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2005 - 7/2007 Cliff Ross
Ph.D. Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Topic:  Biochemical and Molecular Ecology of Cyanotoxin Production
(First Year Funding from Center of Excellence for Biomedical and Marine Biotechnology)
Advisor: V. Paul
Current Location: University of North Florida, Jacksonville

2005 - 5/2007 Carlos Frederico Gurgel
Ph.D. Institution: University of Louisiana
Research Topic:  Phylogeography and the Molecular Systematics of Selected Rhodophyta from Fort Pierce (Florida) and Vicinity
Advisor: J. Norris
Current Location: Adelaide, Australia

2005 - 3/2007 Inken Kruse
Ph.D. Institution: University of Maryland
Research Topic: Using Phylogeography and Tests of Host Specificity to Understand the Factors Influencing Parasite Range Limits at a Zoogeographic Boundary
Advisor: A. Hines
Current Location: Germany 

2004 - 3/2007 Angela Capper
Ph.D. Institution: University of Queensland, Australia
Research Topic:  An Assessment of the Impacts of the Cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula upon Consumers and Incidental Grazer Species in Florida
Advisor: V. Paul
Current Location: England

2006 (May - August) Amy Anne Erickson
Ph.D. Institution: University of South Florida
Research Topic: LyngbyaHAB: Ecology of Toxic Marine Cyanobacteria Lyngbya spp. in Florida Estuarine and Coastal Waters
Advisor: V. Paul
Current Location: Louisiana State University in Shreveport

2005 - 2006 Greg Cronin
Home Institution (Senior Postdoctoral Fellow): University of Colorado
Research Topic:  Interspecific Patterns of Resource Allocation Among Seaweed Growth, Chemical Defense, and Stress Tolerance
Current Location: University of Colorado, Denver

2004 - 2006 Anja Schulze
Ph.D. Institution: University of Victoria
Research Topic: Structure and Development of the Nervous System in Sipuncula
Advisor: M. Rice
Current Location: Texas A & M University at Galveston

2004 - 2005 Melany Puglisi
Ph.D. Institution: University of Mississippi
Research Topic: Antimicrobial Chemical Defense of marine plants and Algae
Advisor: V. Paul
Current Location: Pennsylvania

2003 - 2005 Amy Anne Erickson
Ph.D. Institution: University of South Florida
Research Topics:  Studies of Chemical Defenses in Marine Plants; Determination of Whether Feeding Preferences of the Mangrove Tree Crab Aratus pisonii are Chemically Based
Advisor: V. Paul
Current Location: Louisiana State University in Shreveport

2004 - 2005 Sandra Duran
Ph.D. Institution: University of Barcelona
Research Topic:  Morphological and Chemical Variation in Sponges Inhabiting Reefs and Mangroves: Cryptic Species or Phenotypic Plasticity?
Advisor: V. Paul
Current Location: Barcelona, Spain

2003 - 2005 Mark Clementz
Ph.D. Institution: University of California, Santa Cruz
Research Topic:  Seasonal Variations in Florida Manatee Habitat and Foraging Preferences Recorded in Cholesterol Values
Advisor: V. Paul
Current Location: University of Wyoming, Laramie

2003 - 2005 Rick Hochberg
Ph.D. Institution: University of New Hampshire
Research Topic:  Functional Morphology and Evolution of Gastrotrich Helical Muscles
Advisor:  M. Rice
Current Location:  University of Massachusetts, Lowell

2002 - 2004 Scott Santagata
Ph.D. Institution:  University of Southern California
Research Topic:  Functional Morphology of the Neruomuscular Systems and Ciliated Band Arrangement Among Bryozoan Larvae
Advisor:  M. Rice
Current Location:  Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland

June-August 2003 Ovidiu Dragastan
Home Institution (senior postdoctoral fellow):  University of Bucharest, Romania
Research Topic:  Fossil siphonalean green algal diversity in South Florida oolites and limestones
Collaborators:  M. and D. Littler
Current Location:  University of Bucharest, Romania

2001 - 2003 Sharon Ewe
(funded by a Mellon Foundation grant through the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center)
Ph.D. Institution:  University of Miami
Research Topic: Interactive effects of salinity and nutrients; linking physiological
processes with patterns in mangrove forest structure
Advisors:  C. Lovelock and I. C. Feller
Current Location:  Florida International University, Miami, Florida

