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Student Research

As part of their MIMSUP experience, all participants engage in independent research under the mentorship of a marine researcher at the Shannon Point Marine Center. The process includes all aspects of research from developing a question to presenting results to an audience of other scientists.

Research activities of the 2011 MIMSUP participants

Edna Fernández. Morphological changes of Synechococcus in culture as a result of protist grazer pressure.

Josh Galvan. Can the release of dopamine by Ulvaria obscura into intertidal waters affect the development of Fucus distichus, a co-occurring alga?

Aliah Irvine. Rotifers fed on diets of toxic and non-toxic algae.

Abdiel Laureano-Rosario. Ocean acidification: Responses of phytoplankton to elevated pCO₂.

Gabrille Lopez. Investigating climatic and local factors influencing water quality in the Salish Sea

Loraine Martell-Bonet. A comparison of pCO₂ patterns and variability in local waters with the flowing seawater system at Shannon Point Marine Center

Rea Pineda. Regulating symbiont density through cell cycle synchrony in the temperate anemone Anthopleura elegantissima.

Fernando Vargas. Using a Pacific herring bioassay to assess the toxicity of retene and wood leachates