Graduate Research
Trinity Flores
Trinity is a first-year graduate student at Villanova University, who is interested in researching nitrogen movement in salt marsh species ecosystems, including mangroves and organisms such as marsh snails.
Cathilyn McIntosh
Cathi is a graduate student whose research focuses on how tidal flow restrictions in salt marsh habitats influence methane gas emissions. She will observe how changes in soil conditions influence the microbial communities that drive methane emissions in wetlands by observing soil condition data, microbial activity, and measuring overall methane gas fluxes.
Aaron Freeman
Aaron is a second-year masters student in the WETFEET lab group. His thesis work focuses on Rhizophora mangle, investigating the elevational range at which they can survive within a marsh-mangrove ecotone. Additionally, he is examining how coastal wetlands change on a large scale spatially and temporally; quantifying that change for conservation and land management efforts.
Jocelyn Bravo
Jocelyn is a graduate student at Villanova University, who is interested in salt marsh plant species and their responses to anthropogenic disturbances and global drivers.
Phillip Rivera
Phillip is a second-year graduate student and is interested in how the external root structures of mangroves differ due to abiotic factors and disturbances. He is currently looking at how they differ morphologically due to nitrogen enrichment and hydrological position.