Denise Breitburg Ph.D.

Location:

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Research Topics:

Coastal and Estuarine Processes

Research Interests:

Research Interests in the links between animal behavior, ecological processes and human influence in coastal systems.

Students:

2003 - Jesse Phillips-Kress, University of Notre Dame

2001 - Kate Boyle, San Francisco University

2000 - Greer (Anderson) Maier, University of Miami

1999 - Audrey Wise, Millersville University of Pennsylvania

1998 - Erin McLaughlin, Salisbury State University

1996 - Chris Bird, University of Connecticut

1993 - Adam Gerstein, Amherst College

1992 - Rachel Clark Caudill, Goucher College

1991 - Sarah DuBeau-Farley, Amherst College

1990 - Nancy D. Steinberg, Brandeis University

1989 - Cynthia Suchman, Amherst College

Student Publications:

Breitburg, D. L., T. Loher, C. A. Pacey, and A. Gerstein*. 1997. Varying effects on low dissolved oxygen on trophic interactions in an estuarine food web . Ecological Monographs 67:489-507 .
Breitburg, D. L., N. Steinberg*, N. Dubeau*, C. Cooksey, and D. E. Houde. 1994. Effects of low dissolved oxygen on predation on estuarine fish larvae . Marine Ecology Progress Series 104:235-246 .

Student Presentations:

Wise, A.*, D. Davis, D. Breitburg, and J. Ambler. 2000. Effect of prey abundance (Acartia tonsa) on growth rates of a top invertebrate ctenophore predator (Mnemiopsis leidyi) in a mesocosm study. Benthic Ecology Meeting, Wilmington, North Carolina .
McLaughlin, E.*, and D. Breitburg. 1999. Dissolved oxygen tolerance and temperature preference of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi in a stratified water column. ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico .
Steinberg, N. D.*. 1991. Vulnerability of naked goby (Gobiosoma bosci) larvae to predation by juvenile striped bass (Morone saxatilis) under hypoxic conditions. Fifth National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Asheville, North Carolina .

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REU NEWS

Eight students will be presenting the summer work at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in March 2022!
2019 REUs presented at the CERF Conference in Mobile, AL
Olivia Saliger won a student presentation awards for talk at the 2019 Coastal Estuarine Research Federation Meeting. Her REU mentor was Judy O'Neil.
Congratulations to 2015 REU Alison Aceves for being selected as an honorable mention in the 2015 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program competition.
In February 2016, seven REUs from the 2015 cohort presented their research findings at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Congratulations to 2015 REU Hope Ianiri on receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2016)!
Jeanette Davis, Ph.D. (REU '06) published a children's book, Science is Everywhere.
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