Marina Piscitelli
North Carolina Maritime Museum ‘Protect Wild Dolphins’ Grant
Graduate School Travel Grant
Mike Polito
Dr. Ralph W. Brauer Fellowship
Carly Randall
CMS Summer Research Scholarship
UNCW Graduate School Summer Research Scholarship
Christy Visaggi
Sigma Xi
UNCW Brauer Fellowship
UNCW Office of International Programs
(Five Grants Currently Being Reviewed)
Any other information that you would like to share (for example, if you are graduating, where are
you off to?):
Katie Chartrand
I have already sadly departed but am happy to report I am settled into life Down Under up near
Cairns in Far North Queensland Australia....on the reef daily and can’t get enough!
Chip Collier
Elected President of the UNCW American Fisheries Society.
Successfully completed PhD candidacy exams.
Ana Jimenez
Elected president of the Biology Graduate Student Association for 2008-2009
Attending Friday Harbor’s invertebrate zoology class over the summer
Tse-Lynn Loh
Just applied for the UNCW PhD program!
Erin Meagher
I defended my dissertation in January and am working for the National Marine Fisheries Service
in St. Petersburg, FL as the Southeast Region Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response
Program Administrator and Pelagic Long-line Take Reduction Team Coordinator.
Pedro Medina-Rosas
I will attend the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium in July 2008, at Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Going to Mexico for more coral larvae this summer!
Steve McMurrary
Presented:McMurray, S.E., Henkel, T.P., and Pawlik, J.R. Demography of the giant barrel sponge Xestospongia
muta on a Florida coral reef. UNCW Graduate Student Symposium. April, 2008.
Adriane Michaelis
Also presented at symposiums: