Explore master's theses and doctoral dissertations from graduates of the URI Graduate School of Oceanography.

Follow

Theses/Dissertations from 2024

PDF

AN EXPLORATION OF THE QUANTITATIVE METHODS USED IN THE STUDY OF PHYTOPLANKTON POPULATION DYNAMICS, Vitul Agarwal

PDF

TESTING THE ONTOGENETIC MIGRATION HYPOTHESIS IN THE EMERGING RHODE ISLAND JONAH CRAB (CANCER BOREALIS) FISHERY USING STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSIS, Lindsay Agvent

PDF

EDDY HEAT FLUX IN THE LEE OF THE SOUTHEAST INDIAN RIDGE, Sawyer V.S. Brand

PDF

A SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF OCEAN ACIDIFICATION IN THE PACIFIC-ARCTIC REGION, Thomas V. Caero

PDF

EDDY-TOPOGRAPHIC INTERACTIONS, Alexis Johnson Exley

PDF

DRIVERS OF PHYTOPLANKTON DIVERSITY AND PRIMARY PRODUCTION ACROSS TIME AND SPACE: INSIGHTS FROM THE NORTHEAST U.S. SHELF, Diana N. Fontaine

PDF

ASSESSING PLASTIC POLLUTION ON SHORELINES AND IN COASTAL SEDIMENTS, Victoria Madison Fulfer

PDF

PROBING THE ANOXIC WORLD OF COASTAL MARINE SEDIMENTS IN NEW ENGLAND: UNDERSTANDING THE NOVEL PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN PROTISTS AND THEIR BACTERIAL SYMBIONTS, Raúl A. Gutiérrez

PDF

DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF A HURRICANE BOUNDARY LAYER WIND MODEL FOR LANDFALLING HURRICANES, Mansur Ali Jisan

PDF

CHASING SOOT ACROSS THE SEA: THE FATE AND TRANSPORT OF PARTICULATE BLACK CARBON IN THE EQUATORIAL ATLANTIC, Samuel D. Katz

PDF

BENTHIC LANDERS IN OCEANOGRAPHY – THE DESIGN AND JUSTIFICATION OF A MULTI-USE NOVEL BENTHIC LANDER SYSTEM, David M. Nadeau

PDF

ADVANCED DEFORMATION MODELING CONSTRAINED BY GEODESY: APPLICATIONS TO UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR TESTING AND SUBMARINE VOLCANOES, Sandra Slead

PDF

USING INSAR TECHNOLOGY TO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF COASTAL SUBSIDENCE IN MAJOR CITIES GLOBALLY, Pei-Chin Wu

Theses/Dissertations from 2023

PDF

WATER AND OXYGEN FUGACITY IN SUBDUCTION ZONE MAGMATISM, Janine Louise Andrys

PDF

INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE ADAPTIVE POTENTIAL OF SOUTHERN OCEAN PHYTOPLANKTON, Ian W. Bishop

PDF

ENVIRONMENTAL DRIVERS OF PHYTOPLANKTON ABUNDANCE AND COMMUNITY SIZE COMPOSITION ACROSS THERMAL REGIMES IN THE U.S. NORTHEAST CONTINENTAL SHELF ECOSYSTEM, Rowan Murphy Cirivello

PDF

A CLOSER LOOK AT THE ROLE OF PRECIPITATION AND AIR-SEA GAS EXCHANGE OF CIRCUMPOLAR WATERS IN THE EASTERN AMUNDSEN SEA, ANTARCTICA, Virginia Cousens

PDF

CALIBRATION AND APPLICATION OF A TUBE PASSIVE SAMPLER FOR EVALUATING FATE AND TRANSPORT OF PER- AND POLYFLUORINATED ALKYL SUBSTANCES (PFAS), Matthew Dunn

PDF

BLUE CARBON AND MICROPLASTIC SEQUESTRATION IN COASTAL HABITATS OF THE PHILIPPINES, Emily Hall

PDF

LINKING TEMPERATURE OF THE NORTHWEST ATLANTIC AND ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION (AMOC), Farrah Hanifah

