Recent Graduate Alumni

2019, PhD
Joel Fodrie
Movement ecology and habitat utilization of estuarine fish

2018, PhD
Joel Fodrie
Landscape, restoration, and community ecology; understanding how structured habitats affect ecological communities at landscape scales

Jie Gao, UNC Institute of Marine Sciences, Luettich Lab Member

2018, PhD
Rick Luettich
Numerical modeling of storm surge under hurricanes using coupled ocean-wave models, physics of the air-sea interface, influence of waves on surface momentum flux

2018, PhD
Hans Paerl
Biogeochemical Cycling
Now a: Postdoctoral Researcher at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, FL - Working in Jim Fourqurean’s lab (SERL) studying the carbon biogeochemistry of South Florida seagrass beds

2018, PhD
Pete Peterson
Marine Ecology & Conservation
Postdoctoral fellow with the South-East Zoo Alliance for Reproduction & Conservation (SEZARC) and a visiting scholar at the Duke University Marine Lab

2018, PhD
Johanna Rosman
Turbulence and Mixing in Estuaries
St. Petersburg Rays

2018, MS
Tony Rodriguez
Land use and ecogeomorphology in coastal watersheds

2017, PhD
Joel Fodrie
Oyster Larval Connectivity
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Fish and Aquatic Conservation

2017, PhD
Tony Rodriguez
Oyster reef geoecology
Duke Marine Lab (DUML), Marine Robotics and Remote Sensing Lab

Erika Young is a UNC Institute of Marine Sciences graduate student and a Peterson Lab Member

2017, PhD
Pete Peterson
Influences of shoreline stabilization structures on nekton and birds in salt marshes
Lecturer at UNC Pembroke

2017, MS
Niels Lindquist
Alternative Substrates for Oyster Reef Restoration and Bioeroding Sponges in NC Estuaries
Independent Contractor at Sandbar Oyster Company

Jess Smith, UNC Institute of Marine Sciences, Luettich Lab Member

2017, MS
Rick Luettich
Physical modeling and mapping
UNC at Chapel Hill, BeAM Makerspace

2017, MS
Rachel Noble
Stormwater quality and public health, molecular microbial monitoring methods, coastal recreation

2017, MS
Mike Piehler
Watershed hydrology and biogeochemistry, stormwater management and water quality
Research Technician within the Piehler Lab

Michelle Brodeur is a UNC Institute of Marine Sciences graduate student and Fodrie Lab Member

2016, PhD
Joel Fodrie
Oyster reef ecology
Communications Specialist at the N.C. Coastal Reserve

Ethan Theuerkauf is a UNC Institute of Marine Sciences graduate student and a Rodriguez Lab Member

2016, PhD
Antonio Rodriguez
Examining the role of framework geology on shoreline response; Quantifying barrier island carbon budgets
Coastal Geologist State of Illinois