Congratulations to Ruth Havener, Tessa Nyhan, and Jane Curry for their completion of their Graduation with Distinction (GWD) senior honors thesis projects! All three recently presented their GWDs to the Nicholas School community at the Spring Symposium.
Callie Hundley (Ph.D. student), Emma Johnson (Ph.D. student), Ruth Havener (undergraduate, Graduation with Distinction), Scarlett Schwimmer (undergraduate, Bass Conx), and Reid Wygal (undergraduate, Bass Conx) presented at Oceans Week, hosted by Oceans@Duke. At the same time, Henry Sun (Ph.D. student) … Read More
The Bass Connections team, Climate Change Impacts on Farmed and Wild Oysters 2025-2026 presented their work at the joint Atlantic Estuarine Research Society (AERS) and Southeastern Estuarine Research Society (SEERS) meeting in Morehead City, NC. Great work, team!
Check out our new paper led by PhD student, Emma Johnson, that was recently published in Frontiers in Marine Science! We performed a systematic review of epigenetic pathways underlying gene expression and phenotypic plasticity in aquatic invertebrates.
Emma (PhD student), Henry (PhD student), Callie (PhD student), Ruth (undergraduate), and Annabelle (undergraduate, Bass Connections) presented at the Benthic Ecology Meeting in Virginia Beach. We had a great time sharing our work and connecting with colleagues!
Juliet traveled to Scotland where she presented a talk at the Ocean Sciences Meeting and a seminar at the University of Glasgow (special thanks to Dr. Anna McGregor for hosting!).
Wong Lab members joined the 13th Annual SciREN Coast Networking Event where they connected with K-12 educators to offer science education outreach in the form of invertebrate touch tanks and informative cards about our local marine inverts. Their booth won a … Read More
Congrats to Samantha George, who graduated at the end of Fall 2025. Samantha presented her senior thesis project to the DUML community and earned a Graduation with Distinction in Marine Science and Conservation. We look forward to seeing the amazing … Read More
DUML students from Juliet’s Biodiversity of Marine Invertebrates course and Dr. Josh Osterberg’s Marine Ecology course had a great class trip aboard the R/V Shearwater. We deployed an ROV over a shipwreck, performed plankton tows, and spotted plenty of dolphins. … Read More
Undergraduate researcher, Samantha George, presented her honors thesis work at the Western Society of Naturalists meeting in San Diego, CA. Her project explored how infection by boring sponge (Cliona celata) and elevated temperatures impact eastern oyster respiration rate and molecular-level … Read More
