Undergraduate students

Current undergraduate students

Jarrod Ludwig (fall 2019-present)
Workstudy student, ENV Honors student
Project: Deepwater sculpin reproduction

Former undergraduate students

1. Summer Undergraduate Research Program

Desmond Barber (2021)
Project: Thiamine deficiency and fatty acid signatures in Lake Ontario lake trout

Nick Rinaldi (2021)
Project: Use of fatty acid signatures to decipher Lake Champlain lake trout diet

Jarrod Ludwig (2021)
Project: Insight of the deepwater sculpin reproduction in Lake Ontario

Mathew Suflita (2021)
Project: Reproduction and gonad histology of round goby in Sandy Creek - a tributary of Lake Ontario

Lillian Denecke (2019)
Project: Interaction between dietary thiamine and lipid in juvenile steelhead trout

Matthew Beers (2018)
Project: Comparison of prey fish fatty acid signatures among the Finger Lakes

Cory Hammond (2017)
Project: Shift in the fatty acid signatures of Atlantic salmon in response to Lake Ontario prey diets

Nathan Barker (2017)
Project: Fatty acid signatures of predatory fish from Lake Michigan

Erica Kingdollar (2016)
Project: Inter- and intra-species variations in fatty acid signatures of nearshore fishes from Lake Michigan

Nick Farese (2016)
Project: Thiamine concentrations in prey fishes from Lake Ontario

Ann Patterson (2015)
Project: Fatty acid signatures of fishes collected from Lake Ontario and surrounding wetlands

Thomas Palmer (2015)
Project: Fatty acid signatures of fish and crayfish from Cayuga Lake

Bailey Fogle (2015)
Project: Spatio-temporal variation in fatty acid signatures of lake trout eggs

Sage Hallenbeck (2014)
Project: Dietary transfer of fatty acids in lake trout

Matthew Futia (2014)
Project: Spatio-temporal variation in fatty acid signatures of Lake Michigan fish

Logan Stratton (2013)
Project: Dietary effects on lake trout fatty acid signature

Colleen Kolb (2013)
Project: Dietary transfer of fatty acids in juvenile yellow perch

Dustin Bradley (2012)
Project: Determination of lipid concentrations and fatty acid signature in lake Ontario fish

Josh LaFountain (2011)
Project: Spatio-temporal variation in fatty acid signatures of Lake Michigan spottail shiner Notropis hudsonius

Edwards Wesolowski (2010)
Project: Influence of dietary lipids on survival, growth, and fatty acid composition of brown trout and Atlantic salmon juveniles

2. Independent study students

Desmond Barber (spring 2020, fall 2021)
Project: Fish rearing
Project: Thiamine deficiency and fatty acid signatures in Lake Ontario steelhead trout

Lillian Denecke (fall 2019)
Project: Change in gill NA+/K+ ATPase activity in Chinook salmon juveniles

Cameron Snell (fall 2019)
Project: Fate of microplastics in coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) and round goby (Neogobius melanostomus)

Ariel Leahy (spring 2017)
Project: Comparison of Lake Michigan and Lake Ontario cisco fatty acid signatures

Chris Maier (spring 2017)
Project: Fatty acid signatures of predatory fish from Lake Michigan

Nick Farese (spring 2017)
Project: Spatio-temporal variations in fatty acid signatures of Lake Michigan fishes

Honor thesis (fall 2017): Thiamine concentration and lipid content of prey fish from the Great Lakes region

Michelle Edwards (spring 2017)
Project: Fatty acid signatures of Lake Michigan rainbow trout

Erica Kingdollar (spring 2016)
Project: Inter- and intra-species variations in fatty acid signatures of nearshore fishes from Lake Michigan

Matthew Futia (fall 2014)
Project: Salmonid health in the Great Lakes region

Erik Long (spring 2014)
Project: Assessing spatial variation in fatty acid signatures of Lake Ontario round goby Neogobius melanostomus

Miranda Papp (spring 2014)
Project: Assessing spatio-temporal variability in fatty acid signatures of Lake Ontario alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus)

Daniel Sheets (Winter 2014)
Project: Fatty acid signature of prey fish

Josh Perry (fall 2012)
Project: Oxidative stress in round goby Neogobius melanostomus

Kaitlin Kaminski (spring 2012)
Project: Influence of dietary thiamine on the growth and survival of juvenile lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush)

Josh Kay (spring 2012)
Project: Lake Ontario prey fish fatty acid signatures

Ed Wesolowski (spring 2010)
Project: Influence of dietary lipids on survival, growth, and fatty acid composition of brown trout and Atlantic salmon juveniles