Graduate students

·         Jennifer Chastain (current M.S. student - Environmental Science); research interest:  evaluating harmful algal bloom dynamics in Choctawhatchee Bay combined laboratory and field investigations; developing GIS land-use profiles in Choctawhatchee Bay watershed

·         Mike Koban (current M.S. student - Environmental Science); research interest:  harmful algal blooms, submarine groundwater discharge

·         Friedrich (Fritz) Langerfeld (current M.S. student - Environmental Science); research interest:  GIS assessment of coastal and estuarine biogeochemistry

·         Alison McDowell (current M.S. student - Environmental Science); research interest:   hydrologic fluxes and nutrient regimes in the western Choctawhatchee Bay bayous

·         Dawn Prince (current M.S. student - Environmental Science); research interest:  submarine groundwater discharge, coastal biogeochemistry

Former graduate students

·         Brandon Jarvis (M.S. 2007 - Environmental Science; thesis title:  Effects of Organic Carbon Loading on Coupled Nitrification/Denitrification in Estuarine Sediments).  Mr. Jarvis is currently employed as a Water Quality Specialist for an Atlanta, GA, environmental consulting firm

Former Undergraduate Students

·         Joseph Beutler (B.S. 2007 - Environmental Studies); senior research:  Investigation of groundwater influx to Bayou Texar - Pensacola, FL:  assessment of radium concentrations (and radon emanation) from Bayou Texar sediments; entered the graduate program at University of Illinois -Chicago's Department of Earth and Environmental Science in fall 2007

·         Christina Genualdi (B.S. 2008 – Environmental Studies); Honors thesis advisee; graduated from UWF Environmental Science graduate program in spring 2010

·         Rachel Pryor (B.S. 2008 – Environemtnal Studies); Honors thesis advisee; summer research assistant; entered Florida International University graduate program in fall 2008

·         Ian Rehrig (B.S. 2010 – Environmental Studies); summer research assistant

·         Jonathan Stewart (B.S. 2007 - Environmental Studies); senior research:  Submarine groundwater discharge into Bayou Texar; entered UWF Environmental Science graduate program in fall 2007

 

e-mail Matthew Schwartz at mschwartz (at) uwf.edu