Diane Stoecker Ph.D.

Location:

Horn Point Laboratory

Research Topics:

Research Interests:

Physiological ecology and feeding biology of planktonic protists (one celled algae and protozoa); Role of microzooplankton (ciliates and dinoflagellates) in food webs; Sequestration of foreign organelles and cellular evolution of protists; Harmful algal and cyanobacterial blooms and their effects on food webs and biogeochemistry; Mixotrophy; Effects of hypoxia on microzooplankton-zooplankton interactions; Polar and subpolar microzooplankton and algae.

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Students:

2011 - Edna Mary Dìaz Negron, University of Hawaii, Hilo

2002 - Carrie Fleming, University of Kentucky

2001 - Amy Long, University of Pittsburgh

2000 - Michelle Rome, Brown University

1999 - Audrey Barnett, Millersville University of Pennsylvania

1998 - Kerri Sneider, Southampton College

1997 - Heather Stickney, Swarthmore College

1996 - Michelle Nannen, Rider University

1995 - Jennifer R. Gormer, Salisbury State University

1994 - Tracey McDonnell Wysor, Hood College

1993 - Sheela (Bavikatty) Mahnke, Duke University

Student Publications:

Millette, NC; Pierson, JJ; Aceves, A; Stoecker, DK. 2017. Mixotrophy in Heterocapsa rotundata: A mechanism for dominating the winter phytoplankton. . Limnology and Oceanography .
Stoecker, D. K., A. Long*, S. E. Suttles, and L. P. Sanford. 2006. Effect of small-scale shear on grazing and growth of the dinoflagellate Pfiesteria piscicida . Harmful Algae 5:407-418 .
Johnson, M. D., M. Rome*, and D. K. Stoeker. 2003. Microozoplankton grazing on Prorocentrum minimum and Karlodinium micrum in Chesapeake Bay. Limnology and Oceanography 48:238-248 .
Gustafson, D. E., D. K. Stoecker, M. D. Johnson, W. F. Van Heukelem, and K. Sneider*. 2000. Cryptophyte algae are robbed of their organelles by the marine ciliate Mesodinium rubrum. Nature 405:1049-1052 .
Stickney, H. L.*, R. R. Hood, and D. K. Stoecker. 2000. The impact of mixotrophy on planktonic trophic dynamics in marine ecosystems . Ecological Modeling 125:203-230 .
Stoecker, D. K., A. S. Li, D. W. Coats, D. E. Gustafson, and M. K. Nannen*. 1997. Mixotrophy in the dinoflagellate Prorocentrum minimum . Marine Ecology Progress Series 152:1-12 .

Student Presentations:

Diaz-Negron, E. M.*, and D. Stoecker. 2012. The effects of violacein-producing bacteria on microzooplankton grazing and phytoplankton growth . ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah .
Long, A.*, D. Stoecker, and L. Sanford. 2002. The effects of small-scale shear on Pfiesteria piscicida. ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii .
Barnett, A.*, and D. Stoecker. 2000. The effect of humic substances on dinoflagellate population growth . ASLO/AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Antonio, Texas .

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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.
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