Current graduate students

Nick Farese
Thesis: Assessing Otsego Lake lake trout diets using stomach content, fatty acid analysis, and stable isotope ratios

Thomas Blowers
Thesis: The Great Lakes lake trout thiamin monitoring program: Tracking an impediment to natural recruitment

Colin Clark
​Thesis: Do lake trout eggs and free embryos acquire thiamine during development in wild populations?

Jay Palumbo
​Thesis: Assessing diets of California chinook salmon populations using fatty acid profiles

Former graduate students

Aaron Heisey, MS '22
​Thesis: Factors affecting thiamine concentration in lake trout

Tom Bianchi, MS '20
Thesis: Lake Ontario alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, maturation and reproduction dynamics

Matt Futia, BS/MS '18
Thesis: Causes and impacts of thiamine deficiency in Lake Ontario salmonine fish

Kinsey Irvin, MS '18
Thesis: Use of fatty acid signatures to assess the river continuum concept

 Jeremy Kraus, MS '18
Thesis: Interpreting predator-prey interaction in Cayuga Lake fishes using fatty acid signature analysis

Jeremy Pike, MS '17
Thesis: Effects of dietary fatty acids on lake trout fatty acid signature and use mixing models to predict contribution of prey

Robert Pattridge, MS '16
Thesis: Assessing nearshore-offshore connectivity in Lake Ontario food web using fatty acid signatures

Robert Geroux, MS '13
Thesis: Lipid and fatty acid differences in lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) eggs from the Great Lakes, Cayuga Lakes, and Lake Champlain

Christina Accardi, MS '12
Thesis: Dietary effects of non-native species on yellow perch, Perca flavescens, reproductive performance

Blake Snyder, MS '11
Thesis: The effect of highly unsaturated fatty acids on lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) alevins using Artemia nauplii enriched with commercial emulsions and dry diets