Stephen Sulkin | Shannon Point Marine Center

Current Graduate Students

Nicole Casper. Determining the nutritional role of microalgae in the diet of first stage brachyuran crab larvae.
Anna-Mai Christmas. Testing the effects of ocean acidification on the behavior and physiology of larval crabs.

Former Western Graduate Students

Greg DeBrosse. Intraspecific variability in selected morphological characteristics of megalopae among congeneric species of Cancer crabs (Decapoda, Brachyura.)
Kim Holzer. The effects of environmental factors on the survival zoeal duration and settlement of larvae of two congeneric species: Hemigrapsus oregonensis and Hemigrapsus nudus.
Brett Hora. Dietary requirements and settlement ecology of the larvae and post larvae of the brachyuran crabs Cancer oregonensis and Cancer magister.
Jason Lehto. The use of protists and detritus as a diet for the first zoeal stage of the brachyuran crabs Cancer magister and Hemigrapsus oregonensis.
Sara Prescott. Effects of planned marina construction in Ship Harbor, WA on selected early life history traits of the Dungeness crab Cancer magister.
Laura Morse. Acute and chronic toxicity of ammonia to the first larval stages of the crabs Hemigrapsus oregonensis and Cancer magister.
Matt Johnson. The development and physiological responses of Cancer magister megalopae to diel cycles of temperature and salinity.
Mary Jo Hartman. Effect of exposure of ovigers to petroleum hydrocarbons on subsequent zoeal development of the brachyuran crab Hemigrapsus oregonenesis.
Shawn Hinz. Effects of feeding on toxic and non-toxic strains of the dinoflagellate Alexandrium spp. by larvae of four crab species.
Franchesca Perez. Palatability of autotrophic dinoflagellates to newly hatched larval crabs
Nicole Moore. The temporal patterns of ingestion of the dinoflagellate Prorocentrum micans by newly-hatched brachyuran crab larvae.
Kara Shaber. Feeding on dinoflagellates by late stage larval crabs raised in the laboratory and collected from the field.
Rachel Garcia. Does the heterotrophic rotifer Brachionus plicatilis vector toxins from its dinoflagellate prey to its crab larval predators?
Lauren Chomiczewski. Manipulating the nutritional value of planktotrophic larvae as prey for larval crabs.
Amy Burgess. Vectoring algal toxin in marine planktonic food webs: sorting out nutritional deficiency from toxicity effects.

Undergraduates, Past 5 Years

Lisa Blankenship (Western Washington University). The effect of temperature during egg brooding on the nutritional status of newly hatched larvae in the crab Cancer oregonensis.
Michael Dauer (University of Washington). Incidence of ingestion of Alexandrium spp. dinoflagellates by stage one crab larvae.
Matt Richards (Western Washington University). Measuring ingestion of the ciliate Strombidium sp by Cancer magister larvae.
Breanna Harris (Ohio University). Effect of feeding and starvation treatments on megalopal development of the brachyuran crabs Lophopanopeus bellus and Fabia subquadrata obtained from late stage wild caught zoeae.
Melinda Montano (Eckerd College). Development and growth of Cancer magister larvae: a comparison of Puget Sound and outer coast populations.
Gabriel Rodriguez (California State University-Monterey Bay). Manipulating nutritional value of Cancer oregonenesis prey by altering the prey's diet.
Brandon Russell (Boston College). The role of an adult habitat cue in influencing time to metamorphosis in post-larval megalopae of the commensal crab Fabia subquadrata.
Miranda Lopez (Texas A&M University-Corpus Christie). The role of rotifers as vectors for algal toxins in the diets of larval crabs.
Amy Burgess (Brigham Young University). Effects of starvation on the nutritional value of nauplii as prey for larval crabs.