Michael Roman, Ph.D.

Location:

Horn Point Laboratory

Research Topics:

Coastal and Estuarine Processes

Research Interests:

Zooplankton ecology; biological oceanography.

Visit http://www.umces.edu/mike-roman for more about their expertise, education, and contact information.

Students:

2015 - Annmarie Ferrell, Lincoln University

2014 - Megan Bock, Salisbury University

2004 - Julie Palakovich Carr, Boston University

2003 - Rebekah (Duncan) Baker, Eckerd College

2001 - Adrian Kirby-Reither, Saint Mary's College

2000 - Matthew Reaugh, East Stroudsburg University

1999 - Mike Lameier, University of South Carolina

1998 - Beth Zimmer, University of Miami

1997 - Karen Coe, University of Maryland

1995 - Caryn Self-Sullivan, Coastal Carolina University

1994 - Brian Wysor, Long Island University, Southampton

1991 - Kelley M. Parker, Texas A&M University, Galveston

1990 - Hannah Edelen, University of Virginia

1989 - William Rhinehart, Salisbury State University

Student Publications:

Reaugh, M. L.*, M. R. Roman, and D. K. Stoecker. 2007. Changes in plankton community structure and function in response to variable freshwater flow in two tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay . Estuaries and Coasts 30:403-417 .
Roman, M. R., A. L. Gauzens, W. K. Rhinehart*, and J. R. White. 1993. Effects of low oxygen waters on Chesapeake Bay zooplankton . Limnology and Oceanography 38:1603-1614 .

Student Presentations:

Bock, M.* , C. L. Fitzgerald and M. R. Roman. 2015. Effects of environmental oxygen partial pressure on nauplii respiration rates of the planktonic copepod, Acartia tonsa . ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Granada, Spain .
Duncan, R.*, M. Roman, S. Lloyed, and J. M. Lessmann. 2004. Grazing habits of the estuarine copepods Eurytemora affinis and Acartia tonsa in turbid and non-turbid environments in the Chesapeake Bay . Southeastern Estuarine Research Society, Harbor Branch Institute, Florida .
Roman, M., and K. Rhinehart*. 1989. Effect of low dissolved oxygen on Chesapeake Bay copepods . Estuarine Research Federation Biennial Conference, Baltimore, Maryland .

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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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