Friday Harbor Labs NSF/Blinks/Beacon Research Experience for Undergraduates
Summer 2022
Demi Carballosa – The “urch-“ to eat: effect of encrusting bryozoans on the growth and feeding behavior of green urchins
Summer 2021
Maria Garcia – Interactions between Northern kelp crabs (Pugettia producta) and bull kelp (Nereocystis luekeana)
Cara Womacks – Stress eating in kelp crabs: do elevated temperatures change the feeding habits of a macroalgal grazer?
Summer 2020
Muriel Dittrich – Feeding preferences of the Northern kelp crab (Pugettia producta) on Salish Sea seaweeds
Summer 2019
Kasey Cordova – Quantifying Northern Kelp Crab (Pugettia producta) habitat and feeding preferences in the field and in the lab
Declan Farr – Feeding preferences of Northern Kelp crabs (Pugettia producta) on invasive Sargassum muticum as compared to local habitat forming primary producers (bull kelp, eelgrass)
Summer 2016
K. Darby Flanagan – Life or death in the Salish Sea: The impact of biotic factors on the lifecycle of Nereocystis luetkeana (co-mentor with Dr. Megan Dethier)
Bates College
2021-22 Academic Year
Elene Chamberlin – Effects of climate change on the coast of Maine
Henry Hardy – Effects of climate change on the coast of Maine
Maggie O’Neill (postbac scholar) – Life stages and climate change impacts on seaweed; effects of diet on kelp crab growth and molting
Summer/Fall 2020
Josie Carter – Growth and survival of quahogs in a polyculture farm in Maine
James Calhoon – Feeding preferences of red (Mesocentrotus franciscianus) and green (Strongylocentrotus drobachiensis) sea urchins on native and invasive seaweeds in the Salish Sea
Katrina Johnson – Feeding preferences of the Graceful Kelp Crab (Pugettia gracilis) on native and invasive brown algae in the Salish Sea
Lily Nygren – Intertidal community structure near the Harpswell Peninsula (Maine)
Summer/Fall 2019
Bryce O’Brien – Northern kelp crab (Pugettia producta) feeding preferences on bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana): ages and stages
Friday Harbor Labs (Including Research Courses)
Summer 2021 (Marine Subtidal Ecology Course)
Aina Hori, Katie Jones, Caitie Moore, Mei Sulisto – Kelp and Crab Research in the nearshore subtidal
Autumn 2020
Shelby Fox – Kelp crab (genus Pugettia) feeding rates across different temperatures
Autumn 2018
Jenn Allen – Aggressive eats: a love story between a crab and its kelp (co-mentor with Dr. Megan Dethier)
Spring 2017
Sabrina Breton – Kelp diet preferences of the Northern kelp crab (Pugettia producta)
Winslow Lewis – Analysis of the developmental success of Nereocystis luetkeana at varying temperatures
Spring 2016
Gina Rudsill – Examining feeding patterns of three crab species in the Salish Sea: comparisons between herbivorous and detritivorous preference
Nadia Ahmed – Seasonal impacts on the breakage of Nereocystis luetkeana: a break in time
Juliette Birkner – How does Nereocystis size impact point of failure?
Autumn 2015
Chiu Lok Poon – Effects of temperature and salinity on microscopic stages of Nereocystis luetkeana (bull kelp)
Spring 2015
Gabrielle Kurz and Marine Lebrec – Seastar wasting disease surveys (co-mentor with Morgan Eisenlord and Dr. Megan Dethier)
Autumn 2014
Katie Bigham – Claw morphology and influence on feeding electivity of four Pacific Northwest crab species (co-mentor with Dr. Stephanie Crofts)
Spring 2014
Ethan Ellis – Prey choice of intertidally foraging water birds
Kate Aarden and Samantha Murphy – What do northern river otters (Lontra canadensis) eat in the San Juan Islands?
Spring 2013
Ingrid Sabee – Feeding patterns of the graceful kelp crab (Pugettia gracilis)
Collin Gross – Grazing pressure on juvenile Nereocystis luetkeana sporophytes: potential top down effects of the majid crab, Pugettia producta
Katie Dobkowski, PhD 