2001 - 2003 Daniel McCarthy
Ph.D. Institution:  University of London-King's College
Research Topic:  Reproductive responses to sublethal disturbances in the
reef-building polychaete Phragmatopoma lapidosa
Advisor:  M. Rice
Current Location:  Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Florida 

2001 - 2003 Thomas Stach
Ph.D. Institution: University of Tubingen
Research Topic: Comparative study of the ontogeny of tunicates
Advisor: M. Rice
Current Location: Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany

2000 - 2002 Susan L. Richardson
Ph.D. Institution: Yale University
Research Topic: Epiphytic foraminiferans in seagrass habitats, Indian River Lagoon:
their diversity, distribution and utility as indicators of fossil seagrass habitats
Advisor:  M. Buzas
Current Location:  Florida Atlantic University, Jupiter, Florida

2000 - 2002 Eric Edsinger-Gonzales
Predoctoral Fellow: Utrecht University
Research Topic: Evolution of axis specification within the Spiralia.
Advisor: M. Rice
Current Location:  Washington  

2000 - 2001 Renae Brodie
Ph.D. Institution: University of Washington
Research Topic: Ontogeny of land crab respiratory structures during the sea-to-land transition.
Advisor: A. Hines
Current Location:  Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts

1999 - 2000 Bruno Pernet 
Ph. D. Institution: University of Washington
Research Topic: Functional morphology and evolution of larval feeding in phyllodocidan polychaetes.
Advisor: M. Rice, K. Fauchald
Current Location:  University of California at Long Beach

1998 - 1999 Kevin Brett Johnson
Ph. D. Institution: University of Oregon
Research Topic: The interplay between the length of larval life and size at metamorphosis in marine invertebrates. 
Advisor: M. Rice
Current Location:  Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida  

1997 - 1998 Martin Thiel
Ph.D. Institution: University of Maine
Research Topic: Reproductive biology and social behavior of endobiotic peracarids: a predictive approach to the study of extended parental care
Advisor: M. Rice 
Current Location: Universidad Catolica del Norte, Coquimbo, Chile

1996 - 1997 Paul R. Jivoff
Ph.D. Institution: University of Maryland
Research Topic: Sexual selection and the evolution of male genitalia structure in xanthids
Advisor: A. Hines
Current Location: Rider University, New Jersey 

1996 - 1997 Michael H. Temkin
Ph.D. Institution: University of Southern California
Research Topic: Sperm-follicle cell interactions during fertilization in gymnolaemate bryozoans
Advisor: M. Rice
Current Location: Saint Lawrence University, Canton, New York

1995 - 1997 Joseph F. Dineen, Jr.
Ph.D. Institution: University of Maryland
Research Topic: Transport of brachyuran larvae in a coastal lagoon
Advisor: A. Hines
Current Location: Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce, Florida

1995 - 1996 Jennifer E. Frick
Ph.D. Institution: Clemson University
Research Topic: Establishment of larval polarity
Advisor: M. Rice
Current Location: Brevard College, Brevard, North Carolina

1993 - 1994 William B. Jaeckle
Ph.D. Institution: University of Southern California
Research Topic: Modes of nutrient assimilation by somatocoelic mesothelia in echinoderm larvae.
Advisor: M. Rice
Current Location: Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois

1993 - 1994 Elizabeth J. Balser
Ph.D. Institution: Clemson University
Research Topic: Development of the gonad in holothuroid echinoderms
Advisor: M. Rice
Current Location: Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois

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1991 - 1992 William B. Jaeckle
Ph.D. Institution: University of Southern California
Research Topic: Determination of the level of nutritional integration in larvae of benthic marine invertebrates
Advisor: M. Rice
Current Location: Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois

1991 - 1992 Alan W. Harvey
Ph.D. Institution: University of Arizona
Research Topic: Settlement and metamorphosis cues in hermit crabs
Advisor: M. Rice
Current Location: Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia

1991 - 1992 Joseph L. Staton
Ph.D. Institution: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Research Topic: Use of allozymes for the genetic identification of marine species
Advisor: M. Rice
Current Location: University of South Carolina, Beaufort, South Carolina

