern Tent Caterpillar, Malacosma Americana"
Author not noted

"Selective Feeding and the Bay Scallop (Aequipecten irradians)"
John E. Coughlin

"A Survey of the Plant Life on Nantucket's Shoreline"
Nancy McKenna

"The Animal Community and Species Diversity of Zostera marina"
Margaret Reilly

"The Relative Growth Rate of Different Populations of Hemiptera with an Emphasis on Backswimmer Populations"
Kathleen R. Riley

"The Effect of Varying Salt Spray Concentrations on the flowering of Rosa rogosa ruba"
William Shortell

"The Effects of Different Sun Intensities on Lepidium virginicum"
Patricia Lois Tooker

"The Effects of Different Sun Intensities on Lepidium virginicum"
Nicholas Zaldastani

"Peat Core Analysis of Upper Quice"
Leslie Feldon

"Feeding Behaviors of the Snowy Egret on Quaise Mash"
Author not noted

"Reproduction in Busycon carica"
Pat Rooney

"The Pugilator Process:  Temperature-Effects on the Sand Fidler -- Uca pugliator"
K. Kingsbury

"A Study of Predation and its Effect on the Lower Limit of distribution of Littorina littorea"
Sheila Cooney and Kathy Bell

1976

"The Distribution of Nassarius obsoletus at Low Tide Along the Ponds and Channels of Quaise Marsh, and Factors that Influence that Distribution"
David Bunick

"Changes in the Concentration of Lignins and Related Cinnamic Acids in Spartina alterniflora During the Growing Season and in Dead Tissues Buried in Salt Marsh Sediments"
P. J. Collins and T. Swain

"A Study of the Effects of Varying Salt Concentrations on Littorina littorea"
Richard Fenner

"A Survey of Aquatic Insects and a Study of Their Diversity in Six Ponds at Nantucket, MA.  Vol. II"
John F. Barrera

"Mouse-Tick Relationships on Nantucket Island"
Charles Desseres

1974

"Effects of Symbiotic Pea Crabs on the Growth of Bay Scallops in Nantucket Harbor, MA"
R. Remillard

"Comparative Desiccation Rates of Fucus vesiculosus and Codium fragile"
Amy Gwen Salzman

"The Influence of Kinetin on Chlorophyllase Activity in vivo in Codium fragile* with Reference to Environmental Current Agitation in Nantucket Harbor.  (*Codium fragile (sur) Hariot, ssp. tomentosoides (Van Goor) Silva.)"
Thomas J. Kelleher, Jr.

"Terrestrial Mammals of Naushon Island"
C. Rinaldo

"Primary Production of Phytoplankton in Closed and Open Locations in Nantucket Harbor, MA"
Angela J. Garrett

"Some Aspects of Desiccation in Subtidal and Intertidal Entermorpha"
Joseph Markiewicz

"The Feeding and Breeding Behavior of Carinogammarus mucronatus and the Toxic of Codium fragile on C. mucronatus"
Mark A. Hunter

"An Ecological Survey of Nantucket Sand Fleas"
Barbara Ann Corby

"Nitrogen Fixation and its Influence on the Successional Relationship of Moorland, Field, and Dune Plants at Quaise, Nantucket Island, MA"
Kathryn E. King

"Competitive Interaction Between Codium fragile and Zostera marina in Nantucket Harbor, MA"
Katherine A. Marshall

"The Effect of Nitrate and Phosphate Enrichments on the Growth Rate of Codium fragile from Nantucket Harbor, MA"
John J. O'Brien

1973

"Competition Between Callinectes sapidus and Caroinides meanas In a Salt Marsh Estuary, Nantucket, MA"
Gregory Breiter

"Codium fragile, drift, density and distribution in Nantucket"
John O'Brien

"The Distribution of Luminescent Bacteria in Boston Harbor and the Adjoining Coastal Region"
John M. O'Connor, III

"A Comparative Study of Enrichment Cultures of Mixed Methane Producing Bacteria"
John M. O'Connor

"Plant Coverage and Succession: On Nantucket, MA Moors: Bearberry, Huckleberry, Rose, and Bayberry"
Susan Riggs

"Investigation of the Ecology of Helianthemum on Nantucket Island"
Sara Shed

"An Estimate of the Water Carrying Capacity of Madequecham, an Ancient Valley, Nantucket, MA"
Georgina Stackpole

"Distribution and Density of Scallop Spat (Pecten irradians) in Relation to Substrate in Nantucket Harbor, MA"
Robert G. Hielman

1972

"The Distribution and Population Estimate of Callinectes sapidus and Carcinus maenus in a Salt Marsh Estuary, Nantucket, MA"
Kyra Stephanoff

"An Ecological Survey of Amphipoda (Sand Fleas) at Siasconset Beach, Nantucket, MA"
Sara Anne Garcia-Mata

"Environmental Factors Influencing Algal Distribution in the Quaise Point Estuary, Nantucket, MA"
Carl P. Hobart

"Factors Influencing Temperature Distribution in Nantucket Harbor, MA"
Paul Reilly

"An Investigation of the Relationship Between Pond Salinity and the Number of Bordering Plant Species, Nantucket, MA"
Sara Ingram

"The Effect of Salinity Changes on a Filter Feeding Organism (Mya arenaria)"
John Sease

1971

"Ebb and Flood Currents in Upper Nantucket Harbor"
Knox Cummin

"Population Study of Fish With Observations of Commercial Fish in the Quaise Point Salt marsh, Nantucket"
Mary Kimmett

"Distribution of Flora on Ester's Island, Nantucket, MA"
Juliet Perkins

1970

"Artificial Tidal Pools"
Stephen Backstrom

"Salt-Containing Runoff from Roads: A Potential Threat to Fresh-Water Ecosystems?"
Linda L. Balconi

"Food Intake of Seven Species of Fish from Nantucket Island"
Peter Cotten

"A Study of the Pearl Gray Guinea fowl at the UMass Boston Field Station, Quaise, Nantucket"
Timothy M. Crowe

"An Ecological Survey of a Salt Marsh, Quaise Point, Nantucket Isle, MA"
Steven Darling

"Feedback Devices and the Control of Animal Populations"
Fred A. Elkind

"Phaeophyceae of Nantucket"
Betsy Feltner

"Adaptability of Nereis virens Sars to Salinity Changes"
Michael J. John

"Growing Artemia salina Populations in Various Salinities"
Stephen P. Kniaz

"Coliform Analysis of Nantucket Harbor"
Donald F. McGilvery

"A Preliminary Study of Scooter Migration in Southeastern MA"
Wayne R. Peterson

"Detergent Analysis as a Means of Predicting Pollution: A Study of Wells and Shore Areas of Nantucket"
Mark Sheinkopf

"A Study of Fresh Water Pond, Nantucket, MA"
Elayne B. Toga

1969

"Observations in Invertebrate Embryology Based on Gravid Organisms Found on the Island of Nantucket"
Author not noted

"A Botanical Exploration of Nantucket Shoreline - Some Edible Plants of the Beach and Marsh"
Eleanor Lucas
 

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