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Students

Cohort 2

Anna Cherry
  • Major: Civil Engineer
  • Gulf Impact Project: TBD
Shannon Kille
  • Major: Marine Sciences
  • 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
Madalyn Mayhair
  • Major: Civil Engineering
  • Minor: General Business
  • Gulf Impact Project: “Barrier Island Erosion Due to Hurricane Michael and Varying Bay Water Levels”
  • Advisor- Dr. Stephanie Patch

 

Jennifer Vieyra-Sanchez
  • Major: Anthropology
  • Minor: Art History and Museum Studies
  • Gulf Impact Project: “2D Morphometric Analysis of Pensacola Vessel Profiles”
  • Advisor- Dr. Erin Nelson
 
 

 

Cohort 3

Grace Chouinard
  • Major: Marine Sciences
  • Gulf Impact Project: TBD
Sophia Hamade
  • Major: Nursing
  • Gulf Impact Project: TBD
Sophia Lowell
  • Major: Psychology
  • Minor: Spanish
  • Gulf Impact Project: TBD

 

Ethan Myers
  • Major: Biomedical Sciences
  • Minor: Chemistry
  • Gulf Impact Project: TBD
Sierra Pickett
  • Major: Geography
  • Minor: GIT
  • Gulf Impact Project: “Economic Isolation and Social Inequality in Mobile County Schools”
  • Advisor- Dr. Fabian Terbeck

Cohort 4

Callie Conkle
  • Major: Biology, concentration in Environmental Sciences
  • Minor: Psychology
  • Gulf Impact Project: TBD
Anna Elizabeth Cruz
  • Major: Environmental Science and Sustainability Natural Science
  • Minor: Marine Sciences
  • Gulf Impact Project: TBD
Mikayla DeStarkey
  • Major: Biology
  • Minor: Chemistry
  • Gulf Impact Project: TBD


Layla Green
  • Major: History
  • Gulf Impact Project: TBD
Lily Jones
  • Major: Marine Science and International Studies
  • Gulf Impact Project: TBD
Madison Nicholson
  • Major: Anthropology
  • Minor: Art History
  • Gulf Impact Project: “An Analysis of the Pottery of Gulf State Park”
  • Advisor- Dr. Erin Nelson


Weslee Rainey
  • Major: Civil Engineering
  • Gulf Impact Project: TBD
Anna Shirey
  • Major: International Studies and Spanish
  • Minor: Composite Sciences
  • Gulf Impact Project: TBD
Emma Thornhill
  • Major: Marine Sciences
  • Gulf Impact Project: TBD

Alumni

Ashleigh Bock - Cohort 1
  • Major: Studio Art
  • Minor: German
  • Gulf Impact Project: “Campus for the Climate”
  • Advisor: Margarita Skiadas
Blayton Bernard - Cohort 2
  • Major: Marine Sciences
  • Minor: Biology
  • Gulf Impact Project: “Under the Glare: Interactive Effects of Artificial Light Pollution and Invasive Habitat on Fish Communities in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta, Alabama (USA)”
  • Advisor- Dr. Charles Martin
Evelyn Brackebusch - Cohort 1
  • Major: Marine Sciences
  • Minor: Composite Sciences
  • Advisor - Dr. Ruth Carmichael

 

Marcia Cassidy - Cohort 1
  • Major: Professional Health Science, concentration in Health Management
  • Gulf Impact Project: “Composting with Sustainability at South”
  • Advisor - Dr. Robin Deacy
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 Sciences
  • Minor: Psychology
  • Gulf Impact Project: “Environmental Enrichment on the Behaviors and Wellbeing of Sharks in Captivity”
  • Advisor - Dr. Heidi Lyn

 

Kali Johnston - Cohort 2
  • 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
Luke Lansdown - Cohort 2
  • Major: Electrical Engineering, Minor: Sustainability
  • Gulf Impact Project: “Harmful Algae Bloom Detection”
  • Advisor- Dr. Mohamed Shaban
Vanessa Neve - Cohort 1
  • Major: Marine Sciences
  • Minor: Political Sciences
  • Gulf Impact Project: "Shrimp depredation as an indicator of fisheries interaction in bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, in Alabama waters"
  • Advisor - Dr. Ruth Carmichael

 

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
Sophia Poolos - Cohort 1
  • 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
Kate Rains - Cohort 1
  • Major: Marine Sciences
  • 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

 

Semyra Reus - Cohort 2
  • Major: Marine Sciences
  • Minor: GIS
  • Gulf Impact Project: “Acute vs. chronic effects of the psychoactive pollutant fluoxetine in the Gulf Killifish (Fundulus grandis)”
  • Advisor - Dr. Charlie Martin
Abigail Silvestri - Cohort 2
  • Major: Marine Sciences and UTeach EDU
  • Gulf Impact Project: “Metals in Marine Sediments”
  • Advisor - Dr. John Lehrter
Luke Sparkman - Cohort 1
  • Major: Biomedical Sciences, concentration in Pre-Professional Health
  • Minor: Chemistry
  • Gulf Impact Project: “Health in Heat”
  • Advisor - Dr. Ashley Williams