1990 - 1991 C. Bradford Calloway
Ph.D. Institution: Harvard University
Research Topic: Brooding in the Teredinidea (Mollusca, Bivalvia)
Advisor: M. Rice
Current Location: Leica, Inc., Malvern, Pennsylvania

1990 Eve Boucaud-Camou (senior postdoc)
Institution: Universite de Caen, France
Research Topic: Feeding and digestion in early young cephalopods
Advisor: C. Roper
Current Location: Universite de Caen, France

1989 - 1990 Juliet A. Brodie
Ph.D. Institution: University College, Ireland
Research Topic: Systematics and life histories of Liagora (Rhodophyta)
Advisor: J. Norris
Current Location: Bath College of Higher Education, Bath, England

1988 - 1989 Richard Lowell
Ph.D. Institution: Dalhousie University, Canada
Research Topic: Induced biochemical and chemical responses of marine macroalgae to herbivore damage
Advisor: M. Littler
Current Location: University of Leeds, United Kingdom

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1987 - 1988 Steven Rumrill
Ph.D. Institution: University of Alberta, Canada
Research Topic: Morphological and experimental investigations of larval settlement and metamorphosis in marine invertebrates
Advisor: M. Rice
Current Location: South Slough National Estuary Reserve, Charleston, Oregon

1985 - 1987 Rüdiger Bieler
Ph.D. Institution: University of Hamburg
Research Topic: The gastropod family Vermetidae in the subtropical western Atlantic (taxonomy, biology, and ecology)
Advisor: M. Rice
Current Location: Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois

1985 - 1986 Beth Okamura
Ph.D. Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Research Topic: Partitioning of food resources by bryozoans
Advisors: A. Cheetham, M. Rice
Current Location: University of Reading, Reading, U.K.

1984 - 1985 Sarah L. Armstrong
Ph.D. Institution: Duke University
Research Topic: Thallus form in the genus Caulerpa: response to the physical environment
Advisor: M. Littler
Current Location: Milsap College, Jackson, Mississippi

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1983 - 1984 Maria Byrne
Ph.D. Institution: University of Victoria, Canada
Research Topic: Reproductive biology of Caribbean ophiuroids that brood their young
Advisor: M. Rice
Current Location: The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

1982 - 1983 Jon Norenburg
Ph.D. Institution: Northeastern University
Research Topic: Development biology of nermertines from Florida
Advisor: M. Rice
Current Location: National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC.

1980 - 1981 Jan Factor
Ph.D. Institution: Cornell University
Research Topic: Studies on the larval development, histology, and ultrastructure of the lobster Nephropsis aculeata (Decapoda: Nephropidae)
Advisors: R. Gore, M. Rice
Current Location: State University of New York, Purchase, New York

1979 - 1980 Robert Burke
Ph.D. Institution: University of Alberta, Canada
Research Topic: Echinoid metamorphosis: resorption and transformation larval structures.
Advisor: M. Rice
Current Location: University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada

1979 - 1980 Malcolm G. Erskian (Deceased)
Ph.D. Institution: University of California, Davis
Research Topic: Dynamics of spatial patterns in epiphytic foraminifera
Advisor: M. Buzas

1978 - 1980 H. Jack MacDonald
Ph.D. Institution: Clark University
Reserach Topic: The reproductive biology of the decapod crustaceans of the Indian River region of Florida
Advisors: R. Gore, M. Rice

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1978 - 1979 Bruce R. Bartlett
Ph.D. Institution: Oregon State University
Research Topic: The reproductive biology of brooding bivalves.
Advisor: M. Rice
Current Location: US Department of Agriculture, Corvallis, Oregon

1977 - 1979 John F. Pilger
Ph.D. Institution: University of Southern California
Research Topic: Systematics, reproduction, and distribution of Themiste (Sipuncula) on the east coast of North America.
Advisor: M. Rice
Current Location: Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia

1976 - 1978 Edward E. Ruppert
Ph.D. Institution: University of North Carolina
Research Topic: Comparative investigation of pharynges in pseudocoelomates, one group of lophophorates, and one group of Annelida.
Advisor: M. Rice
Current Location: Professor Emeritus, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina

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