PDF

THE RESPONSE OF BENTHIC COMMUNITIES IN NARRAGANSETT BAY TO CHANGING NITROGEN INPUT AND TEMPERATURE, Shaina Harkins

PDF

EVALUATING THE OCEAN STATE OCEAN MODEL FOR STUDYING COASTAL DYNAMICS OF RHODE ISLAND SOUND, Thomas Lawrence

PDF

EXPLORATORY ANALYSES OF AMERICAN LOBSTER HABITAT PREFERENCES AND CATCHABILITY IN VENTLESS TRAP SURVEYS, Annabelle Leahy

PDF

EFFECT OF WIND-WAVE MISALIGNMENT ON DRAG COEFFICIENT, Emma Manzella

PDF

EARLY LIFE HISTORY OF AMERICAN LOBSTERS (HOMARUS AMERICANUS) IN COASTAL SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND WATERS, Declan James McCormick

PDF

ON THE UTILITY OF MULTI-SPECIES FORAMINIFERA-BOUND δ15N RECORDS FOR SUBTROPICAL FRONT MIGRATION ANALYSIS, Shalan McDonagh

PDF

IMPACTS OF SEASONAL VARIATIONS ON PHYTOPLANKTON GROWTH AND GRAZING IN NARRAGANSETT BAY, Andria M. Miller

PDF

Benthic nutrient fluxes response to seasonal hypoxia in coastal zones, Nicole Mucci

PDF

Observations at the air-sea interface: quantifying carbon and heat exchange in the Gulf Stream region using uncrewed surface vehicles, Sarah Nickford

PDF

PELAGIC-BENTHIC COUPLING IN THE GULF OF MAINE: MULTIDECADAL MOLECULAR ISOTOPE RECORDS OF ZOOPLANKTON AND DEEP SEA CORALS BIOARCHIVES, Catherine Nowakowski

PDF

HARD CLAM (Mercenaria mercenaria L.) RESPONSE TO A WARMING ENVIRONMENT: A MESOCOSM EXPERIMENT, Michael Shawn Potter II

PDF

THE INFLUENCE OF NUTRIENT REGIME ON DIATOM DIVERSITY AND DIATOM DIAZOTROPH ASSOCIATIONS, Samantha Patricia Setta

PDF

Detection of coastal phytoplankton taxonomy, morphology and optical signals with machine learning and time series analysis, Virginie Sonnet

PDF

Seismological Investigation of the Hawaiian Volcanoes Following the 2018 Kilauea Eruption, Xiaozhuo Wei

PDF

EVOLUTION OF COASTAL BARRIER SYSTEMS IN SOUTHWESTERN RHODE ISLAND IN RESPONSE TO STORMS AND ANTHROPOGENIC FORCING, Isabel C. Whaling

PDF

CARBON FILTER EFFICIENCY IN REMOVING PFAS FROM DRINKING WATER IN BARNSTABLE, MA, Tatyana Yanishevsky

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

PDF

ACOUSTIC AND OPTICAL IMAGING TECHNIQUES FOR CHARACTERIZING ANIMAL DISTRIBUTIONS IN THE PELAGIC OCEAN, Benjamin Grassian

PDF

DETECTING SLOW SLIP EVENTS FROM SEAFLOOR PRESSURE DATA USING MACHINE LEARNING, Bing He

PDF

Bioconcentration of PFAS from AFFF Environmental Exposure: Evidence of Precursor Bioaccumulation in Fathead Minnows, Nicholas Hill

PDF

THE AMERICAN LOBSTER (HOMARUS AMERICANUS) IN NARRAGANSETT BAY DURING A TIME OF ECOSYSTEM FLUX: TEMPERATURE, PREDATION, AND LARVAL DYNAMICS, Kristin Huizenga

PDF

RECONSTRUCTING NUTRIENT CONSUMPTION IN THE EXPANDED SOUTHERN OCEAN OF PLEISTOCENE GLACIAL PERIODS, Basia A. Marcks

PDF

SEISMIC BEHAVIOR ON OCEANIC TRANSFORM FAULTS REVEALED BY NUMERICAL MODELING AND SEISMIC OBSERVATION, Pengcheng Shi

PDF

SATELLITE INVESTIGATION OF DRIVERS OF PHYTOPLANKTON COMPOSITION IN A CONTINENTAL SHELF ECOSYSTEM, Somang Song

PDF

SPATIOTEMPORAL AND THERMAL VARIABILITY IN UPPER MANTLE FLOW AS A RESULT OF MID-OCEAN RIDGE MIGRATION, Loes van Dam

PDF

SEDIMENTARY ACCUMULATION OF BLACK CARBON ON THE EAST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES, Ita Wulandari

PDF

EFFECTS OF SURFACE WAVES ON WIND STRESS AND UPPER OCEAN RESPONSE UNDER TROPICAL CYCLONES, Xiaohui Zhou

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

PDF

MARINE MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS: DIVERSITY AND FUNCTION OF THE THALASSIOSIRA ROTULA PHYCOSPHERE COMMUNITY, Olivia Marjorie Ahern

