Students

Cohort 1

Marcia Cassidy
  • Major: Professional Health Science, concentration in health management
  • Gulf Impact Project: “Composting with Sustainability at South”
  • Advisor - Dr. Robin Deacy
Ashleigh Bock
  • Major: Studio Art, Minor: German
  • Gulf Impact Project: TBD
Luke Sparkman
  • Major: Biomedical Sciences, concentration in pre-professional health, Minor: Chemistry
  • Gulf Impact Project: “Health in Heat”
  • Advisor - Dr. Ashley Williams

 

Sophia Poolos
  • Major: Biomedical Sciences, concentration in pre-professional health, Minor: Chemistry
  • Gulf Impact Project: “Cervical Cancer Prevention Knowledge, Practices, and Associated Factors”
  • Advisor - Dr. Casey Daniel

Cohort 2

Kali Johnston
  • Major: Environmental and Sustainability Sciences, Minor: Biology
  • Gulf Impact Project: “Influence of Stormwater Flooding Events on the Mobile County School District Student Population”
  • Advisor - Dr. Abbey Hotard
Shannon Kille
  • Major: Marine Science, Minor: Music
  • Gulf Impact Project: “The effects of tropical cyclones on marine sediment organic matter in the Mississippi River plume”
  • Advisor - Dr. Brandi Kiel Reese
Blayton Bernard
  • Major: Marine Sciences
  • Gulf Impact Project: TBD

 

Madalyn Mayhair
  • Major: Civil Engineering, Minor: General Business
  • Gulf Impact Project: TBD
Anna Cherry
  • Major: Civil Engineer
  • Gulf Impact Project: TBD
Semyra Reus
  • Major: Marine Science, Minor: GIS
  • Gulf Impact Project: “Acute vs. chronic effects of the psychoactive pollutant fluoxetine in the Gulf Killifish (Fundulus grandis)”
  • Advisor - Dr. Charlie Martin

 

Jennifer Vieyra-Sanchez
  • Major: Anthropology
  • Gulf Impact Project: TBD
Luke Lansdown
  • Major: Electrical Engineering, Minor: Sustainability
  • Gulf Impact Project: TBD

Cohort 3

Grace Chouinard
  • Major: Marine Sciences
  • Gulf Impact Project: TBD
Sierra Pickett
  • Major: Geography
  • Gulf Impact Project: TBD
Sophia Hamade
  • Major: Nursing
  • Gulf Impact Project: TBD

 

Sophia Lowell
  • Major: Psychology
  • Gulf Impact Project: TBD
Ethan Myers
  • Major: Biomedical Sciences, Minor: Chemistry
  • Gulf Impact Project: TBD

Alumni

Emily Parrish - Cohort 1
  • Major: Biology, Minor: Marine Sciences
  • Gulf Impact Project: “Ghosts in Glass: Ghost Crabs as Judges of Glass Sand for Coastal Restoration”
  • Advisor - Dr. Jeremiah Henning
Vanessa Neve - Cohort 1
  • Major: Marine sciences, Minor: political science
  • Gulf Impact Project: "Shrimp depredation as an indicator of fisheries interaction in bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, in Alabama waters"
  • Advisor - Dr. Ruth Carmichael
Evelyn Brackebusch - Cohort 1
  • Major: Marine Sciences, Minor: Composite Sciences
  • Advisor - Dr. Ruth Carmichael

 

Arthur Cox - Cohort 1
  • Major: Biology
  • Gulf Impact Project: “Is your seafood local? A comparison of fisheries productivity and seafood menus in 21st century coastal Alabama”
  • Advisor - Dr. Steven Scyphers and Dr. Savannah Swinea
Cordelia Gillenwater - Cohort 1
  • Major: Marine Science, Minor: Psychology
  • Gulf Impact Project: “Environmental Enrichment on the Behaviors and Wellbeing of Sharks in Captivity”
  • Advisor - Dr. Heidi Lyn
Kate Rains - Cohort 1
  • Major: Marine Science, Minor: Biology
  • Gulf Impact Project: “Red Drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) as a vector for Northern Gulf Coast plastic pollution in muscle and stomach tissue”
  • Advisor - Dr. Charlie Martin

 

Abigail Silvestri - Cohort 2
  • Major: Marine Sciences, UTeach EDU
  • Gulf Impact Project: “Metals in Marine Sediments”
  • Advisor - Dr. John Lehrter