SURF 2011 List of Recipients

Title of Surf Project

Faculty/Student Name

Major (Student)

Mortality and acute stress 
effects of recreational catch and 
release angling on summer
flounder (Paralichthys dentatus) 
in Long Island Sound


Student: Patrick Vogt
Faculty: John Kelly

 

Marine Biology

Synthesis and evaluation of new
organic donor-acceptor molecules as
sensitizer dyes in dye-sensitized solar cell

Student: Gerald McDoom
Faculty: Pier F. Cirillo

Chemical
Engineering

Summer Research 
in High-Performance
Computing 
(HPC)

Student: Tristan Cowan
Faculty: Christopher Martinez

Mechanical 
and
Electric Engineering

Interactions between invasive
shore crabs, Hemigrapsus 
sanguineus and blue crabs, 
Callinectes sapidus, and implications
for nearshore ecology


Student: Michael G. Smircich
Faculty: Roman Zajac



Marine Biology

Investigation of how changes
in vegetation  patches, caused by 
sea level rise, is  causing decreases in 
populations of Melampus bidentatus.


 Student: Erin Kelly
Faculty: Roman Zajac

Marine Biology 
and 
Environmental Science

Optimizing Retrieval Techniques for 
DNA Extractions in Trace Evidence

Student: Dominique Stasulli
Faculty: Michael Adamowicz

Forensic Science 
and Biology

Optimizing Retrieval Techniques
for DNA Extractions in 
Trace Evidence

Student: Emily Sobestanovich
Faculty: Michael Adamowicz

Forensic Science 
and Biology

Use of Ink Jet Printing to 
Make Fingerprint Standards

Student: Amanda DeBiase
Faculty: Howard Harris

Forensic Science 
 and Chemistry

Amplification of Homochirality in 
Prebiotic Chemical Systems: 
Computational Models 
of Thermal Cycling

Student: Jaclyn M. Kubala
Faculty: Pauline Schwartz 
and Carl Barratt

Forensic Science

Amplification of Homochirality in 
Prebiotic Chemical Systems: Computational
Models of Thermal Cycling

Student: Brandy N. Morneau
Faculty: Pauline Schwartz 
and Carl Barratt

Forensic Science 
and Biology
(Pre-med)

Computational Fluid Dynamics 
Model of NASA’s Space Vehicles

Student: Jane Schwab
Faculty: Maria Carnasciali

Mechanical
Engineering

Integration of System 
Engineering Tools that Support 
Design and Development Activities

Student: Adam Sipperly
Faculty: Maria Carnasciali

System Engineering
(Note: Amy Thompson resigned)

Studies towards Synthesis of 
1-Aza-Heterobicyclic Compounds 
via the borrowing
Hydrogen Methodology


 Student: Lucia Moreno
Faculty: Pier F. Cirillo


Forensic Science 
and Chemistry

Don’t let the bed bugs bite:
An analysis of proactive pest 
control practices in the lodging industry

Student: Laura McLoughlin
Faculty: Juline Mills

Hotel And 
Restaurant Management

The effects of water pH on 
growth of juvenile bay scallop, 
Argopecten irradians

Hotel And 
Restaurant Management


Marine Biology

The effects of temperature on
respiration and the resting metabolic
rate of Atlantic horseshoe crab 
(Limulus polyphemus)

Student: Amy Havens
Faculty: Carmela Cuomo

Marine Biology

The Implications of Totalitarian 
Thought in Zamyatin’s We

Student: Alice Aleksandrovich
Faculty: Margaret F. Savilonis

English Literature
and 
Political Science

What is the impact of inward
foreign direct investment flows
on host country entrepreneurship?

Student: Nolan Franklin Epperson
Faculty: Nadia Doytch

Management

Determining the Present
Rangeof Styela clsva along
the Northshore of LIS

Student: Kathleen Sandin
Faculty: Carmela Cuomo

Marine Biology
And Environmental Sciences

Induction of the stress protein
Hsp70 in Long Island Sound derived  shrimp following temperature, 
oxygen and pH challenge

Student: Kristine Olli
Faculty: Rosemary Whelan

Marine Biology
And 
Chemistry

 
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