PDF

PHYTOPLANKTON THERMAL RESPONSES AS DRIVERS OF COMMUNITY COMPOSITION AND BIOGEOGRAPHY IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT, Stephanie I. Anderson

PDF

ENVIRONMENTAL DRIVERS OF PHYTOPLANKTON GROWTH AND GRAZING MORTALITY, Mikayla Cote

PDF

NORTH ATLANTIC ON THE EDGE: OCEAN CIRCULATION THROUGH GATEWAYS AT THE SUBPOLAR-SUBTROPICAL BOUNDARY, Afonso Gonçalves Neto

PDF

INCORPORATING TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT FISH BIOENERGETICS INTO A NARRAGANSETT BAY FOOD WEB MODEL, Margaret A. Heinichen

PDF

INCORPORATING TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT FISH BIOENERGETICS INTO A NARRAGANSETT BAY FOOD WEB MODEL, Margaret A. Heinichen

PDF

SEISMOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE ONTONG JAVA PLATEAU AND SURROUNDING PACIFIC UPPER MANTLE, Aaron C. Hirsch

PDF

CHARACTERIZATION OF A NEW SEDIMENT POREWATER PASSIVE SAMPLER FOR HYDROPHOBIC ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS, Samuel D. Katz

PDF

MICROBIAL DIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY COMPOSITION IN THE OPEN OCEAN AND MARINE SEDIMENT, Zak Kerrigan

PDF

MASSIVELY PARALLEL STOCHASTIC TERRAIN MODELS IN UNDERSEA MAPPING AND NAVIGATION, Kristopher Krasnosky

PDF

THE ROLE OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE DECLINE OF NARRAGANSETT BAY WINTER FLOUNDER, Joseph A. Langan

PDF

WHO’S MINDING THE MAKOS? APPLICATIONS OF MOVEMENT PATTERNS AND HABITAT UTILIZATION FOR MANAGEMENT OF SHORTFIN MAKO SHARK AND INTERSECTION WITH OFFSHORE ENERGY EXPLORATION, Maria H. Manz

PDF

THE AIR THAT WE BREATHE: NEUTRAL PFAS IN INDOOR AND OUTDOOR AIR, Maya Erin Morales-McDevitt

PDF

IDENTIFYING NOVEL ISOTOPIC TRACERS OF MARINE PRIMARY PRODUCERS TO STUDY FOOD WEB CARBON CYCLES, Angela Stahl

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

PDF

ENVIRONMENTAL AND OPTICAL SIGNATURES OF COCHLODINIUM POLYKRIKOIDES IN NARRAGANSETT BAY, RHODE ISLAND, Jessica Carney

PDF

IMPACTS OF SHOALING OCEAN SURFACE WAVES ON WIND STRESS AND STORM SURGE, Xuanyu Chen

PDF

CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE CORRECTIONS FROM A RAPID-PROFILING, AUTONOMOUS WIREWALKER, Melanie Feen

PDF

SUBSEAFLOOR POREWATER PALEOSALINITY AND NITROGEN ISOTOPES, Kira Louise Homola

PDF

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION OF TURBULENT AIRFLOW OVER SURFACE WAVES AND AIR-SEA FLUXES, Nyla Tauqir Husain

PDF

EVOLUTION OF A SUBDUCTED CARBON-RICH FILAMENT ON THE EDGE OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC GYRE, Alexis Johnson

PDF

RAISE YOUR GLASS: A CULTURE EVALUATION OF DIATOMS AS ARCHIVES OF PAST NUTRIENT CONSUMPTION, Colin Anthony Jones

PDF

NUMERICAL STUDY OF EFFECTS OF WARM OCEAN EDDIES AND OCEANIC BARRIER LAYERS ON TROPICAL CYCLONE INTENSITY IN NORTHWEST PACIFIC, Ilkyeong Ma

PDF

DISTRIBUTION OF NOVEL AND LEGACY ORGANIC POLLUTANTS IN SEABIRDS FROM CONTRASTING MARINE ENVIRONMENTS, Anna Ruth Robuck

PDF

COASTAL OCEAN MODELING ACROSS LENGTH SCALES: FROM ESTUARINE CIRCULATION TO BOUNDARY CURRENTS, Kevin K. Rosa

PDF

TROPHIC NICHE OVERLAP OF ATLANTIC COD AND BLACK SEA BASS IN RELATION TO WARMING SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND WATERS, Nina Santos

