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Recent Graduates
2012 degrees
 Mark DuFour (advisor: Dr. Christine Mayer) defended his M.S. thesis, "Quantification of variability,
abundance, and mortality in the Maumee River larval walleye (Sander vitreus) using Bayesian hierarchical models", July 31, 2012. |
 Todd Crail (advisor: Dr. Jon Bossenbroek) defended his Ph.D. dissertation, "The ecological niche of darters (Pisces:Percidae) across multiple scales in the Ohio
River Basin", on May 15, 2012. He is now an Instructor in the Department of Environmental
Sciences at UT.
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 Sarah Panek (advisor: Dr. Tom Bridgeman) defended her M.S. thesis, The ecology of the nuisance cyanobacterium, Lyngbya wollei, in the Western Basin of Lake Erie "The ecology of the nuisance cyanobacterium, Lyngbya wollei, in the Western Basin of Lake Erie", on March 29 2012. |
2011 degrees
 Osvaldo Jhonatan Sepulveda Villet (advisor: Dr. Carol Stepien) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, "Population
genetic structure and biogeographic patterns in the yellow perch Perca flavescens" on October 24, 2011.
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 Kristen DeVanna (advisor: Dr. Christine Mayer) defended her Ph.D. dissertation, "Spatial correlation
and facilitation between Dreissena and Hexagenia: Possible food-web disruption," on August 26, 2011. She is now a post-doctoral researcher
at the Ohio State University.
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 Jo Ann Banda (advisor: Dr. Carol Stepien) defended her M.S. thesis, "Temporal and spatial genetic
consistency of walleye (Sander vitreus) spawning groups" on January 4, 2011.
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2009 - 2010 degrees
Patricia Armenio (advisor: Dr. Christine Mayer) successfully defended her M.S. thesis, "Nutrient contributions from Dreissena spp. to Lyngbya wollei and Cladophora glomerata" on December 16, 2010. |
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 Kris Barnswell (advisor Dr. Daryl Dwyer) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, "Determining Preliminary Components for a Landfill Evapotranspiration Cover" on April 1, 2010.
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 Joshua Brown (advisor: Dr. Carol Stepien) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, "Genetic
Portraits of Introduced Gobies and Mussels: Population Variation Delineates Invasion
Pathways," on Tuesday, November 24, 2009.
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Matthew Neilson (advisor: Dr. Carol Stepien) successfully defended his dissertation, "Evolution, systematics, and phylogeography of Ponto-Caspian gobies (Benthophilinae: Gobiidae: Teleostei)" on Thursday, September 10, 2009. |
 Audra Crosky (advisor Dr. Jon Bossenbroek) defended her M.Sc. thesis, "Evaluating the costs of
the emerald ash borer invasion in Ohio," on Tuesday, August 18, 2009.
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Jordan Rofkar (advisor Dr. Daryl Dwyer) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, "An ecologically engineered system for remediation of arsenic-contaminated water:
Selecting plant species for northwest Ohio" on April 7, 2010.
Justin Chaffin (advisor: Dr. Tom Bridgeman) defended his M.Sc. thesis, "Physiological Ecology of
Microcystis Blooms in Turbid Waters of Western Lake Erie," on July 21, 2009. He is
continuing on at the Lake Erie Center in the Ph.D. program.
