2017 Expedition

2017 SEA Projects

Student(s)	Title
Lindsay Allison	Examination of Cardiac Function Across Fish Species through NCX and SERCA2(aka. using PCR on a boat)
Natasha Batista, Daela Tipton	Parrotfish as an Indicator of Coral Reef Resilience
Amy Bolan	The Effects of Temperature on Chromatophore Expression of Purpleback, Flying Squid(Sthenoteuthis oualaniensis) in the South Pacific Gyre
Michael Burnett, Lia Ferguson	The Effects of the Western Pacific Warm Pool on Water Column Structure in the South Pacific Subtropical Gyre
Nick Chow	Survey of Shark Population in The South Pacifc Subtropical Gyre Using Baited Remote Underwater Video Systems (BRUVs)
Andrea Contreras, Hanna Payne	Assessing the Extent of Coral Bleaching in Lagoon and Forereef Ecosystems in the South Pacific
Marianne Cowherd, Daniel Cryan, Chris Leboa	Evaluating environmental drivers of zooplankton and micronekton communities in the Southwest Pacific Subtropical Gyre
Emma Gee, Sam Weyen	Bleaching in the Coral Clam Hotspot (BITCCH):Correlations in Bleaching Patterns between Coral and Giant Clams
R.J. Haag	Aquatic Qualitative Underwater Assessment: Studying SwimmingThrough Wake Structures
Sierra Killian	Plastic ingested by fish and squid and collected in net tows: Spatial distribution and comparison to models of plastic convergence in the South Pacific subtropical gyre
Diego Sancho	Pockets of life in the desert: Island-driven biological hotspots in the South Pacific Subtropical Gyre