PDF

REMOTE SENSING OF PHYTOPLANKTON SIZE CLASSES ON THE NORTHEAST U.S. CONTINENTAL SHELF, Kyle J. Turner

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

PDF

Frazil ice growth and ice production during katabatic wind events in Ross Sea polynyas, Antarctica, Lisa Marie De Pace

PDF

POLYETHYLENE PASSIVE SAMPLER METHOD DEVELOPMENT FOR FLUOROTELOMER ALCOHOLS AND OTHER NEUTRAL PERFLUORINATED ALKYL SUBSTANCES, Erik R. Dixon-Anderson

PDF

GLOBAL PATTERNS OF NET RESPIRATION IN SUBSEAFLOOR SEDIMENT, Victoria Madison Fulfer

PDF

EVALUATION OF A NOVEL PASSIVE SAMPLER FOR POLY- AND PERFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES IN AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS, Christine Gardiner

PDF

Krill Motion in the Southern Ocean: Quantifying in Situ Krill Movement Behaviors and Energetics, Mary Kathryn Kane

PDF

THREE-DIMENSIONAL PASSIVE‐SOURCE REVERSE TIME MIGRATION OF CONVERT WAVES: A NEW METHOD TO IMAGE THE EARTH’S DISCONTINUITIES, Jiahang Li

PDF

INVESTIGATING LAVA BALLOON FORMATION: NEW EXPLORATION OF THE 1993 SUBMARINE VENT SITE AT SOCORRO ISLAND, MEXICO, Megan Lubetkin

PDF

DREDGING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFIT: MODELS OF CIRCULATION AND FLUSHING DYNAMICS IN THE PROVIDENCE RIVER ESTUARY, Grace Elizabeth Medley

PDF

RELATING MARINE MAMMAL DISTRIBUTION TO PREY ABUNDANCE, Christopher D. Orphanides

PDF

OYSTER-ASSOCIATED MICROBIAL COMMUNITY DYNAMICS, Rebecca Jean Stevick

PDF

ALONG-STREAM AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY IN THE WEST GREENLAND CURRENT SYSTEM, Emma Jane Thomas

PDF

Behavior and Transport of Organic Acids in the Troposphere using Observational Data and Models, Victoria Ann Treadaway

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

PDF

In-Situ Calibration of Underwater Membrane Inlet Mass Spectrometer for Simple Dissolved Gases, Samuel Gartzman

PDF

BENTHIC HABITAT MAPPING AND ITS APPLICATIONS TO COASTAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, Monique LaFrance Bartley

PDF

Environmental Factors Affecting Methane Cycling in Narragansett Bay, Christopher James McAleer

PDF

A MULTISPECIES STATISTICAL CATCH-AT-AGE (MSSCAA) MODEL FOR A MID-ATLANTIC SPECIES COMPLEX, Jason Earl McNamee

PDF

Isopycnal mixing in the North Atlantic oxygen minimum zone revealed by RAFOS floats, Donald William Rudnickas Jr.

PDF

Sedimentary Catalysis of Radiolytic Hydrogen Production, Justine Flore Sauvage

PDF

Fishery and Biological Characteristics of Jonah Crab (Cancer borealis) in Rhode Island Sound, Corinne L. Truesdale

PDF

An Assessment of Holographic Microscopy for Quantifying Marine Particle Size and Concentration, Noah L. Walcutt

PDF

Circulation & Exchange Within Shelf & Estuarine Waters Driven by the Atmosphere, Tides and Buoyancy, Christina Anne Wertman

PDF

QUANTIFYING FISHERIES BALANCE WITH A NOVEL PRODUCTION ESTIMATION METHOD, Joseph Zottoli

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

PDF

Modeling Gas Budgets in Marginal Sea Ice Zones, Arash Bigdeli

PDF

Utilizing Empirical Eigenfunctions and Neural Network to Describe and Model RI Coastal Morphology, Sierra Madeline Davis

PDF

Southern Ocean Eddy Heat Flux and Eddy-Mean Flow Interactions in Drake Passage, Annie Foppert

PDF

Metatranscriptomic Analysis of Co-Occurring Phytoplankton Species in the Ross Sea Polynya, Sylvia Minjee Kim

PDF

Dynamical Typology of Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Fronts Based on Satellite Observations, Yackar L. Mauzole

PDF

Spatial Distribution, Air-Water Exchange, and Toxicity of Organic Pollutants Using Passive Samplers, Carrie A. McDonough