STUDENTS
![]() | John Paul Balmonte Office: 3305 Venable/Murray Hall Email: balmonte@email.unc.edu Co-Advisers: Andreas Teske and Carol Arnosti Area of Interest: Linking community dynamics and ecosystem function of aquatic and marine bacteria to understand their role in global carbon cycling. |
![]() | Jesse Bikman Office: 3305 Venable/Murray Hall Email: jbikman@email.unc.edu Advisor: Rick Luettich Area of Interest: Mathematical Hurricane/Ocean Modeling |
![]() | Michelle Brodeur Office: UNC Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City, NC Email: mbrodeur@email.unc.edu Advisor: Joel Fodrie |
![]() | Jamie Browne Office: 3105C Venable/Murray Hall Email: jbrowne8@live.unc.edu Advisor: Adrian Marchetti Area of Interest: Phytoplankton Community Transcriptomics |
![]() | Avery Bullock Office: 3305 Venable Hall Email: averykb@live.unc.edu Advisor: Carol Arnosti Area of Interest: Marine Nutrient Processing |
![]() | Zena Cardman Office: 3105A Venable/Murray Hall Email: cardman@email.unc.edu Advisor: Andreas Teske Area of Interest: Hydrothermal Vent Microbiology |
![]() | Natalie Cohen Office: 3305 Venable/Murray Hall Email: cnatalie@email.unc.edu Advisor: Adrian Marchetti Area of Interest: Phytoplankton Physiology |
![]() | Sara Coleman Office: UNC Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City, NC Email: colemase@email.unc.edu Advisor: Joel Fodrie Area of Interest: Oyster Reef Ecology |
![]() | Luke Dodd Office: UNC Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City, NC Email: lfdodd@email.unc.edu Advisor: Mike Piehler Area of Interest: Oyster Reef Ecology |
![]() | Linghan Dong Office: UNC Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City, NC Email: lhdong@email.unc.edu Advisor: Hans Paerl Area of Interest: Phytoplankton Bloom Dynamics |
![]() | Emily Elliott Email: timmonse@email.unc.edu Co-Advisers: Brent McKee and Antonio Rodriguez Area of Interest: Coastal and Fluvial Geology |
![]() | Jie Gao Office: UNC Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City, NC Email: jiegao@email.unc.edu Advisor: Rick Luettich Area of Interest: Use of Numerical Models to Study Hurricane Induced Storm Surge and Inundation |
![]() | Emily Gray Office: 3307 Venable Hall Email: ergray@email.unc.edu Advisor: Jaye Cable Area of Interest: Biogeochemical Cycling |
![]() | John Gunnell Office: 3105D Murray Hall Email: johngun@email.unc.edu Advisor: Brent McKee Area of Interest: Sediment Geochemistry and Radiology |
![]() | Adrienne Hoarfrost Office: 3105A Murray Hall Email: horcrux@live.unc.edu Advisor: Carol Arnosti |
![]() | Dan Hoer Email: hoer@email.unc.edu Advisor: Christopher Martens Area of Interest: Carbon and Nitrogen Biogeochemistry |
![]() | Kimmaree Horvath Office: 3105A Murray Hall Email: horvathk@live.unc.edu Advisor: Justin Ries Area of Interest: Climate Changes and Coral |
![]() | Anna Jalowska Office: 3117Y Murray Hall Email: jalowska@email.unc.edu Co-Advisers: Brent McKee and Antonio Rodriguez Area of Interest: The source of nutrients and particles, their remobilization, transport and contribution to global circulation |
![]() | Jihyuk Kim Office: 3117X Murray Hall Email: jhk@live.unc.edu Advisor: Jaye Cable Area of Interest: Coastal Hydrology and Geochemistry |
![]() | Caleb King Email: cking7@live.unc.edu Advisor: Chris Martens Area of Interest: Biogeochemical Cycling |
![]() | Ian Kroll Office: 3305 Venable Hall Email: ikroll@live.unc.edu Advisor: Joel Fodrie Area of Interest: Oyster Larval Connectivity |
![]() | Kellen Lauer Office: 3105A Murray Hall Email: kclauer@live.unc.edu Advisor: Rachel Noble Area of Interest: Estuarine Water Quality |
![]() | Luke Mckay Office: 3117N Murray Hall Email: ljmckay@email.unc.edu Advisor: Andreas Teske Area of Interest: Hydrothermal Vent Microbiology |
![]() | Elaine Monbureau Office: 3117V Murray Hall Email: emonbure@email.unc.edu Advisor: Brian White Area of Interest: Fluid Dynamics |
![]() | Carly Moreno Office: 3105B Murray Hall Email: cmmoreno@live.unc.edu Advisor: Adrian Marchetti Area of Interest: Phytoplankton Molecular Physiology |
![]() | Joe Morton Office: 3105B Murray Hall Email: jpmorton@email.unc.edu Advisor: Charles “Pete” H. Peterson Area of Interest: Ecological Parasitology |
![]() | Mike Muglia Office: UNC Coastal Studies Institute on Roanoke Island, (Skyco) North Carolina Email: muglia@csi.northcarolina.edu Advisor: Harvey Seim Area of Interest: Coastal Physical Oceanography |
![]() | Lisa Nigro Office: 3309 Venable Hall Email: lmnigro@email.unc.edu Advisor: Andreas Teske Area of Interest: Brine Microbial Ecology |
![]() | Amy Pflaumer Office: UNC Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City, NC Email: pflaumer@live.unc.edu Advisor: Hans Paerl Area of Interest: Cyanobacterial Toxin Production |
![]() | Justin Ridge Office: 3105C Murray Hall Email: jtridge@email.unc.edu Advisor: Antonio Rodriguez Area of Interest: Oyster Reef Geoecology |
![]() | Ashley Smyth Office: UNC Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City, NC Email: arsmyth@email.unc.edu Advisor: Michael Piehler Area of Interest: Estuarine Biogeochemical Cycling |
![]() | Ethan Theuerkauf Office: UNC Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City, NC Email: ejtheu@email.unc.edu Advisor: Antonio Rodriguez Area of Interest: Examining the role of framework geology on shoreline response; Quantifying barrier island carbon budgets. |
![]() | Isaac Westfield Office: 3309 Venable Hall Email: isaactw@email.unc.edu Advisor: Justin Ries Area of Interest: Carbon Sequestration Geochemistry. See Isaac's website at: https://sites.google.com/site/isaactwunc/. |
![]() | Caitlin White Office: 3105B Murray Hall Email: whitecai@live.unc.edu Advisor: Michael Piehler Area of Interest: Estuarine Nutrient Cycling |
![]() | Tingting Yang Office: 3117L Murray Hall Email: tingtiny@email.unc.edu Advisor: Andreas Teske Area of Interest: Microbial Community Dynamics of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill |
![]() | Erika Young Office: UNC-Pembroke Email: elyoung@email.unc.edu Advisor: Charles “Pete” H. Peterson |
![]() | Sungduk Yu Office: 3117X Murray Hall Email: sungduk@unc.edu Advisor: Brian White Area of Interest: Environmental Fluid Mechanics |
![]() | Barbara Zemskova Office: 3307 Venable Hall Email: zemskova@live.unc.edu Advisor: Brian White Area of Interest: Fluid Dynamics |







































